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The Plain Text Manifesto

http://plaintextmanifesto.eu
4•nickyisonline•1h ago

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AlecSchueler•1h ago
They talk about the waste of computing cycles but then deliver their message with an AI generated website?
mdlxxv•35m ago
While I certainly agree with the sentiment, this would only work in an ideal world, or in a small community like the early Web was. In the world we all live in, people, companies and governments deceive, stalk and steal, and you can be bullied, ostracized, fired, fined, jailed or even killed just for something you wrote.
akoboldfrying•34m ago
I'm pretty sure this is a joke, and I'm a fool for taking the bait, but just in case it's not:

Basically everything on this page is bogus.

Encryption doesn't affect cacheability at all. If a large fraction of data transmitted across the internet used broadcasting or multicasting, then network bandwidth could be conserved by only encrypting and transferring one stream instead of many -- but almost no data is transmitted this way, because having to coordinate transfers with other users is inconvenient.

Does encryption for privacy add CPU cycles and thus use energy? Yes, asymmetric encryption (needed for private channels like https) is slow and expensive, which is why the first thing all asymmetric encryption algorithms do is agree on a shared key and switch to using it for symmetric encryption -- which is blazing fast and often implemented in hardware.

But doesn't this more efficient form of encryption nevertheless burn more energy (which BTW is not measured in watts) than not encrypting a byte of data at all? Yes it does -- probably around 0.1% of the energy required to compute which pixels should be illuminated to display that byte on a modern monitor.

Daisy AI

https://daisi.ai/
1•bellamoon544•52s ago•1 comments

4k Free N8n Workflows in One Repo

https://github.com/Zie619/n8n-workflows
1•bakigul•55s ago•0 comments

Big Tech's Soaring Profits Have an Ugly Underside: OpenAI's Losses

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-techs-soaring-profits-have-an-ugly-underside-openais-losses-fe7e3184
1•zerosizedweasle•1m ago•0 comments

Yard-Lint: Keep Your Ruby Documentation Solid

https://mensfeld.pl/2025/11/yard-lint-ruby-documentation-linter/
1•phoronixrly•2m ago•0 comments

The Great Stagnation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Stagnation
1•throw0101c•2m ago•1 comments

I spent $638 on AI coding agents in 6 weeks.

1•nthypes•4m ago•0 comments

How to stop having FOMO as a curious engineer: hold a thread

https://www.yacinemahdid.com/p/how-to-stop-having-fomo-as-a-curious
1•sebg•4m ago•0 comments

Math Education: What If We Started with Sets and Groups Instead of Numbers?

https://d1gesto.blogspot.com/2025/11/math-education-what-if-we-started-with.html
1•voxleone•4m ago•0 comments

The McNamara/Quantitative Fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
1•embedding-shape•4m ago•0 comments

Animating CSS width or height no longer force a Main Thread animation

https://www.bram.us/2025/11/13/animating-css-width-or-height-no-longer-force-a-main-thread-animat...
1•Woods369•5m ago•0 comments

Hadsf: Aspect Aware Semantic Control for Explainable Recommendation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26994
1•PaulHoule•6m ago•0 comments

What happens when our self-reliance relies on technological providers [pdf]

https://pub.yctct.com/asymmetry.pdf
1•louismerlin•6m ago•0 comments

Computational Thinking [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15110-s13/Wing06-ct.pdf
1•sebg•7m ago•0 comments

Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents

https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-additional-epstein-estate-docume...
1•DyslexicAtheist•8m ago•0 comments

Problem Discovery for Startup

1•ayushsinghal•9m ago•0 comments

Things I wished more developers knew about databases

https://rakyll.medium.com/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78
3•fanf2•13m ago•0 comments

Embryo Corp Took the First Step Toward Creating Real Unicorns

https://amateurgods.substack.com/p/how-embryo-corp-took-the-first-step
1•sebg•16m ago•0 comments

Germs and the big lie: unmasking the root cause of heart disease – Dr Paul Mason [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdMpkUyF2BU
1•guerby•16m ago•0 comments

Loosely, yet Tightly Coupled

https://www.hacklewayne.com/accidentally-coupled-the-worst-coupling-by-loose-coupling
1•BinaryIgor•18m ago•0 comments

EU moves to bar China from parts of Horizon Europe

https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-horizon-2020-2025-11-eu-moves-to-bar-chin...
1•ironyman•18m ago•0 comments

Flying with whales: Drones are remaking marine mammal research

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2025/drones-transform-whale-research
2•Brajeshwar•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: I forgot to remove a swear word from a PR and it got merged. What now?

2•agluszak•18m ago•4 comments

Developer Tier for Aiven for PostgreSQL Services

https://aiven.io/blog/new-developer-tier-for-aiven-for-postgres
2•alanfranz•22m ago•0 comments

The magic of the world's rarest blood type

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251111-the-magic-of-the-worlds-rarest-blood-type
3•breve•22m ago•0 comments

Should I focus on improving my product or acquiring new users?

https://qoery.com
2•SamTinnerholm•24m ago•3 comments

Tired of endless scrolling? Stake money, less screen time, get payed back

https://uwsoftware.be/blackout
3•dolfje•25m ago•0 comments

Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers

https://www.404media.co/metas-ray-ban-glasses-users-film-and-harass-massage-parlor-workers/
1•surprisetalk•25m ago•0 comments

Foliated Distance Fields [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AGeLuO5WdY
1•surprisetalk•25m ago•0 comments

Antipope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope
1•surprisetalk•26m ago•0 comments

Swipebar. Toggle on desktop, swipe on mobile

https://swipe-bar.netlify.app/
2•luciodale•28m ago•1 comments