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Ask HN: What could Trump / Musk gain from inspecting Fort Knox?
I'm not sure if there's any possible "win" scenario from inspecting Fort Knox.
- How are they personally going to check the quality of every ingot of 400 tonnes of gold?
- How are they going to personally verify that there is actually 400 tonnes of gold?
- What if it's all there? What a waste, answering a question no one asked. That's the opposite of Government Efiiciency.
- What if it's not all there?
- Blame Biden? Apparently they haven't had a full audit of the content of Fort Knox since the 50s and a partial audit in the 70s and there have been a LOT of administrations since the 70s, never mind the 50s, of both colours. - Fort Knox isn't / wasn't the fortress of its reputation. - They've just announced to the world that the US isn't as rich in gold as they'd been saying they are for over half-a-century. - What do they do now? The only outcome I can see is that this going to be used as a platform for advertising the immutability and transparent accountability of blockchain technology. Question gold, point to an existing solution, pump bitcoin / cryptocurrency, make bank, again, and make loyalists of all the crypto-bros.
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The Linux Command Line
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SETI's Hard Steps (and How to Resolve Them)
Article URL: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/02/21/setis-hard-steps-and-how-to-resolve-them/
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Preprinted Forms Don't Go to Trial
Article URL: https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/story-4-preprinted-forms-dont-go-trial
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Debris from Blue Origin and SpaceX Rockets Found in Bahamas and Europe
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/science/blue-origin-spacex-debris-bahamas-europe/index.html
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AzSky: Dive Deep into Meaningful Discussions
Article URL: https://azsky.app/
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Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy
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Show HN: LLM 100k portfolio management benchmark
PoC for something some the potential to yield some interesting results eventually.
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Meme Coins Cracked Review and Download – Makemoneyonlinewith.com
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The Wild Economics Behind Ferrari's Domination of the Luxury Car Market
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wild-economics-behind-ferraris-domination-of-the-luxury-car-market-8427dff0
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My favorite way of doing Inverse Kinematics
Article URL: https://zalo.github.io/blog/inverse-kinematics/
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'Vranyo' – When you lie and everyone knows it, but you don't care (2022)
Sinking (Behaviour)
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaskning
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Show HN: Spotlight by Hire.Inc – Curated Weekly Talent Drops
I'm excited to launch Spotlight by Hire.Inc, a weekly newsletter that drops a curated selection of top tech talent. 8 Engineers every Monday.
It's designed to help startups and recruiters find the perfect hire quickly and 100% FREE.
You can unlock unlimited candidate profiles with our AI sourcing tool. (https://hire.inc)
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Scroll Direction Toggle – change the scrolling direction in your Chrome browser
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Lifestyle Programming
Article URL: https://successfulsoftware.net/2013/11/06/lifestyle-programming/
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Is surveillance changing how we see the world?
Article URL: https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/surveillance-changing-how-we-see-world
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Walking the Doge
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Five new rules of first impressions
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Show HN: Rorg – I built an open-source tool to help organize React projects
I’ve always missed Rails-style generators in the JavaScript ecosystem, especially when working on React projects across different companies. Every team follows a different structure, and often, there’s no clear organization, making projects harder to scale and maintain.
So I built Rorg, a flexible CLI that helps structure React projects based on different architectural patterns. It supports:
Atomic Design Feature First Pages & Components
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