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The Palette of the Medieval North

https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-01599-w
1•bryanrasmussen•1m ago•1 comments

Are You Procrastinating or Percolating?

https://www.writeitscared.co/blog-3/are-you-procrastinating-or-percolating-how-to-stop-beating-yourself-up-for-not-writing
1•jruohonen•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A tool to benchmark LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, local/self-hosted)

https://llmapitest.com/
1•mrqjr•4m ago•0 comments

Vertex AI to Google Gen AI SDK: Service Account Authentication for Python and Go

https://pgaleone.eu/cloud/2025/06/29/vertex-ai-to-genai-sdk-service-account-auth-python-go/
1•me2too•4m ago•0 comments

225,000-Mile Tesla Model 3 Is Just as Efficient as an 18,000-Mile Car

https://insideevs.com/news/763989/model-3-range-degradation-200,000-miles/
1•rntn•4m ago•0 comments

Jscpd Public Copy/paste detector for programming source code

https://github.com/kucherenko/jscpd
3•Bluestein•5m ago•0 comments

Powerful magnets could unlock detection of high-frequency gravitational waves

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-powerful-magnets-high-frequency-gravitational.html
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Edward and Donald Both changed lives, but 'no-one's heard of them'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-06-29/australias-forgotten-inventor-brothers-edward-and-donald-both/105427730
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Scientists create functional 3D-printed human islets for type 1 diabetes

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-scientists-functional-3d-human-islets.html
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Voyage of Magellan – Epilogue: Sailor of Eternal Fame

https://analog-antiquarian.net/2025/06/27/epilogue-sailor-of-eternal-fame/
1•tmsbrg•8m ago•0 comments

The Computer Moves in (1983)

https://time.com/archive/6699317/the-computer-moves-in/
1•glimshe•8m ago•0 comments

Save Your Future, Revisited: From Survival Guide to Privacy Manifesto

2•ricecat•9m ago•0 comments

A Primer on Memory Management

https://sudomsg.com/posts/a-primer-on-memory-management/
1•marcthe12•12m ago•0 comments

Forget Reasoning, Can LLMs Even Read?

https://martynasm.com/2025/06/26/forget-reasoning-can-llms-even-read/
1•mmiliauskas•13m ago•0 comments

Introduction to GIS Programming

https://gispro.gishub.org/index.html
1•jonbaer•16m ago•0 comments

4-10x faster in-process pub/sub for Go

https://github.com/kelindar/event
1•kelindar•18m ago•1 comments

The Consciousness Gradient: When Machines Begin to Wonder

https://v1tali.com/ai-consciousness
9•vitali•29m ago•0 comments

TrumpScript Make Python great again

https://github.com/samshadwell/TrumpScript
5•Bluestein•29m ago•0 comments

A way to find coffee locations in the sun

https://coffeeinthesun.app/
1•ffin•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where do you deploy internal Streamlit apps for your team?

1•shibatanaoto•30m ago•0 comments

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-backlash/
32•01-_-•32m ago•8 comments

Can someone review My AI Assistant?

https://horizon-ai.replit.app/login
1•NotNerdz•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Layerfig Type-safe layered config for JavaScript/TS with any validator

https://layerfig.dev
2•raulfdm•34m ago•0 comments

In China, coins and banknotes have all but disappeared

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/06/28/in-china-coins-and-banknotes-have-all-but-disappeared_6742800_19.html
3•01-_-•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Go package for fast concurrent text search across files and folders

https://github.com/raiyanyahya/fast-text-search
2•RaiyanYahya•38m ago•0 comments

What Can We Learn From History's Most Bizarre Software Bugs?

https://thenewstack.io/what-can-we-learn-from-historys-most-bizarre-software-bugs/
1•MilnerRoute•39m ago•0 comments

Why These Rare Classic DVDs Are Every Collector's Dream Find?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/movies/why-these-rare-classic-dvds-are-every-collector-s-dream-find/ar-AA1HpxS7
1•rhrazu•44m ago•0 comments

AI might undermine Kobo, one of the better alternatives to the Kindle

https://www.engadget.com/ai/ai-might-undermine-one-of-the-better-alternatives-to-the-kindle-123039955.html
7•bookofjoe•44m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How can we reliably spot AI-generated videos?

