Show HN: Global Maritime Chokepoints(ryanshook.org)

7 points by RyanShook 7 months ago | 2 comments

The new geography of stolen goods(economist.com)

81 points by tlb 1 year ago | 62 comments

Gdynia and the Dream of a Maritime Poland(engelsbergideas.com)

104 points by lermontov 9 days ago | 30 comments

Engelsberg Ideas essay on how Gdynia grew from a Baltic fishing village into a major port embodying interwar Poland's modernising ambitions.

Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium(euronews.com)

65 points by andrewstetsenko 2 months ago | 58 comments

Britain has wasted £1,112,293,718 switching off wind turbines in 2025(wastedwind.energy)

249 points by bashy 1 year ago | 262 comments

Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian power systems synchronised with Europe(elering.ee)

28 points by miki123211 1 year ago | 5 comments

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better(ourworldindata.org)

363 points by colonCapitalDee 2 years ago | 265 comments

Max Roser essay on Our World in Data arguing the world is simultaneously awful, much better than before, and capable of becoming much better.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Slow(michaelnotebook.com)

911 points by calvinfo 1 year ago | 215 comments

Michael Nielsen's essay and curated list of projects humans have pursued over exceptionally long periods, asking how to build institutions for slow problems.

Some things just take time(lucumr.pocoo.org)

788 points by vaylian 7 months ago | 250 comments

Blog essay by Armin Ronacher arguing that some valuable things, like mature trees or established software and communities, can only be achieved through time.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.

Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable(matthewball.co)

399 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 471 comments

Matthew Ball essay analyzing Roblox's scale as the world's biggest game and why the company remains unprofitable.