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AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
1•sohimaster•49s ago•0 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
1•harshalone•52s ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
1•PaulHoule•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
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1•dovhyi•7m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•8m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

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1•jcob_sikorski•9m ago•0 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
5•c420•9m ago•0 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•10m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

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1•HotGarbage•10m ago•0 comments

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The AI CEO Experiment

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Speed up responses with fast mode

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MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

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3•TheCraiggers•16m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

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2•birdculture•17m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

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7•doener•17m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

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A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

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Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

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1•thunderbong•21m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

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2•elsewhen•24m ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

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Do Not Confirm – Fiction by OpenClaw

https://thedailymolt.substack.com/p/do-not-confirm
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The Analytical Profile of Peas

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Hallucinations in GPT5 – Can models say "I don't know" (June 2025)

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1•sp1982•30m ago•0 comments

What AI is good for, according to developers

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/what-ai-is-actually-good-for-according-to-developers/
1•mooreds•30m ago•0 comments

OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction

https://twitter.com/lebed2045/status/2020184853271167186
1•lebed2045•31m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

American students are getting dumber

https://www.slowboring.com/p/american-students-are-getting-dumber
33•JumpCrisscross•4mo ago

Comments

leakycap•4mo ago
With more to learn than ever, has the US approach to education kept up or prioritized? No, I don't think so.

Students getting "dumber" implies something about the students, when the dumbest things I've encountered or heard of involve the staff and administration of US school systems

JumpCrisscross•4mo ago
> has the US approach to education kept up or prioritized?

"The PISA results are also a reminder of something that I think many Americans don’t know: America’s overall educational performance is above average for a rich country.

Our PISA reading scores were worse than Canada, Ireland, Estonia, and the rich Asian countries, but higher than everyone else in Europe. You used to be able to break out PISA scores by state, which would typically show things like Massachusetts doing better than any European country. But that breakdown is no longer available."

> Students getting "dumber" implies something about the students

A tree stunted by being grown in poor soil is still stunted.

bdangubic•4mo ago
99% of my kid’s education happens outside of the school. in 2025 if a student is “dumb” it is 100% her/his and parent’s fault, not “administration” or “school system”

both could be better but if you rely on any “system” or “administration” for your well-being you are not going to end up well…

opan•4mo ago
What sort of education are they getting out of school? I know I learned a lot browsing the web and playing games as a kid, but maybe you also mean something more directed like tutoring.
skylurk•4mo ago
As a kid, I learned the most from activities like:

- visiting museums

- going to the zoo

- running a lemonade stand

- volunteering at soup kitchen

- joining a sports team

My parents set me up for all of those, I would have just read books on the couch otherwise.

1718627440•4mo ago
This is the kind of knowledge you are supposed to have gotten before going to school. We have these institutions called schools, BECAUSE that dense kind of knowledge requires rote memorization at the beginning, which is hard to acquire elsewhere.
skylurk•4mo ago
If there was any rote memorisation at my school, I don't remember it. I do remember being forced to write until my fingers were raw. So yes, practicing writing gave me a valuable skill I would not have picked up on my own: I can sharpen a mean pencil.
1718627440•4mo ago
That's the first and maybe second year. You can't tell me you haven't done anything in the other decade you were there.

Biology is famous for being only about memorization, but there is something in every subject. Grammar rules, vocab and poems in the language classes, laws in physics, philosophy has a bunch of concepts. What else are concept names in CS if not simply terms to be learned?

The point is however not only to train you how to learn or to get you to know facts, but most importantly to learn the tools of a subject and to let you be able to see abstractions. You need to do a lot of arithmetic before you can grasp analysis. I can't think of explaining mathematical models to a person who never got to use Numbers. A lot of things can only be learned by doing them.

Do you want to tell me anything you learned past class 6, can be learned by doing the activities you listed? It feels very weird to hear from people on the internet (who I think are adults), that they never moved on from being ~7 years old. (Sorry, that was not intended as an ad hominem, maybe you are a professor in X, but how can you explain, that you think school can be substituted by e.g. selling lemonade, past primary school?)

The alternative is that you are a modern da Vinci and could invent all of modern science yourself. In this case congratulations, but maybe you should have gone to university earlier. You would however realize that most people aren't like that and do learn more then selling lemonade at school.

skylurk•4mo ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, schools can be great places to learn. I envy your experience.

My school sucked, catering to the slowest students and bullying the self-motivated ones. The general view of the administration was that the whole universe was only a few thousand years old and was unlikely to last much longer.

I got a decent education, in spite of my school, thanks to my parents working hard to fill the gaps. Obviously the list above is not exhaustive, and it adapted as I got older.

So it was true for me then, and probably even more true in 2025, that the parents have full responsibility for the education of the student. Picking a school like yours would be a great first step, if that's an option.

1718627440•4mo ago
I don't see how this has to do with the quality of the school. This should also apply to a bad school. What have you done in past class 2? I can't imagine a school existing on earth that still teaches 16 year old students how to write.
skylurk•4mo ago
No writing class at 16 of course, although all assignments were still required to be submitted in cursive until around then, with points quickly docked for spelling and tidiness lapses.

But the curriculum was years behind, so by the time something showed up in the school material, a lot of kids had already learned it. Either outside of school, or just the previous year... the material always seemed recycled from year to year, just with ever increasing page count requirements for assignments. It was a private school, and thereby avoided scrutiny.

Come to think of it, I actually do remember a lot of rote memorisation of religious texts, though. Not sure how I forgot about it, it was a pretty stressful subject. We had to write those from memory in cursive too.

leakycap•4mo ago
> 99% of my kid’s education happens outside of the school.

If this is true, or even close - your kid desperately needs a new school, an IEP, or some other sort of immediate intervention.

bdangubic•4mo ago
My kid goes to $50k/year private school so school itself is not the issue. the issue is that school isn’t meant for education. if it was you would now be able to solve a differential equation and I can fairly certainly say you can’t even though I am guessing you are highly educated person. you also probably can’t recite periodic table of elements or answer 99.76% of questions you got from “education”

the education begins and ends at home and is highly personal. in this day and age with everything kids have at their disposal, if they get majority of their education at school they are on the wrong track

leakycap•4mo ago
> My kid goes to $50k/year private school so school itself is not the issue.

You spend $50k a year on a private school that is achieving 1% of the education needs of your child?

That's about $400 per average school day. Does this include food, boarding, and speciality IEP care or something?

thehappypm•4mo ago
The rich kids — 90th and 75th percentiles — are flat, with a inconsequential (1%) drop over the decade.
impossiblefork•4mo ago
Yes, but that could in principle be true literally everywhere, and it might well be.
idoubtit•4mo ago
> Our PISA reading scores were worse than Canada, Ireland, Estonia, and the rich Asian countries, but higher than everyone else in Europe.

Wrong.

In the article, the nearest link that was supposed to prove that claim points to a blog post that uses the 2019 PISA data. And in that post, there's not just Ireland and Estonia in Europe that do better than USA, but also Finland, Poland and Sweden. US-Americans have a reputation of knowing little of the world geography, maybe that's why these countries were forgotten ;-)

The article also has a link to a blog about 2021 PISA data, but with a very limited sample: e.g. Estonia is missing. And Poland still does better than the USA.

tamaharbor•4mo ago
“Idiocracy”, here we come.
Steven420•4mo ago
More like here we are
spacebacon•4mo ago
Fake News