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Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/ai_capex_plans/
1•Brajeshwar•43s ago•0 comments

OpenClaw v2026.2.6

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.2.6
1•salkahfi•1m ago•0 comments

A free Dynamic QR Code generator (no expiring links)

https://free-dynamic-qr-generator.com/
1•nookeshkarri7•1m ago•1 comments

nextTick but for React.js

https://suhaotian.github.io/use-next-tick/
1•jeremy_su•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered Pull Request Review Tool

https://github.com/HighGarden-Studio/HighReview
1•highgarden•3m ago•0 comments

Git-am applies commit message diffs

https://lore.kernel.org/git/bcqvh7ahjjgzpgxwnr4kh3hfkksfruf54refyry3ha7qk7dldf@fij5calmscvm/
1•rkta•5m ago•0 comments

ClawEmail: 1min setup for OpenClaw agents with Gmail, Docs

https://clawemail.com
1•aleks5678•12m ago•1 comments

UnAutomating the Economy: More Labor but at What Cost?

https://www.greshm.org/blog/unautomating-the-economy/
1•Suncho•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gettorr – Stream magnet links in the browser via WebRTC (no install)

https://gettorr.com/
1•BenaouidateMed•20m ago•0 comments

Statin drugs safer than previously thought

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026/statin-drugs-safer-than-previously-thought
1•stareatgoats•22m ago•0 comments

Handy when you just want to distract yourself for a moment

https://d6.h5go.life/
1•TrendSpotterPro•23m ago•0 comments

More States Are Taking Aim at a Controversial Early Reading Method

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/more-states-are-taking-aim-at-a-controversial-early-read...
1•lelanthran•25m ago•0 comments

AI will not save developer productivity

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4125409/ai-will-not-save-developer-productivity.html
1•indentit•30m ago•0 comments

How I do and don't use agents

https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/2019975917863661760
1•tosh•36m ago•0 comments

BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

1•aoijfoqfw•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
5•michaelchicory•41m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•44m ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•45m ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•47m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
2•calcifer•52m ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•56m ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
3•MilnerRoute•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•58m ago•3 comments

Show HN: GTM MCP Server- Let AI Manage Your Google Tag Manager Containers

https://github.com/paolobietolini/gtm-mcp-server
1•paolobietolini•59m ago•0 comments

Launch of X (Twitter) API Pay-per-Use Pricing

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/announcing-the-launch-of-x-api-pay-per-use-pricing/256476
1•thinkingemote•1h ago•0 comments

Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•1h ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count Event

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•1h ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•1h ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
2•consumer451•1h ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Few Americans Read for Pleasure

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/20/american-reading-declines-attention-spans/
12•perihelions•5mo ago

Comments

fullshark•5mo ago
And the Americans who do mostly read genre fiction exclusively. The Americans who read "literature" for pleasure read for social signaling reasons.
pinewurst•5mo ago
Can you blame them though? Contemporary non-genre fiction is almost completely written as/for signalling. Maybe there’s a chance that this bolus of woke will pass…
goyagoji•5mo ago
There's more than enough historical literature of a high enough ilk that missing references to it is a signal. I think contemporary literature can do whatever it wants and its not an adequate explanation, OTOH contemporary other media being an important reference is an explanation for not reading.
GarnetFloride•5mo ago
I mean it's not a surprise considering that 54% of Americans are functionally illiterate (<5th grade level).

My curiosity is about why aren't the big publishers setting up literacy programs to grow their marketshare?

Why aren't shareholders up in arms about not growing the potential reader base?

onecommentman•5mo ago
Why set up literacy programs when, for online content, you can get the definition of any word instantly, or ask some AI assistant what the meaning of a phrase is, diving down as deeply as you wish and asking for the explanation at a 5th grade reading level? Such active reading itself is the best sort of literacy program. Why aren’t people actively reading with these tools?
JohnFen•5mo ago
The age of eBooks has reduced the amount I read. Fewer actual books are available and, for whatever reason, I just can't immerse myself in a book in eBook form.
thegrim33•5mo ago
"In the U.S., printed book sales totaled 782 million in 2024—a 23% increase over the past decade (source)

Not only is print still popular, but print sales also grew by nearly one-fourth from 2014 to 2024. This includes both paperback and hardcover, sold through brick-and-mortar retailers as well as online retailers like Amazon."

So .. there's more printed books being sold than ever before, and the amount sold continues to increase every year.

https://www.newprint.com/blog/book-sales-statistics

JohnFen•5mo ago
That may very well be, but it doesn't really help me much. Books are less available to me than ever.
onecommentman•5mo ago
Screen reading for work or reference, physical (book) reading for pleasure or archive. The overlap is when you dip into an online text to see if it is interesting enough or important enough to purchase the physical book for pleasure reading or archival copy.

I don’t experience the lack of actual physical books myself. The used book market meets my needs pretty fully (and economically) across a wide spectrum of content.