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Want less sprawl and more urban infill? Try a land value tax

https://www.volts.wtf/p/want-less-sprawl-and-more-urban-infill

1•specialist•53m ago

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specialist•53m ago

Land value tax (and Georgism) seems favored here on HN.

This discussion covers the basics, reform efforts in Spokane WA, and what led Spokane to this point. Very meaty discussion.

TIL: LVT shifts tax burden from home owners to land speculators, encourages development and renovations, will be revenue neutral, and compliments other urbanism reforms. Plus a lot more.

Seven books I keep close because I love them

https://blog.plover.com/book/elbow-shelf.html

1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

The Deleted Face: Why Facial Recognition Must Erase You First

https://smarterarticles.co.uk/the-deleted-face-why-facial-recognition-must-erase-you-first

1•dxs•3m ago•0 comments

Text and Test Anything Protocol

http://dtap.sparrowhub.io/doc/README

1•melezhik•4m ago•0 comments

The Mental Models I Use to Work with AI

https://metedata.substack.com/p/015-the-mental-models-i-use-to-work

1•young_mete•5m ago•0 comments

Fix Your Analog Life First

https://katherinemartinko.substack.com/p/fix-your-analog-life-first

1•speckx•6m ago•0 comments

Quantization hurts knowledge nonlinearly – Qwen3.6 27B case study

https://quesma.com/blog/quantization-hurts-knowledge/

1•stared•6m ago•0 comments

WAN 3.0 Deep Dive: Video Model Evolution from Open-Source Breakthrough

https://wan3video.art/blog/wan-3-0-deep-dive

2•wangneo276•7m ago•0 comments

How the heck do you catch a fly ball?

https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-you-catch-a-fly-ball

1•robmoore•8m ago•0 comments

Europe opens bidding for seven AI 'gigafactories' in a €30B bid to catch up

https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-ai-gigafactories-call-30bn

1•doener•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lunar, a "fast", memory-efficient Lua 5.1 VM written in Go

https://github.com/mmcdole/lunar

2•drakenot•10m ago•1 comments

My Personal Software Journey: Self-Hosting Agent-Built Apps

https://metedata.substack.com/p/016-my-personal-software-journey

2•young_mete•10m ago•0 comments

Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/2.html

2•cdrnsf•10m ago•0 comments

NASA's New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess

https://www.wired.com/story/nasas-new-3d-model-shows-lumpy-earth/

1•haritha-j•11m ago•0 comments

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/google-plans-to-exempt-sanctioned-nations-from-android-de...

2•nostrademons•13m ago•0 comments

IBM: Three Demonstrations Prove Quantum Advantage Has Been Reached

https://www.nextplatform.com/compute/2026/07/31/ibm-three-demonstrations-prove-quantum-advantage-...

1•rbanffy•13m ago•0 comments

A 21-hour dip could help explain Tabby's star's decade-long dimming mystery

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-hour-dip-tabby-star-decade.html

1•rbanffy•13m ago•0 comments

Restoring the Java Ring on a Japanese TV Show [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF5PrzP9YTs

1•kidmin•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: jit - just-in-time secrets for your Mac, gated by Touch ID

https://github.com/jitpass/jit

1•bukershok•14m ago•1 comments

Sovereign Tech Fellowship for Rust Maintenance (June-July 2026 Report)

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2026/08/03/stf-june-july-2026.html

1•Tomte•15m ago•0 comments

Dbctl – a terminal-native DB client with built-in SSH/SSM tunneling

https://github.com/stivio00/dbctl

1•stivio00•16m ago•0 comments

Transfer Files with QR Codes

https://decimen.app/

1•ramsj•18m ago•0 comments

Hank Green apologizes for relying too heavily on ChatGPT

https://mashable.com/life/hank-green-chatgpt-ai-apology

1•bjourne•18m ago•0 comments

Google Chrome may soon block New Tab hijacker extensions by default

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-may-soon-block-new-tab-hijacker-extens...

2•Brajeshwar•18m ago•0 comments

3.2-Gigapixel LSST Camera Captures over Half a Million Galaxies

https://petapixel.com/2026/08/02/3-2-gigapixel-lsst-camera-captures-over-half-a-million-galaxies/

2•larodi•19m ago•1 comments

eek! it's a tiny rust LLM proxy in ~1k loc

https://github.com/Liana64/eek

1•saidarembrace•19m ago•1 comments

A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMtzhjCzyc

1•surprisetalk•19m ago•0 comments

DARPA Lift Challenge – Aug 3 – Main Broadcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEGWvve7rls

1•stefan_•20m ago•0 comments

AUR malware wave forces Arch Linux to disable every package push

https://runtimewire.com/article/aur-malware-wave-forces-arch-linux-to-disable-every-package-push

3•ryanmerket•21m ago•0 comments

PostScript: Idle Frontier and on developing games with AI

https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/projects/2026/08/03/idle-frontier/

1•ljvmiranda•21m ago•1 comments

Installing Jcode on Nix/NixOS: A Practical Unofficial Guide

https://grigio.org/installing-jcode-on-nix-nixos-a-practical-unofficial-guide/

1•grigio•21m ago•0 comments