Summary #1 for 2025-04-29

Hey Alex, it’s 8:24:18 AM!

Here’s a quick look at your day:

• Get that workout in! Today’s looking clear with no rain for your GROUP RIDE Tim/Golfo 5h starting at 08:15. You’ve also got a 50m POOL SWIM booked for 17:00. And don’t forget your Lanza Camp (Other) training session!
• Work calls include:
  • Backend stand-up (Slack #engineering) at 10:30
  • Frontend stand-up (Slack #engineering) at 11:00 (Looks like Tara is tackling a particularly large workload today!)
• Wrap up the day with DINNER at 19:00.

In other news:

• Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal
• Trump made Carney’s turnaround victory possible
• Prince Andrew’s firm linked to controversial PPE millionaire
• Milkshakes and lattes could be covered by sugar tax
• Male workers should be able to carry out mammograms, experts say
• Kneecap apologises to families of two murdered MPs
• Watch: How Canada’s election night unfolded
• How Canada voted - in charts
• Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python
• Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
• Migrating away from Rust
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
• The 12-bit rainbow palette
• One Million Chessboards
• UK and EU to defy Trump with ‘free and open trade’ declaration
• China rejects Trump’s claim that Xi has called him by phone
• Germany pledges that it will help Ukraine even if the United States moves on
• Trump says Canada should become U.S. state as president weighs in on Canadian vote
• Germany surges to fourth largest global military spender
• Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
• Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
• Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI. The company is going to be ‘AI-first,’ says its CEO.
• Exclusive: Trump pushes out AI experts hired by Biden
• White House Tech Bros Are Killing What Made Them (and America) Wealthy
• Why Congress Is On Sound Legal Footing To Pass The TAKE IT DOWN Act
• Shein, Temu prices spike as much as 300% due to US tariffs
• Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) tied to 124,000 premature deaths over 2 years in US
• Testosterone heightens neural sensitivity to social inclusion and exclusion, study finds
• Researchers found that up to 32% of dementia cases over an eight-year period could be attributed to clinically significant hearing loss
• Lion’s Mane mushroom is packed with compounds that seem to protect your brain and body
• An ancient yeast found clinging to pots at archaeological sites in Patagonia is the same strain used to brew lagers in Bavaria some 400 years later
• Dry eye disease is a growing problem in young adults
• Study indicates that prostate cancer can be diagnosed at an early stage through a simple urine sample
• Lux Pascal Is a Proud Sister: “Pedro’s Taught Me There’s No Reason to Hide Who I Am”
• Canada votes for Mark Carney as prime minister.
• Ukraine, allies working on security guarantees potentially similar to NATO Article 5, Zelensky says
• Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Massachusetts, 2 years into ‘millionaire’s tax’
• Meet Root, the turtle with a mobility aid made of Lego
• ‘Revolutionary’ fridge-free vaccines to be trialled in UK
• San Mateo County expands mobile mental health response