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There Is No Trolley Problem

https://www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-trolley-problem/
2•hn_acker•8h ago

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techpineapple•8h ago
I read this, and while I want to agree with the premise, part of the literal point of the trolley problem is time. While you’re sitting around talking about ways to slow down the Trolley, the trolley will roll people over!

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of good. If you have an idea, throw it out there, better yet, jump on the damn Trolley and try to fix it. But don’t cover the hand of the guy on the lever and ask, “can we talk about this first?”

We need a new theory of democracy – because this version has failed

https://www.salon.com/2025/08/24/we-need-a-new-theory-of-democracy-because-this-version-has-failed/
1•hkhn•58s ago•0 comments

Free AI Security Testing

1•aiagentlover•2m ago•0 comments

The Revolution Will Not Be Star Wars: What Andor Depicts

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/07/24/the-revolution-will-not-be-star-wars/
1•mitchbob•4m ago•1 comments

Etomidate to Be Listed in Misuse of Drugs Act from Sep 1 in Singapore

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/vaping-etomidate-kpods-class-c-drug-ong-ye-kung-5311236
1•kelt•13m ago•0 comments

The fastest sorting algorithm [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y95a-8oNqps
1•hundredwatt•14m ago•0 comments

I can prove I've solved this sudoku without revealing it [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otvcbw6k4eo
2•hundredwatt•15m ago•0 comments

Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

https://theconversation.com/why-wind-farms-attract-so-much-misinformation-and-conspiracy-theory-2...
2•voxadam•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone made an MCP server for calorie tracking?

2•joshcsimmons•20m ago•0 comments

Typeclassopedia

https://wiki.haskell.org/index.php?title=Typeclassopedia
1•marvinborner•28m ago•0 comments

Digital Cargo Cult: How Zoomers Ruined Old Internet Nostalgia

https://cy-x.net/articles?id=13
2•Kokouane•31m ago•0 comments

Gemini CLI: Custom slash commands

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/gemini-cli-custom-slash-commands
1•tanelpoder•31m ago•0 comments

Burkina Faso Halts Gates Foundation-Backed Anti-Malaria Project

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-23/burkina-faso-halts-gates-foundation-backed-ant...
3•voxadam•31m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Fast, private command-line history search with instant documentation

https://github.com/cybrota/recaller
1•nyell•35m ago•0 comments

Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant –what is it and how does it work?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/japan-osmotic-power-plant-fukuoka
2•pseudolus•40m ago•1 comments

Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007)

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
1•Bogdanp•48m ago•1 comments

The Robinhood of Systemic Trading – Nvestiq

https://www.nvestiq.com/
2•Aman4312•48m ago•1 comments

Understanding alignment – from source to object file

https://maskray.me/blog/2025-08-24-understanding-alignment-from-source-to-object-file
1•MaskRay•57m ago•0 comments

Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine

https://www.asimov.press/p/leeches
3•alphabetatango•1h ago•0 comments

Optimal Brain Damage [pdf]

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/1989/file/6c9882bbac1c7093bd25041881277658-Paper...
2•fzliu•1h ago•0 comments

Do LLMs 'store' personal data? This is asking the wrong question (2024)

https://iapp.org/news/a/do-llms-store-personal-data-this-is-asking-the-wrong-question
2•walterbell•1h ago•0 comments

We Vibe Code at a FAANG

https://old.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1myakhd/how_we_vibe_code_at_a_faang/
2•simonpure•1h ago•2 comments

Linear Scan with Lifetime Holes

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/linear-scan-lifetime-holes/
2•todsacerdoti•1h ago•1 comments

Intel Should Second-Source Nvidia [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oOk_KXbw6c
1•tambourine_man•1h ago•0 comments

Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right

https://www.ft.com/content/0e244103-80e8-4acc-9262-d6a45bbbaf14
4•slater•1h ago•2 comments

Where are you being recorded? Almost everywhere

https://proton.me/blog/albert-fox-cahn-surveillance-in-public-private-spaces
5•devonnull•1h ago•0 comments

CatVector Heatmap Visualizer

https://tanelpoder.com/catvector/
1•tanelpoder•1h ago•0 comments

Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10082025/ocean-carbon-removal-climate-change/
1•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Performance Speed Limits

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/06/11/speed-limits.html
1•xtacy•1h ago•1 comments

Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing [pdf]

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-098-street-fighting-mathematics-january-iap-2008/d937ad2ca4b7839a5...
1•pykello•1h ago•0 comments

US immigrant population down by more than a million people amid Trump crackdown

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/23/us-immigrant-population-declines
9•joak•1h ago•1 comments