Trump Demands Homeless People Move Out of Washington, DC 'Immediately'
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 15823 |
Comments: 1920
Former President Donald Trump demanded that homeless people in Washington, D.C., leave the city 'immediately,' promising relocation 'far from the Capital' as part of a broader effort to make the city 'safer and more beautiful.' This move raises constitutional and legal concerns due to D.C.'s unique federal status and could set a precedent for federal overreach in local governance.
Key Points:
Trump ordered homeless people to leave Washington, D.C., 'immediately,' with plans to relocate them far from the city.
The move raises constitutional and legal concerns due to D.C.'s status as a federal district under congressional authority.
Trump's announcement aligns with a March executive order creating the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force to enforce quality-of-life laws and clear homeless encampments.
Despite Trump citing rising crime, police data shows a 26% decrease in violent crime in D.C. compared to 2024.
The action could undermine D.C.'s limited self-governance and set a precedent for federal intervention in local decision-making.
"The president already has unusual power over the capital, including direct control of the D.C. National Guard, and bypassing local leadership could pave the way for militarized control or federal overreach."
Majorie Taylor Greene up 142% in stocks she bought days before ICE awarded company massive contract: ‘Laughable’ |
The Georgia representative is a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, which oversees ICE
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 4194 |
Comments: 125
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's investment in Palantir Technologies surged 142% after she bought stocks days before ICE awarded the company a $30 million contract. Greene, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee overseeing ICE, claims her financial adviser controls her investments, dismissing criticism as 'laughable.'
Key Points:
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Palantir stock investment rose 142% after her purchase.
ICE awarded Palantir a $30 million contract days after Greene's investment.
Greene is a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, which oversees ICE.
Greene defended her investments, stating her financial adviser controls them.
Critics question the timing of her investment and potential conflicts of interest.
"Marjorie Taylor Greene bought stock in Palantir on April 8th. We reported on this right away, because Greene sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security. $PLTR has now risen 142% since her purchase."
Hegseth Posts Video of Pastor He Follows Calling for Gay Sex Ban. The evangelical leader says in the clip that the America where gay sex was outlawed was “not a totalitarian hellhole.”
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 1803 |
Comments: 317
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a video featuring Pastor Doug Wilson advocating for the criminalization of gay sex and making controversial remarks about women's roles and slavery. The article highlights Hegseth's alignment with Wilson's views and his own controversial actions, including instituting stricter fitness standards for women in the military and hosting a Pentagon prayer circle.
Key Points:
Pete Hegseth reposted a video of Pastor Doug Wilson calling for the criminalization of gay sex and making controversial statements about women and slavery.
Wilson argued that America was not a 'totalitarian hellhole' when sodomy was illegal and suggested women should focus on child-rearing.
Hegseth has faced criticism for his past comments on women in combat and his personal controversies, including infidelity and anti-Muslim tattoos.
Since becoming Defense Secretary, Hegseth has implemented stricter fitness standards for women and removed senior female officials from leadership roles.
Hegseth sparked further controversy by hosting a Pentagon prayer circle with his personal pastor, who praised Donald Trump as divinely appointed.
""In the late ’70s and early ’80s, sodomy was a felony in all 50 states. That America of that day was not a totalitarian hellhole.""
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 177 |
Comments: 201
The article critiques current hiring practices in tech, highlighting inefficiencies and biases that waste time and overlook talented candidates. It proposes principles for better interviews, such as differentiating skills, respecting applicants, and evaluating long-term potential.
Key Points:
Current hiring processes often fail to differentiate between skilled engineers and less qualified candidates, wasting time and resources.
Interviews should reflect actual job duties, respect applicants' time, and evaluate long-term fit rather than just immediate skills.
Common methods like live coding and take-home assignments are flawed, as they don't assess generalist abilities or 'taste' in engineering.
Architecture design interviews are better but still incomplete, as they don't show the applicant's code.
The author advocates for a more thoughtful, respectful, and efficient hiring approach to attract and retain top talent.
