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How the US Built 5k Ships in WWII

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-us-built-5000-ships-in-wwii
21•chmaynard•3d ago

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istillwritecode•2d ago
I highly recommend the Rosie-the-riveter museum at the old Richmond shipyard. What happened there is amazing to this day.
renewiltord•2d ago
And we're still paying the environmental price for that. Fortunately, in a future war we will be able to ensure the environment stays safe and we can protect the community character of our neighborhoods rather than just give them up for war.
iancmceachern•2d ago
How will future war be better?
waste_monk•2d ago
It will look cooler[1] because of all the lasers.

[1] Briefly, before your retinas burn out, because of all the lasers.

renewiltord•2d ago
We won't produce that many ships and therefore won't pollute the environment. Ideally we won't damage local communities trying to build weapons.
iancmceachern•2d ago
Why and how?
renewiltord•1d ago
We have NEPA now to protect the environment and historic protections. e.g. https://apnews.com/article/us-army-ukraine-russia-ammunition...

> The obstacles the U.S. faces in ramping up production can be seen at the Scranton plant.

> The factory — built for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad just after 1900, when the city was a rising coal and railroad powerhouse — has produced large-caliber ammunition for the military going back to the Korean War.

> But the buildings are on the National Historic Registry of Historic Places, limiting how the Army can alter the structures.

mindslight•2d ago
Was it by setting import tariff taxes really high, and then poof the ships just magically blinked into existence?
0_____0•2d ago
Top marginal income tax rate in 1944 was 94%
anthony_d•2d ago
During war some tariffs essential go to infinity.
mindslight•2d ago
Sure, the point is that the key ingredient was a lot of active hard work in response to the adversity, including constructive direction and coordination by government. Merely turning up the pain and assuming hardship itself will somehow create economic activity is supremely entitled thinking, dementia-level even.
nwellinghoff•2d ago
Wow. Very extensive and fact rich article. Worth a read.
iancmceachern•2d ago
Check out Crane Cove Park in SF, they still have a lot of the hardware on display around the new park
dendrite9•2d ago
San Francisco's motto on the seal is "Oro en paz, fierro en guerra", or "Gold in peace, iron in war". Which doesn't suck as far as mottos go.

Observations from People Watching

https://skincontact.substack.com/p/21-observations-from-people-watching
1•jger15•3m ago•0 comments

Xogot at Pax East

https://blog.la-terminal.net/xogot-at-pax-east/
1•ghuntley•4m ago•0 comments

Tips for Better Interactions

https://staysaasy.com/saas/2025/03/16/interactions.html
1•thisismytest•8m ago•0 comments

What Happened to WWW.?

https://hackaday.com/2025/05/05/what-happened-to-www/
2•matthieucan•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Fictional business books like The Goal

2•jimnotgym•26m ago•0 comments

Scala 3.7.0 Released

https://www.scala-lang.org/news/3.7.0/
1•truth_seeker•27m ago•0 comments

The Mercury Language

https://mercurylang.org/
1•droideqa•27m ago•0 comments

Staff and Line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_and_line
1•aragonite•29m ago•0 comments

A database of 85k+ UGC brands and 150k+ contacts (emails)

https://www.linkeddit.com/ugc-brands-database
1•OmPatel5•30m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How do you organize your business ideas?

1•codazoda•31m ago•0 comments

Google agrees to pay Texas $1.375B over data-privacy claims

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/google-texas-data-privacy-settlement
1•chrisjj•34m ago•0 comments

Stop Cramming Everything into Postgres

3•saisrirampur•34m ago•1 comments

AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/10/ai-firms-urged-to-calculate-existential-threat-amid-fears-it-could-escape-human-control
3•billybuckwheat•43m ago•1 comments

Vibemoder – a vibecoded songwriting inspiration tool

https://vibemoder.pages.dev/
1•zachgray•43m ago•0 comments

Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/sierpinski-triangle-in-my-bitwise
27•guiambros•52m ago•7 comments

Mixture-of-Transformers: Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04996
2•mfiguiere•54m ago•0 comments

Producing useful commands on the go using C++ and AI

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/05/10/producing-useful-commands-on-the-go-using-c-and-ai/
2•mfiguiere•58m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What do you think of this idea for a two color Rubik's Cube variant?

1•amichail•1h ago•1 comments

What are some app ideas that you think would benefit people on a perosnal level?

1•gwcodes•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass

https://github.com/danielcota/LoopMix128
8•the_othernet•1h ago•0 comments

Tons of Telephone Intercept Recordings

https://thisisarecording.com
2•jbledsoe2112•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Experimental Postgres-to-SQLite Sync via Logical Replication

https://github.com/PgOutput2Json/PgFreshCache
1•enadzan•1h ago•0 comments

What Was the Fact?

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-fact
4•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/everyone-is-cheating-their-way-through-college/ar-AA1EjCRk
20•zdw•1h ago•5 comments

High tariffs become 'real' for Adafruit with first $36K bill for import duties

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/10/0715216/high-tariffs-become-real-for-adafruit---with-their-first-36k-bill-just-for-import-duties
8•MilnerRoute•1h ago•0 comments

Decimal Classification

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59073/pg59073-images.html
1•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments

DateTimeFormats: Parse date time by examples (no EEEE VV zzz)

https://github.com/google/mug/wiki/Parsing-Date-Time-Should-Be-10x-Easier
1•byjy•1h ago•1 comments

Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters
8•colinbartlett•1h ago•2 comments

Number of open tech jobs is rising

https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1921169552068547005
1•baxtr•1h ago•1 comments

Devseeker

https://github.com/iBz-04/Devseeker
1•handfuloflight•1h ago•0 comments