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To be fair, it's a bad title. We should be able to skim the headlines and get an accurate impression of the news items of the moment. This headline seems intentionally misleading. …

Check out this video from Steve Mould; I think it covers exactly what you're looking for! https://youtu.be/CfhsW1kaa2Q?is=ug5_Ze2HczVMGTMR

> I've gone from a resting heart rate over a 7-day average of 64 bpm to 58 bpm by jumping 15 min. of rope a day, 4 times a week. Over how long of a time period?

And the subject of this 2009 early-YouTube "viral" song: https://youtu.be/XOYAuk809fY?si=sFuFdmrF0cizn5W5 (Somewhat embarrassed to admit this is how I learned of Paul Krugman)

That is indeed how it is supposed to work. But things haven't exactly been working like they're supposed to lately. For FY26, when we had a PBR proposing massive cuts followed by a…

I heard advice from Adam Savage on the topic of cost-vs-quality that I've found to be quite useful. It was something along the lines of: When you're first getting into a new craft/…

Oh wow, wish this had been posted sooner! This Saturday 4/18 is the last day to see this exhibit if you're in/near LA.

> 2024 (before it was cool!) The original draft of the first part "We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five" was posted to scp-wiki in 2015, and the SCP-055 entry dates back to 2008! https…

I hear this rebuttal a lot; here's why it doesn't work for me: I'm the exact same age as Zuckerberg. When I first read this quote, it struck me as a really gross mindset and a poin…

Maybe I'm too software-engineer-brained now, but to me it seems like lawmakers should just be using a tool like git directly. The legal code is a codebase, every bill is a PR, the …

A lot of times, being organized and tidy is more about feeling good than it is about saving time. If every time I open that drawer I'm a little frustrated, a little flustered, a li…

Thanks to NPR for this important reporting; it sucks that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down after losing all of its funding. This "basked of goods" approach …

When they decided to stop minting pennies I think they should have gotten rid of nickels and (I know this will be controversial) quarters as well! Keep dimes and ramp up production…

On a related note, I see that my oldest "favorite" is from September 2016, but I've been on HN since 2009. Is that around when the "favorites" feature was added? Or is it possible …

This one stood out to me even more: > I'm used to have 495 tabs open on my iPhone iOS Safari lets you have 500 tabs max in a "tab group", including the default tab group which is t…

Haven't read the article yet, but I added it to my HN favorites to read later...

> Lowering the rent to fill their building reduces the value of that building This must just indicate that the model used to value the building is wrong, right? I'd think insofar t…

> pays more Definitely > has less bullshit Is there a Theranos equivalent in the world of math research? I'd argue "very different flavor of bullshit", but not necessarily less of …

As an undergrad I worked with a professor who was doing precisely that! https://sense-lab.github.io/pubs/pdf/solomon_nature_2006.pdf I hadn't thought about this in a long time. Loo…

> Try the PBS Kids app Great recommendation. Angela Collier has a recent piece on kids' television and PBS in particular that is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D…

> Quarters can stay, for now. I'd say just drop the second decimal place and have dimes and half-dollar coins.

> I've been progressively exchanging Is there a way for a small individual investor to "exchange" shares in stock without doing a "sell A + buy B" for which the sale of A is subjec…

I've been reading them on my phone; the web interface is OK, but if you had an EPUB I would certainly prefer that. Thanks!

I stumbled into this "tales" section: https://little-book-of.github.io/maths/books/en-US/tales.htm... I started reading it to my elementary-aged kids as a bedtime story! We're only…