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An interactive map of FLock Cams

https://deflock.org/map#map=5/37.125286/-96.284180
206•anjel•1h ago•34 comments

MacBook Neo

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/say-hello-to-macbook-neo/
1144•dm•6h ago•1488 comments

Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx44p99457o
39•tartoran•41m ago•7 comments

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

https://joshua.hu/firefox-making-right-click-not-suck
139•mmsc•2h ago•85 comments

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/
332•simonw•4h ago•160 comments

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/
707•aamederen•8h ago•411 comments

NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute

https://qlabs.sh/slowrun
56•sdpmas•2h ago•7 comments

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program

https://www.moss.town/
81•smusamashah•10h ago•10 comments

Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities

https://pebblebed.com/blog/kernel-bugs-part2
46•MBCook•2h ago•10 comments

Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs

https://cubiclenate.com/2026/03/04/data-has-weight-but-only-on-ssds-blathering/
22•LorenDB•1h ago•10 comments

Roboflow (YC S20) Is Hiring a Security Engineer for AI Infra

https://roboflow.com/careers
1•yeldarb•2h ago

“It turns out” (2010)

https://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out
183•Munksgaard•5h ago•64 comments

Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection

https://gist.github.com/jjl/d998164191af59a594500687a679b98d
22•todsacerdoti•1h ago•2 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter

https://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/2026/02/28/pico-am-radio-transmitter
37•pesfandiar•3d ago•18 comments

Glaze by Raycast

https://www.glazeapp.com/
157•romac•7h ago•92 comments

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation

https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5/fine-tune
187•bilsbie•8h ago•49 comments

The View from RSS

https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss/
3•Curiositry•9m ago•0 comments

Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy

https://libre.solar
153•evolve2k•3d ago•46 comments

My Favorite 39C3 Talks

https://asindu.xyz/my-favorite-39c3-talks/
13•max_•3d ago•2 comments

Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

https://www.engadget.com/apps/google-ends-its-30-percent-app-store-fee-and-welcomes-third-party-a...
43•_____k•49m ago•12 comments

MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone

https://www.kth.se/en/om/nyheter/centrala-nyheter/kth-studenten-hackade-klocka-for-barn-1.1461249
81•jidoka•7h ago•21 comments

Agentic Engineering Patterns

https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/
441•r4um•15h ago•242 comments

The Space Race's Forgotten Theme Park

https://daily.jstor.org/the-space-races-forgotten-theme-park/
8•anarbadalov•2h ago•0 comments

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o
369•1659447091•18h ago•360 comments

RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9849.html
243•P_qRs•13h ago•120 comments

Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-one-science-reform-we-can-all
289•sito42•5h ago•128 comments

Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fume_at_outlookcom_email/
107•Bender•8h ago•66 comments

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116160393783585567
1162•pabs3•19h ago•474 comments

RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#

https://iev.ee/blog/resharp-how-we-built-the-fastest-regex-in-fsharp/
173•exceptione•3d ago•61 comments

The 1,700-year-old megastructure history almost forgot

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/travel/travel-news-jetavanaramaya-ephesus
15•simonebrunozzi•2d ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B

https://iranwarcost.com
14•koverda•1h ago

Comments

koverda•1h ago
I made a site a couple of days ago to track the cost of the iran war. It's open source, feel free to submit a PR or open an issue: https://github.com/koverda/iranwarcost.com
WalterGR•1h ago
Different tracker, but also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237080

Iran War Cost Tracker (iran-cost-ticker.com) 312 points | 23 hours ago | 440 comments

How does yours compare to that one?

koverda•1h ago
Mine seems to be a bit more focused and comprehensive on the financial expenditures by the US government, and open source. Also iran-cost-ticker.com seems to be "on hold" when i visit it.
WalterGR•1h ago
> Also iran-cost-ticker.com seems to be "on hold" when i visit it.

That is certainly a difference between the two sites. :) I hadn't visited since yesterday.

nickff•1h ago
I was curious about the (AN/FPS-132) radar, which is a significant cost-driver, and have come away unsure as to whether it was a US-asset (which seems to be what this website is tracking). Qatar seems to have ordered one of these radars, and I can't see any record of the US installing one of its own at the facility in question, but it is not clear (to me) who owns this unit, though it seems most likely to be Qatar. Additionally, the widely-circulated image of the 'destroyed' radar appears to be 'fake', with satellite images showing less-than-catastrophic damage:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-fake-image-de...

https://www.news18.com/world/iran-destroyed-uss-1-1-billion-...

koverda•1h ago
Pretty certain from this that it's a US asset: https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/111460...
nickff•1h ago
Thanks for your link! The text seems to indicate the equipment is Qatar-owned: “The foreign military sale agreement, signed Dec. 7, 2016, requested AFLCMC provide the radar itself and associated mission support facilities at a remote location in Qatar.”

For context, in the case of foreign military sales, the US government usually buys the equipment from its suppliers, then resells it to the foreign government.

legitster•1h ago
Some problems:

- The Aid package is not immediately spent all at once. It authorizes up to $26 billion, but the CBO estimates it may take all the way into 2033 to claim the money.

- To that end, a lot of these costs are double counted. It's including the bill that authorizes these expenses, and then those expenses all in the same calculation.

More realistically, the $6.5M/day in theater operations for a Carrier Strike Group is probably pretty accurate (In reality, they already cost the US about $30M/day just operate normally). The flyaway costs for the Tomahawk missiles are going to be about $1M each (a lot of price estimates include the R&D costs divided per units).

In reality, the cost of a 60 day war with Iran using current methods at our current loss rates will get you closer to about $8-12B total cost. Which is still a lot more more incrementally accurate.

koverda•1h ago
Thank you for the feedback, I'll take it into account. Much appreciated!
JohnTHaller•1h ago
The modern Iran War began in April 2024 when Israel bombed Iran's consulate in Syria, marking the first direct conflict between the countries.
YZF•56m ago
There were many many milestones that are relevant to the current war.

- Proxy war waged by Iran in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleima...

Arguably the bombing of IRGC meeting in the consulate-adjacent structure was not really "direct conflict". It was Iran firing missiles at Israel that was the first real direct conflict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2024_Iranian_strikes_on_...

Also if we want to split hairs Iran attacked Israel's embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Buenos_Aires_Israeli_emba...

"In April 2024, Argentina's second highest court ruled that the Iranian government was responsible for the bombing, and that it was carried out in retaliation for Argentina reneging on agreements to transfer nuclear material to Iran. The ruling also characterized Iran as a terrorist state"