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Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

https://jameshard.ing/pilot
1229•jamesharding•19h ago•170 comments

I Deleted My Second Brain

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain
147•MrVandemar•2h ago•75 comments

London's Largest Ancient Roman Fresco Is “Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle”

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/mola-liberty-roman-fresco/
18•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/normalizing-flows
125•danboarder•11h ago•27 comments

James Webb Space Telescope reveals its first direct image of an exoplanet

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-its-first-direct-image-discovery-of-an-exoplanet-180986886/
197•divbzero•14h ago•93 comments

NLNet: 62 new projects contribute to digital commons

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
52•zdw•2d ago•3 comments

Learn OCaml

https://ocaml-sf.org/learn-ocaml-public/#activity=exercises
128•smartmic•11h ago•40 comments

c4wa – C compiler for Web Assembly

https://github.com/kign/c4wa
50•90s_dev•3d ago•8 comments

Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

https://www.understandingai.org/p/reinforcement-learning-explained
104•JnBrymn•3d ago•3 comments

IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at Aid Site

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000
34•ahmetcadirci25•31m ago•4 comments

SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs

https://github.com/ExtensityAI/symbolicai
166•futurisold•13h ago•40 comments

A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/
102•m-hodges•11h ago•94 comments

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll
238•pier25•7h ago•152 comments

Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-vlo/
188•lnyan•17h ago•52 comments

Weird Expressions in Rust

https://www.wakunguma.com/blog/rust-weird-expr
157•lukastyrychtr•16h ago•128 comments

The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set

https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html
18•fidotron•2d ago•2 comments

10 Years of Pomological Watercolors

https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/
194•fanf2•17h ago•29 comments

LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2025-nature-abstraction.html
16•tudorizer•3d ago•5 comments

Multi-Stage Programming with Splice Variables

https://tsung-ju.org/icfp25/
35•matt_d•8h ago•6 comments

Structuring Arrays with Algebraic Shapes

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3736112.3736141
76•todsacerdoti•12h ago•9 comments

DR Congo and Rawanda signs a peace deal

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e0ggw7d43o
3•rock_artist•9m ago•0 comments

bootc-image-builder: Build your entire OS from a Containerfile

https://github.com/osbuild/bootc-image-builder
53•twelvenmonkeys•3d ago•14 comments

nimbme – Nim bare-metal environment

https://github.com/mikra01/nimbme
66•michaelsbradley•13h ago•14 comments

Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

https://halcy.de/blog/2025/06/27/transmitting-data-via-ultrasound-without-any-special-equipment/
108•todsacerdoti•15h ago•36 comments

Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in SF (founding team)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spark/jobs/kDeJlPK-software-engineer-full-stack-founding-team
1•juliawu•11h ago

Dubai Reality Check: An Indian VC's Year of Truth

https://www.dealflowiq.com/p/dubai-reality-check-an-indian-vcs
28•koolhead17•2h ago•17 comments

Theoretical Analysis of Positional Encodings in Transformer Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06398
29•PaulHoule•10h ago•2 comments

Rust in the Linux kernel: part 2

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025232/fbb2d90d084368e3/
111•chmaynard•10h ago•51 comments

Show HN: Do you know RGB?

https://maxwellito.github.io/do-you-know-rgb/
74•maxwellito•3d ago•54 comments

New Process Uses Microbes to Create Valuable Materials from Urine

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/06/17/new-process-uses-microbes-to-create-valuable-materials-from-urine/
36•gmays•13h ago•13 comments
Open in hackernews

Why does Kars4Kids sends most of its money to one town in New Jersey? (2023)

https://www.mossplanet.news/p/why-does-kars4kids-sends-most-of
66•myballshurt•3h ago

