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Prove the Machine Wrong
Keith Miller got two parking fines from a camera in Miramar. He got them cancelled by proving his own innocence. Miller shopped at New World Miramar in December, then visited again in January. Smart Compliance Management runs the number plate cameras in t
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Ukraine's Drone Advantage Is an Engineering Loop
Ukraine has turned drone warfare into an engineering feedback loop. A crew flies a system until Russian electronic warfare finds a weakness. Operators report the failure. Engineers change the radio, navigation or software, then send a new batch back to th
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I Parsed Every Law New Zealand Has Ever Passed
The research notes said New Zealand's legislation XML records its amendment history in machine-readable attributes. I built my first parser against those attributes. They do not exist. Not "exist but renamed". Not "exist in some files". Zero occurrences,
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Your Show HN dies in 7 hours
At 1pm UTC on a Friday last June, an airline pilot posted a Show HN: interactive graphs and globes built from years of his own flight logs. It went huge. 1,539 points, the third biggest Show HN of the entire year. By dinner he had 123 comments. On day thr
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The Fastest Repealers in the West
In 1979 a law professor named Geoffrey Palmer wrote that New Zealand had the fastest lawmakers in the West. In 2024, he updated the diagnosis: "We've gone from being the fastest lawmakers in the west to the fastest repealers in the west." Palmer would kno
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