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Billionaire tax: how a union leader's idea became defining issue of CA midterms

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/30/california-billionaire-tax
1•ceejayoz•56m ago

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ceejayoz•55m ago
I found this bit a little fascinating.

> The venture capitalist Conway spelled it out in a podcast in March: “Our job is to get Gavin to negotiate this so that it doesn’t get to the ballot. So maybe they don’t get the signatures.”

> When the SEIU-UHW used mostly volunteers to amass their signatures, the opposition campaign reportedly attempted another plan – purchase the firm the union used for signature-collection, so that those signatures couldn’t be used, according to Regan. The same idea was floated in the Signal chat, according to the San Francisco Standard, with one participant reportedly messaging: “That’s what you would do in business: If there’s an impediment, just buy it.”

> Fred Kimball is the president of the signature-gathering firm Kimball Petition Management, which worked with the SEIU-UHW and pioneered this type of business. He said that not only did his company endure denial-of-service cyberattacks, which stalled their signature validation process, but he received two calls from unnamed individuals inquiring about a sale.

Bluescreenbuddy•5m ago
Translation: “our job is to disenfranchise voters because we know they’ll vote against billionaires”

Sanstun: A sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust

https://www.firezone.dev/blog/introducing-sanstun
1•wh33zle•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Balk – A Baseball Game

https://balk.club
1•mandymoorefan•2m ago•0 comments

Web-MCP-Bridge – Connect browser-based LLMs to MCP servers and tools

https://github.com/AstraxOf/web-mcp-bridge
1•astraxof•4m ago•0 comments

Using AI to Revive Frozen Bubble

https://github.com/guax/frozen-bubble
1•guax•5m ago•1 comments

NHS warns of risk to GP patient data after website vendor collapse

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/10/30/nhs-quango-warns-of-risk-to-gp-patient-data-...
4•bhavansig•6m ago•0 comments

Wholesome Games

https://wholesomegames.com
1•doener•7m ago•0 comments

Network Infrastructure Hiding Protocol

https://opennhp.org/
2•mlhpdx•9m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's latest discoveries spark a backlash and Help My kid hates AI

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6022556
2•erikschoster•10m ago•0 comments

GitLab Orbit

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/find-vulnerability-blast-radius-with-gitlab-orbit/
4•andrewstetsenko•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: News article bias detector tool

https://aethelgard.news/
1•Tryvrsakjo10•13m ago•0 comments

From blank page to PDF in three steps AI resume builder

https://nokku.payanai.com/resume-builder
1•payanai•14m ago•0 comments

Archive of our own (AO3) hacked

https://www.otwstatus.org
1•idlewords•14m ago•0 comments

Inquest: An AI Infrastructure Investigator Using Nemotron and MCP [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvImEHQ09UY
1•abhinaystha•19m ago•0 comments

Democrats' Secret Effort to Stack Alaska's Ballot

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/politics/alaska-dan-sullivan-conspiracy-peltola.html
3•nonethewiser•23m ago•4 comments

The Shady Israeli Executive Running YouTube Music and the Hip Hop Industry

https://www.mintpressnews.com/lyor-cohen-the-shady-israeli-executive-running-youtube-music-the-gl...
5•lorecore•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Optimized CUDA forced alignment kernels. 10x – 1000x faster

https://github.com/brthor/fast-forced-aligner
1•bthornbury•25m ago•0 comments

Generative AI's Environmental Impact

https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
2•conferza•25m ago•0 comments

Open Agent Primitives: Run enterprise AI agents securely

https://openap.org
1•samkim•26m ago•0 comments

Set Up Stripe Data Pipeline for ClickHouse

https://bookofrevenue.com/blog/6ae4d508e115910001bc9bb2/set-up-stripe-data-pipeline-for-clickhouse
1•tanin•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ultrafast Rust Based ADE

https://trypalomino.com/
6•gpt-7•33m ago•6 comments

Show HN: HackerFlow – A Responsive HN Reader

https://hn.vinceroyer.ca/
1•vinistois•33m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk Made Off with $16B of Taxpayer Money

https://newrepublic.com/article/217388/elon-musk-harvested-16-billion-trump
10•MadrasThorn•35m ago•0 comments

Understanding Email Encryption

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-encryption/
2•nmjenkins•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: mobile-agent – Let AI agents control Android and iOS devices

https://github.com/gesposito/mobile-agent
1•tilt•37m ago•0 comments

Tech Selloff Pushes Nasdaq to Its Worst Month in over a Year

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-10-30-2026
2•doener•38m ago•0 comments

Photon Doodle

https://tylerflex.github.io/photon-doodle/
2•twhughes•38m ago•0 comments

Solving the JSON Schema dialect fragmentation problem with auto-upgrades

https://www.sourcemeta.com/blog/json-schema-dialect-auto-upgrade/
1•jviotti•42m ago•0 comments

ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?

https://github.com/facebookresearch/programbench
1•pretext•43m ago•0 comments

Venice: The Antidote to AI

https://www.with-flo.com/journal/venice
1•simonebrunozzi•44m ago•0 comments

Don't Make a Human Do What AI Is Amazing At

https://www.johnnunemaker.com/dont-make-a-human-do-what-ai-is-amazing-at/
3•keks0r•44m ago•0 comments