Privately-Owned Rail Cars (Score: 151+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A6yC
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6A6yC
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Amtrak
Amtrak and Privately-Owned Rail Cars
Train car owners can have their privately-owned train cars attached to the Amtrak trains between specified locations to see North America in an extraordinary way.
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What the Hell Is Going On? (Score: 159+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A9Fv
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6A9Fv
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A9Fv
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catskull.net
What the hell is going on right now?
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All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Aapu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6Aapu
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Aapu
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Terrible Software
The Management Skill Nobody Talks About
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess u…
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Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A8K9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6A8K9
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A8K9
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OUP Academic
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC (Score: 156+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A9Yb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6A9Yb
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A9Yb
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BBC News
4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC
The online message board's lawyers say UK safety laws shouldn't apply to a business based in the US.
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FFmpeg 8.0 (🔥 Score: 153+ in 57 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AaWC
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6AaWC
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AaWC
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How Not to Buy a SSD (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zVep
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zVep
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zVep
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andrei.xyz
How Not To Buy A SSD - andrei.xyz
If you recall, about a month ago I managed to get an Apple iMac from 2006. that looked great. Unfortunately, after replacing the SSD and adding some stuff to it, the system crashed. Today, I wanted to play with the SSD a bit and discoverd super very low transfer…
Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City (🔥 Score: 180+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Abkp
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6Abkp
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Abkp
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CNBC
Waymo granted first permit to begin testing autonomous vehicles in New York City
Waymo is getting one step closer to starting its engine in New York City.
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Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AaKV
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6AaKV
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AaKV
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The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update - The Thunderbird Blog
Our team is hard at work on Thunderbird Pro. Get the latest developments on Thundermail, Appointment, and Send in our latest update.
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VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video] (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zUGS
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zUGS
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zUGS
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YouTube
VHS-C: when a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection
Never underestimate the usefulness of compatibility.
Links 'n' stuff
Technology Connextras (the second channel where I put stuff sometimes)
https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnextras
Technology Connections on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/techcon…
Links 'n' stuff
Technology Connextras (the second channel where I put stuff sometimes)
https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnextras
Technology Connections on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/techcon…
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LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A9Tj
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6A9Tj
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A9Tj
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U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AceP
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Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AceP
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CNBC
U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the U.S. government has taken a 10% stake in chipmaker Intel.
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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Abu6
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6Abu6
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Abu6
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6Abu6
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The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AbwV
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6AbwV
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AbwV
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Inside Climate News
The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables, a Lifeline for Farmers
The agency said it’s concerned that farmland is being consumed by wind and solar facilities—which occupy a tiny fraction of the country’s productive acres.
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The First Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AbDN
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6AbDN
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AbDN
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moq.dev
The First MoQ CDN: Cloudflare - Media over QUIC
Media over QUIC: We have a winner! Cloudflare has released a technical preview of their MoQ CDN. Now you can use MoQ at scale with style and grace.
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Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AbQC
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6AbQC
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AbQC
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It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019) (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A9Bx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6A9Bx
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A9Bx
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hsivonen.fi
It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼♂️".length == 7
XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Abtu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6Abtu
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GitHub
XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites across the world · Issue #11582 · whatwg/html
What is the issue with the HTML Standard? One of the issues we've seen in #11523 and #11563 is that the proposal to remove XSLT from the spec doesn't acknowledge existing use cases beyond C...
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Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Ac3f
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6Ac3f
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Bluesky
Our Response to Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law - Bluesky
A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.
Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AcNq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6AcNq
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AcNq
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Techdirt
Investigators Used Terrible Computer Fraud Laws To Ensure People Were Punished For Leaking Air Crash Footage To CNN
Earlier this year, an Army helicopter collided with a passenger plane over the Potomac River in Washington, DC. All sixty-seven people aboard both vehicles were killed. While the FAA focused its in…