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Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•16s ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•41s ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
1•consumer451•4m ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•18m ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
1•jesperordrup•23m ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•23m ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•24m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•31m ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
4•keepamovin•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
2•sickthecat•44m ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
2•imthepk•49m ago•0 comments

How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•50m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•51m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•54m ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2j80klmo
3•breve•55m ago•1 comments

The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•57m ago•0 comments

Rentahuman.ai Turns Humans into On-Demand Labor for AI Agents

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/02/05/when-ai-agents-start-hiring-humans-rentahuma...
1•tempodox•59m ago•0 comments

StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

1•ReviewShield•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Afelyon – Turns Jira tickets into production-ready PRs (multi-repo)

https://afelyon.com/
1•AbduNebu•1h ago•0 comments

Trump says America should move on from Epstein – it may not be that easy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4gj71z0m0o
7•tempodox•1h ago•4 comments

Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

https://github.com/salva-imm/tiny-clippy
1•salvadorda656•1h ago•0 comments

LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMQbsOTX-o
1•adityaathalye•1h ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-moves-deport-5-year-old-detained-minnesota-2026-02-06/
9•petethomas•1h ago•3 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-embassy-mcdonalds-restaurants-austria-hotline-americans-consular-...
2•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid Formatter – CLI and library to auto-format Mermaid diagrams

https://github.com/chenyanchen/mermaid-formatter
1•astm•1h ago•0 comments

RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

https://h3manth.com/scribe/rfcs-vs-readmes/
3•init0•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Every word classifying intellcutual disability has been repurposed as an insult

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy
2•manlymuppet•4mo ago

Comments

manlymuppet•4mo ago
All of these formerly technical terms have become re-used to the point of no return. I don't know if these are actually all the technical terms for intellectual disability, but it's an interesting evolution of language nonetheless.

Further reading on the "euphemism treadmill" - a term for this kind of thing. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euphemism_treadmill

al_borland•4mo ago
This is why constantly trying to come up with new words that aren’t offensive is fool’s errand. There will always be people looking to comment on someone’s intelligence in a negative way. If people find the act of doing that offensive, the word choice really doesn’t matter. Making up new words every few years just creates new words for people to use in demeaning ways.
necovek•4mo ago
The title is misleading, just like the comment from the submitter: "Mongoloian idiocy" inappropriatelly suggests Down's Syndrome has something to do with Mongols, whereas early researchers thought people with Down's resembled Mongol faces.

So while one could apply the comment to the term-treadmill on "idiot", "retard", "moron", etc, the article has no support for it and is a case of inappropriate name in the first place.