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Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

https://www.yacnews.com/albania-is-not-for-sale-kushners-4-billion-resort-triggers-flamingo-revol...
300•ortr•1h ago•76 comments

Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/08/solar-energy-saves-europeans-135-million-a-day/
24•vrganj•24m ago•1 comments

Making Graphics Like it's 1993

https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/
352•sklopec•4h ago•50 comments

GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI

https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32
290•tekkertje•5h ago•61 comments

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/microsofts-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-...
363•raffael_de•8h ago•151 comments

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers

https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/rockstar-developers/
239•BrunoBernardino•6h ago•154 comments

Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24647
8•galsapir•32m ago•2 comments

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

https://opencv.org/opencv-5/
458•ternaus•3d ago•74 comments

Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19773
12•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/
53•qunabu•3h ago•15 comments

WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

https://cupertinolens.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-apple-is-folding/
112•brandonb•1h ago•91 comments

Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)

https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/biologist-scott-poethig-plants-never-age
91•bryanrasmussen•7h ago•51 comments

Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emerge-career/jobs/v0S1AEG-founding-growth-marketer
1•gabesaruhashi•3h ago

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-reveals-new-ai-architecture/
674•unclefuzzy•20h ago•527 comments

The Effective Sample Size

https://alex.smola.org/posts/40-effective-sample-size/
6•jxmorris12•4d ago•0 comments

An introduction to functional analysis for science and engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02539
74•Anon84•1d ago•9 comments

Adopting the Parallel DWARF linker in dsymutil

https://jonasdevlieghere.com/post/dsymutil-parallel-linker/
16•JDevlieghere•2d ago•3 comments

Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15184
15•Anon84•2h ago•3 comments

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art

https://thi.ng
122•nmstoker•1d ago•18 comments

The iPhone's Last Stand

https://stratechery.com/2026/the-iphones-last-stand/
87•swolpers•5h ago•138 comments

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

https://martinalderson.com/posts/xais-new-rental-business/
638•martinald•1d ago•495 comments

Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes

https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/
1085•lizhang•1d ago•195 comments

The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++

https://giodicanio.com/2026/06/05/how-to-declare-a-c-plus-plus-function-that-takes-a-blob-of-memory/
50•movd128•2d ago•93 comments

Job: Head of Stonehenge

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-people/careers-with-us/job-search/default-job-page/...
194•mooreds•12h ago•179 comments

Siri AI

https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/
634•0xedb•21h ago•639 comments

Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose

https://oshogbo.com/blog/90/
50•zdw•2d ago•9 comments

EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

https://www.foodwatch.org/en/eu-banned-pesticides-found-in-rice-tea-and-spices
481•john-titor•23h ago•264 comments

Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone

https://dfarq.homeip.net/eagle-computer-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-early-pc-clone/
36•giuliomagnifico•6h ago•8 comments

Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot

https://blog.aheymans.xyz/post/thinkpad_x61/
140•walterbell•11h ago•46 comments

H2JVM – A Haskell Library for Writing JVM Bytecode

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/h2jvm-a-haskell-library-for-writing-jvm-bytecode/14182
39•rowbin•2d ago•10 comments
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Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

https://www.yacnews.com/albania-is-not-for-sale-kushners-4-billion-resort-triggers-flamingo-revolution-asset-freeze-and-an-eu-warning/
292•ortr•1h ago

Comments

jeffbee•1h ago
Are we sure they're not just negotiating over the price?
ddorian43•1h ago
Yes. The whole bought media, party in-power, the opposition are against the protests and are trying to downplay them.

Source: I live there. It's very easy to tell if you do.

jeffbee•1h ago
I'll take your word for it! But I reflexively add "... at this price" to such statements.
notrealyme123•1h ago
What do the locals have from a higher price?
kelipso•1h ago
Protests by the masses and business negotiations are very different.
ddorian43•1h ago
Very hard for the general public to gain things though.

