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National Guard will spend $290 million on apartments for Washington troops
Thousands of National Guardsmen mobilized to Washington, D.C., will soon be living in apartment units under a $290 million rental contract the guard calls a “long-term housing solution,” officials announced. National Guard Bureau officials announced Friday it had signed a $292 million contract with corporate lodging company Placemakr to provide 2,000 apartment-style units for Guardsmen mobilized in Washington, D.C., according to a Friday press release.Officials did not specify how long the guard
Shortage of military air traffic controllers impacts safety, mission, watchdog says
As civilian air traffic controllers working for the military leave for more lucrative contracts elsewhere, a federal watchdog is sounding the alarm that their exodus could be contributing to readiness, safety, and training issues. Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force officials say they can’t compete with the civilian sector to recruit and retain their civilian air traffic control workforce, according to a Department of Defense Inspector General report released last week. The average air traffi
Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility
I read HN on my phone every day and never really settled on a reader, so I
wrote my own and finally tidied it up enough to put out
there.It's plain SwiftUI with no third-party dependencies. A few things I spent the
most time on:Comments are parsed and drawn as native text instead of being dumped into a web
view. Links, italics, quotes and code blocks behave like the rest of the OS,
text selection works, and threads collapse instantly. The whole comment tree
comes back from the Algolia API i
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
Hi Hacker News, I'm Louis. I built Screenpipe (https://screenpipe.com), an app that records your screen and audio locally (only!), and gives AI agents a searchable memory of what you've seen, said, and heard. This makes it easier to automate your repetitive tasks, turn them into SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure) and so on.I made a HN-style demo video at https://www.tella.tv/video/build-your-ai-second-brain-with-s... and there’s a marketing video at https
5 hidden EDC essentials you are probably overlooking
Cliff, The Urban Prepper, identifies crucial everyday carry items that are frequently missed but essential for maintaining a ...
Dorms for 5,200 enlisted medical students to be demolished due to ‘foundational defects’
Roughly 5,200 enlisted medical service members assigned to a healthcare education facility in Texas are being moved out of their dormitories due to “systemic infrastructure failures” stemming from the buildings’ construction, a base spokesperson said.KSAT-TV first reported on the issues affecting Army, Navy, and Air Force enlisted medical students assigned to the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Each year, about 16,500 enlisted medical serv
Show HN: An open source schema definition for datasheets
Not the first person to do this but all the other examples I've seen are either dead or miss the point. Why: I was designing a Eurorack compatible instrument and I did not want to brush up on now 10 years old college electrical engineering knowledge and I just want Claude to make me a PCB board. I realized that all of the sources for electrical component information are PDFs and not very nicely machine readable. That led me to ask why not and one of the gaps I see is a lack of an agreed upo
Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong
Hey HN, Henry & Roman here from Cactus.A small, on-device model is fast and private, but sometimes wrong, but frontier models are getting expensive pretty fast. So, we post-trained Gemma 4 E2B post-trained to know when it's wrong. Every response comes with a confidence score between 0 and 1. Developers can accept the on-device when it's high, hand off to a bigger cloud model when it's low. By routing only 15-35% of queries to Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemma-4-E2B matches Gemini 3
Show HN: Sorted Receipts - clients dump receipts in one link, LLM sorts them
Solo founder. Xero retired Hubdoc in May; the displaced users are mostly solo bookkeepers with 15-30 clients whose replacement options are an enterprise suite (Dext) or per-document credits (AutoEntry).Sorted Receipts is the boring version of what they keep asking for: each client gets one upload link. No account, no app, and forwarding an email to the link works too. Files get classified by month/vendor/type (LLM via OpenRouter), land in one review queue you check off, whatever's
Her Highness Survival Game
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The US is in another asymmetric war in the Middle East
The Post 9/11 wars have shown the limits of America’s military might against insurgents, terrorist groups, and other enemies that fight in the shadows instead of in force-on-force battles.Yet with the Iran war, the U.S. military is once again waging a largely conventional campaign against an enemy that excels in unconventional tactics, as the Pentagon has long known. Although Iran’s conventional navy has largely been sunk, it still has managed to inflict economic pain by curtailing commerci
Dagne Dover makes my favorite elevated gym bag — it's way sleeker than your average duffel
Stylish, expandable, and something you won't mind heading into the office with — the Dagne Dover Landon Carryall duffel is perfect for urban gym-goers.
Our Favorite Osprey Duffel Bag That’s a ‘Must’ for Travel Is 35% Off Right Now
“This bag was the perfect balance of durability, functionality, and ease of transport.” The Osprey Transporter Duffel Bag 65L is now $116. It distinguishes itself from other Osprey duffels by having ...
Gerber Flatiron Review: Pocket Knives are Great, But May We Suggest a Pocket Cleaver?
Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Forget having a pocket knife—a pocket cleaver has even more use. The Gerber Flatiron ...
Garage deals: Nowell Leather's hand-stitched EDC gear belongs in every gearhead's glovebox
Garage Deals is our recurring roundup of gear worth your attention. This post is done in partnership with Nowell Leather. A ...
CIVIVI Flash Sale: 50% Off EDC Knives for Only 72 Hours
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Ask HN: At what point does AI regulation lead to confiscation of compute?
With everything going on lately regarding AI policy, and the cat already being out of the bag with AI systems that can run on feasibly obtainable personal compute, at what point do things tip over governments confiscating said compute in order to enforce a certain regulatory goal?Today's regulation is mostly targeted at frontier labs, hyperscalers, chip makers, etc. But if compute is the choke point, and things are getting more efficient, where is the limiting principle "on the way dow
Newer macOS runs slower on Intel (undeniably) – on purpose or "accident"?
FIRST: if you feel the urge to say "get a PC" or "try linux" please don't. This is about apple/mac/macos hardware. suggestions to linux or other things isn't helpful.I have a macbook pro, 32G ram, lightning fast nvme drive. There is NO REASON to upgrade the hardware.I've followed the upgrade path to their latest (Tahoe) and they announced this is the last.But it has become UNBEARABLY slow and painful for some operations. Most notably screen sharing dr
Laptop touchpad stopped registering clicks? try this
pretty much every laptop i've ever had got this issue after about 4-12 months of use. clicks no longer registering, click like 3-4x to open an app, scroll is a nightmare etc. NOW THE FIX. At almost 1AM i get the idea that if I use my muscles and just bend the base (? part with the touchpad) outwards, it could fix the issue. after doing this for like 20mn and working up a sweat, my touchpad's as good as new! clicks register first time!
Hazing could soon become a specific charge under military law
Hazing could become a specific charge under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, under a provision in the upcoming fiscal year’s defense spending bill. The proposal would require the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Service Committee on Military Justice to consider adding hazing to the UCMJ as a standalone offense or as a modifier to other charges. That might mean adding hazing as a specific offense under Article 93, which bans cruelty, oppression, or maltreatment of subordinates. The pr