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The best summer beauty bundles for huge savings on skincare, sun care and holiday minis

The best summer beauty bundles for huge savings on skincare, sun care and holiday minis Packed with big name beauty brands at teeny-tiny prices, these summer savers are better value than many of the sell-out beauty advent calendars you find in December We're getting into high summer and Advent Calendars feel about as far away as they could be, but if you're missing those bargain good deals, there's something just as good to be found. Summer Beauty Bundles are becoming as big in the annual...

We know what former SNP chief Peter Murrell bought with £400,000 of embezzled funds. What I’d like to know is why | Gaby Hinsliff

His guilty plea means motive will for ever be a mystery. It just proves that the world can look as hard as it likes at someone’s marriage and never know what’s going onIt sounds like the haul of an unhappy trophy wife, filling her empty days with retail therapy. Three Fortnum & Mason advent calendars, seemingly priced for those to whom money is no object; a pair of incomprehensibly expensive Lalique crystal salt and pepper grinders; several hundreds of pounds’ worth of Le Creuset; and no...

We know what former SNP chief Peter Murrell bought with £400,000 of embezzled funds. What I’d like to know is why | Gaby Hinsliff

His guilty plea means motive will for ever be a mystery. It just proves that the world can look as hard as it likes at someone’s marriage and never know what’s going onIt sounds like the haul of an unhappy trophy wife, filling her empty days with retail therapy. Three Fortnum & Mason advent calendars, seemingly priced for those to whom money is no object; a pair of incomprehensibly expensive Lalique crystal salt and pepper grinders; several hundreds of pounds’ worth of Le Creuset; and no...

We know what former SNP chief Peter Murrell bought with £400,000 of embezzled funds. What I’d like to know is why | Gaby Hinsliff

Henry Nowak remembered: Precious last moments with family and sweet video of 'angel' teen

The "inhumane" treatment that Henry Nowak endured as he lay dying has sparked outrage across the country, but at the centre of the tragedy is a young man who "lit up every room" - and must not be forgotten. The last time the 18-year-old saw his loving family, they went to see a pantomime together. They never dreamed as they "waved him off" to head back to Southampton - where he was a first year uni student - it would be the last time they ever saw, spoke, or laughed with him.

A motorhome, a £3k coffee machine and a book of Sturgeon speeches: What Peter Murrell bought with embezzled SNP funds

A motorhome, a £3k coffee machine and a book of Sturgeon speeches: What Peter Murrell bought with embezzled SNP funds The disgraced political figure spent more than £2,000 on designer salt and pepper shakers - Bookmark A Jaguar, a £1,200 space telescope, and designer salt and pepper shakers costing more than £2,000 are just some of the items former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell bought using money he embezzled from the party. He also bought three designer manicure sets for nearly £294,...

You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough

Figure 1: Plato's Cave by Jan Pietersz Saenredam; 24 hour clock licensed under CC3 from Wikimedia; systemd logo by the systemd project licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 My favorite metonymic technology term is "cron job": even though cron may not literally be the daemon that executes actions on a schedule, we apply the term to anything that walks like a cron and quacks like a cron . As Patrick McKenzie likes to point out, cron jobs are one of the most eminently useful computing primitives. They...

Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns sit without spilling the glass.