Comments

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS•2h ago
I've never heard of Kars4Kids. Must be an East coast thing.
giardini•2h ago
Nope, the Southwest too.
ameliaquining•2h ago
You're more likely to have heard of it if you ever listen to broadcast radio, as that's where their ads (with the earworm-y jingle that they're most infamous for) usually air.
SpecialistK•2h ago
I've even seen the ads on sports channels in BC (British Columbia, not Boston College)
ethan_smith•2h ago
Kars4Kids operates nationwide and is infamous for their earworm radio jingle that plays across the country, though their advertising intensity varies by region.
EndsOfnversion•2h ago
You might be interested in making a donation to “The Human Fund” - their slogan is “Money for people”. Kruger Industrial Smoothing are a major donor. Ask about the Festivus special.
saretup•2h ago
As a non-US citizen, I heard it in the TV show ‘The Good Place’ as the official Bad Place song: https://youtu.be/iDjX4-LKqCA
kumarm•2h ago
I am in Bay Area. I donated my cars to Kars4Kids before and even recommended to others since their process to donate is simple.
hazelnut•1h ago
I've seen ads on the West Coast for Kars4Kids. To be precise, in the Bay Area. I was wondering who donates a car for a kid. They shouldn't driving ... well, till I read more about it. Quite the surprise to stumble over on HN.
petesergeant•2h ago
> In Oregon, the attorney general added that Kars4Kids failed to disclose that its offer of a "free vacation" for vehicle donors was designed to recruit people to attend timeshare presentations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kars4Kids

Waterluvian•2h ago
Reading that whole page leaves me wondering if this, and possibly how many other charities are really just mechanisms for business/wealth/power development.
EndsOfnversion•2h ago
Just assume 100% of them are unless they can prove otherwise.
toomuchtodo•2h ago
Definitely. Another example:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Devilcorp/comments/1amkza4/parker_p...

(Charity Navigator, GuideStar, and ProPublica’s non profit database are all useful to drilling down your suss out legitimacy)

staplers•1h ago
No one gets accidentally wealthy, especially if they are in the business of "giving money away"
Maxious•1h ago
Sorting an excel spreadsheet to find what the "largest" charities in canada are exposed $3.2 billion in fraudulent tax receipts claimed by 100,000 Canadian tax filers https://eaves.ca/2010/04/14/case-study-open-data-and-the-pub...
naniwaduni•1h ago
You should mostly assume that they are, in general, vehicles for the empowered to direct toward goals of their choosing (e.g. reputation/legitimacy-building), and that those goals occasionally have externalities for anyone else as an accident at best.
throwaway48476•1h ago
Wait until you hear about the religious charity lottery exemption.
IgorPartola•2h ago
An alternative that I had a good experience with years ago was Good News Garage which was started by the hosts of Car Talk.
fluorinerocket•2h ago
Wait till he finds out about Fiveish
adastra22•1h ago
It is mentioned in the article.
Dosenpfand•1h ago
It's mentioned in the article.
parpfish•2h ago
Oorah also owns a ton of property in upstate New York. Specifically, a couple summer camps for kids and tons of houses in the surrounding community. So that’s what their “charity” spends money on.

Also interesting to note that their “boys camp” looks like it gets the lions share of the cash. It looks like a theme park with go karts and camels and water slides next to a lake. The “girls camp” is just a horse farm a few miles down the road.

whatshisface•2h ago
Religious organizations are allowed to manage billion dollar tax exempt funds with management fees of 100% and nearly constituonal cover for false and misleading statements. Meanwhile, university endowments would be taxed at the same rate as for profit companies if the reconciliation bill passes.

Due to the significance of tax drag for short term capital gains, we might see a world where most high frequency or quant trading is done by the Mormon Church (today posessing assets about double what Bridgewater has under management).

Simon_O_Rourke•1h ago
That's true but it sucks, it's just a massive scam masquerading as religion. If there's any legislation to tax the bejesus (pun intended) out of any and all religious groups I'm all for it. It'll pay for all those future wars said groups are always fond of advocating for.
throwaway48476•1h ago
>I couldn’t help myself from looking more into the Jewish organization that had an anthropomorphic five dollar bill mascot. After additional inquiry, I learned that this wasn’t the result of a Der Stürmer writer brought to New Jersey during Operation Paperclip, it was connected to an actual organization.

Hilarious