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Trump's MAHA pick for surgeon general flounders amid GOP doubts (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-23 | tags: trump, casey means, senate health committee

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Consensus Board Game (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-19 | get Consensus Party Game → | tags: paxos, consensus, committee

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Contextual commits – An open standard for capturing the why in Git history (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-12 | by Veselin Dimitrov | get Repository → | tags: git history, open standard, contextual commits

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The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-07 | get Time Zone Database → | tags: iana time zone database, british columbia, double summer time

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The BBC Won’t Have a New ‘Doctor Who’ Star to Announce Until It Figures Out the Show’s Future (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-02 | get Doctor → | tags: actors, actors want, commitment

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Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-02 | get Rocket → | tags: spacex starship, nasa transition authorization act, senate commerce committee

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Federal data breach may be the biggest hack in US history (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-24 | by Cassian Holt | get Cloud → | tags: citrix portal, senate finance committee, change healthcare

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Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-24 | by Elizabeth Chamberlain | get Agricultural equipment → | tags: right to repair, john deere, iowa house agriculture committee

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TechCrunch Mobility: Waymo makes its defense (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-22 | by Kirsten Korosec | get Autonomous driving system → | tags: waymo, senate, commerce committee

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FreeCAD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-17 | get FreeCAD → | tags: able, able commit, choose

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AI Companies Bought Out All of Western Digital’s Hard Drives for 2026 Already (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-17 | get Western Drive → | tags: center, center demands, committed

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Because of AI, Western Digital Hard Drives Are Sold Out (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-17 | get Western Digital Drive → | tags: center, center demands, committed

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The Russo Brothers Say Steve Rogers Is Key to ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-13 | get Star Wars → | tags: darkman, liam, liam neeson

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Apple and Google Agree To Change App Stores After 'Effective Duopoly' Claim (slashdot.org)

2026-02-10 | by Posted | get Ecosystem → | tags: apps, authority, commitments

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Flirt: The Native Backend (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-07 | get Flirt API → | tags: comment, commit, flirt

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Uber ordered to pay $8.5m over claim driver raped passenger (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-02-06 | get Smartphone → | tags: action, action improve, assaulted

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Lawmakers ask what it would take to "store" the International Space Station (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-06 | get Space Station → | tags: authorization, committee, house

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Crypto bill talks picking up in Senate after clearing a key vote, Sen. Boozman says (cnbc.com)

2026-02-05 | by Talia Kaplan | get Blockchain → | tags: booker, committee, crypto

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When rust ≠ performance. a lesson in developer experience (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-03 | by Suriya Ganesh | get Cloudflare → | tags: commit, files, interesting

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Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-03 | get Rust → | tags: commit, hooks, install

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GOP fundraising data reveals a ‘war chest’ for Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-02 | get Data Center → | tags: cash, committee, democrats

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Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off (theverge.com)

2026-02-02 | by Emma Roth | get AI Switch → | tags: build, choice, commitment

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RFK Jr. Stacks Key Autism Panel With Vaccine Skeptics (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-30 | get Neurostimulator → | tags: autism, autism coordinating, autism misrepresented

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Senate panel passes crypto CFTC regulation bill (cnbc.com)

2026-01-29 | by Talia Kaplan | get Regulation Bill → | tags: advance, agriculture, agriculture committee

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Ideal host cities for future Winter Olympics are dropping off the map. Fake snow won’t be enough to help (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-29 | get Snow → | tags: artificial, artificial snow, committee

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Dole Kemp 96 Web Site (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-28 | get Dole Kemp → | tags: agenda, agenda campaign, bob dole

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand 'optimistic' Senate Agriculture will advance crypto bill despite differences (cnbc.com)

2026-01-23 | by Talia Kaplan | get Blockchain → | tags: agriculture, agriculture committee, bipartisan

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How America’s WHO exit could affect flu shots, outbreaks, and future pandemics (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-23 | get Vaccines → | tags: administration, administration declared, agency

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Maybe VR Doesn’t Need Meta After All (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-22 | get Haptic → | tags: commitment, commitment wavering, entrants

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Thinking of Joining IEEE’s Leadership Ranks? (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-01-22 | by Thomas Coughlin | get Networking → | tags: committee, elect, ieee