Articles by karakoram
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Majority of Americans Support Banning Social Media for Kids Under 16 (pewresearch.org)

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Has China Obtained The World’s Most Important Machine? (economist.com)

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Record-Breaking Ocean Drilling Reveals Why Japan's 2011 Tsunami Was So Deadly (sciencedaily.com)

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Microsoft Lays Off Nearly 5K Employees Across Xbox, Commercial Sales (techcrunch.com)

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WhatsApp Usernames Are Already Raising Impersonation Red Flags (techcrunch.com)

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Clicks Communicator: Blackberry Style Physical-Keyboard Phone (clicks.tech)

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NASA: Explore El Niño (nasa.gov)

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Engineers Cram 100B Transistors onto a Microchip (science.org)

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Students Are Doing Worse Than You Think (economist.com)

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Americans Are in a Sour Mood as the Country Turns 250 (pewresearch.org)

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U.S. Proposes to Drop Brake Pedal Requirements for Self-Driving Vehicles (cnbc.com)

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Where Will Europe's Heatwave Be Most Deadly? (economist.com)

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Dead Lithium Batteries Revived to 95% Capacity via Electrochemical Bath (newatlas.com)

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Why Is Europe So Ill-Equipped to Handle Heat Waves? (time.com)

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Hospitals in UK Declare Critical Incidents as Machines, IT Systems Fail in Heat (theguardian.com)

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How Remote Work Has Helped a Generation of Working Parents (nytimes.com)

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Predicting AI Job Exposure (ben-evans.com)

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AI Is Taking Over Hospitals (theatlantic.com)

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A Single Cobalt Shock Could Trigger Global EV Battery Supply Chaos (sciencedaily.com)

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Epidurals are a miracle technology (worksinprogress.co)

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Write a Letter to Your Future Self (futureme.org)

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Meta's Threads Reaches 500M Monthly Users, Rolls Out New Features (fb.com)

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Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios (vawaa.com)

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US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic (reuters.com)

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Subscription Cost Visualizer (nguyenvu.dev)

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The Price of Lighting in the UK Has Dropped over 99.9% Since 1700 (ourworldindata.org)

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How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism (worksinprogress.co)

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The Enrollment Cliff Is Here. Which Schools Will Survive It? (newyorker.com)

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Western Men Are Going Abroad to Find Traditional Wives (economist.com)

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Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: What Are the Trade-Offs of Working Fully Remotely?

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Did AI Write This Article? (economist.com)

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Tokenmaxxing Losing Its Appeal, Companies Scrambling to Curtail Soaring AI Costs (economist.com)

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The Era of AI Malaise (technologyreview.com)

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Anthropogenic Geomaterials – What Is This Rock? (aeon.co)

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Therapy for Billionaires (aeon.co)

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Why I email complete strangers (goodinternetmagazine.com)

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Nothing CEO: Phone Prices Will Rise, RAM Accounts for over 50% of Phone Costs (theverge.com)

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China's Universities Cut 12,000 'Obsolete' Degrees Amid Race to Embrace AI Era (scmp.com)

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The Visa Empire: Borders as a Business (lighthousereports.com)

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Phone-Free Events Grew 567% Globally in 2026, over 900% in US Alone (eventbrite.com)

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PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher (fortune.com)

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China's Notorious University-Entrance Exam, Gaokao Is Changing (economist.com)

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You Have No Idea What a Trillion Dollars Is–and We Have Proof (wsj.com)

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Solar Overtakes Coal in US Electricity for the First Month on Record` (ember-energy.org)

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Stanford Scientists Regrow Lost Cartilage and Reverse Arthritis (sciencedaily.com)

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Gas Prices Wipe Out More Than a Year of Wage Gains (wsj.com)

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The Strategic Oil Reserves Are Running Out Fast (economist.com)

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Most New Data Centers in the U.S. Are Coming to Rural Areas (pewresearch.org)

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The Most Surprising Economic Success Story Is North Korea (wsj.com)

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German Births Fall to Lowest Since Postwar Records Began in 1946 (ft.com)

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Rise in NEETs Is a 'Retirement Crisis in Slow Motion', Pension Experts Warn (ft.com)

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'More Harmful Than Helpful': Young People Sour on AI (ft.com)

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How the Boomers Screwed Europe (economist.com)

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Do You Really Want That Computer-Science Degree? (economist.com)

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Deaths Projected to Outnumber Births in UK Every Year from 2026 (theguardian.com)

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Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt (reuters.com)

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Deep Dive into Kubernetes Gateway API (romaglushko.com)

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Practical Uses of Monads in Haskell (nauths.fr)

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Poor Sleep Linked to Rising Cancer Risk in Under-50s (theguardian.com)

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Open Source Model Predicts Shape of 1B Proteins (nature.com)

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National Science Foundation Suspends New Research Grants to Top Universities (nature.com)

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Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (fagnerbrack.com)

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Story Points: Explicit, Honest, Predictable. Already In Use. (bastrich.tech)

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Gen Z but Two Centuries Ago (aeon.co)

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Why Science Is Becoming Less Innovative (economist.com)

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Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?

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95% of Canceled Annual App Subscribers Never Come Back (9to5mac.com)

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Pill That Regrows And Repairs Teeth (futura-sciences.com)

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Gen Z Men Want Babies. Gen Z Women Don't (vox.com)

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The Infamous 20 Year Old MySQL Bug #11472 Has Been Fixed (mysql.com)

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On Grindslop – By Will Manidis (minutes.substack.com)

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Japan Team Successfully Test Engine for Mach 5 Aircraft, Eyeing 2HR Trip to US (mainichi.jp)

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An AI Hate Wave Is Here (axios.com)

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Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a 'Generation-Long Decline' (nytimes.com)

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The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It (theverge.com)

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Chinese Chip Firms Hit Record High Revenue Driven by the AI Boom and U.S. Curbs (cnbc.com)

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Good APIs Age Slowly (yusufaytas.com)

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NASA's Artemis II Laser Communications System Is Beaming 4K Video from the Moon (scientificamerican.com)

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AI Cuts MRI Scan Time from 23 to 9 Minutes at Amsterdam Cancer Center (nltimes.nl)

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Ask HN: Cool Websites to Stop Doomscrolling?

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Mysterious Trading Patterns Follow Trump into War (axios.com)

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Why This Jump in Gas Prices Feels Different (nytimes.com)

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The Vanishing of Youth (aeon.co)

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Primary School Children Face Having to Work Until They Are 75 (thetimes.com)

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Fixed Python Autocomplete (matan-h.com)

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250 Years of Immigration Shaped America (economist.com)

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A Cancer Diagnosis Can Push People to Crime (economist.com)

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The Anglosphere Is Increasingly Miserable (economist.com)

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Global Carmakers Retreat En Masse from Electric Vehicle Plans (ft.com)

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Why Performance Reviews Need a Makeover (ft.com)

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A Million Young Britons Are Falling Through the Cracks (ft.com)

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Gökçe Güven – Another Forbes 30U30 Facing Prison (nymag.com)

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No Semicolons Needed (terts.dev)

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Dutch East India Company, the First Company to Issue Stock Was Established Today (wikipedia.org)

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More Americans Will Die Than Be Born in 2030 – Immigration Will Drive Growth (fortune.com)

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My PhD Cost Me $1.17M (But I'd Do It Again) (georgeyw.com)

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Ask HN: What Are Your Biggest Career Regrets?

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Why Does Child Care Seem Less Affordable Than Ever (nytimes.com)