"companies often over-index on crystallized knowledge over fluid intelligence. spending an additional month to find people who specialize in your tech stack, when you could have onboarded them to that stack in a month, is an advanced form of self-sabotage."
What is the current best in class software you install on a new server?
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 171 |
Comments: 138
The article discusses the best software choices for setting up a new server on a mini PC, covering topics like OS selection, containerization tools, monitoring, remote access, and document management. The author seeks recommendations for various utilities, including YouTube downloaders and AI tools, while weighing pros and cons of different options.
Key Points:
Debian or Ubuntu (with snap disabled) are considered for the OS, with a focus on faster updates.
Containerization tools like Docker, Podman, or nerdctl with containerd are evaluated.
Monitoring options include Prometheus + Grafana, Netdata, Telegraf, or the lightweight Beszel.
Remote access solutions like Tailscale and Cloudflare tunnels are discussed.
Document management tools are sought for indexing and searching PDFs, DOC files, and saved browser pages.
"I'm assuming Debian, but is Ubuntu (with snap disabled) better due to faster updates? or do you use another distro?"
Software Modernization Projects Dilemma: Think Twice — Focus is Saying No
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 68 |
Comments: 28
The article discusses the author's experience with software modernization projects and the lessons learned about focusing on high-impact work. After dedicating two years to modernization tasks, the author realized that many of these efforts lacked business value and did not contribute to career growth. The key takeaway is the importance of saying 'no' to low-impact tasks to focus on building great products.
Key Points:
The author joined a critical product team with a legacy codebase and focused on software modernization tasks for career growth.
Despite delivering challenging modernization projects, the author's manager pointed out that these tasks lacked business value and were not senior-level work.
The author learned the importance of focusing on high-impact work that benefits users and the business, rather than low-impact tasks like updating outdated libraries.
The article emphasizes the value of saying 'no' to tasks that do not contribute to building a great product.
Reflecting on Steve Jobs' advice, the author highlights that true focus is about saying 'no' to distractions and prioritizing impactful work.
"When you think about focusing, you think focusing is about saying yes. No. Focusing is about saying no. The result of that focus is going to be some great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts."
Decypharr - A bridge between Sonarr/Radarr and debrid providers
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 46 |
Comments: 36
Decypharr is a download client designed to bridge Sonarr/Radarr with debrid providers, offering features like WebDAV support, automatic mounting via rclone, and a repair tool. It mimics QBittorrent to integrate seamlessly with *arr apps and provides a clean Web UI for monitoring and configuration. The project has been actively developed for over a year and is noted for its stability and versatility.
Key Points:
Mocks QBittorrent to serve as a download client for *arr apps.
Supports multiple debrid providers with WebDAV servers for direct file access.
Automatically mounts files using rclone, eliminating the need for full downloads.
Includes a repair tool for fixing missing files or incorrect symlinks.
Features a clean Web UI for monitoring downloads and configuring settings.
"It solves most of your problems for you and introduces new ones."
Non-programmers’ solutions to programming problems.
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 35 |
Comments: 19
The article appears to be a technical document related to computer science, possibly discussing algorithms or data structures, but the content is largely obscured by encoding and formatting issues.
Key Points:
The document is a PDF file with encoded content, making it difficult to extract clear information.
It includes references to computer science concepts, suggesting a technical focus.
The authorship and title hint at a collaborative work involving Pane, Ratanamahatana, and Myers.
The document's creation date is January 25, 2000, indicating it may be an older research paper.
The content includes mathematical or algorithmic notations, but specifics are unclear due to encoding.
"The document's content is largely obscured by encoding and formatting issues, making it difficult to extract clear information."
The article celebrates the `r/ClaudeAi` subreddit reaching 300,000 members, thanking the community for their participation and humorously comparing the milestone to the Spartans.
Key Points:
The `r/ClaudeAi` subreddit has reached 300,000 members.
The author expresses gratitude to the community for making the subreddit enjoyable.
The milestone is humorously likened to the Spartans.
Just switched to Claude for daily assistant AI, over GPT 5.
