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The most friendless place on Earth

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/the-most-friendless-place-on-earth
10•andsoitis•3h ago

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nephihaha•2h ago
Paywalled.
swampangel•2h ago
https://archive.ph/spMzH
sputknick•55m ago
Tl;dr Madagascar
thunderbong•27m ago
The article just puts poverty as a cause of loneliness. But I'm sure there are other factors which also add to it. Culture, shared rituals?

One of the reasons, mentioned in the article, seems to be family members moving away looking for employment.

The definition of loneliness used is - the painful mismatch between expectations of social connection and what happens in reality.

But I'm not sure if people in the survey are also including familial connections there? Would this change between societies of large families versus small?

I just feel that although poverty might be a major cause, there might be other reasons s well?

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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413•47thpresident•7h ago•98 comments

A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/03/19/
24•ibobev•2h ago•2 comments

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop/
290•todsacerdoti•3h ago•216 comments

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/
276•simonw•5h ago•50 comments

Proving Liveness with TLA

https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2026/01/01/tla-liveness/
14•ibobev•2h ago•0 comments

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/
281•Brajeshwar•12h ago•576 comments

Clicks Communicator

https://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicator
271•microflash•10h ago•194 comments

FracturedJson

https://github.com/j-brooke/FracturedJson/wiki
522•PretzelFisch•14h ago•139 comments

Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second

https://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/
54•Loeffelmann•3h ago•32 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

257•whoishiring•11h ago•167 comments

Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal

https://unixv4.dev/
130•pjmlp•8h ago•57 comments

Linux kernel security work

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2026/01/02/linux-kernel-security-work/
59•chmaynard•5h ago•29 comments

Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsoft-quietly-kills-official-way-to-activate-windows-1110-...
140•josephcsible•3h ago•71 comments

Blob Opera, Community Edition

https://opera.addy.ie
15•padolsey•1w ago•2 comments

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html
126•sethbannon•9h ago•179 comments

The PGP Problem (2019)

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/#the-answers
18•croemer•5d ago•21 comments

TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA

https://github.com/Alanma23/tinytinyTPU-co
90•Xenograph•8h ago•39 comments

Chain Flinger

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-kinetik-der-kontinua-part-1-introduction
29•roomey•5d ago•7 comments

Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/global_software-engineering_jobs_january_2026/
46•sp1982•5h ago•15 comments

Jank Lang Hit Alpha

https://github.com/jank-lang/jank
122•makemethrowaway•7h ago•21 comments

Rope science, part 11 – practical syntax highlighting (2017)

https://xi-editor.io/docs/rope_science_11.html
5•PaulHoule•1w ago•0 comments

What you need to know before touching a video file

https://gist.github.com/arch1t3cht/b5b9552633567fa7658deee5aec60453/
296•qbow883•6d ago•192 comments

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03
129•ChrisArchitect•11h ago•114 comments

Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html
78•tosh•9h ago•25 comments

Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-einstein-probe-ray-flare-nearby.html
5•wglb•1h ago•1 comments

The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS/required/cas/tridgell96.pdf
96•vortex_ape•10h ago•8 comments

Uxn32: Uxn Emulator for Windows and Wine

https://github.com/randrew/uxn32
38•ibobev•5d ago•3 comments

Blaze: A Dec VT420 (and More) Emulator

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9•doener•2h ago•3 comments

Assorted less(1) tips

https://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/
181•todsacerdoti•14h ago•42 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

93•whoishiring•11h ago•173 comments