Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead(davidoks.blog)

194 points by powera 6 months ago | 179 comments

Why poor countries stopped catching up(davidoks.blog)

41 points by j-bos 8 months ago | 34 comments

How much of HN is AI?(blog.coredump.cx)

203 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 199 comments

Have we underestimated the total number of people on Earth?(newscientist.com)

34 points by wahern 1 year ago | 39 comments

Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart(hannahritchie.substack.com)

15 points by speckx 8 months ago | 6 comments

The giant basket case countries(noahpinion.blog)

21 points by paulpauper 11 months ago | 13 comments

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is(hannahritchie.substack.com)

50 points by gumby 11 days ago | 22 comments

Hannah Ritchie's Substack post analyzing the ages of world leaders and how long they've held power compared to the populations they govern.

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype(antirez.com)

1090 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 1334 comments

Blog post by antirez arguing that, despite his reservations, LLMs are going to change programming forever and people shouldn't dismiss AI out of hand.

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears(nature.com)

355 points by mdhb 1 year ago | 243 comments

Nature news article reporting that scientific conferences are relocating or pausing US meetings because foreign researchers fear border and travel problems.

We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics(simonwillison.net)

474 points by simonw 3 years ago | 373 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing that people should be plainly told ChatGPT lies, rather than debating terms like hallucination.