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The shadows lurking in the equations

https://gods.art/articles/equation_shadows.html
116•calebm•2h ago•32 comments

An eBPF Loophole: Using XDP for Egress Traffic

https://loopholelabs.io/blog/xdp-for-egress-traffic
106•loopholelabs•1d ago•39 comments

The Islamic, Arab Genocide in Sudan which the world ignores

https://europeantimes.org/the-islamic-arab-genocide-in-sudan-which-the-world-ignores/
9•myth_drannon•16m ago•0 comments

Learning from failure to tackle hard problems

https://blog.ml.cmu.edu/2025/10/27/learning-from-failure-to-tackle-extremely-hard-problems/
33•djoldman•5d ago•4 comments

A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024)

https://seemann.io/posts/2024-10-26---p2p-quic/
25•mooreds•2h ago•11 comments

Mr TIFF

https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
858•speckx•17h ago•117 comments

iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/05/ios-26-2-third-party-app-stores-japan/
175•tosh•3h ago•113 comments

Removing XSLT for a more secure browser

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-xslt
70•justin-reeves•2h ago•84 comments

SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python

https://antocuni.eu/2025/10/29/inside-spy-part-1-motivations-and-goals/
159•og_kalu•6d ago•64 comments

The grim truth behind the Pied Piper (2020)

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200902-the-grim-truth-behind-the-pied-piper
49•Anon84•4h ago•46 comments

Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car

https://www.caricecars.com/
56•RubenvanE•2h ago•48 comments

Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?

74•urnicus•2h ago•78 comments

Founder in Residence at Woz (San Francisco)

1•bcollins34•4h ago

Radiant Computer

https://radiant.computer
87•beardicus•3h ago•66 comments

Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk

https://noelrappin.com/blog/2025/11/ruby-and-its-neighbors-smalltalk/
4•jrochkind1•1h ago•0 comments

UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport

https://avherald.com/h?article=52f5748f&opt=0
269•jnsaff2•17h ago•252 comments

Blue Prince (1989)

https://novalis.org/blog/2025-10-27-blue-prince-1989.html
32•luu•1w ago•21 comments

Parsing Chemistry

https://re.factorcode.org/2025/10/parsing-chemistry.html
32•kencausey•1w ago•11 comments

RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization

https://riscv.org/blog/risc-v-jtc1-pas-submitter/
210•jrepinc•6d ago•79 comments

Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python

https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
180•lwhsiao•13h ago•102 comments

Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX

https://press.asus.com/news/press-releases/asus-proart-display-8k-pa32kcx-availability/
134•Roachma•1w ago•207 comments

Stack walking: space and time trade-offs

https://maskray.me/blog/2025-10-26-stack-walking-space-and-time-trade-offs
17•ingve•1w ago•0 comments

Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/microsoft-cant-keep-eu-data-safe-from-us-a...
45•Mossy9•2h ago•6 comments

Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

https://github.com/pythops/bluetui
223•birdculture•17h ago•83 comments

Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02824
29•belter•1h ago•1 comments

NY smartphone ban has made lunch loud again

https://gothamist.com/news/ny-smartphone-ban-has-made-lunch-loud-again
81•hrldcpr•3h ago•39 comments

Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/apple-talks-to-me-about-vision-pro-personas-where-is-our-virt...
186•dmarcos•6d ago•84 comments

Intervaltree with Rust Back End

https://github.com/Athe-kunal/intervaltree_rs
37•athekunal•3d ago•11 comments

Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc.

https://github.com/zserge/grayskull
151•gurjeet•18h ago•13 comments

Moving tables across PostgreSQL instances

https://ananthakumaran.in/2025/11/02/moving-tables-across-postgres-instances.html
52•ananthakumaran•3d ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

NY smartphone ban has made lunch loud again

https://gothamist.com/news/ny-smartphone-ban-has-made-lunch-loud-again
81•hrldcpr•3h ago

Comments

everdrive•2h ago
Hopefully society continues to develop healthy norms with regard to this sort of technology. Collectively it's taken us a while, but I think people generally are starting to get the picture. Smartphones are bad in a wide variety of ways, but even when people miss some of the nuance I think we can make progress regarding the minimization of their usage.
causal•2h ago
Hopefully as a society we can also learn the lesson that tech companies cannot be trusted to deliver what's best for us.
chronciger•57m ago
> Hopefully as a society we can also learn the lesson that tech companies cannot be trusted to deliver what's best for us.

If society were ignorant, then it’s forgivable. But society is not ignorant.

We know tech companies deliver things bad for us (lies and manipulation).

And we knowingly choose it, over the good (truth).

