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Structural Insights into Spliceosome Fidelity
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-025-01084-w
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766659
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Why California's dangerous drivers get to keep their licenses
Article URL: https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/04/license-to-kill/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766390
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Ask HN: Airbnb has internal AirCover refund policy max?
Has anyone had experience with the AirCover policy from Airbnb?
We recently had a bad experience that left us scrambling at 7 PM without a place to stay, with a big group, and two kids that needed cribs. The associate at Airbnb made us feel like our hotels would be covered under that policy.
However, upon discussing it with Airbnb after our trip, they are insisting there's an internal 20% cap on the policy refunds that cover the extra costs of the new accommodations.
They wrote the following:
"I understand that you wanted to know about our AirCover policy. Here's how AirCover for guests works:
AirCover for guests provides support for serious issues with your booking (e.g. Host cancels your reservation prior to check-in) or during your stay (e.g. The heating is not working in winter, the listing has fewer bedrooms than listed, it’s a different type of home – a private room instead of an entire home, a major advertised amenity such as a pool or kitchen is missing), but it doesn’t include more minor inconveniences, like a broken toaster. Here's the link: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/3218
Although it didn't state about the 20% refund of what you've paid but it is on our internal Airbnb policy that we don't disclose on the platform. On the other hand, upholding the policies and standards that protect our community is very important to us. We’ve given your case and its details careful consideration and we determined that we can only process $1104.886 in accordance to our AirCover policy and this is the maximum amount that we can provide. Please know that the decision is final and it can't be overturned.
We understand that this might not be what you’d hoped for, but we came to this outcome because we really need to follow our AirCover policy and if we will not follow the policy, our job will be compromised. I hope this helps!"
They even mention their "job would be compromised" if they don't follow this policy!
Can anyone who works at Airbnb comment on this? We're going to be out about $1,600 because of this policy and the way the situation was handled. It seems really suspect to have a limit secretly posted internally but not disclosed on the actual website.
Has anyone else had success with this policy getting money to cover new accomodations when the cost is slightly higher than their initial booking?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766369
Points: 1
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Rules for Fast-Moving Dev Teams in the Age of AI
Article URL: https://b.l0g.jp/development/2025/04/22/10-rules-for-fast-moving-dev-teams.md/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766365
Points: 1
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He Built Pump.Fun. Did He Make a Fortune Dumping His Own Shitcoins as a Teen?
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/pumpfun-founder-memecoin-rugpulls-teen/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766354
Points: 1
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Show HN: Built an ecommerce price tracker after my agency clients begged for it
Article URL: https://trackedly.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766346
Points: 1
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SkyReels-V2: Infinite-Length Film Generative Model
Article URL: https://github.com/SkyworkAI/SkyReels-V2
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766340
Points: 1
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LLM Robustness/Safety Benchmark
Article URL: https://generalanalysis.com/benchmarks
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766332
Points: 2
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AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/aws_microsoft_license_harms/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766322
Points: 1
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Postgres sequences can commit out-of-order
Article URL: https://blog.sequinstream.com/postgres-sequences-can-commit-out-of-order/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766282
Points: 2
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Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs: The Performance Impact [pdf]
Article URL: https://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/pubs/ub-pldi25.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766263
Points: 1
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The hostile internet is driving us crazy
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/5d06bbb4-0034-493b-8b0d-5c0ab74bedef
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766247
Points: 2
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FTC sues Uber over 'deceptive' subscription service
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/85380603-f547-4732-91d4-df09e49f6085
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766246
Points: 1
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3x3x3x3 Hypercube Solve in 9:47 [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmWqNnGTvVU&ab_channel=GDTGaming
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766228
Points: 1
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Tesla Is Losing to Volkswagen's EVs in Europe
Article URL: https://www.jalopnik.com/1841278/tesla-losing-to-volkwagen-ev-europe-sales/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766203
Points: 8
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Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run
Article URL: https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766200
Points: 12
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Why users cannot create Issues directly
Article URL: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766197
Points: 3
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Show HN: Drafter – Online WSIWYG Markdown editor, which saves to GitHub repo
Article URL: https://usedrafter.vercel.app/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766177
Points: 1
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We Built a Peer-to-Peer Business Credit Platform to Replace the Bureaus
factiiv lets small businesses report and verify each other’s transactions to build real-time credit scores—without relying on traditional credit bureaus. We’re targeting the B2B and invoice-based economy where credibility matters, but legacy systems fall short.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766174
Points: 3
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Where Flakes Fall Off: An Eval Cache Tale
Article URL: https://santi.net.br/blog/where-flakes-fall-off-an-eval-cache-tale/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766164
Points: 1
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