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Show HN: I built a tool that checks if your council tax band is wrong

https://counciltaxchallenger.co.uk
1•giwa_abdul•1h ago
Hey HN,

I built Council Tax Challenger in the UK, you enter your postcode and it compares your property's council tax band against similar nearby properties using live VOA data.

I kept reading that millions of UK homes are in the wrong band but challenging it felt opaque and intimidating. The VOA process exists but nobody explains it clearly, and most people just give up.

The tool starts with official VOA council-tax-band data, classifies EPC/OS Places/Land Registry inputs as enrichment, compares the property against neighbours on the 1991 valuation basis, and—where discrepancies are found—generates a ready-to-submit PDF pack (comparison report plus draft letter to the VOA).

Takes under 60 seconds to generate a report.

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who has actually challenged their band before.

Lazarus Sign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_sign
1•signorovitch•2m ago•0 comments

Neural Text Steganography

https://massa-ai.freeboxos.fr/textego/
1•asxndu•3m ago•0 comments

Mystery medical episode left astronaut unable to speak—1 of NASA's biggest risks

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/mystery-medical-episode-that-left-astronaut-u...
1•bookofjoe•5m ago•0 comments

AI is making CEO's delusional [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6nem-F8AG8
1•rossdavidh•7m ago•0 comments

Lausd joins suit against social media companies

https://laist.com/brief/news/education/los-angeles-unified-school-district-lausd/los-angeles-unif...
1•freshtake•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Code typing game to increase your typing speed in 10 languages

https://coderacer.dev
1•Coderacer1•12m ago•0 comments

Canadian man says U.S. border officers made him give DNA sample

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-border-dna-canadian-man-cbp-cross-larson-dingell-raskin...
1•geox•13m ago•0 comments

What to Do About Those Menu Item Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe

https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116262411548746327
2•erickhill•14m ago•0 comments

We built a multi-agent research hub. The waitlist is a reverse-CAPTCHA

https://enlidea.com
1•LZK•16m ago•1 comments

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/27/sycophantic_ai_risks/
4•Brajeshwar•16m ago•0 comments

The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive

2•acmerfight•17m ago•0 comments

I built an AI that tailors your CV to every job in seconds

1•alebarbon•19m ago•0 comments

For-Agent

https://github.com/reposwarm/reposwarm-cli/wiki/--for-agent
1•royosherove•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua

https://loreline.app/en/docs/technical-overview/
1•jeremyfa•23m ago•1 comments

Thousands risk of deadly complications recent exposure to measles in 11 states

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15686151/deadly-measles-brain-swelling-virus-surge.html
1•Bender•24m ago•0 comments

Can humans have babies in space? It may be harder than expected

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/having-babies-in-space-may-be-harder-th...
3•Brajeshwar•26m ago•0 comments

Difftastic

https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk
2•KolmogorovComp•28m ago•0 comments

Every novel that has ever been published is sitting inside ChatGPT

https://twitter.com/heynavtoor/status/2037638554374099409
2•guerrilla•29m ago•1 comments

Against the Smartphone Theory of Everything

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/against-the-smartphone-theory-of
1•ravenical•33m ago•0 comments

New Consulting Contracts in Texas Will Muzzle Authors and Harm Students

https://bookriot.com/texas-esc-1-discriminatory-contracts/
1•mooreds•34m ago•0 comments

Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows HCP

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/27/microsoft_kernel_trust/
2•Bender•35m ago•1 comments

ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight

https://www.icao.int/news/new-power-bank-restrictions-will-safeguard-international-aviation
2•phantomathkg•35m ago•0 comments

Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/27/microsoft_ai_crusoe/
1•Bender•36m ago•1 comments

Sharpee Interactive Fiction and Computer Science

https://github.com/ChicagoDave/sharpee/blob/main/docs/architecture/sharpee-computer-science.md
1•ChicagoDave•36m ago•0 comments

When Fake Supplements Work

https://nautil.us/when-fake-supplements-work-1279324
1•Brajeshwar•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cursorlag – add a lag trail to your cursor

https://cursorlag.velocifyer.com/
1•Velocifyer•39m ago•1 comments

The Generative AI Policy Landscape in Open Source

https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2026/02/26/generative-ai-policy-landscape-in-open-source/
2•mooreds•39m ago•0 comments

How Not to Interview (Interesting People)

https://om.co/2026/03/19/how-not-to-interview-interesting-people/
1•mooreds•40m ago•0 comments

You can't imitation-learn how to continual-learn

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9rCTjbJpZB4KzqhiQ/you-can-t-imitation-learn-how-to-continual-learn
3•supermdguy•40m ago•0 comments

Don Cheli – AI writes tests before seeing the code (TDD as iron law)

https://github.com/doncheli/don-cheli-sdd
1•doncheli•41m ago•0 comments