Democrats Rout GOP(nytimes.com)

13 points by gcanyon 9 days ago | 3 comments

New York Times live updates page on the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, reporting Democrats winning control of the Senate and House, with race results and forecasts.

UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport(avherald.com)

385 points by jnsaff2 1 year ago | 397 comments

Aviation Herald report on a UPS cargo plane crash near Louisville airport; the captured screenshot instead shows a CBS News election results page.

Border Patrol agent testifies sandwich thrown at him "exploded all over,"(cbsnews.com)

6 points by rolph 1 year ago | 1 comments

US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion(finance.yahoo.com)

74 points by ck2 27 days ago | 59 comments

Yahoo Finance article reporting that the US federal budget deficit for fiscal 2026 came in at about $1.992 trillion.

Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians(capitoltrades.com)

271 points by gscott 1 year ago | 94 comments

Betting Odds – 2024 U.S. President(realclearpolling.com)

3 points by richrichie 2 years ago | 0 comments

MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models(diffusion.csail.mit.edu)

362 points by __rito__ 1 year ago | 21 comments

Course page for MIT 6.S184, an introduction to flow matching and diffusion models built from stochastic differential equations, with notes, lectures, and labs.

Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation(wsj.com)

52 points by JumpCrisscross 8 days ago | 36 comments

Wall Street Journal article on major investors doubting Anthropic's IPO can reach a $1.5 trillion valuation; the page showed a device verification screen.

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

1248 points by nprateem 3 months ago | 727 comments

Hacker News discussion where a user reports an AWS estimated bill of $1.7 billion despite normal usage under $5, linked to an AWS billing data issue.

Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4(jepsen.io)

581 points by aphyr 1 year ago | 138 comments

Jepsen analysis by Kyle Kingsbury showing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL multi-AZ clusters violate Snapshot Isolation, exhibiting Long Fork anomalies across versions 13.15 to 17.4.

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?(danluu.com)

804 points by jatins 2 months ago | 905 comments

Dan Luu essay evaluating the accuracy of AI skeptic Ed Zitron's predictions, starting with his 2024 claim that Meta, Google, and Microsoft are dying.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

331 points by whoishiring 3 years ago | 319 comments

The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for May 2023, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.