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East Germany balloon escape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape
402•robertvc•12h ago•140 comments

Cloudflare acquires Astro

https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
767•todotask2•15h ago•345 comments

High-Level Is the Goal

https://bvisness.me/high-level/
63•tobr•1d ago•17 comments

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux2-klein-towards-interactive-visual-intelligence
76•GaggiX•6h ago•23 comments

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
374•jaas•14h ago•220 comments

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/
474•embedding-shape•15h ago•197 comments

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs
175•vitaelabitur•1d ago•32 comments

Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

https://git.sr.ht/~willowf/beebo/
13•anon25783•3d ago•0 comments

IKEA for Software

https://tommaso-girotto.co/blog/an-ikea-for-software
32•tgirotto•4d ago•9 comments

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/net-ntlmv1-deprecation-rainbow-tables
101•linolevan•8h ago•61 comments

Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TDIAObsqcs
4•basilikum•6d ago•2 comments

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/m...
183•cebert•12h ago•241 comments

Lock-Picking Robot

https://github.com/etinaude/Lock-Picking-Robot
286•p44v9n•4d ago•125 comments

Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video/2026/01/06/experts-warn-of-growing-parrot-crisis-in-canada/
35•debo_•4d ago•8 comments

STFU

https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu
742•tanelpoder•12h ago•479 comments

Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/install-md-standard-for-llm-executable-installation
51•npmipg•7h ago•68 comments

Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC

https://neodyme.io/en/blog/drone_hacking_part_1/
9•tripdout•3h ago•0 comments

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/
245•tosh•18h ago•91 comments

Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)

https://raulnegron.me/2025/wii-news-pr/
76•todsacerdoti•16h ago•19 comments

Reading across books with Claude Code

https://pieterma.es/syntopic-reading-claude/
81•gmays•10h ago•22 comments

Local-only Marstek Venus e-battery integration with Home Assistant

https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2026-01-11_marstek-battery-homeassistant/
10•Helmut10001•23h ago•0 comments

Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity

https://github.com/trasta298/keifu
22•indigodaddy•5h ago•5 comments

HTTP RateLimit Headers

https://dotat.at/@/2026-01-13-http-ratelimit.html
46•zdw•2d ago•13 comments

Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843883
67•giuliomagnifico•11h ago•64 comments

Elasticsearch was never a database

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-was-never-a-database
116•jamesgresql•5d ago•83 comments

The five orders of ignorance (2000)

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-five-orders-of-ignorance/
42•svilen_dobrev•4d ago•14 comments

Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers

https://www.seangoedecke.com/gas-and-ralph/
54•lalitmaganti•2h ago•14 comments

Zep AI (Agent Context Engineering, YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zep-ai/jobs/
1•roseway4•12h ago

Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains

https://www.shimmer.care/indy-redirect
71•christalwang•13h ago•77 comments

Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html
334•bookofjoe•16h ago•164 comments
Open in hackernews

Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-college-enrollment-cliff/
34•toomuchtodo•3h ago

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toomuchtodo•3h ago
https://archive.today/m9Jyf

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taurath•2h ago
Maybe someday there will be more attention paid to adults. Every aspect of college seems built for 18 year olds.
helterskelter•1h ago
Honestly I would love to go back to college for studying $THING. And then I think about the kids there and decide I'd rather stay away. That and the stupid shit schools do to make sure you aren't using AI.

No thanks, I'd rather watch lectures on YouTube and go to the library. I don't need any diploma, I only want enrichment.

nullc•1h ago
> That and the stupid shit schools do to make sure you aren't using AI.

What makes you think they care? https://youtu.be/JcQPAZP7-sE?t=881

I've been following a conman fantisist for a number of years and of late he's gone full LLM powered and has been churning out graduate degrees from respectable sounding places. Years ago he merely claimed to have varrious degrees, but now with the help of chatgpt he's just pumping them out.

While I'm sure a few places care many very clearly don't.

vjvjvjvjghv•1h ago
I often think it would cool to maybe work for 5 years and then spend 1 year at college deepening or broadening knowledge. I would love that rhythm.
DANmode•53m ago
Not every college.

