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1•fazkan•7m ago•0 comments

NASA Study: Non-Biologic Processes Don't Explain Mars Organics

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/02/06/nasa-study-non-biologic-processes-dont-ful...
1•bediger4000•10m ago•2 comments

I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74w48d8epgo
1•dabinat•10m ago•0 comments

X said it would give $1M to a user who had previously shared racist posts

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2•doener•13m ago•1 comments

155M US land parcel boundaries

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2•tjwebbnorfolk•17m ago•0 comments

Private Inference

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2•jbegley•21m ago•1 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

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2•PaulHoule•29m ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

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Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

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1•HamoodBahzar•32m ago•1 comments

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2•linkdd•33m ago•0 comments

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Zig – Package Management Workflow Enhancements

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1•Retro_Dev•38m ago•0 comments

AI-powered text correction for macOS

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Fibonacci Number Certificates

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AI Overviews are killing the web search, and there's nothing we can do about it

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4•bundie•50m ago•1 comments

City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress

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3•gnabgib•50m ago•0 comments

1979: The Model World of Robert Symes [video]

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1980s Farm Crisis

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1•Netanelbaruch•1h ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

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3•rolph•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

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1•rokbenko•1h ago•0 comments
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$30M military wreath charity buys solely from its founders' farm (2023)

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/12/13/30m-military-wreath-charity-buys-solely-from-its-founders-farm/
60•thunderbong•2mo ago

Comments

ahartmetz•2mo ago
3 million wreaths for 30 million USD, is that correct? That's still a dubious arrangement, but a sane price and far from the unbounded greed and depravity of some usually large and public corporations.
tehjoker•2mo ago
If the price is sane, I wonder if there is a competitor looking to break into the action, hence the appearance of a piece "asking questions". A great method is to break up the original operation, insert a company that has no compunction about charging higher prices in the name of good process, and clean up.

I just went on Amazon and the wreaths there are like $20-$50. It makes sense that a bulk purchase should be less, so $10 does feel reasonable though I am no expert.

culi•2mo ago
Well it's plain corruption, but yeah it's not like the $10,000 toilet seat cover,[0] $7,622 coffee maker,[1] or $37 screws[2]

[0] https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/07/11/air-force-no...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/20/us/military-price-on-coff...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-30-vw-18804-...

jazzyjackson•2mo ago
The cost isn't for the item, it's for the paperwork attesting to the acquisition and delivery of the item.

Whether one screw or 500 screws are ordered, it still takes an hour or two to fill out the forms and submit the invoice.

Think of $37 as the "fuck off" price, except the buyer has no one else to buy from because the seller is the only one meeting FARS/CMMC regulations

dragonwriter•2mo ago
Its plainly using a charity as a mechanism to funnel work to the founder's for-profit business, so that the 501c3 is, in fact, organized and operated for the benefit of a private interest, which isn’t merely “dubious”.
xnx•2mo ago
Very common to see scammy behavior in charities like "Kars 4 Kids" and even other military charities like Wounded Warriors: "Dozens of former employees reported extravagant spending, including luxury resorts, parties, and excessive travel, with only 50-60% of funds going to programs."
zippyman55•2mo ago
Maybe we donate $30M to actually helping vets who need help.
bluesounddirect•2mo ago
this is what the va is for , americans pay piles of money in taxes , and still the helping vets scams exist .
em-bee•2mo ago
i don't understand this part:

donors who believe their charitable contributions are being spent to maximize the good done, and not to support for-profit ventures.

the money is used to buy or make wreaths. exactly how is that supposed to work at that scale without sourcing from a for-profit venture?

the article suggests that the for-profit part should be sold to someone else. while i get the potential conflict of interest, that's only a conflict if the owners attempt to maximize their profits.

i am willing to bet that if they sell the for-profit part, whoever buys it, will do exactly that: raise prices and maximize profits.

zippyman55•2mo ago
Oh!!!!! Those guys! Ok, first, it looks pretty darn impressive when you visit a national cemetery and see all those displayed. So, I am not in anyway knocking those vets who served and died.

But, I remember, Wreaths Across America was trying to build a flagpole in rural Maine, that you could see from outer space. Now, this is starting to look like a tourist exhibit to make money.

I do not want people to make money off our Vets. I want them to help the vets in every way possible. Perhaps a modest amount of money, sure. But, please, no $400K salaries.