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S‑CURVES a field guide to technology adoption · 1825–2026

https://escurves.com/
29•sapal•4d ago

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vessenes•2h ago
sadly this is so mangled by the clankers that wrote it, it's not helpful.

Neal Stephenson's Anathem imagines a punishment in his dream monastery as a book you have to memorize with subtly incorrect information -- I'm sure reading clanker-interpreted trend charts with random ordering would qualify in his mind.

mkrd•2h ago
Seems to be fully AI generated, so most data is likely wrong and hallucinated
dbxfb•1h ago
dubious numbers and selection/survival bias.

why no tulip S-curve? no crypto "currency" S-curve, just a bunch of hogwash? no AR/VR? no aviation?

citations do not point to specific datasets, just vague places where thousands of datasets can be found.

enos_feedler•1h ago
It feels like this whole site was manufactured to convince us that generative AI is a rocketship right now? While we might be basing a rocketship right now, to draw that line up at this point is total bullshit. the pc is real. the internet is real. the smartphone is real. its hard for me to even wrap my head around how you compare generative AI to these things. At this point I don't think we are far enough time to allow hindsight to let us see what the "thing" is that we should be tracking. Its not "generative ai"
jacques_chester•1h ago
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan

In a shocking twist, the prompter works in VC.

nialse•29m ago
Requesting human attention demands demonstrating human effort[1]. Slop at its worst: obscuring actual insight. The main one being that there are no exponential growth curves, no hockey-sticks, they're all logistic s-curves at most. Sure, there is a lot happening right now, but although technologies such as trains reshaped society, society did not come to only consist of railways.

[1] https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/

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126•zdw•3h ago•43 comments

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/
85•zdw•3h ago•10 comments

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/
241•ridesisapis•2h ago•90 comments

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html
128•LowLevelMahn•5h ago•33 comments

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgresbench
20•saisrirampur•1h ago•2 comments

CSSQuake

https://cssquake.com/
389•msalsas•9h ago•86 comments

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit/pull/249
71•gr4vityWall•3h ago•90 comments

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

https://startupwiki.tech/
89•shpran•4h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

https://github.com/overflowy/make-look-scanned
29•overflowy•2h ago•14 comments

Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing

https://www.argusred.com/cli
47•dk189•6h ago•20 comments

The rise of South Korea’s weapons business

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/20/south-korea-weapons-dealer-trump-00959559
44•JumpCrisscross•8h ago•14 comments

Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

https://github.com/DatanoiseTV/ember-hackernews
69•sylwester•3h ago•14 comments

Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/
108•farhadhf•9h ago•76 comments

Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions

https://github.com/confh/Tiny
11•confis•1h ago•3 comments

Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change?

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28•onemind•19h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C

https://github.com/oraziorillo/microcrad
43•oraziorillo•3d ago•16 comments

Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

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24•mitchivin•1h ago•12 comments

Now You Don't: When Espionage Meets Magic

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11•thinkingemote•3d ago•1 comments

Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios

https://vawaa.com/
48•karakoram•5h ago•5 comments

The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260617032207.htm
79•nryoo•3h ago•34 comments

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

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396•moultano•16h ago•105 comments

Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server

https://bootimus.com
92•car•9h ago•34 comments

Web Browsers on PDAS

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36•robin_reala•6h ago•13 comments

AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July

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26•roboror•1h ago•2 comments

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

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188•tcp_handshaker•6h ago•104 comments

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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276•theanonymousone•15h ago•95 comments

Mencius (2016)

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21•jruohonen•2d ago•1 comments

Can you see three trees?

https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three-trees/
292•Pamar•2d ago•136 comments

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

https://arrowtsx.dev/bigger-models/
465•oshrimpton•1d ago•231 comments

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encryption-spyware-and-now-mythos-history-shows-why-cyber-expor...
126•Brajeshwar•6h ago•61 comments