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Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/danish-pension-fund-blacklists-spacex-citing-governance-issues Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324097 Points: 260 # Comments: 486
Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die
They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living.
Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
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LLM-Powered Deep Parsing for Industrial Inventory Search
Industrial ERPs often look structured on the surface: item IDs, purchase orders, stock levels. But in many companies, they are overloaded with unintentional duplicates because the most important information is buried inside an unstructured description field. In heavy industry, descriptions are entered manually with little guidance or validation, so the same part shows up many times under different names. A single component might live three separate lives in the system:
Trump’s mass deportations are only possible with racial profiling
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - NOVEMBER 6: U.S. Border Patrol arrests search a neighborhood for an individual they were chasing on November 6, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents are in Chicago and surrounding suburbs during "Operation Midway Blitz" to enforce immigration laws. (Photo by Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)Washington Post) Border security czar Tom Homan keeps threatening to "flood" New York City with ICE
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