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Sweden offers special citizenship route to foreigners under 21, see who qualifiesSweden has a special citizenship rule that may apply to certain foreigners under the age of 21. Find out who can qualify and the conditions applicants must meet.
Google’s $68 Million Settlement: Who Qualifies and How to File a ClaimGoogle Assistant users and Google-made device buyers may qualify for money from a $68M settlement. Claims are due Aug. 27, 2026. People across the United States who bought certain Google devices or ...
IRS waiving $1B in penalties for people, firms owing back taxes — here’s who qualifiesThe IRS said Tuesday it is going to waive penalty fees for people who failed to pay back taxes that total less than $100,000 per year for tax years 2020 and 2021. Nearly 5 million people, businesses ...
IMAGEMary Peltola and Dan Sullivan Advance in Key Alaska Senate ContestThe Democratic former congresswoman and the incumbent Republican senator will face off in November. Whether a potential spoiler candidate with the same name as the senator qualifies alongside them has not been determined.
IMAGEKATSEYE Scores ‘Best K-Pop’ VMA Nod Despite Singing Entirely In English And Not Being K-PopThe VMA nominations arrive at a moment when the question of what actually qualifies as K-pop, especially for awards purposes, is a subject of contention.
Disney Layoffs 2026: Inside the Early Retirement Offer for Longtime ExecsThe Mouse House is dangling early exits in front of its most senior leaders, and the memo hints that bigger changes are still to come. Here's what the offer means and who qualifies.
Social Security checks go out August 26. Will you get paid?Millions of Social Security recipients will get payments August 26. Here's who qualifies and when future checks are scheduled.
Show HN: Scanner for cellular automata rule spaceMany years ago I was interested in cellular automata, inspired by Stephen Wolfram's work. I dug into elementary CA and totalistic 3-state rules. But when I went to more states it was getting boring. Almost all of them are dead or chaotic or something that everybody has already seen. But somewhere inside there could be another 110, and nobody looked.Now that we have AI coding, I decided I can build something in that area, and an app for scanning rules was the obvious thing. I implemented an explorer with a bunch of filters: gliders, chaos, large structures, and custom search. The last one works backwards — you draw a pattern and a rule passes only if this pattern never occurs. I could not define "interesting", but it was easy to say what disqualifies a rule. It also renders diagrams as big PNG.Demo: https://kypaku.github.io/pages/ca2026/ Source: https://github.com/Kypaku/ca2026
Show HN: Intelligrade – EU Based Digital ExamsHey HN!I am Kevin and together with my co-founder Steven I have built Intelligrade over the last 2 years. Steven is a teacher and he got sick of having to deal with outdated, overly expensive and inadequate tooling to create, conduct and grade exams. Most of them don't respect privacy either or are US based which generally disqualifies them from usage in many parts of the EU.So we set out with a mission: Create a tool for teachers and schools that covers exams E2E. The reality is that teachers usually care about some things that we simply could not find combined in a product: They want flexible ways to create exams with different task types, they want auto-grading where possible, they want to collect parent signatures, they want to be privacy conscious and they care that their students don't cheat.We got to work and this is our result. We tried to address all of these points and more and after two years of development and a multi month beta in stealth mode with a bunch of teachers from
Show HN: Chatleh – AI Customer Support for Professional ServicesWe built Chatleh to solve a problem we kept facing: handling website inquiries without bloated, pricey tools like Intercom. Professional service firms - lawyers, accountants, consultants — told us they wanted something simpler that still qualifies leads and explains services 24/7. So, we made Chatleh.It is an AI chatbot you can train with your website or docs in minutes. It scrapes your site or uses added context to answer questions and collect leads, no coding needed. What is different? It is lightweight, compliance-aware (big for law/accounting), and works via a site embed or shareable link for social media. We focused on smart lead qualification — asking the right questions naturally - and concise chat summaries emailed to you. It supports 95+ languages too, which surprised us with how useful it’s been for global reach.You can try the demo on our site (bottom-right widget) or this link: https://chatleh.com/chat?uid=LzXGW2OJNI&fs=1. No signup barriers — just play with it. We have got
Disney – DEI requires a history of privilegeFor background, I am currently a Principal Engineer at a close to FAANG level company, with 16 years of experience in the software industry and a college drop out. I had my own startup for 11 years, chased VC funding, managed and scaled software teams, and scaled software systems to millions of daily active users.I decided it was time for a change so I applied for some lead software engineering roles at Disney. Today I had a phone screening that lasted about 10 minutes. The second the recruiter asked about my highest form of education and I responded that I am a drop out, I could hear the hesitation in her voice so I asked if that was a deal breaker. Of course it was, but based on the years of experience they can see if I still map to the role.Unfortunately after she did the math my 16 years of experience with no degree only qualifies for a junior engineering role across all of Disney Engineering. To even qualify for a senior role, I needed 17 years of experience, and the lead role i a
Patient Advocates and Researchers as Partners in Cancer Research: A Winning CombinationDefine who qualifies as a patient advocate. Differentiate between engagement and other forms of patient involvement. Discuss the benefits and challenges of partnering with and engaging patients.
Launch HN: Homestead (YC W20) – Lot-splitting to build new housing supplyHi HN, we’re Sean & Sam, the founders of Homestead (https://homestead.is). We enable homeowners to split their lot, build a new home, and sell it for a profit.We’re taking advantage of a new California law called SB9, which is designed to expand housing supply (https://cayimby.org/sb-9/) in the state. SB9 allows homeowners to split their single-family residential lot into two separate lots and build up to two new housing units on each. It just went into effect on January 1.The new development opportunity opened by SB9 is only available to homeowners, most of whom are under-resourced to take advantage of it. That’s where we come in. We take care of splitting your lot, financing the new development, managing construction, and selling the new home. You receive 80% of the net profit. You can see whether your property qualifies here: https://search.homestead.is.We’re a couple of architects who have been working on large scale urban plans, affordable housing financing, and increasing housing
Ask HN: Moratorium on threads related to the culture wars and identity politicsThe Hacker News guidelines permit "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".Now, even HN qualifies what isn't suitable for political stories: "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Rest assured, most such stories do not satisfy this criterion, or wear off their novelty all too quickly.Be it the Millennials whose whining will immanentize the eschaton, the white heterosexual males and their original sin of mercantilism and colonialism, the feminists and Cultural Marxists who want to usurp Western values (whatever they are this month)... it is all grinding.The chief complaint, of course, is that threads on this subject are devoid of any value pertaining to debate. They instead serve as hubs for signaling normative dispositions. The inevitable result of such vacuous posturing is attrition. Discussions grow ever more primordial, threads on the subject increase and these elements spill over to other threads