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I'm now actively aware/vigilant of my blood pressure while coding in a way I never was before. That's a sentence I'd have found absurd five years ago.

This was genuinely one of the best bits of TV i've ever seen

there is and always has been a strong prohibition of anything political on HN. it is widely and frequently discussed as the main problem with HN. Usually, a post like this would be…

seems a bit vague to me.. not saying i know better just that i'd like more info - there a small wildcats all over europe. presumably these are older than the domestic cats? but it'…

If you could see a photographic-quality image in your mind, you could answer questions about it the way you’d answer questions about a photograph in front of you. 'what’s written o…

this bugs me because what actually happened.. vi being the last survivor of a once universal interaction paradigm - is way more interesting than this unfathomably incorrect 'what a…

it is less of an oversimplification than 'nothing like what existed either before or after'

unfortunately this is just not true though. there was nothing abstract or disconnected from real life about MVC in smalltalk. while we're here.. this claim that 'Smalltalk's OOP is…

Despite decades of being told about the benefits of exercise, I had absolutely no idea what the actual time investment looked like to go from unfit to fit. I couldn't put a number …

age verification starts tomorrow

it's intentionally ironic that this is written in the style of ai slop?

there was an 'arms race' in detergent strength throughout the 2000s. modern detergent contains more specialised enzymes, is more concentrated, and is more effective - but is (repor…

a really high percentage of the runners i see out i the street are forefoot striking in zero drops - clearly that's not barefoot but i'd also question whether you can call it 'shor…

I used to think background noise was my enemy.. until a week in a stifling motel with a clunky window unit proved me wrong. It started with me having tantrums that i'd never sleep …

did you buy a house? when?

so in practice climate change is de-facto off limits

i was just reading the very active comments on a post about climate change, and it just.. disapeared. Is HN hostile to climate change posts?

i've never seen a post with so many upvotes disappear so quickly

this, for example, is a state grammar school https://www.queenelizabeths.derbyshire.sch.uk

is this true? If everyone prepared their own food from scratch, but still had as many carbs, outcomes wouldn't improve?

People being an obstacle to positive change, because they believe a better change is possible.. when the changes wouldn't in any way prevent further positive changes from happening…

for the past few years i've been watching the salmon return to a spot in the uk they've not been to for over 200 years. i had no idea growing up there that these were salmon spawni…

one by one, steadily overcoming the social media addiction

tbh it still is kind of a feature given that we (collectively) also don't really know how to ventilate old houses and many many who have tried to tackle the insulation problem live…