Chinese investment in Afghanistan’s lithium sector (2022)(brookings.edu)

38 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 29 comments

Codon: Python Compiler(usenix.org)

69 points by joak 3 years ago | 39 comments

Maine becomes first state to decriminalize selling sex(seattletimes.com)

105 points by MilnerRoute 3 years ago | 100 comments

The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999)(cluetrain.com)

82 points by KingOfCoders 3 years ago | 78 comments

Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social audio app with Flutter(bubblic.app)

45 points by stephanietam36 3 years ago | 34 comments

VoCore – Coin-sized Linux Computer(vocore.io)

123 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 51 comments

Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically(especiales.eldiario.es)

432 points by altilunium 3 years ago | 363 comments

An interactive eldiario.es data journalism piece using Spanish Cadastre data and maps to explain why Spaniards mostly live in apartment buildings.

Most people prefer traditional architecture(worksinprogress.news)

332 points by alihm 1 month ago | 285 comments

A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.

Radio Days(oldster.substack.com)

5 points by NaOH 4 days ago | 2 comments

A personal essay in Oldster Magazine where Michael A. Gonzales recalls childhood mornings in Harlem listening to WNEW and WABC radio and how it shaped his musical taste.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time(pv-magazine.com)

624 points by xbmcuser 9 days ago | 390 comments

pv magazine article reporting that global solar generation surpassed nuclear for the first time in 2025, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026.

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it(medium.com)

434 points by cyrc 9 months ago | 133 comments

A Medium post by Cristian Băluță describing how he, a software developer, built his own custom camera dubbed the Leica G9ii.