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Audit finds San Francisco tax official steered $10M contract to friend

https://sfstandard.com/2026/06/23/audit-sparked-standard-investigation-finds-tax-official-steered-10m-contract-friend/
23•littlexsparkee•2h ago

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littlexsparkee•2h ago
https://archive.ph/ELYTF
markdown•1h ago
Pool contract?
SilverElfin•1h ago
This is very common. All cities with large budgets have some amount of corruption. Look for nonprofits that have poorly defined goals and you’ll find it. But the federal government is also this way. Look at the Trump administration’s various corrupt actions like the reflecting pool contract going to a mar a lago neighbor. Or ICE detention center contracts. Or regulations. Corruption is getting normalized at all levels of government.
verdverm•1h ago
There is growing awareness and demands to do something, it will take time and be an endless battle.

How Voters Define Corruption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DsBz5sn9Vg

yalogin•1h ago
This is bad and am glad they found it but with what is going on at the federal level this feels miniscule and not even a rounding error.

One example out of hundreds - the kids purchased shares in a Kazakh tungsten mining venture just before the U.S. government backed deal was finalized.

littlexsparkee•56m ago
That's true but this is one of many SF scandals (Nuru & Dept of Public Works, Recology rate-fixing, Dream Keeper Initiative & Sheryl Davis, Hunters Point Tetra Tech botched cleanup, DBI & SFPUC probes) in recent history
recursivecaveat•1h ago
I believe this is the actual audit report here: https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/TTX_Business_Tax_System_P...

Page 27 / exhibit 4 is the most interesting piece of evidence for steering to me.

California AB 2047 makes 3d printers off-limits to students, educators, business

https://www.the3dprintingnerd.com/ab2047
127•Buildstarted•59m ago•55 comments

United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB

https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/2026-06-23-we-have-a-union
67•d4mi3n•1h ago•23 comments

Jerry's Map

http://www.jerrysmap.com/the-map
273•turtleyacht•4h ago•37 comments

Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them

https://milek7.pl/mailverifyspam/
109•garaetjjte•2h ago•30 comments

Swift Package Index joins Apple

https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-package-index-joins-apple
150•JDevlieghere•5h ago•46 comments

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

https://swipe.futo.tech/
175•futohq•5h ago•64 comments

Printing Gaussian Splats

https://www.patreon.com/DanyBittel/posts/printing-splats-161333338
115•ilnmtlbnm•2d ago•8 comments

The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

https://dynomight.net/vitamin-d/
156•surprisetalk•6h ago•112 comments

Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

https://tikz.dev/editor/
298•DominikPeters•8h ago•59 comments

AI's Affordability Crisis

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-affordability-crisis.html
221•ilreb•8h ago•285 comments

F3

https://github.com/future-file-format/f3
587•tosh•6h ago•126 comments

Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem

https://apnews.com/article/germany-trains-halted-communications-radio-problem-deutsche-bahn-e8fd9...
116•sva_•1h ago•114 comments

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260622-00/?p=112451
46•saikatsg•5h ago•1 comments

Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing

https://github.com/baidu/Unlimited-OCR
425•ingve•11h ago•97 comments

The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html
352•xnx•2d ago•574 comments

The Coming Loop

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/
281•ingve•12h ago•213 comments

Five monitors on a Commodore 128 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5hC3PY1Yg
96•EvanAnderson•1d ago•18 comments

F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/ffs
17•neogoose•2d ago•18 comments

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI

https://twitter.com/JPoehnelt/status/2069482265953087602
184•justinwp•4h ago•122 comments

Samsung demonstrates 3D stacked FETs with triple nanosheet channels at 42nm

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/news-events/tech-blog/from-gaa-to-3d-stacked-fet-expanding-the-...
84•its_ajseven•4d ago•24 comments

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiring-tools-can-yield-racial-bias-and-systemic-rejection
122•sizzle•4h ago•126 comments

Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild

https://lift4d.github.io/
102•ilreb•8h ago•11 comments

On the Skin-Furrows of the Hand (1880) [pdf]

https://galton.org/fingerprints/faulds-1880-nature-furrows.pdf
5•pncnmnp•1d ago•2 comments

San Diego photologs from the 1970s

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/san-diego-photologs-from-the-1970s/
136•jonathanmkeegan•6h ago•46 comments

ATProto Permissioned Data Proposal Draft

https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/pull/94
13•danabramov•1h ago•2 comments

Plotnine

https://plotnine.org/
247•tosh•4d ago•74 comments

Claude Tag

https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude-tag
224•adocomplete•6h ago•143 comments

Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/currencies/articles/ecb-secures-key-parliamentary-backing-10271...
156•madars•6h ago•238 comments

Mistral OCR 4

https://mistral.ai/news/ocr-4/
419•meetpateltech•9h ago•109 comments

Performance Improvements in Libffi

https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/libffi-plan-cache/
36•atgreen•2d ago•6 comments