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Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
1•Willingham•4m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•5m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•10m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
1•mooreds•11m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•13m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•18m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•20m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•20m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•20m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•22m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•22m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•29m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
3•dragandj•30m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•31m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•32m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•33m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•34m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•36m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•36m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•37m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•38m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•40m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•40m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•41m ago•0 comments

Wellness Hotels Discovery Application

https://aurio.place/
1•cherrylinedev•42m ago•1 comments

NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/03/nasa-delays-moon-rocket-launch-month-fuel-leaks-a...
2•mooreds•43m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The Plain Text Manifesto

http://plaintextmanifesto.eu
4•nickyisonline•2mo ago

Comments

AlecSchueler•2mo ago
They talk about the waste of computing cycles but then deliver their message with an AI generated website?
mdlxxv•2mo 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•2mo 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.