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The wealth of the top% reaches a record $52T

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/the-wealth-of-the-top-1percent-reaches-a-record-52-trillion.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650807 Points: 9 # Comments: 1...

Jan 16Hacker NewseconomicsImpact

ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis

Federal agents in Minneapolis repeatedly punched a man, forced him to the ground, and then shot him multiple times . The man was later pronounced dead. This is just the latest incident of deadly viole...

1dThe VergecrimeImpact

Uber and DoorDash delivery workers missed $550 million worth of tips in New York City, a city report estimates

Changes to how customers tip on Uber Eats and DoorDash have led to lower earnings for gig workers, according to a report from New York City. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber Eats and DoorDas...

Jan 13Business InsidereconomicsImpact

Ashley St. Clair sues Elon Musk's xAI over alleged explicit Grok deepfake images

Ashley St. Clair sues xAI over Grok chatbot allegedly generating explicit deepfake images of her, using images from when she was 14 years old. Maja Smiejkowska/REUTERS Ashley St. Clair sued xAI, alleg...

Jan 16Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

When "Likers'' Go Private: Engagement with Reputationally Risky Content on X

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11140 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695978 Points: 7 # Comments: 0...

4dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

US claims Iran halts executions of protesters amid crackdown on dissent

The United States on Thursday said Iran halted 800 executions of protesters under pressure from President Donald Trump, after Gulf allies appeared to pull him back from military action over Tehran's d...

Jan 16France 24PoliticsImpact

Costa Rica builds new mega-prison modelled on El Salvador jail

El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a prison in Costa Rica modeled on his own CECOT mega-jail that rights groups say is the setting for serious...

Jan 16France 24PoliticsImpact

The Internet Doesn't Suck: Blame Big Tech, Not the Internet

Article URL: https://riverseeber.net/blog/post/the-internet-doesnt-suck/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740280 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...

1dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)

Article URL: https://www.thefabricator.com/thefabricator/blog/testingmeasuring/the-super-slow-conversion-of-the-us-to-metric Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704223 Points: 15 # Co...

4dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Why the Tech World Thinks the American Dream Is Dying

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-the-tech-world-thinks-the-american-dream-is-dying-daf793dc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668394 Points: 5 # Comments: 3...

Jan 18Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Dispatch from Tehran: the week Iranians revolted against the regime

Cut off from the outside world, Iran has been convulsed by some of the worst violence since the 1979 Islamic revolution...

Jan 13Financial TimesPolitics

The Dilbert Afterlife

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-dilbert-afterlife Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653388 Points: 29 # Comments: 2...

Jan 16Hacker Newsculture

One thing that might get workers to embrace AI? The 4-day workweek.

Working fewer days might help create buy-in among workers for adopting AI, authors of a book on the four-day workweek suggest. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Adopting a four-day workweek could boost employ...

Jan 14Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Naomi Osaka isn't playing nice at the Australian Open. She's in her unapologetic era.

Naomi Osaka plays at the Australian Open 2026. Robert Prange/Getty Images Naomi Osaka's tense Australian Open handshake and post-match interview sparked debate over competitive women. In high-stakes e...

2dBusiness InsiderSportsImpact

How are ICE agents recruited, and who are they?

Donald Trump's second presidential term has seen a rapid rise in the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. But who are these people, and where is the US government finding them?...

Jan 17Deutsche WellePolitics

Will AI replace human jobs and make universal basic income necessary? Here's what AI leaders have said about UBI.

Universal basic income provides recurring cash payments, no strings attached. Wong Yu Liang AI advances could widen wealth gaps, which has prompted calls for a universal basic income . UBI offers recu...

6dBusiness InsiderTechnology

Iran offers first government-issued death toll from security crackdown on protesters

State television carried statements by the Interior Ministry and the Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, an official body providing services to families of those killed in wars, saying 3,117 p...

3dEuronewsPoliticsImpact

Activists say death toll from security crackdown on Iranian protesters exceeds 4,000

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency fear the number will grow as information leaks out of a country still gripped by the government's decision to shut down the internet....

5dEuronewsPoliticsImpact

Teen suspect in Mississippi synagogue fire indicted on state hate crime charges

The suspect allegedly set the fire due to the building’s “Jewish ties,” the FBI said in a charging affidavit....

Jan 13ABC Newscrime

Case on whether Myanmar committed genocide against Rohingya opens at UN court

The Gambia filed the case at the International Court of Justice in 2019, arguing a so-called "clearance operation" by Myanmar's military in 2017 violated the 1948 Genocide Convention....

Jan 12EuronewsPoliticsImpact
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