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 21 |
Comments: 27
The author switched from GPT-5 to Claude as their daily AI assistant, finding Claude more effective and less sycophantic than GPT-4.0 and GPT-4.5, and plans to stay with Claude.
Key Points:
The author prefers Claude over GPT-5 for daily assistance.
They found GPT-4.0 overly sycophantic and GPT-4.5/GPT-5 unsatisfactory.
Claude meets their needs similarly to how GPT-4.5 did.
The author is not a coder but values Claude as a daily assistant.
They decided to switch after realizing they were being a 'fanboy' for GPT.
"I switched to Claude when I realized I was just being a fanboy for GPT. I gotta say its just like 4.5 was for me on GPT."
Function Colors Represent Different Execution Contexts
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 14 |
Comments: 9
The article argues that function colors represent genuine differences in execution contexts, such as async vs sync or GPU vs CPU, rather than being mere side effects to be eliminated. It critiques common approaches like effect systems or colorblind programming for misunderstanding these fundamental differences and suggests focusing on better tools for managing context transitions.
Key Points:
Function colors signal real execution context differences, not just side effects.
Common approaches like effect systems or colorblind programming misunderstand the problem.
Execution bridges should be explicit and composable to manage context transitions.
Current solutions like await or spawn are ad-hoc and non-composable.
The solution is to embrace function colors and improve tools for context management.
"The problem isn't that they're different, it's that most languages provide only ad-hoc, non-composable solutions like await and spawn."
The author is seeking a free, self-hosted alternative to Fully Kiosk Browser that offers all its Plus features, including remote admin, camera/motion detection, and full device lockdown. They have explored options like WallPanel and KioWare but found them lacking in features or requiring cloud services.
Key Points:
Desire for a 100% free, self-hosted alternative to Fully Kiosk Browser with all Plus features
Key features needed include remote admin, camera/motion detection, JavaScript API, and full device lockdown
Explored options like WallPanel and KioWare but found them insufficient
Preference for open-source solutions and no cloud dependency
Questioning if such a comprehensive alternative exists
"I’m wondering — is there *any* **100% free, self-hosted** alternative that can match **everything** Fully Kiosk (Plus) does?"
Abundance's Ezra Klein: What would it look like if we actually tried to rethink the tax code in a fundamental way?
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 5 |
Comments: 2
Ezra Klein discusses the need for a fundamental rethinking of the U.S. tax code, arguing that it currently taxes the wrong things and fails to address issues like pollution and income inequality. He suggests that a broader tax reform package, including modest taxes on pollution, could be more politically viable and effective than isolated measures like a carbon tax.
Key Points:
The current U.S. tax code is fundamentally broken and taxes the wrong things, such as labor from lower-income individuals.
A broader tax reform package, rather than isolated measures like a carbon tax, would be more politically viable and effective.
Modest taxes on pollution could be part of a larger reform that aligns taxation with societal goals.
The fiscal position of the U.S. is expected to worsen, necessitating a rethinking of the tax code beyond reversing Trump-era tax cuts.
Congestion pricing in New York City is cited as an example of a successful policy that aligns taxation with desired outcomes.
"This is the thing I want to think about in the coming months or years: What would it look like if we actually tried to rethink the tax code in a fundamental way?"
The article discusses how merge commits in Git can include hidden changes that don't appear in the commit history, making them 'sneaky' and potentially dangerous. It illustrates this with an example where a malicious script is inserted via a merge commit, and explores how such changes can be detected.
Key Points:
Merge commits in Git can include arbitrary changes that don't show up in the commit history.
This feature can be exploited to insert malicious code without it being visible in standard Git logs.
The article provides a method to detect such sneaky merges by redoing merges and comparing the resulting trees.
A contrived supply chain attack scenario is described to highlight the potential risks.
The author checked the Linux kernel history for sneaky merges but found none, only semantic conflicts.
"The trick is that merge commits, like any other commit, can include arbitrary changes. (How else could you resolve merge conflicts?) But changes in merge commits don't show up in git log, which makes them kind of sneaky."