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If CA matched TX on property taxes, it would raise more than the billionaire tax

https://fortune.com/2026/10/31/california-billionaire-wealth-tax-prop-40-revenue-prop-13-texas-taxes/
5•jameslk•1h ago

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k310•31m ago
Try undoing Prop 13. It only benefits long-standing businesses and the few who never leave their home in 50 or more years.

For everyone else, the tax base resets upon sale, and people sell and buy homes.

Surprise.

wredcoll•29m ago
Texas property taxes are effectively regressive. Not a great model to copy.

Meridian: A peer-to-peer browser game world built by an AI agent

https://blakelapierre.substack.com/p/meridian-in-action-play-it-in-your
1•agentofone•59s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Multi-Layer ASCII Art

https://typeart.mitpit.com/
1•MitPitt•15m ago•0 comments

France approves $11B tax based on content delivered to French subscribers

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/social-media/french-lawmakers-approve-usd11-2-billion-inter...
3•jnord•24m ago•1 comments

The AI boom spawns job market for data-center liaisons

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/30/2026/the-ai-boom-spawns-job-market-for-data-center-liaisons
1•giuliomagnifico•31m ago•0 comments

Screen Capture for macOS – Open-source sticky-aware scrolling capture

https://github.com/nasadunadu/screen-capture-macos
1•nasadunadu•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LanesMac – A scrolling tiling window manager for macOS

https://lanesmac.com
1•mansi126•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: What [67] MCP servers do at startup, with the internet cut off

https://mcp.brydge-ai.com
1•DevanshKontey•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Create a Dumbphone on Android

https://beeswax.getflourish.org/
3•privacyishuman•46m ago•0 comments

"Vibe coded my parents' TV this afternoon "

https://twitter.com/gathint/status/2111379569030939102
2•obilgic•49m ago•1 comments

Why Sam Altman is against a single superintelligence

https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/why-sam-altman-is-against-a-single
1•gmays•56m ago•0 comments

Astronomers make startling discovery of a possible dwarf planet beyond Pluto

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/2281346/it-s-big-astronomers-make-startling-discovery-of-a-possi...
4•slyall•57m ago•2 comments

Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez recounts a 29-day prison transfer

https://www.therage.co/letter-8-notes-from-the-inside/
1•privacyishuman•1h ago•0 comments

If CA matched TX on property taxes, it would raise more than the billionaire tax

https://fortune.com/2026/10/31/california-billionaire-wealth-tax-prop-40-revenue-prop-13-texas-ta...
6•jameslk•1h ago•2 comments

A Second Life Under Constraints

https://zenodo.org/records/23836212
1•shailesh-1403•1h ago•0 comments

The History of Every Video Game Genre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbgdi7BzMR0
1•primogen•1h ago•0 comments

Defeating highly encrypted and obfuscated code – tutorial (SRBMiner-MULTI 3.7.3)

https://www.yourdev.net/blog.php?post=unpacking-a-commercial-miner
1•noppers•1h ago•1 comments

Getting Back in the Zone

https://alexcwatt.com/back-in-the-zone/
1•acwatt•1h ago•0 comments

Knowledge Spillovers, Competition, and Individual Careers [pdf]

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10230050/1/manuscript_with_fig_and_tables.pdf
1•rohanm93•1h ago•0 comments

We're Training a Figma-Fluent Editing Model

https://www.figma.com/blog/training-a-figma-fluent-editing-model/
3•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

I replaced macOS say with local neural speech

https://www.lukasrieder.com/blog/i-replaced-macos-say-with-local-neural-speech/
1•ankitg12•1h ago•0 comments

The first life and death of Italian computing (1954 – 1964)

https://zeitgame.net/archives/17619
5•PeterHolzwarth•1h ago•0 comments

Vroot – Instant, daemonless root sandboxes from a single flag

https://github.com/gairxx/vroot/tree/main
2•garrettcadams•1h ago•0 comments

Mitigations for CVE-2026-98432 [IPv4 TCP handshake use-after-free]

https://blog.rodmena.com/entry/cve_2026_98432_and_the_ipv4_options_nobody_sends
3•rodmena•1h ago•0 comments

Do you still need embeddings for semantic search? - my little experiment

https://internals.laxmena.com/p/can-an-llm-and-a-keyword-index-replace
2•laxmena•1h ago•0 comments

Free Invoice Generator PDF Online – Global Tools Box

https://www.globaltoolsbox.online/2026/10/free-invoice-generator-pdf-online.html
1•mustjabk761•1h ago•0 comments

I recreated subvocal in 9 minutes with one prompt for AirPods Pro 3

https://twitter.com/joeblau/status/2116347756138856734
1•joeblau•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?

4•czhu12•1h ago•0 comments

Accountability

1•EarRelevant•1h ago•0 comments

Earliest spoken audio of endangered U.S. language discovered

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/louisiana-creole-earliest-spoken-audio
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

CPU Simulations Show Building Blocks of Life Didn't Arrive on Prehistoric Comets

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/science/origin-life-theory-comet-simulation
1•smurda•1h ago•0 comments