A few days ago, due to the threat of a chemical explosion, 50,000 people in Orange County were under evacuation orders. In the midst of this, there was a primary election with early voting. How did tens of thousands of evacuated voters cast their ballot? how.voting.works/when-you-can...

Been on kagi for close to a year. I can filter out blog spam and prioritize wikipedia and reddit. Heal nature. Plant native plants. Stop using Google search.

Vanguard offers different policies you can choose on your proxy vote for mutual funds. corporate.vanguard.com/content/corp... Seems very practical to insist my vote goes towards ensuring the board of directors is at least 2/3 independent. Wish that was enforced by being on a public market 😑

Repaired my kids headphones after the speaker wire disconnected (more glue than solder). Here is my guide. www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iCl... I love @ifixit.com and their model of selling good tools (used their solder station on this repair!) and providing a hub for people to share guides.

Cool! Using cert transparency logs to stalk the administration. thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-... The key finding: the ndstudio.gov has staging domains in the CT logs for sites like usa.gov/passport and vote.gov. The raw data is here: thedreydossier.github.io/NDS_servers_...

I love the idea of links that go off to somewhere that doesn't exist yet but might in the future: github.com/BaderBC/halu...

A LLM session reminds me of my teen years getting help on IRC when the manpages failed me. The patient person on the other side walking me through the knowledge gaps that a list of flags have difficulty filling. I don't thank the LLM though. Do you?

It feels gross to hear executive speak like "effective content targeting" in the context of children. Particularly when some of the "content" is gambling (e.g. loot boxes). EU has 16 or older for loot boxes which is still wayyyy too young IMHO. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/r...

This is the XTEINK X4. It runs an ESP32 chip and fits great into a small bag. I like it. There is an open source firmware that makes the device better: github.com/crosspoint-r... Then the company announced they are locking the bootloader. It is not going well. www.reddit.com/r/xteinkerea...

the fencing visualization system i worked on with rhizomatiks is coming to los angeles this weekend 🤗

I guess it is nice that privately held companies are just flailing capital around just like public companies?

Someone please explain to me why Anxious Generation is so popular. It is the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" of pop social psychology. Read this except then the footnote. WHY!

Google Photos product managers please listen: ensuring a basic level of offsite backup for your most important photos has turned into drudgery. Please help. support.google.com/photos/threa...

I can't believe @sanders.senate.gov is making a distillation attack on Claude like this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3At...

Trying to pay US corporate taxes. EFTPS won't let me log in. Spent 1.5 hours on hold. Finally get a IRS rep on the phone: the entire backend system is offline and the rep can't assist with anything. No ETA.

A kid walking near my home was ran off the road into a ditch by a reckless driver (sidewalk-less road). The driver didn't stay at the scene to check on the kid. When called the Sheriff's office told me that unless the vehicle made contact there was nothing they could charge the driver with anyways.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

There needs to be some secrete handshake for software engineers to file detailed bug reports to site owners. I currently can't pay a bill because of some AngularJS app missing a dependency. I debugged it and threw some code into my console to fix: window._satellite.kpCustomEvent = function() { };

Wow! OrbStack is a great VM/container manager for macOS. Every few months I have tried to use Podman Desktop or Docker Desktop and always hit some work stopping bug. But, OrbStack has been great. Nice work @kdrag0n.dev and team. Wish y'all success. orbstack.dev

Quick Hack: Fix epub's for early reader books. github.com/philips/kids... The HTML/CSS of kids early reader books is atrocious and impossible for koreader to render correctly. So, just throw it all out and repack the epub.

I posted an article on HN and people are super passionate about voting systems and also very under informed on the scale and complexity (particularly in the USA). news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4565...

Yesterday, news broke that Dominion Voting Systems was sold to a new company, Liberty Vote. Dominion, the second-largest voting systems vendor in the US that currently tabulates 1 in 5 American votes, is no more. www.voting.works/news/public-...

