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The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opinion/men-fiction-novels.html
9•donsupreme•6mo ago

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hyghjiyhu•6mo ago
To me the problem with fiction boosters is they claim a lot of benefits to reading, but they rarely back those up with numbers. I'm not saying the numbers don't exist (they probably do) just that I rarely see them mentioned.

Like reading books can be a very time consuming hobby, so it would be useful to know how few books you can get away with reading while still getting the majority of the benefits.

apothegm•6mo ago
If you’re not doing it for enjoyment, why bother?
hyghjiyhu•6mo ago
When people claim declining reading is a problem they must surely be referring to something other than just enjoyment, as enjoyment can come from many sources.

And it's this other I want quantified.

Kilroy is a local-first "software factory" CLI

https://github.com/danshapiro/kilroy
1•ukuina•3m ago•0 comments

Mathscapes – Jan 2026 [pdf]

https://momath.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1.-Mathscapes-January-2026-with-Solution.pdf
1•vismit2000•5m ago•0 comments

80386 Barrel Shifter

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_barrel_shifter/
1•jamesbowman•6m ago•0 comments

Training Foundation Models Directly on Human Brain Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12053
1•helloplanets•6m ago•0 comments

Web Speech API on HN Threads

https://toulas.ch/projects/hn-readaloud/
1•etoulas•9m ago•0 comments

ArtisanForge: Learn Laravel through a gamified RPG adventure – 100% free

https://artisanforge.online/
1•grazulex•9m ago•1 comments

Your phone edits all your photos with AI – is it changing your view of reality?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260203-the-ai-that-quietly-edits-all-of-your-photos
1•breve•10m ago•0 comments

DStack, a small Bash tool for managing Docker Compose projects

https://github.com/KyanJeuring/dstack
1•kppjeuring•11m ago•1 comments

Hop – Fast SSH connection manager with TUI dashboard

https://github.com/danmartuszewski/hop
1•danmartuszewski•12m ago•1 comments

Turning books to courses using AI

https://www.book2course.org/
2•syukursyakir•13m ago•0 comments

Top #1 AI Video Agent: Free All in One AI Video and Image Agent by Vidzoo AI

https://vidzoo.ai
1•Evan233•13m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How would you design an LLM-unfriendly language?

1•sph•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MuxPod – A mobile tmux client for monitoring AI agents on the go

https://github.com/moezakura/mux-pod
1•moezakura•16m ago•0 comments

March for Billionaires

https://marchforbillionaires.org/
1•gscott•16m ago•0 comments

Turn Claude Code/OpenClaw into Your Local Lovart – AI Design MCP Server

https://github.com/jau123/MeiGen-Art
1•jaujaujau•16m ago•0 comments

An Nginx Engineer Took over AI's Benchmark Tool

https://github.com/hongzhidao/jsbench/tree/main/docs
1•zhidao9•19m ago•0 comments

Use fn-keys as fn-keys for chosen apps in OS X

https://www.balanci.ng/tools/karabiner-function-key-generator.html
1•thelollies•19m ago•1 comments

Sir/SIEN: A communication protocol for production outages

https://getsimul.com/blog/communicate-outage-to-ceo
1•pingananth•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: OpenCode for Meetings

https://getscripta.app
2•whitemyrat•21m ago•1 comments

The chaos in the US is affecting open source software and its developers

https://www.osnews.com/story/144348/the-chaos-in-the-us-is-affecting-open-source-software-and-its...
1•pjmlp•23m ago•0 comments

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics
63•treetalker•24m ago•13 comments

The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ViIsAProductOfItsTime
1•ingve•31m ago•0 comments

Circumstantial Complexity, LLMs and Large Scale Architecture

https://www.datagubbe.se/aiarch/
1•ingve•39m ago•0 comments

Tech Bro Saga: big tech critique essay series

1•dikobraz•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A calculus course with an AI tutor watching the lectures with you

https://calculus.academa.ai/
1•apoogdk•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 83K lines of C++ – cryptocurrency written from scratch, not a fork

https://github.com/Kristian5013/flow-protocol
1•kristianXXI•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SAA – A minimal shell-as-chat agent using only Bash

https://github.com/moravy-mochi/saa
1•mrvmochi•51m ago•0 comments

Mario Tchou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Tchou
1•simonebrunozzi•52m ago•0 comments

Does Anyone Even Know What's Happening in Zim?

https://mayberay.bearblog.dev/does-anyone-even-know-whats-happening-in-zim-right-now/
1•mugamuga•52m ago•0 comments

The last Morse code maritime radio station in North America [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzN-D0yIkGQ
1•austinallegro•54m ago•0 comments