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100 Years to Solve an Integral (2020)

https://liorsinai.github.io/mathematics/2020/08/27/secant-mercator.html
63•blobcode•3h ago•7 comments

Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052
67•radeeyate•4h ago•25 comments

Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner

https://github.com/PiLiDAR/PiLiDAR
387•Venn1•11h ago•112 comments

Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials

https://github.com/The-Pocket/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge
220•zh2408•9h ago•40 comments

Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

https://whichyr.com/
16•trymas•2d ago•3 comments

Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust

https://hoverbear.org/blog/rust-state-machine-pattern/
35•PaulHoule•4h ago•10 comments

Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Era-of-Experience%20/The%20Era%20of%20Experience%20Paper.pdf
49•Siah•4h ago•6 comments

Layered Design in Go

https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/go_layered_design/
30•misonic•4h ago•2 comments

Librarians are dangerous

https://bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians-are-dangerous
457•mooreds•15h ago•442 comments

The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/
316•todsacerdoti•11h ago•180 comments

A unique sound alleviates motion sickness

https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result-en/2025/04/20250408-01.html
114•miles•7h ago•43 comments

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd517z87o
222•gmays•2d ago•227 comments

Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/android-phones-will-soon-reboot-themselves-after-sitting-unused-for-3-days/
309•namanyayg•18h ago•244 comments

Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices
394•sqs•19h ago•179 comments

Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results

https://timsh.org/everyone-knows-your-location-part-2-try-it-yourself/
97•mtlynch•2d ago•10 comments

Ssl.com: DCV bypass and issue fake certificates for any MX hostname

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1961406
179•xPaw•11h ago•45 comments

Electromagnetism as a Purely Geometric Theory

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2987/1/012001
84•andyjohnson0•9h ago•26 comments

The Icelandic Voting System (2024)

https://smarimccarthy.is/posts/2024-11-25-voting-system/
88•alexharri•11h ago•65 comments

Don't force your kids to do math

https://blog.avocados.ovh/posts/how-to-force-your-kids-to-do-math/
118•happycats•12h ago•94 comments

Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generation

https://lllyasviel.github.io/frame_pack_gitpage/
234•GaggiX•17h ago•26 comments

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/
315•coloneltcb•1w ago•94 comments

Translate Fortran to C++ with AI and RAG

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/0125-llm-translation
29•LosAlamosNerd•3d ago•27 comments

The Art of Assembly Language (2010)

https://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.com/Linux/HTML/AoATOC.html
94•ibobev•9h ago•14 comments

An image of the Australian desert illuminates satellite pollution

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/a-stunning-image-of-the-australian-desert-illuminates-the-growing-problem-of-satellite-pollution/
98•surprisetalk•13h ago•64 comments

Eccfrog512ck2: An Enhanced 512-Bit Weierstrass Elliptic Curve [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09584
7•bikenaga•3d ago•0 comments

Calypsi: A series of C compiler and assembly language cross compiler tool chains

https://github.com/hth313/Calypsi-tool-chains
18•doener•3d ago•2 comments

Monsky's Theorem

https://mathmondays.com/monskys-theorem
36•hyperbrainer•9h ago•11 comments

Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning [pdf]

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pdf
47•rochoa•9h ago•6 comments

Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work

https://addyo.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-is-not-an-excuse-for
188•saikatsg•10h ago•139 comments

Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine

https://philwip.com/2025/04/14/galaxian-3-project-revival/
204•countrymile•21h ago•45 comments
Open in hackernews

British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/17/british-rebellion-against-roman-legions-caused-by-drought-research-finds
19•pseudolus•2d ago

Comments

londons_explore•3h ago
Almost without fail, every fall of a government is caused by external invasion or lack of food/water.

All other issues people will complain about, but never act on en-mass.

sigwinch•2h ago
Syria 2006-2011, Ukraine next year
londons_explore•2h ago
> The unrest coincided with the most intense drought ever recorded in Syria, which lasted from 2006 to 2011 and resulted in widespread crop failure,

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

JSteph22•2h ago
The fall of the government only occurred 14 years after the end of that drought though...
plasmatix•1h ago
Depends which part of Syria we're talking about.
hollerith•2h ago
Counterexamples: fall of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Fourth Republic in France in 1954, English Civil War and the English royal restoration a few decades later.
marcosdumay•2h ago
Well, I guess the GP should have added "the government stupidly mass-murdering its citizens at random" to the other 3 causes.

About the fall of the Soviet Union, a lot of it was caused by each one of the GP's factors and the mass-murdering. You seem to want a clear case with a well defined "fall", but theirs wasn't it (like any supranacional empire).