It's too luxury, most likely will pay no taxes for years, you can import workers from elsewhere, etc etc.

It's not the first time this kind of thing happens in Albania and we've already seen results.

Normal people will just never be able to go there again. People in power will either get millions or 1+ free apartment/villa, or heavily discounted price (depends on how much power you have).

I was literally kitesurfing when they came and added fences to the road to block access to the beach.

pjc50•59m ago
People really don't get the idea of intangible cultural heritage and irreplaceable wetlands, do they? Not everything and everyone is for sale.
mothballed•54m ago
"Wetlands" is poorly understood by commenters in places like USA because there it's largely used as a bad-faith disingenuous prop by development prohibition interests or those seeking to use regulatory capture against smaller business / small land owners.
ludicrousdispla•55m ago
This isn't the Albanian people's first rodeo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Albanian_civil_unrest

tmaly•55m ago
Is the project more of a private residence or something that would bring tourism to the local economy?
ddorian43•48m ago
There are 2 projects here. And there is a lot of missing details from both.

But what has happened before is that:

The government gives free/cheap/exclusive public land to someone to build apartments/villas. They sell these to whoever wants to buy before starting construction. At the end of construction, with the profits, they build nice hotels at the frontline and keep for themselves without investing any of their own money in anything.

So they will most likely build apartments in Narta, sell them to the populace, and keep Sazan for themselves as luxury resort.

Something worse than this has started happening for high rises too, where they start selling before getting the permit even. So they don't invest their own money even to get the initial permit to start building.

bkovacev•1h ago
Jared Kushner tried a similar thing in Serbia[0] and failed after a public outrage.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/17/serbia-trump...

rapind•37m ago
That Ivanka podcast interview about this island will go down as a masterpiece in tone-deafness. I assume there are already memes of it.
roysting•31m ago
His kind are like alien vampire squids that in sci-fi books/movies descend from space to harvest earth's resources and terraform the planet for their parasitic use, as famously described in The War of the Worlds.

Epstein island 2.0 is required in order to fill the pipeline of depraved and pliable, corrupted power puppets.

toasty228•13m ago
> His kind are like alien vampire squids

More squid than vampire imho, he probably suffers from the same genetic degeneracy as Zuck by the look of it, these fucking ghouls barely resemble humans and day after day prove they should not be treated as such

hereweare26•10m ago
This kind of talk used to be a lot more common in our grandparents' time. It's sad to see the best and the brightest of our times going back to it.
adf-aslk•1h ago
This island was a Russian naval base in the cold war with hundreds of underground nuclear bunkers.

Kushner apparently wants to build a billionaire resort with the protections required to insulate billionaires from their actions. Maybe UAE is too dangerous now.

Here is another article. Try not to be put off by the Rothchild connections, they are mostly irrelevant and based on Kushner's own statements:

https://tomselliott.substack.com/p/what-is-jared-kushner-act...

abirch•1h ago
It looks like Thiel is betting on Argentina.
shevy-java•1h ago
That would explain why Milei got so much US money already. I wonder when the people in Argentina wake up and realise this is a problem.
pjc50•1h ago
Argentina has been a mess for decades.
java-man•1h ago
as the custom goes, since 1945.
water-data-dude•1h ago
If things ever get bad enough that the wealthy need underground nuclear bunkers, the underground nuclear bunkers aren't going to be enough to protect them. The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose.
shevy-java•1h ago
The USA is currently run by oligarchs. They try to buy their way into other countries via corruption. How much kickback did the government of Albania get already? It is highly suspicious how supportive they are of Trump.
ddorian43•1h ago
When Trump was running for the first time, the prime minister was extremely against Trump and even ridiculed him publicly on interviews "shame of our civilization" https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/13/albanian-prime-minister...

