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The Only Birthrate Strategy That Worked, & the Need for Strong Pronatalism

https://twitter.com/MoreBirths/status/1946237202922684750
5•barry-cotter•3h ago

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mytailorisrich•3h ago
If the most critical current issue for humanity is the climate and environmental crisis then we must accept that letting the population decline is also the most beneficial thing we can do for a sustainable solution.

Of course the problem there is that our whole economic system and thinking relies on an ever growing population. We have reached the limit of that on this planet but it is easier to refuse to accept it than to face the challenge head on.

unearth3d•3h ago
Pop. needs to fall back to ~1.7B as that's Earth's human natural carrying cap. - as determined by the pre-Haber Process natural Nitrogen pool. Vaclav Smil, SciAm, July 1997, 76–81. More relevant than ever. Synth. N is not a solution as is isotopically diff. and harms plant cell structure in our food.
lazide•13m ago
This entire post is absurd.

There is no magic ‘carrying capacity’ number, except perhaps a couple hundred million before mechanized society and fossil fuels. And those times were far from pretty.

And synthetic fixed nitrogen is not isotopically different in some meaningful way. And even if it was, that isn’t damaging anything.

smt88•2h ago
None of this content-free, rambling thread addresses major risks of motherhood. These include:

- death (giving birth is more dangerous than birth control or abortion)

- financial insecurity (can you get a job if you lose your co-parent?)

- hopelessness (many women don't want to bring a child into a world with existential issues like climate change)

And there are many more. Not a single one was addressed by this tweet.

lazide•12m ago
These factors have always been present. If anything, they’re less of a concern now than they were historically.

Environmental Costs of Lithium Mining

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30741j351go
1•macleginn•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to encourage typing of program listings in new Compute!'s Gazette?

1•amichail•4m ago•0 comments

Smithsonian Fights Back Against $85M Space Shuttle Kipnapping to Texas

https://www.jalopnik.com/1916183/smithsonian-fights-back-against-space-shuttle-kidnapping/
1•zzzeek•5m ago•0 comments

Experimenting with Personalized PageRank (2021)

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/26-personalized-pagerank/
2•Bluestein•15m ago•0 comments

Compute!'s Gazette, first issue in 35 years [free edition] [pdf]

https://www.computesgazette.com/Digital/Volume1/GAZETTE%20JULY%202025%20Free%20Edition.pdf
1•amichail•23m ago•0 comments

Vibe coding a Greek learning app without knowing Gree

https://www.mikeborozdin.com/post/vibe-coding-greek-learning-app
1•mikeborozdin•32m ago•0 comments

Digital vassals? French Government 'exposes citizens' data to US'

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/07/digital-vassals-french-government-exposes-citizens-data-to-us/
3•ColinWright•34m ago•1 comments

What Would a Real Friendship with A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like Hers

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/magazine/ai-chatbot-friendship-character.html
1•gk1•39m ago•0 comments

Debian 13 release planned for August 9

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/07/msg00003.html
2•asp1•40m ago•0 comments

Update: Youshot Chrome Extension – Unlimited Version Now Live

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youshot-youtube-screensho/kojnfdacopeiakaafdklffgnpbekdbjo
1•timmy3443•40m ago•2 comments

Emacs changed my life as a fully blind programmer and part-time writer

https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1m23kn7/emacs_changed_my_life_as_a_fully_blind_programmer/
1•nanna•40m ago•0 comments

MyLens AI – Turn ideas and content into effective visuals

https://mylens.ai/
1•mitchbob•41m ago•0 comments

I built an image viewer for the terminal that works everywhere

3•FerkiHN•41m ago•3 comments

Could AI speed up the nuclear energy boom?

https://qz.com/microsoft-azure-ai-idl-nuclear-energy-deal
1•Bluestein•43m ago•0 comments

Snake eating its tail: how can synthetic data possibly work for training AI?

https://tomdekan.com/articles/snake-eating-synthetic-tail
2•tomdekan•45m ago•2 comments

Spack 1.0 is out. Spack is a flexible package manager

https://github.com/spack/spack
2•nabla9•47m ago•1 comments

Block Trolls on Slack

https://github.com/christian-korneck/trollbuster-slack-chrome
2•21sys•47m ago•0 comments

UK uncovers novel Microsoft snooping malware, blames and sanctions GRU cyberspie

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/20/uk_microsoft_snooping_russia/
3•latein•48m ago•2 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
2•mitchbob•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Hybrid Knowledge Graph and RAG for Legal Documents (Learning Project)

https://github.com/srijanshukla18/ita-kg
4•srijanshukla18•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gix – A small CLI tool that adds AI to Git

https://github.com/ademajagon/gix
3•codebyagon•51m ago•0 comments

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/organ-transplants-donors-alive.html
1•mitchbob•53m ago•1 comments

Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update)

https://antirez.com/news/154
5•antirez•56m ago•0 comments

Popular NPM linter packages hijacked via phishing to drop malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-npm-linter-packages-hijacked-via-phishing-to-drop-malware/
1•mmsc•1h ago•1 comments

Spack v1.0 Is Out

https://github.com/spack/spack/releases/tag/v1.0.0
1•tgamblin•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made MediaManager, a modern alternative to the *ARR ecosystem

https://github.com/maxdorninger/MediaManager
3•cookiedude24•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: XID – Dependency-Free Unique ID Generator in One C File

https://gist.github.com/Ferki-git-creator/17450d52d143f746f00fb1c903c06bb2
5•FerkiHN•1h ago•3 comments

Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family's origins

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/ancient-dna-solves-mystery-of-hungarian-finnish-language-familys-origins/
1•gbxyz•1h ago•0 comments

The job market felt broken so I built my own fix

https://www.woberry.com/
2•frankvienna•1h ago•0 comments

Genesis Protocol: The first communication protocol for digital life

https://genesis-protocol.org/
3•dethron•1h ago•1 comments