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Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow

Article URL: https://growtheflowutah.org/laketracker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766286 Points: 53 # Comments: 14
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Wireless LAN SD

Article URL: https://www.sdcard.org/developers/sd-standard-overview/sdio-isdio/wireless-lan-sd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766297 Points: 27 # Comments: 23
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Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

Article URL: https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767347 Points: 326 # Comments: 57
The DEA Plans to Ban Opioid-Like Kratom Compound 7-OH
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The DEA Plans to Ban Opioid-Like Kratom Compound 7-OH

The federal agency says it will temporarily schedule the drug, which has been called “gas station heroin,” as a controlled substance—a boon for MAHA and the mainstream kratom industry.
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The video game disc is dead

For decades, to be a gamer was to accumulate a lot of stuff. Consoles, controllers, accessories, weird VR gloves that never worked properly, but mostly the games themselves. Over the years, games have come in every shape and size you can imagine. And now that era appears to be ending. On this episode of The […]
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Weber marks down grills and griddles to their best prices ever for July 4th

If our recent Decoder interview with Weber Blackstone CEO Roger Dahle has you craving freshly grilled meats or veggies, Weber just so happens to have a variety of grills, smokers, griddles, and accessories selling at big discounts ahead of the July 4th holiday. It makes a bunch of models, but we’ve landed on a range […]
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Vetting Deep Tech Talent: How to Identify Real Engineering Competence

Vetting deep tech candidates is incredibly difficult... especially in fields like Machine Learning and Quantum Computing where the academic credentials can look extremely intimidating. It is easy to get blinded by a resume that lists a Ph.D. from Stanford, three papers in Nature, and a long list of complex physics terms. But after ten years in the engineering recruitment game, I have learned the hard way that you cannot confuse academic brilliance with practical software engineering compe...
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Why Snap CD: Modular Deployments

Terraform manages dependencies between resources within a single state. The moment your infrastructure outgrows one state file — slow plans, wide blast radius, team contention — you need to split. But the pieces still depend on each other: compute needs the VPC ID from networking, application infrastructure needs the cluster endpoint from compute. The usual approaches — terraform_remote_state , parameter stores, wrapper scripts, Terragrunt — each solve part of the problem but leave gaps ...
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Why Developer Ghosting is Killing Your Hiring Funnel

Let’s be real for a minute... the hiring experience for software engineers is currently a complete mess. We’ve all been there. You spend hours preparing for a technical screen, solve a complex coding challenge, and then... absolute silence. Weeks pass, and you get a generic automated email, or worse, nothing at all. As a tech recruiter with over ten years of experience, I’ve seen this communication breakdown from both sides. Startups get busy, engineering managers get overwhelmed with co...
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Why You Need to Shield Your Resume from the Recruiter Spam Machine

Let’s be honest... if you have "Machine Learning", "PyTorch", or "Quantum" anywhere on your resume or LinkedIn, your inbox is a burning trash fire. Every single day you get hit by automated messages from recruiters who clearly haven't read your profile. They want you to interview for a "great opportunity" that pays half your salary and requires you to move across the country. I’ve been working as a tech and engineering recruiter for over ten years... and I want to let you in on a secret....
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The PhD Trap: Why Quantum Startups are Failing to Ship Code

I’m going to say something that might ruffle some feathers... but after ten years of hiring engineers in deep tech, someone has to say it. Too many quantum startups are falling into the "PhD Trap." They raise a seed round, hire five brilliant academic physicists from top universities, and then wonder why it takes them twelve months to ship a simple interface or run a basic compiler pipeline. Don't get me wrong... the physics is critical. If you are building quantum hardware or designi...
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Why Startups are Getting Ripped Off by 30% Recruiter Fees (From a Recruiter Who Left)

Look... let's keep it real for a second. If you're a founder running an early-stage deep tech startup, you've probably had some slick agency recruiter pitch you their services. They slide into your inbox, tell you they have the perfect "quantum algorithms engineer" who went to MIT, and then casually drop their fee structure... 25% or 30% of the candidate's first-year base salary. Think about the math on that. If you're hiring a solid senior AI or Quantum builder for $180,000, you are writing ...
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🚀 How We Organized a Frontend Quiz That Attracted 1,600+ Registrations

Building software is exciting. But building a community around technology? That's even more rewarding. Recently, our team at Omnikon organized our very first large-scale community event—the Frontend Quiz Arena 2026 . We had no idea how many people would register. Our initial goal was simple: If a few hundred students participate and learn something new, we'll consider it a success. Instead, the response completely exceeded our expectations. By the end of registrations...
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AuraPlayer: Offline music player with true multi-artist support & live themes (PyQt6)

I am currently building a desktop offline music player called AuraPlayer (written in Python/PyQt6). The project is actively in development, and the main goal is to fix some of the most annoying UX issues found in traditional offline players. What My Project Does The core engine handles native music playback and advanced library organization. Here are the key features I’m focusing on right now: Sleek & Clean UI: Simple, intuitive, and highly user-friendly without ...
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React Smart Image: The Free React Image Optimization Library Every Developer Should Try

If you've built more than one React app, you've probably written the same image-loading boilerplate more than once. A skeleton here. A lazy-loading IntersectionObserver there. A fallback image when the CDN hiccups. A blur placeholder to avoid layout shift. Retry logic for flaky hosts. Every new React project ends up with the same image-loading code—copied from the last project, tweaked a little, and rarely perfect. Sound familiar? @concatstring/react-smart-image bri...
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I went hunting in light the eye can't see, and the models were the easy part

Builder Journal · Hyperspectral Object Tracking Challenge 2026 This is a Builder Journal entry written from inside a live machine-learning competition I am actually competing in. Not a tidy after-the-fact write-up where I already know how it ends. It runs long and it shows code, because it covers the part most write-ups skip: everything that has to be true before a model is even allowed to matter. You get where I was, with the parts that are still my edge kept dark. In the movie, the Pred...
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Migrating from Python to Rust? Here's how to map your packages

Porting Python code to Rust is one of the most common performance optimization plays in modern software engineering. Whether you are rebuilding a bottlenecked web service (moving from FastAPI to Actix), accelerating a data pipeline (moving from Pandas to Polars), or rewriting a CLI utility, the performance gains are massive. Rust services routinely run 10x to 100x faster while consuming a fraction of the RAM. But once you install Rust and set up your Cargo.toml , you hit the first roadbl...
Como foi minha preparação para a AWS Certified Developer – Associate
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Como foi minha preparação para a AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Fala pessoal! Na última segunda-feira (29/06) conquistei a certificação AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) ! 🎉 AWS Certified Developer – Associate - Credly Earners of this certification have a comprehensive understanding of application life-cycle management. They demonstrated proficiency in writing applications with AWS servic...