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Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/near-instantly-aborting-the-worst
1•eatitraw•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nginx-defender – realtime abuse blocking for Nginx

https://github.com/Anipaleja/nginx-defender
2•anipaleja•5m ago•0 comments

The Super Sharp Blade

https://netzhansa.com/the-super-sharp-blade/
1•robin_reala•6m ago•0 comments

Smart Homes Are Terrible

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/smart-homes-technology/685867/
1•tusslewake•7m ago•0 comments

What I haven't figured out

https://macwright.com/2026/01/29/what-i-havent-figured-out
1•stevekrouse•8m ago•0 comments

KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/02/06/kpmg-pressed-its-auditor-to-pass-on-ai-cost-savings/
1•cainxinth•8m ago•0 comments

Open-source Claude skill that optimizes Hinge profiles. Pretty well.

https://twitter.com/b1rdmania/status/2020155122181869666
2•birdmania•8m ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
2•samasblack•10m ago•1 comments

I squeezed a BERT sentiment analyzer into 1GB RAM on a $5 VPS

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/trendscope-market-scanner
1•mohammede•12m ago•0 comments

Kagi Translate

https://translate.kagi.com
2•microflash•12m ago•0 comments

Building Interactive C/C++ workflows in Jupyter through Clang-REPL [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QX3RPH-building_interactive_cc_workflows_in_jupyter_throug...
1•stabbles•14m ago•0 comments

Tactical tornado is the new default

https://olano.dev/blog/tactical-tornado/
2•facundo_olano•15m ago•0 comments

Full-Circle Test-Driven Firmware Development with OpenClaw

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/07/full-circle-test-driven-firmware-development-with-openclaw/
1•ptorrone•16m ago•0 comments

Automating Myself Out of My Job – Part 2

https://blog.dsa.club/automation-series/automating-myself-out-of-my-job-part-2/
1•funnyfoobar•16m ago•0 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo
40•tartoran•16m ago•5 comments

Dependency Resolution Methods

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/06/dependency-resolution-methods.html
1•zdw•17m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm apologises for sending Bitcoin users $40B by mistake

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/crypto-firm-apologises-for-sending-bitcoin-users-40-billion...
1•Someone•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: iPlotCSV: CSV Data, Visualized Beautifully for Free

https://www.iplotcsv.com/demo
2•maxmoq•18m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/06/no-such-thing-as-tech/
1•headalgorithm•18m ago•0 comments

List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_and_disproven_cancer_treatments
1•brightbeige•19m ago•0 comments

Me/CFS: The blind spot in proactive medicine (Open Letter)

https://github.com/debugmeplease/debug-ME
1•debugmeplease•19m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What are the word games do you play everyday?

1•gogo61•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Paper Arena – A social trading feed where only AI agents can post

https://paperinvest.io/arena
1•andrenorman•24m ago•0 comments

TOSTracker – The AI Training Asymmetry

https://tostracker.app/analysis/ai-training
1•tldrthelaw•28m ago•0 comments

The Devil Inside GitHub

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/github-devil/
2•elashri•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Distill – Migrate LLM agents from expensive to cheap models

https://github.com/ricardomoratomateos/distill
1•ricardomorato•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sigma Runtime – Maintaining 100% Fact Integrity over 120 LLM Cycles

https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/tree/main/sigma-runtime/SR-053
1•teugent•28m ago•0 comments

Make a local open-source AI chatbot with access to Fedora documentation

https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-make-a-local-open-source-ai-chatbot-who-has-access-to-fedora-do...
1•jadedtuna•30m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model by Mitchellh

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
1•samtrack2019•30m ago•0 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
1•mellosouls•30m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Wealth Taxes Will Barely Slow Inequality. So Why Do the Super-Rich Resist Them?

https://truthout.org/articles/wealth-taxes-will-barely-slow-inequality-so-why-do-the-super-rich-resist-them/
3•robtherobber•3mo ago

Comments

bell-cot•3mo ago
Not that I'm within 10000X of being "Super-Rich"...but I'd assume there's a rather narcissistic "Divine Right of Kings" attitude that goes with the turf. Which is continuously reinforced by their retainers and sycophants. Along with a host of slippery slope arguments.
hnthrowaway0328•3mo ago
Taxing individuals will not make a lot of money. Tax holding companies as if they are humans.
stopbulying•3mo ago
A wealth tax would force business owners out of the majority ownership of the companies they founded even when they don't have income. Many business owners forego healthier lifestyles for a number of years in order to build their business. Business owners tend to work 60-80 hours a week, and they don't get to quit and take a buyout and job hop.

Why can't you just raise regular taxes and/or cap the capital gains exemption?

Why can't you stop pissing money away on debt financing wars and defense/war bs? Why can't you stop killing without due process? Should they afford you if you are killing without due process? Can they ethically be complicit with you without legal liability?

Should you expect them to become civically involved if you're blackmailing them about their medication which you are using their taxes to sabotage quality control of?

Why can't you stop picking fights, losing them, and sticking us with the bill for your bitch junta tirades?

(Kicks insulin away from your seizing body and explains that you don't deserve healthcare, though you must afford that entitlement for others)

If the government were going to afford personal welfare for the people to get people out of the red and into the black (instead of very selective corporate welfare), instead of debt financing wars, there would probably be more support for increasing taxes in the United States.

We can increase taxes on the wealthy without class warfare and without changing the subject to a hypothetical wealth tax.

There are a number of wealthy people who support increasing taxes on the wealthy.

One number to review in reviewing tax policy: tax revenue as a % of GDP.

Another number: the effective tax burden by binned household income

stopbulying•3mo ago
Let's take a look at how we blew $4T in 4 months and then went to shutdown showdown for a month, but the tariff slush fund for the children.

How many people did the government kill without due process while the government was out of money?

If I can't stop you from killing without due process using my money, should I give you more money?

What sort of assistance from wealthy people does the government need? Are religious and nonreligious NGOs better able to assist the poor without causing harm without due process?

stockresearcher•3mo ago
If you describe the actual mechanism required to fairly and accurately determine the amount of money owed under the wealth tax proposals (such system being not trivially defeated by an army of accountants and lawyers), the reason why the wealthy oppose them should be quite evident.
Mountain_Skies•3mo ago
The few 0.1%ers I've known had no other goals in life other than running up the score on the balance sheets. While others in their twilight years are exploring the world, deepening ties with family, or going all in on hobbies, these people are on endless defense of their wealth. Resisting any type of tax that doesn't benefit their wealth growth goals is a natural outcome.

While not the only reason and probably not even the primary reason why they resist wealth taxes as a group, the four or fiveish I know are very much motivated by personal score.

red-iron-pine•3mo ago
greed. "fuck you pay me" as a world view.