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An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America's Beaches

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/climate/beach-erosion-sea-walls.html
2•pseudolus•11h ago

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pseudolus•11h ago
https://archive.ph/3I6Rr
bix6•9h ago
“Are you going to save the beach house, or do you want to save the beach?”

Obviously the beach. How this is even still debated is ridiculous. One rich persons house or everyone’s beach. It’s really not that hard to build a quarter mile inland and let natural sand dunes etc do their job. It’s just selfish, stupid, and silly. Some forethought would’ve gone a long way here.

Optimizations That Aren't

https://zeux.io/2010/11/29/optimizations-that-arent/
1•daniel_alp•13s ago•0 comments

Actual, Current, Real-World Cuts to NASA Planetary R&A

https://research.ssl.berkeley.edu/~mikewong/blog_14.php#roses25
1•mrexroad•1m ago•0 comments

Asymmetry of Verification and Verifier's Law

https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/asymmetry-of-verification-and-verifiers-law
1•polrjoy•4m ago•0 comments

The unspoken truth about the baby bust

https://www.ft.com/content/5c5e8a56-e557-4741-a94e-c6e06cc1108b
1•toomuchtodo•10m ago•1 comments

There is no "Three Mile Island" event coming for software

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2022/10/08/there-is-no-three-mile-island-event-coming-for-software/
1•azhenley•14m ago•0 comments

Tech's Top Venture Firm Tried to Stay Above Politics. A Partner Created a Furor

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/technology/sequoia-capital-shaun-maguire-mamdani.html
1•aspenmayer•20m ago•1 comments

Assembling a Retro Chip Tester Pro

https://celso.io/posts/2025/07/19/retro-chip-tester/
1•celso•35m ago•0 comments

The CIA's 'Minerva' Secret

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile-cyber-vault-intelligence-southern-cone/2020-02-11/cias-minerva-secret
1•exiguus•38m ago•0 comments

Most accurate clock requires a 2-mile laser beam

https://www.popsci.com/technology/most-accurate-optical-atomic-clock/
2•Bluestein•39m ago•0 comments

Zen 6 Magnus Leak: AMD's APU for PS6?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKdRXEgV82g
1•doener•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a scan app in the skeuomorphic style of iOS 6.0

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scan-convert-to-pdf/id6727013863
3•JulienLacr0ix•44m ago•0 comments

Shining a Light on the World of Tiny Proteins

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/genes-dna-microproteins.html
1•bookofjoe•48m ago•1 comments

Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/world/asia/china-demolition-house.html
1•mbjorkegren•52m ago•0 comments

Detour: A detour through the Linux dynamic linker

https://github.com/graphitemaster/detour
1•birdculture•53m ago•0 comments

When Everything Is Vibing

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4022711/when-everything-is-vibing.html
1•fariszr•58m ago•0 comments

Mount Thor: The mountain with Earth's longest vertical drop

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/mount-thor-the-mountain-with-earths-longest-vertical-drop
2•bikenaga•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a video meet app integrated with AI voice and avatar agents

https://github.com/kylecampbell/livekit-meet-agents
1•imightbekyle•1h ago•0 comments

I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/opinion/ai-chatgpt-school.html
10•whack•1h ago•1 comments

Django Origins (and some things I have built with Django) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqii_iX0RTs
1•kristianp•1h ago•1 comments

Happy 20th birthday Django Here's my talk on Django Origins from Django's 10th

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/13/django-birthday/
1•kristianp•1h ago•1 comments

What if a trip to space changed your eyesight forever?

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-if-a-trip-to-space-changed-your-eyesight-forever
2•bikenaga•1h ago•0 comments

Smart SSH Jumping

https://slatecave.net/blog/smart-ssh-jump/
1•exiguus•1h ago•0 comments

Beyond Usyk's Knockout: The Economics of a Mega-Fight

https://reg2dep.net/news/usyk-dubois-win-affiliate-opportunity
1•shon_marshall•1h ago•0 comments

Identity vs. Equality in Python

https://pythonkoans.substack.com/p/koan-2-the-tale-of-two-scrolls
2•meander_water•1h ago•0 comments

Tokens: The New Oil or Engineering in Spite of Scarcity

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/tokens-the-new-oil
1•KentBeck•1h ago•0 comments

That scar on your arm is probably from a BCG (not Smallpox) vaccine (2022)

https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/that-scar-you-have-on-your-arm-is-probably-from-a-bcg-vaccine-not-a-smallpox-vaccine-that-could-protect-from-monkeypox/
1•AceyMan•1h ago•0 comments

Critical Train Protocol Flaw Allows Remote Brake Control, Risks Derailment

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-191-10
2•dsalzman•1h ago•0 comments

YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/how-youtube-won-the-battle-for-tv-viewers-346d05b8
12•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•8 comments

The U.K. closed a tax loophole for the global rich, now they're fleeing

https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/the-u-k-closed-a-tax-loophole-for-the-global-rich-now-theyre-fleeing-f078cce4
41•fortran77•1h ago•78 comments

Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance
52•xoa•1h ago•27 comments