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Article URL: https://github.com/RyanKung/rotom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351839

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Article URL: https://www.empirical.health/blog/eggs-now-officially-healthy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351838

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Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/940498/dell-xps-13-student-laptop-intel-wildcat-panther-lake-computex-price

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351808

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Article URL: https://github.com/DominoTree/modern-m68k-toolchains

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351805

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Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Club_Car_Introduces_Electronic_Park_Brake_That_Requires_$500_Tool

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351798

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This week on the Lock and Code podcast…

In the United States today, you can have your bank account closed, your credit cards cancelled, and your online payments revoked for any number of crimes, like funding terrorism, engaging in money laundering, or violating sanctions.

Sensible, right? Well, you can also face financial ruin for teaching poetry.

That’s what seemingly happened to a Persian poetry teacher from Detroit whose accounts were flagged for “sanctions violations” because his students wrote “Persian classes” in their Venmo memos. There’s also the story about the naked yoga practitioners who lost their payment processor for 60 days, forced to rebuild a subscriber list from scratch. And we can’t forget the San Diego cannabis journalist cut off from Stripe—and from a paid Substack newsletter—because of the payment platform’s rules that prohibit the promotion of the sale of cannabis.

This is “financial censorship,” and it often happens when a bank, credit card provider, or payment app decides that a customer is too risky to serve. But “risky” doesn’t always mean “illegal,” and when a major financial institution errs towards caution about what a customer is saying, advocating for, representing, or publishing, a lot of innocent people can be hurt in the process.

That’s what the digital rights activist Rainey Reitman learned in writing “Transaction Denied: Big Finance’s Power to Punish Speech.” As Reitman explained about these hugely impactful decisions:

“Even if they are well-intentioned, the financial systems can end up pulling in a lot of people that are not the actual target… Sometimes we talk about this as dolphins in the fishing lines.”

These decisions are difficult to fight, frustratingly opaque, and nearly impossible to reverse. Compounding the problem is that that there aren’t enough alternatives available for the financially censored to easily regain their freedom.

The reality for hundreds of millions of people in this country is that about a dozen companies control all their finances. People mostly bank with Chase, or Bank of America, or Citigroup, or Wells Fargo. They mostly use credit cards assigned by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Capital One. And they mostly send money to one another and to small businesses using services like PayPal, Venmo, Cash app, and Square.

For most people, these companies are supposed to operate in the background of their lives, providing reliable, secure financing to sustain and manage their livelihoods. But in practice, these companies can become quite interested in what you say online, what payments you receive each month, and the locations those payments arrived from.

Today, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak with Reitman—who is also the president and a co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation—about the real stories of those who have been financially censored, why financial companies cut off customers for legal speech, and how a single company’s decision can create cascading consequences that feel impossible to fight.

“They’d be locked out of Venmo, then they’d be locked out of PayPal—which is connected to Venmo—and then they’d suddenly lose their Chase Bank account. You could see that in a lot of instances, losing one form of access to the financial system, it could result in a pattern where they would be losing access repeatedly.”

Tune in today to listen to the full conversation.

Show notes and credits:

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Hi HN,

My name is Matt and I've been working on a project called Manger, a mobile app used for livestock management. As a child, I grew up in a rural area with chickens, cows and other livestock around me. At the same time, I've always been passionate about technology. About a year ago, I launched Manger on iOS, and, more recently on Android. Just this past week, I launched RFID tags for poultry, called "eFlock Smart Poultry Tags" along with a companion scanner. The "killer feature" of the app is long-range scanning support (up to 15 feet), which can be used to count and identify animals. I imagine it has some other "current" uses, for example, finding young chickens that have been spooked and hiding in grass.

The app is written with React Native and uses PouchDB, backed by SQLite. What makes this really neat is that you can sync your data across devices via a (local!) CouchDB server. At my homestead, my wife typically takes care of chickens and records how many eggs we've collected each day. On the other hand, I take care of rabbits and record their weight, as we keep them for meat. All of the data syncs between our iPhones. I currently have a Raspberry Pi setup running CouchDB and it has been working well. The goal for the app is to always be offline-first, with sync and backup functionality backed by on-premises hardware. This is a "beta" feature, as it's currently undocumented and I don't sell the hardware for that (yet).

The eFlock Smart Poultry Tags are passive UHF. It took me quite a bit of time to find a chip / antenna combination that has "long rage", while being "small". It's a trade off. The tags are 45.5mm x 19.5mm x 1mm and are perfectly fine for adult chickens. I think they are fine on young chickens as well - about 8 weeks when they become fully feathered. Tags are 3D-printed with TPU, which makes them flexible and durable. At the time of this writing, nine months into my test on 32 chickens, only one so far has been damaged.

The scanner, eScan H103 SE, is sourced from a manufacturer in China. Similar situation as with the tags, it took me quite a while to find something that is "long range" while staying relatively affordable. Depending on make / model, livestock scanners (LF/HF) range from a few hundred to upwards of a thousand dollars, so the scanner is definitely on the cheaper end of this spectrum.

My next upcoming feature are functions for number-type properties. For example, get the totals, average, maximum or minimum number of eggs collected within some specific time frame. Along those same lines, (local!) AI integration where you can simply ask "how many eggs did I collect last week?".

I have quite a few exciting long-term plans as well.

Here's a video of the scanning feature: https://youtu.be/wilixJiyPYA?si=_ptwYF0U05ViFCk2

All feedback is super welcome and I would be happy to answer any questions! :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351776

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Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/05/28/how-should-bosses-talk-about-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351772

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Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-tool-track-employee-mouse-clicks-collision-course-with-eu-privacy-rules-2026-05-29/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351759

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Article URL: https://tradetalkspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Episode-214-Transcript-Complete.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351744

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOG-9cQw4IU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351739

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Article URL: https://github.com/trholding/shrike-gen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351566

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Article URL: https://yougotus.ai/research/california-governor-2026-digital-primary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351564

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Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-warp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351563

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Article URL: https://medium.com/@yalovoy/i-built-the-same-app-with-five-gui-frameworks-tauri-slint-egui-dioxus-and-flutter-for-linux-31bd6f59ff6a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351490

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu_ship

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351489

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Article URL: https://github.com/Reliary/stria

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351486

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