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Privacy Washing Is a Dirty Business

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/08/20/privacy-washing-is-a-dirty-business/
1•samuel246•1m ago•0 comments

Can Peanut Allergies Be Cured?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-treatments-can-free-kids-from-the-deadly-threat-of-peanut-allergy/
1•stevenjgarner•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Llmswap v3.0 – CLI and SDK for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Watsonx

https://pypi.org/project/llmswap/
1•sreenathmenon•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turn any study material into practice questions with one photo

https://www.lexielearn.com/en
2•e_patjas•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built an app to track expense temptation

https://app.skipwise.org
1•0xshadow•4m ago•0 comments

FictusVNC – Fake VNC server to serve your images easily

https://github.com/ayebrian/fictusvnc
1•LorenDB•4m ago•0 comments

Economics of RL

https://www.mechanize.work/blog/cheap-rl-tasks-will-waste-compute/
1•Tamaybes•4m ago•0 comments

Google announces Tennessee as site for small modular nuclear reactor

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-announces-tennessee-site-small-modular-nuclear-reactor-2025-08-18/
2•rbanffy•6m ago•0 comments

Researchers build first 'microwave brain' on a chip – Cornell Chronicle

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/08/researchers-build-first-microwave-brain-chip
1•rbanffy•6m ago•0 comments

Made by Google '25 launch event [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCXTQIIvM0
2•ChrisArchitect•7m ago•0 comments

Awesome-ricing, tools to help with ricing on Linux

https://github.com/fosslife/awesome-ricing
1•dxs•8m ago•0 comments

DOM-Based Extension Clickjacking

https://marektoth.com/blog/dom-based-extension-clickjacking/
1•_xgw•9m ago•0 comments

The Content Trap

https://9to5tofounder.substack.com/p/no-1-starting-from-scratch
1•dimitrit•10m ago•0 comments

Pixel 10 Phones

https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-10-pro-xl/
9•gotmedium•11m ago•2 comments

Misinformation Rises, Climate Fades; Global Risk Is Now a Popularity Contest

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/08/19/international-opinion-on-global-threats/
5•bdev12345•12m ago•0 comments

NSA's Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist from Purge

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/security-clearances-scientist-fired.html
4•_tk_•16m ago•0 comments

Families caring for older adults at home say aging in place may be worth it

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2•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

Texas Energy Crunch to Worsen as Trump Policies Target Solar and Wind Power

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4•voxadam•17m ago•1 comments

You no longer need a Clipper card to ride BART

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1•kaycebasques•18m ago•0 comments

Teaching: A Few Useful Analogies

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4•indigoomega•24m ago•1 comments

Researchers discover what saves babies' lives. It's not medical, it's money

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2•laurex•26m ago•0 comments

Scientists get a rare peek inside of an exploding star

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3•petethomas•26m ago•0 comments

An Update on Pytype

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CSS line-height unit 1h

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3•thunderbong•36m ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: Are programmers more likely to ignore society as they did not invent it?

1•amichail•4h ago
Programmers often invent their own worlds, so they may resist integrating into an existing one — namely, the society in which they live.

By contrast, a medical doctor works within the existing world and is therefore more likely to find it easier to integrate into a society they did not invent.

Do you think this is the case?

Comments

Propelloni•3h ago
I think the premise is flawed. 1st, there is no evidence that programmers do invent worlds more or less often than anybody else. 2nd, while it is a cliché there is also no evidence that programmers have difficulties or don't want to integrate into their societies more or less than non-programmers.

World building may be escapism in some cases, but the common case of world building is contingency planning. Just look at investment banking or, more relatable, getting your kids to and fro school.