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The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth

https://www.effort.news/p4ne
14•barry-cotter•1h ago

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bluemoonx•53m ago
Guillotine
kubb•32m ago
Well, it makes sense for them. If everyone is to get a better life, the planet will burn, and they won't be able to enjoy it. And they're already wealthy, so as long as everyone else stays where they, are, things won't have to change for them.

Another story are developed societies where there's enough resources and infrastructure for everyone to live a decent life already. They can genuinely focus on sustainability, not on growth.

Legend2440•25m ago
Degrowth is such a stupid idea. All the things that make your life better - housing, healthcare, education, food, iphones, air conditioning, cars, and more - are forms of wealth.

You cannot have more of them without economic growth, because these things are economic growth.

newspaper1•14m ago
But economic growth fails to model externalities. All that stuff is good, unless we cook the earth using it and kill everyone. iPhones are great for us but what about the kids dying the lithium mine? …

Probably not popular ideas on this forum, but they also can’t just be dismissed (but they will get downvoted lol).

sobellian•4m ago
A single carbon tax would be a market-oriented solution that captures the externality of CO2 emission - and would likely still permit economic growth! You don't need to revolutionize the entire basis on which human civilization has acted for millennia in order to solve the problem. And if you did have to, one could reasonably expect that effort to fail.
netsharc•10m ago
And forest fires burning down whole towns, pandemics, drought, crop failures, social unrest due to hungry people trying to move to more livable areas are externalities that economic growth can also solve, right?
marssaxman•4m ago
Degrowth is simply a refusal to engage in magical thinking. You cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet: growth must therefore have an end. Would we prefer to choose a gentle mode of deceleration which keeps us comfortable along the way, or would we prefer to wait and do all the decelerating at once, when we hit the wall?
warkdarrior•3m ago
Degrowth is for other people, not me.
mrtesthah•5m ago
Brian Chau, the creator of Effort News, is an employee of Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School, and has lived in its Singapore-based compound.

Srinivasan's Network School is part of his long-term goal of creating "Network States", which are a form of corporate feudalism.

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-tech-barons-have-a-blue...

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-net...

>“What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/
137•droidjj•3h ago•64 comments

Compression is prediction

https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
163•nikolay•2h ago•69 comments

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/
16•EwanG•50m ago•3 comments

Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here
233•dayanruben•5h ago•105 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/
439•quantumgarbage•9h ago•178 comments

Making holograms with a pen plotter

https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/Penplotter-holography/
88•DemiGuru•3h ago•10 comments

Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

https://photosynthesis.camera
157•sajomes•2d ago•164 comments

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0
218•ilamont•10h ago•289 comments

Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products

https://www.suzanne3d.com/
9•Samanthajeanneb•1h ago•6 comments

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-we-used-to-get-jobs/
86•speckx•4h ago•69 comments

Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme

https://jolt-lang.github.io
133•mark_l_watson•3d ago•48 comments

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o
466•stevekemp•10h ago•336 comments

RSI Simulator

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12•ckraeuter•5h ago•6 comments

Grok Bot

https://x.ai/bot
63•rvz•5h ago•64 comments

Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01828
10•doener•1h ago•2 comments

Nvidia's Risky Business

https://stratechery.com/2026/nvidias-risky-business/
270•jonbaer•12h ago•122 comments

Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife
114•YonathanTesfaye•7h ago•83 comments

Manus will return to operating as an independent company

https://manus.im/blog/a-note-to-our-users
119•thm•8h ago•65 comments

pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries

https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_clickhouse-whats-new-july-2026
4•saisrirampur•52m ago•0 comments

OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.5
80•voxadam•4h ago•29 comments

Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

https://github.com/trycua/cua/blob/main/blog/gpu-passthrough-macos-vms.md
271•frabonacci•7h ago•43 comments

CSS properties you should know for better text designs

https://master.dev/blog/typographic-css-tricks/
51•ibobev•5h ago•5 comments

The Hat and the Spectre – Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics

https://momath.org/the-hat/
5•vismit2000•3d ago•1 comments

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-int...
174•BlueBerry2001•13h ago•207 comments

What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/i-put-github-copilot-behind-a-mitm
140•j0selit0•12h ago•22 comments

Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything

https://www.trykeet.com/
39•zackashen•7h ago•40 comments

Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

https://writemd.app/
62•danielbilekq•9h ago•62 comments

Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-amazing-archive-of-animal-photography-reveals-...
30•pseudolus•2d ago•8 comments

A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/ai-boss-san-francisco-andon-market.html
46•jjwiseman•1w ago•49 comments

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempi...
87•andsoitis•2h ago•130 comments