Especially if all of the 18 year olds disappeared or were diluted by olds.

nradov•2h ago
"Peak College" has passed. The first and second tier colleges will still do fine but many of the third tier colleges are doomed. They'll have to reinvent themselves as trade schools or corporate training centers or something if they want to survive. The job market for tenure track professors will get even tougher.
techblueberry•2h ago
Maybe third tier colleges can start rebranding and advertising the “Animal House Experience”
esafak•2h ago
Hasn't that experience been long over? Recent generations are much tamer.
rangestransform•1h ago
It’ll be impossible to replicate the college experience without some kind of shared stressor like classes and exams. It’s the same deal in military training where collective suffering is used to instill a sense of camaraderie amongst recruits from various places and backgrounds.
wkat4242•44m ago
I never felt that, we spent a lot more time partying than stressing about exams.

I have not really made lifetime friends there either but I'm not a team player. If I were in the military everyone would hate me (like they did when I was forced to play team sports at school).

kelseyfrog•30m ago
We really need to have alternate institutions that perform the same social function. It's too bad secret societies with mystic rites don't really exist anymore.
tayo42•18m ago
This probably depends on what you mean by college experience. I think I was to fucked up the whole time to be stressed by classes. Until I got kicked out.
laughing_man•32m ago
I like it, but can you imagine the liability issues with that business plan?
dfajgljsldkjag•2h ago
It is crazy to see how much the birth rates dropped after the recession and how that is finally hurting colleges. I guess a lot of the smaller schools will just have to close if they cannot find enough students to enroll.
lotsofpulp•2h ago
Technically, the number of high school graduates dropping wouldn’t have affected colleges yet if enrollment rates kept going up, but they have also declined (only a couple percent for now, but I bet that trend continues).

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cpb/college-enrol...

Also, seeing only 40% of high school graduates going to college is a wake up call to how much I don’t interact with people outside my bubble, because I don’t know anyone whose kids didn’t go to college in the last 20 years.

debo_•1h ago
Pretty soon we'll call trying to have children "giving it the old college try."
mixmastamyk•1h ago
Maybe they’ll you know, lower their prices so more people can afford it. Haha.
synergy20•1h ago
Surprised because I learned today UT Austin had so many applications(100K) that they can only issue 25% admissions and had to put off the rest 75% for one extra month. It made me feel college is still "crowded" to me.
alephnerd•52m ago
"Good" universities (ie. public and private programs with either regional or national prestige) remain in demand. The issue is there are hundreds of no-name private and public programs that are becoming strapped of students.

It's hard to make a case to attend Western Illinois University or St Mary's College versus going to community college and transferring to your state flagship (eg. Grangier Guarantee [0] and TAG [1] respectively) or an Ivy or Ivy Tier (eg. NYU's CCTOP [2])

This is what TFA talks about as well.

[0] - https://grainger.illinois.edu/admissions/undergraduate/pathw...

[1] - https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...

[2] - https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/how-...

themafia•1h ago
The US birth rate was steady from 1990 to 2010.

I also have no idea how you can legitimately claim to predict the birth rate. There is a trend to be sure but it's driven by several factors so this "heartwrenching" prognostication is ridiculous.

Meanwhile consider the value of a degree over the past 30 years. Colleges got sloppy and relied on the largess of the student loan program and not any genuine forward looking management, the degrees became lower quality, and the value to a graduate plummeted. Plus the Internet exists and has wide penetration throughout the US.

This is lame misguided fear mongering apologia. On brand for Bloomberg.

hackable_sand•31m ago
I was about to say the same with less accuracy.

Birthrates going up or down is not a crisis. The pathological desire for slave labor and cannon fodder, that is a crisis.

secstate•5m ago
What source? The US birth rate was absolutely not steady from 1990 to 2010 according to the OECD [0]. Fear mongering aside, surely the prospect of a population failing to birth enough new lives to replace the ones that die, as happened in France last year, seems like a bad thing for a capitalist system that depends on growth uber alles. AI and efficiency be damned, fewer people buy fewer things.

0: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/society-at-a-glance-202...

JPKab•18m ago
I recently moved to a rural home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

I socialize with a bunch of current and former college professors, and they've all remarked on this phenomenon for nearby UVA and Virginia Tech. Interestingly, the one university in the area that is not impacted is the Christian fundamentalist Liberty University. The demographic that attends that school come from a high birth rate subculture. BYU is also not having an issue.

In fact, Liberty has had to expand. I'm not a fan of religious education, but I also think that ALL university tuitions are vastly overpriced to fund the absurdly overpaid and bloated armies of administrators. This includes my alma mater Virginia Tech.