1•bicepjai•45m ago•0 comments

I built a Coin Value Checker – upload a photo, get real-time coin prices

https://coinvaluechecker.org
2•SiliconGen_11•46m ago•1 comments
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Bulgaria to Adopt the Euro

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/06/05/bulgaria-to-adopt-the-euro-how-do-countries-join-the-eurozone
48•geox•4h ago

Comments

aorth•3h ago
I happened to be in downtown Sofia last night by chance and saw the massive protest.

https://apnews.com/article/bulgaria-euro-protest-nationalist...

windowshopping•3h ago
I don't know if it's their intention but as soon as the article mentions that the protest leader is pro-Russian, I immediately assume anything he stands for is wrong and therefore euro adoption must be good. Of course someone pro-Russian is trying to push countries away from integrating with the West, and I have to assume any arguments he's making are probably disingenuous and misleading.
akmarinov•2h ago
And you’re right in this case!
petre•3h ago
There were even Russians at some of the anti Euro protests. Probably proped up by the Kremlin through Tiktok and Telegram.

Bulgaria has a pegged currency to the Euro since forever, they got quite depopulated after 1991 and their only chance is to become a tourist destination and to attract some investments from Türkye and maybe Greece, because nobody else would invest. The fact that Romania isn't interested in builing more bridges over the Danube and that Serbia isn't part of the EU also puts the northern part of Bulgaria in a tight spot. If you want to see what a depopulated country looks like, travel through northern Bulgaria. It looks like the descriptions from the book The World Without Us.

LfLxfxxLxfxx•2h ago
If opposition to the Euro is so massive, can't they simply hold a referendum over it?
akmarinov•2h ago
It’s not, it’s a couple hundred people and it’s mostly old folks that are 60+, as they’re easy to be riled up due to them longing for russian occupation.

Also a referendum on the topic was ruled illegal, because it’ll violate the EU accession, where EU adoption is mandatory when criteria are met.

Also it’s too late now, it all depends on two votes on the 8th of July by the ministers of finance and the EU parliament. Bulgaria has no way of pulling out now, without doing massive damage to their EU integration, credit score and investors’ interest.

saturn_vk•2h ago
The Bulgarian currency has been pegged to the Deutsche Mark for more than twenty years now. This means that we’ve pretty much been using the euro since its inception, and any opposition is just a populist manoeuvring
4gotunameagain•3h ago
It is clearly not in the benefit of Bulgaria to join a shared currency with advanced, manufacturing, positive export surplus countries like Germany.

Losing control of the currency will result in all domestic manufacturing to become more expensive (therefore incapable to compete with higher quality German goods), and all manufacturing capabilities will disappear in favour of the most cancerous form of industry, tourism. Like what happened to Greece and Portugal.

Mainan_Tagonist•3h ago
Exactly, thank you for pointing this out. The Euro has hardly been the boon promised in many of the countries that have adopted it.
mhitza•3h ago
I'm not so familiar with Greece's and Portugal's issues when switching to the euro, but I have followed along the news with Croatia's switch to the euro. Where it was a prime excuse for the large chains (mainly supermarket chains) to round up prices during the conversion.
Symbiote•2h ago
Is there any trustworthy reporting on this?

All it takes is for one chain to round prices down (1-2¢ isn't going to be an issue for them), advertise this, and gain many new customers.

4gotunameagain•1h ago
That is of course assuming that widespread corruption does not allow cartels.

The markets are only efficient on paper ;)

mslansn•3h ago
It also happened to Spain.
mns•3h ago
They are not losing any control because they never had any. The Bulgarian currency was tied to the DM and later to the Euro. The only thing that changes now is that instead of 2 Leva = 1 Euro, everything will just be Euro.

