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StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

https://streetcomplete.app/
462•kls0e•6h ago•108 comments

Amazon without the knockoffs

https://knockoff.shopping/
181•plurby•3h ago•118 comments

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

https://30papers.com/
112•notmcrowley•2h ago•19 comments

A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R0Lp86GEBk
336•surprisetalk•5h ago•126 comments

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview
113•gasull•4h ago•10 comments

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

https://github.com/jimparis/qr-font
44•arantius•2h ago•3 comments

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf/releases/tag/v1.86
35•mplsllc•2h ago•3 comments

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

https://pgdog.dev/blog/why-yet-another-connection-pooler
40•levkk•3h ago•6 comments

Computational Balloon Twisting: The Theory of Balloon Polyhedra [pdf]

https://cccg.ca/proceedings/2008/paper34full.pdf
10•luu•5d ago•0 comments

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Showdown-in-Strasbourg-The-unexpected-return-of-Chat-Control-1-0-113...
345•miroljub•3h ago•148 comments

Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

https://gamefromscratch.com/microsoft-fire-idtech-team-at-id-software/
317•bauc•3h ago•306 comments

The revenge of the philosophy majors

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/philosophy-majors-ai-jobs.html
80•benbreen•4h ago•111 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

https://9mothers.com/careers
1•ukd1•6h ago

Automating AI Away

https://replicated.live/blog/away
35•gritzko•3h ago•17 comments

China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33y0n1v1xjo
99•randycupertino•2h ago•111 comments

Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/antidoom
14•dataminer•2h ago•3 comments

Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types

https://postgres.saneengineer.com
69•anivan_•6h ago•11 comments

98% isn't much

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/07/03/98-isnt-very-much/
376•speckx•5h ago•255 comments

Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k

https://govauctions.app/research/cheapest-homes-in-america
68•player_piano•2h ago•59 comments

A new runtime for k and q: l

https://lv1.sh/
3•skruger•34m ago•0 comments

GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service

https://github.com/github/freno
17•nateb2022•1d ago•0 comments

The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/the-family-keeping-watch-over-a-52-year-old-pot-of-...
62•petethomas•6d ago•47 comments

Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-migrants-skilled-workers-integration-labor-market-bureaucracy-langu...
52•theanonymousone•8h ago•103 comments

Software Bonkers

https://craigmod.com/essays/software_bonkers/
18•razin•3h ago•11 comments

C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences

https://nekrozqliphort.github.io/posts/membarrier/
51•anon_farmer•4d ago•4 comments

Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

https://ciphercue.com/blog/european-web-hosting-vendor-share-2026
226•adulion•6h ago•158 comments

Better Auth is joining Vercel

https://better-auth.com/blog/better-auth-joins-vercel
99•sync•2h ago•66 comments

Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/06/29/dua-lipa-opens-library-for-banned-and-censored-books-...
237•pax•5h ago•189 comments

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
180•archargelod•13h ago•47 comments

New Literalism Comes for Museums

https://jaymollica.com/blog/new-literalism-comes-for-museums/
4•thebigship•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site

https://abcnews.com/US/midtown-manhattan-blocks-evacuated-after-beams-found-buckling/story?id=134549272
18•danso•3h ago

Comments

gorjusborg•1h ago
Does anyone here have any knowledge of how something like this gets resolved?
SilverElfin•1h ago
Given all the bad press around things like the millennium tower, I think once you have an issue like this, the building is done. No one will want to live there. And given structural problems with load bearing beams, I would expect the building has to be demolished. But maybe they can demolish it top down partially and rebuild up from the compromised area if the city and engineers deem that safe.
fiatpandas•1h ago
Knocking down a building like this will be a huge pain, extremely expensive, and very dangerous. I think you can assume the developers will try desperately to retrofit the building before demo. There’s good precedence for this even in New York City. Look into the Citicorp case study.
ErroneousBosh•1h ago
Tie every helicopter you can find to the roof, gas the bent bit off, haul it away and drop it somewhere?

They'll likely shore it up with hydraulic props - probably going through the floor and ceiling to floor slabs above and below - to stabilise it, and then start demolishing the building bit by bit.

Anon1096•1h ago
Most likely the building gets stabilized and then anyone involved gets embroiled in lawsuits and it stays standing half finished for years. One Seaport is a famous recent example of an under construction skyscraper getting halted for structural issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/161_Maiden_Lane
onlypassingthru•1h ago
Yes, sometimes gravity resolves the problem for you.
danofsteel32•59m ago
This is a little pedantic but the pictures seem to show failing support columns not beams.

Beams are horizontal and columns are vertical.

pram•51m ago
I'm not an expert but those look like pretty wimpy columns? Kind of surprising, when I worked in a tower it had exposed concrete columns that were very thick in comparison
rcxdude•5m ago
I think the first picture is not showing structural columns: they're more a symptom (buckling as the building is moving) as opposed to the cause.