9rx•24m ago
Why would anyone expect them to deliver what is best for us when the purpose of a company is to deliver what others want?
thinkingtoilet•2h ago
Here in MA there is a 'bell to bell' phone ban bill in the works. I'm very happy we're letting kids be kids again. There is no need for a phone during the school day.
amelius•31m ago
Some people will slap a label like "liberal" on "using my smartphone whenever the hell I want". And then people will think that's how it should be.
rootusrootus•1m ago
[delayed]
causal•2h ago
It makes me so sad that it's possible for technology to steal the need to talk and play, even from our youth. If you have little kids you know how frantically they NEED to yap and play. I hold such horror for anything that would sap such life away.
AndrewDucker•2h ago
It varies a lot. My kids will run around and play given the opportunity, but when they arrive home at 6pm from after-school club, completely exhausted, I think it's fair that they get to collapse in front of a screen for a bit.
IAmBroom•1h ago
For my generation (just post-Boomer), it was the TV.

For my parents, it was the radio.

For their parents, reading out loud for everyone to enjoy ("Mr. Dickens has published another episode of The Pickwick Papers!"), or playing instruments.

AndrewDucker•1h ago
Yup. I'm Gen X (1972), and I'd read a book, watch TV, or (once we hit the mid-80s) I had a home computer.
technothrasher•1h ago
I spent much of my free childhood hours from about 1976 to 1988 in front of a computer screen. But I was certainly not in the mainstream.
AndrewDucker•56m ago
I don't think the mainstream people end up on HN.
bix6•30m ago
Music is medicine. I’ve been taking guitar for a few years now and it’s pure joy.
2OEH8eoCRo0•40m ago
Even then, individual screens is isolating.

Collapsing in front of the TV with the family was still quality time enjoying something together.

mister_mort•16m ago
For a lot of young people the screen is social - the equivalent of the long after-school phonecalls from the before times. Be it games or just Discord, it's still comms.
HeinzStuckeIt•2m ago
The screen is also a continual, addictive flow of short video clips that are often designed to sell product, stoke FOMO, make people feel inadequate about beauty, etc.

Observe young people using their phones, and you can see the social use is often just occasionally switching from TikTok to a chat app, dashing off a one-line message, and then going right back to TikTok. Big difference from having actual long phone conversations with friends after school.

stronglikedan•6m ago
Individual screens let parents get some peace and quiet for a while. As with everything, moderation is the key, not abstention.
brainzap•2h ago
The play-based childhood is over; the phone-based childhood is here.
tyleo•1h ago
It’s here but do we think it’s better? Should it stay?

As a society we do get to answer these questions.

LeifCarrotson•55m ago
As a society we've proven over and over again that we're unable to solve these problems that require coordination against greed. We've pulled the smartphone out of Pandora's box.

There's a 500B industry selling the phones, 2.5 trillion selling telecom services, trillions more selling social media, and most of the economy involves selling their products over the internet. Those are some HUGE incentives to maintain the status quo, or get people even more addicted yet.

I don't think our society is capable of answering that question and starting a Dune-style "Butlerian Jihad" and destroying all machines-that-think.

naIak•48m ago
No, the issue is that most parents don’t want to do any parenting. There’s a product that makes children shut up, of course it’s selling out.
Cthulhu_•1h ago
Not universally though, the local skate park and sports fields see plenty of activity.
chronciger•58m ago
> Not universally though, the local skate park and sports fields see plenty of activity.

Sure if “at least one match” means activity.

Back in the day, you couldn’t find parking for several blocks radius around every public sports field.

darrylb42•29m ago
Just until they are shutdown to put in pickleball for retirees.
hrimfaxi•1h ago
Thankfully that state is far from evenly-distributed.
bfkwlfkjf•1h ago
The school president is 17?
IAmBroom•1h ago
Yes, the president of the student-elected body of mostly-powerless "school government."
jes5199•1h ago
it’s an america thing
hrimfaxi•49m ago
Other countries don't have prefects? Wikipedia seems to indicate the phenomenon is worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_president

cramcgrab•1h ago
No more kids cameras in the classroom
jollyllama•1h ago
I don't think smartphones should be allowed in schools but as someone who was dumbfounded by the lunchtime cacophony of my peers, I wouldn't lead with that as a triumph.
browningstreet•1h ago
Those of us who hate the noise of boisterous social conversation are the outliers, but it is a sign of their healthy social environment. I personally was always able to find a quiet spot.

My early dinner, empty restaurant habit is the adult persistence of my teenage preferences, and I don't expect my personal tolerance to be their norm.

cmxch•46m ago
Tech will prevail on the long term, even with these misguided bans.
sidewndr46•1h ago
This is really funny for me to read because as a kid we were prohibited from having telecommunications devices while at school entirely. We were also prohibited from speaking during lunchtime. Our lunch was most definitely not loud.
throwup238•1h ago
You can always tell a Milford man.
jabroni_salad•58m ago
When I was in elementary school one of the teachers would hold a decibel meter and subtract minutes off of recess if we got above a whispered conversation.
bluGill•40m ago
In class that is good. However at lunch kids should be talking to other kids. I know many teachers/schools are control freaks and so they would do such things, but it was always evil.
tootie•42m ago
So I have eye witness accounts of this lunchroom saying that's not true. The lunchroom was deafeningly loud before the ban.

This school is also a magnet school with only high-performing kids who did not suffer from distraction problems and who actively made use of phones during class for classwork.