With how bad robot detection has become across the internet and AI crawling everything in sight it makes me wonder if the future is more like @tailscale.com ACLs and less like the wide default routed internet. Off I go emailing support and asking for an IP whitelist like it is 1999.

It is remarkable a software and brand we (CoreOS team) created 12 years ago (!!!) is still relevant enough for people to debate on Hacker News.

I love this. A bike designed for long term maintenance with limited supply chain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV88...

An actually useful GMail AI integration: forcing users to Reply All unless the body contains sensitive documents or shit talk.

In 2025 and you can't buy a light switch without brand advertising on it. Lutron, Leviton and Legrand are not high fashion brands- they are light switches. Product manager from Leviton saying "Well everyone else is doing it" www.reddit.com/r/homeautoma...

Also. Apparently Nest Protect are being shutdown by google. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

I am in the market for smoke alarms. When I think smoke alarms I think of @bradfitz.com ❤️ But, does anyone else have recommendations? I like Nest Protect but would consider other options. Must be battery powered. Must have push notifications. Ideally no subscriptions.

Excellent overview video of Apple Containerization by Michael Crosby (who played a critical role in getting opencontainers.org to v1.0) Amazing to see these standards used in such a well integrated way 8 years later. developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

There are many reasons I limit Disney in my house. And here is another one. Disney adds Newsmax to Hulu. www.msn.com/en-us/entert...

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

@bsky.app next up, tshirts that say: Facilitate is an active verb

had this thought today.

Photo apps need the UX equivalent for "sifting through the shoe box". I want to collect the photos worth backing up forever. Google Photos "favorites" doesn't work: you can't bulk favorite items. Adding the photos to an "album" doesn't give indication if they are in or not in "the box".

This is nonsense. A district court decision holds just as much legal weight as a Supreme Court decision. The only difference is the district court’s ruling is appealable. But until you WIN an appeal a district court’s decision binds all parties, including the executive branch.

Google is playing the same "you don't get your own incremental backups" with Google Drive too. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4178... What are people using instead of Google Photos and Drive?

Gah! Google! I use photoslibrary.readonly to backup my family photos to an external disk via rclone. Google Takeout is a joke. Where do I go now @ente.io? Last I tried it was way too slow on migrating my photo library. I really don't want to self host photos. Gah. What a mess.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... The President aims to ban an entire law firm from Federal buildings. I worked with professionals at Perkins Coie through my time at CoreOS. I hope our judicial system can hold.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

I love @kagi.com because I can block garbage from Amazon from coming into my search results permanently.

How will judicial systems survive generative AI? Will they need to charge for judiciary attention on some sort of exponential scale? With indIvidual citizens getting a guaranteed level of free tokens. The amount of garbage b.s. generated by disingenuous assholes is going to be crazy.

VotingWorks is making American voting machines right: open source, built for accessibility, and paper based. Excited for their continued success. www.voting.works/machines

Tailscale + Nextdns is great! Access to my home network and filter 90% of the terrible ads from anywhere. @tailscale.com tailscale.com/kb/1218/next...

Unfortunately SANE doesn’t seem to enable the very 2008 features like the “email button” on the front panel. gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/1/030000...

I bought a Canoscan Lide 100 flatbed scanner in 2008. I haven’t needed it for years. But, today it came to my rescue! And amazingly it still worked thanks to SANE. www.sane-project.org Thanks for keeping my 17 year old scanner alive SANE devs.

The intellectual property issue with AI is copyright is too long. As such Disney, et al will get paid and everyone else won’t. If copyright was 25 years, like originally designed, there would plenty for AI to train on and we would have flourishing systems to handle and organize public domain data.

I built an NFC card reader to launch videos. It is an amazing experience for the kids. Built on Home Assistant and @jellyfin.bsky.social github.com/philips/home...

This story about re-introducing beavers to Belgian rivers is so compelling! snapjudgment.org/episode/the-...