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Spack: A flexible package manager for HPC software

https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/spack-hpc-package-manager
1•teleforce•1m ago•0 comments

NASA is sending people to the moon in spacecraft some experts think is not safe

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/science/artemis-2-orion-capsule-heat-shield
1•ck2•1m ago•0 comments

New Patches Aim to Lower Linux Memory Use for Swap, Slightly Improve Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Better-Swap-Tencent
1•XzetaU8•2m ago•0 comments

Welcome to the American Winter

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/
1•empath75•2m ago•1 comments

The Danger of a Single Capital Letter: How I Almost Ruined a Redmine Instance

https://blog.devbert.de/the-danger-of-a-single-capital-letter/
1•preezer•2m ago•0 comments

Brex and the Pros and Cons of Hubristic Fundraising

https://www.saastr.com/brex-and-the-pros-and-cons-of-hubristic-fundraising/
1•wslh•4m ago•0 comments

Qwen3-Max-Thinking

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking
5•vinhnx•5m ago•0 comments

Building Brains on a Computer

https://www.asimov.press/p/brains
1•mailyk•5m ago•0 comments

Is the US Supreme Court Biased Towards the Rich?

https://www.nominalnews.com/p/is-the-us-supreme-court-bias-wealthy
2•MasPL•5m ago•1 comments

Notes on German Exit Tax from Paid Tax Advisor Calls

https://wegzugsteuer.info/en
1•olieidel•6m ago•0 comments

My vibe engineering process and stack

https://aimode.substack.com/p/my-vibe-engineering-process-and-stack
1•warthog•8m ago•0 comments

What We Can't Control (2016)

https://solomon.io/what-we-cant-control/
1•samsolomon•8m ago•0 comments

Competitive Pure Functional Languages

https://blog.samibadawi.com/2026/01/competitive-pure-functional-languages.html
1•type-lambda•9m ago•0 comments

Technology is changing how we write – and how we think about writing

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00245-0
1•geox•10m ago•1 comments

Mods, when will you get on top of the constant AI slop posts?

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming
1•birdculture•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tool for automated failure analysis in GitHub Actions

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-actions-failure-analysis
1•calebevans•14m ago•0 comments

Linear-Term: A TUI for Linear Project Management

https://github.com/tjburch/linear-term
1•tjburch•14m ago•0 comments

The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: Or, a Treatise on Politeness (1774)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/galateo/
1•Anon84•15m ago•0 comments

Novel biosensor enables real-time tracking of iron (II) in living cells

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssensors.5c02481
1•bookofjoe•15m ago•0 comments

Go tests probably don't need a mocking library

https://rednafi.com/go/mocking-libraries-bleh/
1•AlexeyBelov•16m ago•1 comments

Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3M to London dissident over Pegasus spying

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/26/saudi-arabia-ordered-pay-london-dissident-pegasus-s...
2•chrisjj•17m ago•1 comments

Cop-assisted extortion of DWI arrestees in New Mexico include getting them drunk

https://reason.com/2026/01/23/cop-assisted-extortion-of-dwi-arrestees-in-new-mexico-included-gett...
20•leephillips•18m ago•0 comments

Common Sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense
1•emmabruns•19m ago•0 comments

ICE follows starkly different playbooks in red and blue states

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/us/immigration-arrests-community-ice-invs
7•rbanffy•20m ago•3 comments

Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11s-botched-patch-tuesday-update-nigh...
15•01-_-•20m ago•3 comments

ESA Meerkat Asteroid Guard: a monitoring service for imminent impactors

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13323
1•belter•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you balance clarity vs speed in communication?

1•simon-rebbins•22m ago•1 comments

OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive

https://senteguard.com/blog/#post-7fYcaQrAcfsldmSb7zVM
2•djwide•22m ago•1 comments

An Afghan entrepreneur turned sanctions into a $60M-per-month aid platform

https://thebitgazette.com/afghanistans-quiet-crypto-breakthrough-in-aid/
3•campusninja•22m ago•0 comments

Women's skepticism toward AI: The role of risk orientation and risk exposure

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/1/pgaf399/8429563?login=false
3•PaulHoule•23m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

What's the best way to sanity-check severance/termination pay rules in Canada?

1•cerdotca•1h ago
Hi folks. I’m in Canada and a friend was recently terminated (3 weeks ago). They were confused about what they’re actually owed (statutory minimums vs. what lawyers negotiate under common law, and how it varies by province vs. federal rules).

I saw an opportunity, so I built a simple “statutory minimum estimate” calculator to help people get a baseline, but I’m curious how others approach this problem.

Are there good sources you trust for province-by-province rules?

Any gotchas people repeatedly miss (termination pay vs severance pay, benefit continuation, vacation pay, etc.)?

If you’ve built tools in this space, what’s the best way to present disclaimers without making it useless?

If anyone wants to see the tool I built, I can share it in the comments. Just looking for ways to help people out during a crappy time.

Comments

cerdotca•1h ago
Thought it might help to share it anyways.

Tool (statutory minimums only): https://canadaemploymentrules.ca/