Which backfired after Trump won twice in US. But it's just business.

andix•46m ago
Incompetent oligarchs. If you can't even successfully bribe the Albanian or Serbian government, you are just really bad at corruption. Those are (sadly) among the most corrupt countries in the world.

edit: the governments appear to be supportive, but obviously aren't as supportive as they could be. Probably taking the bribe and not doing as much as they could.

nullorempty•5m ago
You can be sure they are getting paid off. It's sickening.

In the past the wealthy families would fund building churches, hospitals, housing for poor.

Nowadays' oligarchs aren't that kind.

totetsu•1h ago
I wonder how many more things like this are happening under the radar around the world
1over137•55m ago
This is hardly under the radar, it’s all over the news.
frereubu•52m ago
They mean an attempt like this, but one that they manage to keep quiet and out of the press.
pavel_lishin•51m ago
I wonder, if I asked the next dozen people I meet, whether they would have any idea about this.
KPGv2•4m ago
The only people this is relevant to are Albanians. I don't expect an Albanian to know about data centers being built in Texas. Hell, I don't expect Michiganders to know about them.
ToucanLoucan•31m ago
Every time you hear about some corpo or another getting to "play a role in the development of $nation" it's pretty much always going to be some kind of bullshit that will employ a lot of locals for shit wages to provide a product or service to residents of the Global North.

There are exceptions of course but the vast, vast, vast majority are tourist trapping and wealth extraction.

pjc50•1h ago
Somewhat higher stakes version of the Trump Aberdeen golf course:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-she...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Forbes_(farmer)

partial225•55m ago
This led to the greatest trolling of an individual ever when they deliberately stuck a windfarm directly off the coast of his new golf course. He's spent a couple of decades spending countless millions in losing a bunch of court cases, and of course, to this day, constantly moans to anyone who will list about "windmills".

As far as trolling goes, it's one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind.

fooblaster•47m ago
unfortunately this trolling has caused trump to try to halt all large offshore wind projects in the United States in federal land grants. it's terrible.
thefz•44m ago
Yep absolutely this and not at all big oil money/interest.
Sharlin•35m ago
Why not both?
foobarian
orwin•59m ago
I mean, the US still have Epstein's island, keep your billionaire child molesters there please, we have have enough on our hands taking care of our own. There's a small chance the guillotine comes out soon, we'll let you borrow it if it does, once the rust is washed off with iron-rich liquids.
titzer•26m ago
Unlike most places in Europe, America has never had a revolution where they deposed the ruling class and those with political power. Americans tell themselves they live in a free country with a government run by the people. It is increasingly obvious that that is a lie.
gnerd00•11m ago
except the courts are somewhat functional, and the law has a lot of pro-privacy and pro-consumer basis. It is not so simple as "lie" but, the clay feet of the idol are showing today.
everyone•11m ago
I always point this out too. They had a war of independence, the main goal of which was so the elite slave owning class wouldn't have to pay tax. Yet they call it a revolution.

They have never had an actual revolution akin to French revolution and the July revolution.

jdross•10m ago
we regularly depose those with political power. In elections.

And the wealthy die or stop participating within around 30 yrs of becoming wealthy normally. And compete themselves across idiology. Soros, Koch, Musk and Moskowitz all have very different packages of political beliefs they advocate vs each other

qwlart•59m ago
Weird flagging in this submission. Pointing out that billionaires build nuclear bunkers is not allowed even though it is public knowledge.
appplication•55m ago
This is off topic and I understand we’re not supposed to comment on such things, but was anyone else mystified by the decisions that went into the scroll progress bar up top (on mobile)? It seems to be two part, where part of it would accurately reflect your scroll state, while the other had some weird latency associated with it. And then it ended up hidden behind the top of page blur unless you scrolled very aggressively, to the point where the blur could not keep up.
antiframe•23m ago
It works for me. I didn't dismiss the first dickover, but did dismiss the second dickover. Scrolled all the way to the bottom smoothly (minus the pause for the second dickover).
annagio_•47m ago
Half of Albania is butchered like this, beaches and green being destroyed to make resorts for the tourists to come. Go see Dermi or Vuno and then go see Borsh how clean it is, with no excavations at all or resorts being build.
whatever1•28m ago
Don't forget that resorts et al typically belong to international capital, and the tourists rarely leave the premises.

