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Decker, a hypercard style app, seems to give quick gratification. Looks like an easy and fun way to get started with programming. Was just posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.co…

Satellites have many chlorinated and florinated chemicals, so being vaporized means introducing large volumes to the upper atmosphere where they can catalyze the destruction of ozo…

Sperm counts, too, have dropped precipitously.

A specific example. Slangify: The Case for DSLs in LLM Workflows. https://rakujourney.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/slangify-the-ca...

Some experts weigh in: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/he...

And an unexpected transient load or heat flux can easily exceed material limits, or materials can have flaws. The ability to qualify the materials, components and processes for aer…

Not only costing money. Constant AI scraping constitutes a denial-of-service attack that has brought down websites.

When war psychosis is not enough....

Kurt Vonnegut and Charles Bukowski are good examples.

Hah, github can have my crap code. Anyone trained on it will be in for a world of hurt :-)

Japanese eat fermented foods and have a long life expectancy.

FWIW, here's a simple command line utility for joining and trimming the multiple video files produced by a video camera. https://metacpan.org/dist/App-fftrim/view/script/fftrim

Definitely needed to succeed in theater and take risks in life.

For a screening procedure recommended as a mass conducted preventative measure in otherwise healthy people, harms must be regulated to a better standard than "doesn't happen often"…

There are legitimate questions if physical constants are constant everywhere in the universe, and also whether they are constant over time. Just because we conceive something "shou…

After first experiences with linux shell scripting, sed, awk, and C in 1990s, I found perl a welcome refuge. Way more featureful than DOS .bat files or BASIC! Its capabilities (per…

Mainstream science has poo-poohed for years any notion that Oriental medicine practices for facilitating lymph flow have any utility. Nice to hear they're back on the allopathic ta…

This thought-provoking essay does not consider one crucial aspect of software: the cost of a user developing a facility with a given software product. Historically monopolistic sof…

An inlaw who worked as a stewardess (back when they were called "stewardesses") on international routes for many years always carried her own water.

Good morning. An expanding plethora of buttons, tabs, menus requires geometrical memory that may have nothing directly to do with the function in question. The first GUIs were desi…

This article gives a great background to Ruby's syntax origins in perl. Also, with a series of "What happened to perl?" articles appearing lately (maybe just one on HN) it gives a …

A slightly different audience, probably, but I was greatly assisted by Intuitive IC Electronics by Thomas Fredriksen. https://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-electronics-sophisticated-e..…

The war on drugs and millions of non-violent offenders in prison does not exactly suggest to me the term "sacrosanct." Every honest therapist looks at all components of a patient's…

Kurt Vonnegut wrote that an aspiring writer should take any writing job he or she can get. A hack job will at least keep the creative wheels turning. I think the same applies to so…