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We know that splitting up the MMR vaccine could be dangerous

https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/11/how-we-know-splitting-up-mmr-vaccine-could-be-dangerous/
1•EA-3167•3m ago•0 comments

Nobody Banned Private Rockets in India. That Was the Problem

https://liftoffasia.com/posts/vikram-india-private-rocket/
1•ridiculous_leke•4m ago•0 comments

AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/aop/framewor...
2•Svetlitski•7m ago•0 comments

Lessons learned from the fate of AstraZeneca's drug pipeline

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24833294/
1•brandonb•10m ago•0 comments

Eclipse locator: find the best place to see the eclipse

https://jdlm.info/eclipse-locator/
1•jdleesmiller•10m ago•1 comments

Killed for Inventing, Except He Wasn't

https://www.minid.net/2003/12/9/killed-by-inventing
1•meerita•13m ago•0 comments

Watching Roku's AI channel is like eating from a trough

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/976939/roku-fairground-ai-fast-channel
2•pavel_lishin•14m ago•0 comments

Introducing Unsloth Desktop

https://unsloth.ai/docs/desktop
1•kgwgk•15m ago•0 comments

Elevator Music [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj0ChLVTpaA
1•doener•16m ago•0 comments

Jiffies: The Heartbeat of the Linux Operating System

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/jiffies-the-heartbeat-of-the-linux-operating-system
1•ankitg12•18m ago•0 comments

mmiotic: Latency x-ray for undocumented hardware

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/mmiotic
2•matt_d•19m ago•0 comments

Hoover Dam Is Losing Power as the Colorado River Crisis Deepens

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a73357713/hoover-dam-power-crisis/
1•tortilla•20m ago•0 comments

MonoMap – Minimalist mind mapping app

https://monomap.app/
1•saturn5k•20m ago•0 comments

We use prototyping only for storytelling

https://app.productnow.ai/public/doc/dbxb-jsqz-jven
1•kadhirvelm•21m ago•1 comments

US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-gamer-air-traffic-controllers-faa-recruitment-sean-duffy/
3•shagie•21m ago•0 comments

AI Adoption Is a Myth

https://twitter.com/vasuman/status/2085806422072418632
1•gmays•24m ago•0 comments

To Improve Student Mental Health, University of Michigan Eases Grading

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/university-michigan-grades-freshmen-pass-fail.html
1•ilamont•25m ago•0 comments

How Distressed Are Consumers? Reconciling Credit Card Delinquency Measures

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/08/how-distressed-are-consumers-reconciling-di...
1•jnord•26m ago•0 comments

Dark mode toggles: two states are enough

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-mode-toggles/
1•birdculture•27m ago•0 comments

Chrome Manifest V2 extensions stop working August 31 – what breaks

https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
1•FrontBuffer_FB•28m ago•0 comments

2026 Solar Eclipse Airbnb effect

https://www.airroi.com/blog/eclipse-2026-spain-iceland-airbnb-occupancy
1•airjason•29m ago•0 comments

Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/initial-seeder-on-popular-anime-torrent...
2•debo_•30m ago•0 comments

Do-178B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B
1•gregsadetsky•32m ago•0 comments

GB300 DGX Station: What 748GB of Coherent Memory Buys

https://www.gpupartner.com/blog/gb300-dgx-station-what-748gb-actually-buys
1•Retell15•33m ago•0 comments

A guided tour of Terraform state, hosted modules, and HCL in Pulumi

https://www.pulumi.com/blog/terraform-to-pulumi-cloud-hands-on/
1•cnunciato•33m ago•0 comments

Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax

https://github.com/abhiramasonny/jaithon
1•AbhiramaVS•34m ago•1 comments

The Unseen Delta: Characterizing the Compiler Optimization Landscape

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09530
1•matt_d•34m ago•0 comments

Digital Waste

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4895540/Digital_Waste/
1•debo_•34m ago•1 comments

ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252
7•petethomas•35m ago•0 comments

SecretSpec 0.19: Moving and importing secrets between providers

https://secretspec.dev/blog/secretspec-0-19-moving-and-importing-secrets-between-providers/
1•domenkozar•35m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

University of Michigan to switch to pass/fail grades for first-semester students

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/university-of-michigan-pass-fail-grading-system
2•bookofjoe•57m ago

Comments

elmer2•56m ago
Nice. It just means more partying.
toomuchtodo•52m ago
As if the grades mattered in the first place. Credentials are pass/fail, employers tick a box and it is more rare than not they care about your GPA, or verify it for that matter.
hungryhobbit•22m ago
I had all pass/fail classes my entire college career ... with the caveat that I also got narrative evaluations. For a computer science class those might be like six lines (Homework: 85%, First test: 78%, etc.). For more Liberal Arts classes I would usually get several paragraphs, talking about the essays I wrote and how good they were and such.

IT WAS INCREDIBLE: I did not slack off in college, although I did stress a little less because I was't as worried about grades. But, I knew I was getting narrative evals, and wanted to be able to show them to a future employer, so I still did my best in all my courses.

Ultimately ... none of it mattered: my first employer didn't even look at my evals, and every employer after didn't care. So I got great, far more detailed (vs. other colleges) evaluations, with less overall stress ... and if an employer had wanted to see them, I had way more to show than just grades.

Sadly, I was the very last class to have that option, but (as an Education minor) I strongly feel it's the better pedagogical approach.

Jtsummers•53m ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260250 - From earlier today, still active.