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How the Attention Economy Ate a Reader's Habit — and How He Clawed It Back
Essayist Sam Kahn charts the slow erosion of his own reading life, from a ravenous childhood peak—bedside tables buckling under half-finished books—through a de
Irish datacenters now eat 23% of the national grid, up from 5% a decade ago
Datacenters consumed 7,663 GWh of electricity in Ireland during 2025 — a 10 percent rise over 2024 and now close to a quarter of all metered power use, per Cent
LAPD drops Flock Safety, citing civil liberties and privacy concerns
The Los Angeles Police Department is letting its three-year contract with Flock Safety lapse rather than renew it, with the department's CIO Dean Gialamas citin
LARP: a satire site skewering the AI industry's circular revenue deals
LARP is a parody web app that dresses up accounting fraud as SaaS infrastructure. The premise: two founders wire each other the same $10,000, both book it as re
Pacific Ocean Temperatures Break Off the Historical Chart, and Barely Anyone Noticed
Sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific's Niño 3.4 region—a zone that drives global weather through the El Niño–Southern Oscillation—have not merely
Read a Book a Week by Filling Every Idle Moment Instead of Your Phone
A prolific reader lays out how he went from fewer than ten books a year to roughly one a week, and the core move isn't finding dedicated reading time — it's rep
Show HN: "Super Dario" surfaces as a teaser page — no details yet
A Show HN submission points to superdario.pawb.de, but the page is currently only a placeholder reading "Super Dario: One More Week" — a countdown-style teaser
Still Write Code in 2026? Yes — It's How Engineers Keep Their Attention and Taste
The author accepts the premise that software work has shifted from building software to building the "software factory" — the prompts, skills, tests, linters, t
Susan Rigetti's free DIY physics curriculum returns, updated after 600K readers
Susan Rigetti (formerly Fowler) has published a second edition of her self-study physics guide, first written in 2015 and used by more than 600,000 people since
Swapping Claude Opus for GPT-5.6 wasn't a drop-in — here's what broke
Ploy, which runs an AI agent that builds and edits real marketing websites, has made OpenAI's newly released GPT-5.6 Sol the default model in every workspace, d
Tiny Emulators: A Browser-Based Museum of 8-Bit Machines and Demos
The tiny8bit project (by developer Andre "floooh" Weissflog) is a collection of compact, cycle-accurate emulators for 1980s home computers and arcade hardware,
Why one developer built a full SaaS app in vanilla JS with no framework
Guseyn recounts a year spent building instruxmusic.com—a fairly complex business tool for music schools with scheduling, invoicing, video lessons, file sharing,