frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

Open in hackernews

A Mate Selection Theory of Feminization

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/a-mate-selection-theory-of-feminization
4•gmays•2h ago

Comments

rossdavidh•1h ago
I mean, it's an interesting thought experiment, but it doesn't seem to have any explanation for the current tide-receding status of "wokeness". If anything the rise to renewed prominence of people like Trump and Musk (both of whom have gone through multiple wives) should cause increased anxiety about fidelity which would lead to increased "feminization", but it doesn't look that way to me. The last five years seem to have shown a downwards trend; the phenomenon he refers to peaked somewhere around 2020.
quantified•47m ago
Subtly yet strongly bogus. Being sympathetic to women is not "feminized". Author is attempting to argue that being civilized, observing decorum, is not masculine.

[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feminized]

feminized adjective fem· i· nized ˈfe-mə-ˌnīzd : made feminine or more feminine … the crucial influence of gay subculture on every style from the Teds [=teddy boys] to the 'feminized New Man' of the late 1980s has been thoroughly discussed … —Margaret Sarkissian : notably female or feminine in quality or character

Jim Lovell Has Died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lovell
1•ColinWright•1m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT Will Apologize for Anything

https://www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will-apologize-for-anything/
2•xnx•1m ago•0 comments

Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell has passed away

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell/
2•LorenDB•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HackMaster Pi – A $30 Flipper Zero Alternative Built with Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/1PingSun/HackMaster-Pi
1•1ping•3m ago•0 comments

How to Teach Your Kids to Play Poker: Start with One Card

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/how-to-teach-your-kids-poker-with-one-card-at-age-four
1•ioblomov•3m ago•1 comments

ChatGPT-5 Can't Do Basic Math

5•MarcellusDrum•7m ago•0 comments

Security alerts in Gmail. What a mess

2•chrisjj•8m ago•0 comments

GPT-5 AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/37th7HY644
2•IdealeZahlen•9m ago•0 comments

Johns Hopkins is building its AI wargaming tools for DoD

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/08/johns-hopkins-is-building-classified-versions-of-its-ai-wargaming-tools-for-dod-ic/
1•geox•10m ago•0 comments

Fears of population collapse in the US are based on faulty assumptions

https://theconversation.com/fears-that-falling-birth-rates-in-us-could-lead-to-population-collapse-are-based-on-faulty-assumptions-261031
1•PaulHoule•10m ago•0 comments

GPT-5 Rollout Updates

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1953893841381273969
2•tosh•12m ago•0 comments

Cordoomceps – replacing an Amiga's brain with Doom

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73001.html
1•LorenDB•12m ago•0 comments

Millions are flocking to grow virtual gardens in Roblox game created by teenager

https://apnews.com/article/roblox-game-grow-garden-trend-2f5e4368448d57002d08b1b3d4a289ca
1•petethomas•15m ago•1 comments

The Illustrated TLS 1.2 Connection

https://tls12.xargs.org/
1•dmazin•16m ago•0 comments

The surprising economics of the meat industry – Lewis Bollard

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/lewis-bollard
2•paulpauper•16m ago•0 comments

Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why

https://stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/job-growth-has-slowed-sharply-the
12•paulpauper•16m ago•3 comments

Campaigning for Extinction:Eradication of Sparrows and the Great Famine in China

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34087
1•paulpauper•17m ago•0 comments

GRETA to Open a New Eye on the Nucleus

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/08/08/greta-to-open-a-new-eye-on-the-nucleus/
1•gnabgib•17m ago•0 comments

HTTP Is Not Simple

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/08/http-is-not-simple/
4•thunderbong•19m ago•1 comments

Looking for Testers for an AI Privacy Platform

https://scanonai.carrd.co
1•lotuslabs•20m ago•1 comments

Three Tiers of Responses to Fact

https://medium.com/on-history/three-tiers-of-responses-to-fact-9b551f2a4fb6
2•wsgeorge•23m ago•0 comments

Toxic convenience: what science tells us about plastic's hidden costs

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20250808-toxic-convenience-what-science-tells-us-about-plastic-s-hidden-costs
2•everybodyknows•24m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT users hate GPT-5's overworked secretary energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/chatgpt-users-outraged-as-gpt-5-replaces-the-models-they-love/
5•rntn•25m ago•0 comments

Welcome to DIY Rich Guy Fantasy Camp

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-diy-rich-guy-fantasy-camp-mandle-cheung-bezos-ackman/
2•throw0101a•28m ago•1 comments

FIN - Fish Extensible Text Editor Written in Fish

https://codeberg.org/Digit/fin/
2•ashitlerferad•28m ago•0 comments

json2dir: a JSON-to-directory converter, a fast alternative to home-manager

https://github.com/alurm/json2dir
5•alurm•28m ago•0 comments

M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/10/no-m5-macbook-pro-2025/
7•behnamoh•31m ago•0 comments

(Evil)Doggie: An open-source CAN bus research and penetration testing tool

https://www.blackhat.com/us-25/arsenal/schedule/#evildoggie-a-modular-open-source-can-bus-research-and-penetration-testing-tool-45525
1•wslh•33m ago•0 comments

LVFS Sustainability Plan

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2025/08/08/lvfs-sustainability-plan/
3•Bogdanp•33m ago•0 comments

Query-Mutating Data Race in Go

https://coder.com/blog/query-mutating-data-race-in-go
3•kylecarbs•36m ago•0 comments