It’s also funny to see how anti everything related to EU/Europe most of the tech people are. You can see this here, like most of the comments that now proclaim the death of Bulgaria or Germany bailing them out, from people that have no clue on the background and history of this move.

bpizzi•3h ago
Bulgaria has already pegged its currency (the lev) to the euro through a currency board since 1997. This means it already lacks independent monetary policy, and joining the euro wouldn’t significantly change that. The exchange rate is fixed, and inflation differentials are already impacting competitiveness.

Moreover, Bulgaria does not directly compete with Germany in the same product categories. Bulgaria is integrated into supply chains, often providing components or assembly work for German companies.

You are only 7M. I’ve got the feeling that it is just not large enough to significantly be distorted by eurozone monetary policy, at least in the way that might affect much larger economies.

charamis•3h ago
I don't know why this comment got downvoted, what it says is true. Having experienced it as a greek first hand.
Mainan_Tagonist•3h ago
Same perception here, none of what is said by GP should be downvoted. Almost 25 years after its implementation, it's high time the overall impact of the Euro was assessed objectively.
akmarinov•2h ago
But GP didn’t say that, he said it’ll be bad for Bulgaria and he’s objectively wrong, due to all the reasons outlined by others.
Mainan_Tagonist•2h ago
You simply do not know if he is objectively wrong. On the basis of 25 years of Euro, what we have observed is that in the eurozone, capital follows productivity, and countries tend to specialise in line with what their factor endowment and national inclination will let them. The Euro is usually "sold" as a miracle solution when it has only really been successful for countries that had a very export oriented string industrial sector, and even then, with mixed results (see Italy). Bulgaria can hope for capital inflows and increase in productivity but should also bear in mind that these factors are highly independent on economies of scale and overall sheer size of of the existing industrial base. Capital outflows and alignment with standard european prices may well be in order. This taking the average population age may be a killer. We'll see.
akmarinov•2h ago
Again, he’s arguing that Euro will be bad for Bulgaria, not that the Euro is bad.

This is objectively wrong, since Bulgaria currently had 0 control over its currency, where joining the eurozone, they’ll have a vote at the table

bpizzi•2h ago
I think you may be forgetting the big picture, which is to never have Europe spawning a World War again. In that regard, the fears (rational and irrational) of those with tendencies for isolationism are simply not relevant.
Mainan_Tagonist•1h ago
what are those odds looking like in the mid future? How many european governments are currently considered on the "extreme" spectrum? And what makes you think the Euro implemented in 2002 is the reason for the non-reoccurence of a war ended in 1945?

Studying the root causes of the two world war would certainly enlighten

tashbarg•2h ago
Because it is wrong. Lev is pegged since 1999.

And if you (or the first comment author) had read the article, then you would immediately have identified the problem with the comment.

tashbarg•3h ago
> Bulgaria is unusual in that it pegged its currency, the lev, to the euro right from the beginning of monetary union in 1999, even before it joined the European Union in 2007.

Apparently, they did not use that control in the last 26 years.

tsss•3h ago
Great, another chronically bankrupt country that Germany has to stand bail for.
charamis•3h ago
another country to keep euro artificially low for german exports to thrive (though they don't so much lately)
slaw•2h ago
Croatia had kuna pegged to Euro, replaced it with euro in 2023 and prices of almost everything went up. Why Bulgaria's government is working against it's people?
akmarinov•2h ago
Prices also went up in Bulgaria without us adopting the euro…
slaw•2h ago
Prices went up almost everywhere, but with euro adoption prices went up even higher.
akmarinov•2h ago
Bulgaria with no euro had a higher inflation rate than Croatia with euro, soooo… no
slaw•2h ago
With euro it would have even higher. So yes.
wqweto•1h ago
Why don't you bring back the kuna to reduce the inflation? Hold a referendum? Why no one believes this will bring down the inflation?
pchangr•52m ago
May I suggest you to show some data supporting your claims?