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mcc1aneon Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets

"The Secret to Japan's Great Cities" (Not Just Bikes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlwQ2Y4By0U

(thank you, cassepipe)

mcc1aneon Kids go from curious to frustrated playing with AI-stuffed toys, UW study finds

some might argue it is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age

mcc1aneon Australia is the safest place during a global catastrophe, study suggests

"Meanwhile Australia is down there like 'WTF, mate?'"

mcc1aneon Things I want in a modern relational query language

https://www.geldata.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24106608, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871051)

mcc1aneon Uber fined nearly $1B by Dutch regulators

mcc1aneon The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000)

mcc1aneon Colombia Hit by Magnitude 7.4 Quake, Widespread Damage Reported

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245251

mcc1aneon Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

https://archive.is/xn3gW

mcc1aneon Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone

https://htdp.org/

mcc1aneon A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway

https://github.com/anordal/shellharden/blob/master/how_to_do...

mcc1aneon Game of Trees – Git-based version control from OpenBSD folks

"Another one? Why not ...?" - https://www.gameoftrees.org/goals.html

mcc1aneon Follow the money, especially in open source

possibly refers to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932522

mcc1aneon Umuganda

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B1%D0%BE...

mcc1aneon Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world

What's the difference between these and KOLOS?

mcc1aneon I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

"The Evolution of Human Science"

mcc1aneon Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)

(1993)

mcc1aneon Comparing Objective Caml and Standard ML

(2020) at best

mcc1aneon Colonization of Venus

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885739

mcc1aneon PGKeeper: Figma's Postgres connection pooler Renaissance era

mcc1aneon Why IPv6 is so complicated

mcc1aneon A beginner's guide to Sourcehut (2025)

I believe I've read something by Drew DeVault about it, but I can't find it.

The closest I found is this - https://drewdevault.com/blog/Code-review-with-aerc/ - although it has broken links.

mcc1aneon My phone replaced a brass plug

yak shaving

mcc1aneon Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages

https://ada-lang.io/docs/learn/lang/being-more-terse

mcc1aneon Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages

Every time Ada is mentioned here, I start a quest - how to try it for free on Windows.

And every time I fail.

mcc1aneon Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?

Neither are Norway and Iceland

(but are part of European Economic Area)

mcc1aneon DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_computer

mcc1aneon An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography

mcc1aneon Long Range E-Bike (2021)

2021?

mcc1aneon New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

in mice?

mcc1aneon Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU

The cohort least likely to vote.