So what does the local economy get out of it? A few maids salary to clean up the tourist's shit?

dominotw•13m ago
what about tax revenue ?
whatever1•9m ago
Most resorts secure favorable tax deals directly from the central governments before they invest, accompanied by public announcements in the media about success of government in attracting international investments.

So no tax the locals. During the construction phase there is some legitimate economy uplift (similar to datacenters). But after that nothing.

skinfaxi•9m ago
Same in Greece. Right off the coast of Albania, Corfu is seeing heavy development as well.
HumblyTossed•43m ago
Some of the messaging around this by the people trying to build this out is so tone deaf. I think they know and that's why they're building bunkers.
Sharlin•36m ago
These poor billionaires are just trying to make ends meet like any of us.
kilroy123•14m ago
Which is actually pretty shortsighted.

What if we just made a strong middle class? Made sure they had a LOT more money? Then they could just buy more stuff and services.

gigatexal•29m ago
YES! More of this. Such places and people are not for sale. What kind of sickos think they can just see a place and say "I've got money, these know-nothing-barefoot-fools will take our money and let us rape their lands!"?

And on top of that it's Trump kids, yeet them into the sea.

toasty228•25m ago
The rich are getting too openly greedy and complacent again, they're slowly forgetting about history, can't wait to see how it pans out in the next decades.

https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article1196

renegade-otter•11m ago
Which is ironic because Rae Kushner - his grandmother - is a legend. She has gone through some things.

Now her grandson is wrecking Europe.

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/04/560224531/trump-stories-kushn...

sys_64738•14m ago
I thought Albania still had concrete bunkers around the coast to keep unwanted invaders OUT.
hereme888•9m ago
The evidence so far hints more at Albania’s weak rule of law/property/environmental governance and ugly conflict-of-interest more than Kushner being part of some evil conspiracy.
lifestyleguru•4m ago
The T family acts as everyone expected and warned, they are not stopping, and they are even accelerating. I'm not sure what is the conclusion from this.
toasty228•7m ago
lmao, every. single. time.

Criticise a jewish person for something completely unrelated: infinite amount of green accounts created on the spot come in and start vaguely referencing "ThE DaRkEsT TiMe In HiStOrY".

dopple•6m ago
It would indeed be surprising to hear people say this if you completely ignore the words and actions of the Epstein class and the overwhelming amount of pain and suffering they afflict on everyone else.
kevin_thibedeau•8m ago
They want to upstage Putin's Black Sea palace in a place where they can bribe their way out of extradition.
stevenpetryk•1h ago
automated war machines are plenty to stop an angry mob imo.
organsnyder•1h ago
Maybe in some dystopian future. But right now there are still plenty of humans in the loop for supporting those machines.
esseph•17m ago
Now imagine an angry mob with automated war machines
everyone•15m ago
Yeah like the elites would have any clue how they operate, like any tech.
graphime•59m ago
> The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose.

Governments around the world already keep many locations/facilities secret and hidden from the public.

They will simply arrest you, or worse, just kill you.

What’s your solution to that?

everyone•16m ago
Have you thought this through fully? In that case who'se supposed to be doing the arresting and killing? -- more ordinary people.

Look at what happened to Ceaușescu for example. He went from being confident in his rule to dead 24 hours later.

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6m ago
What would be doubly ironic is if the gold course windmill farm was sponsored by big oil.
amiga386•47m ago
For the gory details, see

1. Donald Trump's Ego Trip - lessons for the new Scotland (2011) https://andywightman.scot/docs/trumpreport_v1a.pdf

2. You've Been Trumped (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6efmndvps