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The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/may/02/what-happens-when-deaths-outnumber-births
8•rwmj•1h ago

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lotsofpulp•39m ago
I like how there is a decline in the total fertility rate from 2012 to 2023, and the ONS decides to assume the decline will stop and the TFR will plateau starting 2026.
bayarearefugee•29m ago
These demographic trends, in the west at least, will continue until we solve wealth inequality which we seemingly aren't going to do until there is eventually violent revolt.
mc32•21m ago
I doubt it. Of do we’d see the supermajority wealthy people having lots of kids. As it is now the people most apt to reproduce are in the lower strata of the economy.

Nonlinearities in Vacuum Tubes, Bipolar and, Field-Effect Transistors(2024)

https://till.com/articles/devicedistortion/
1•rolph•17s ago•0 comments

AI Pointer from DeepMind

https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/
1•devhouse•53s ago•0 comments

I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/28/29-years-solitary-confinement-robert-king
1•downbad_•1m ago•0 comments

New troubles at Mercor: Infighting and 'inhumane working conditions'

https://sf.gazetteer.co/new-troubles-at-mercor-infighting-face-time-slavery-and-inhumane-working-...
1•cdrnsf•2m ago•0 comments

Quiet Lines – an AI journal for anxious thoughts

https://aijournal.store
1•RedKoala86•3m ago•0 comments

Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence – Coming Fall 2026 – Googlebook

https://googlebook.google/
2•tambourine_man•3m ago•1 comments

Your Coding agent is burning context you will never get back

https://empirical.gauzza.com/blog/coding-agent-context-savings-coding-agent-context-savings-22-45...
1•stevendeluth•3m ago•0 comments

EU law bestows 6M more Firefox users upon us, Moz says

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/12/eu-law-bestows-6m-more-firefox-users-upon-us-moz-...
1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

Canada's Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year's Surveillance Nightmare

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillanc...
2•Brajeshwar•5m ago•0 comments

FairyFuse: Multiplication-Free LLM Inference on CPUs via Fused Ternary Kernels

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20913
1•PaulHoule•5m ago•0 comments

My Agentic Engineering Scorecard

https://www.meadow-notes.com/sites/c47n6bf12xga-agentic-engineering-scorecard-vGbD0bq/sites/aes/a...
1•gmccreight2•6m ago•1 comments

Is the AI genie stuck in a bottleneck?

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2026/05/07/is-the-ai-genie-stuck-in-a-bottleneck
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•6m ago•0 comments

Intercom 2

https://www.intercom.com/intercom2
1•Garbage•7m ago•0 comments

Piss Pot Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Pot_Island
1•arbuge•7m ago•0 comments

CheckSync: Transparent Checkpointing for Go Applications (2021) [pdf]

https://web.archive.org/web/20220929011357/https://nickaashoek.gitlab.io/writeups/meng.pdf
1•w3nnady•8m ago•0 comments

Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5M biomedical papers

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00603-3/fulltext
1•gjuggler•10m ago•0 comments

"I just find AI to be creatively soulless."

https://www.theverge.com/games/928668/i-just-find-ai-to-be-creatively-soulless
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•10m ago•0 comments

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=37.%20Pixter
2•birdculture•13m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT Helped Me Achieve a New Personal Best in the Marathon

https://www.teesche.com/blog/how_chatgpt_helped_me_achieve_a_new_personal_best_in_the_marathon
2•speckx•14m ago•0 comments

My glioblastoma-assisted research work

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4206-3283
1•fredokun•14m ago•1 comments

Moving 20 apps off of React in a Day, pixel for pixel

https://c5r.medium.com/moving-20-apps-off-of-react-in-a-day-7bcb8bbc380e
1•caliChander•15m ago•0 comments

The room where it happens

https://certiv.ai/blog/the-room-where-it-happens/
1•azhenley•15m ago•0 comments

Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285
2•smartmic•16m ago•0 comments

AI agents that pay their own way – HTTP 402 and USDC on Base

https://x402.coinopai.com/
1•agenticbotbot•18m ago•0 comments

Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways

https://vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/refl_enum_to_string.html
1•SuperV1234•18m ago•0 comments

User reports show problems with Spotify

https://downdetector.ca/status/spotify/
3•uncognic•18m ago•1 comments

Organize your photos by people

https://amrshawky.com/posts/what-is-picpocket/
1•amr_shawky•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kplane – Isolated cloud environments for AI agents

https://www.kplane.dev/
1•lexokoh•22m ago•0 comments

Why do tubes sound different than transistors?

https://allforturntables.com/2023/10/23/why-do-tubes-sound-different-than-transistors/
2•rolph•22m ago•0 comments

Is This Why Science Advances One Funeral at a Time?

https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650
1•Brajeshwar•24m ago•0 comments