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• How America fell behind China in the lunar space race–and how it can catch up

  by f_allwein on 10/3/2025, 5:42 AM with 1 comments

• How to Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction

  by f_allwein on 9/18/2025, 8:17 AM with 0 comments

• Which are the deadliest European cities in a heatwave?

  by f_allwein on 8/18/2025, 7:27 PM with 0 comments

• Renaming Trutch Street to šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street (Musqueamview Street)

  by f_allwein on 7/2/2025, 10:09 AM with 0 comments

• Why I don't think AGI is right around the corner

  by f_allwein on 6/12/2025, 11:32 AM with 2 comments

• This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection

  by f_allwein on 2/18/2025, 8:07 AM with 7 comments

• As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids' mental health

  by f_allwein on 1/4/2025, 6:33 AM with 0 comments

• Figure Status Update – OpenAI Speech-to-Speech Reasoning [video]

  by f_allwein on 11/13/2024, 11:43 AM with 2 comments

• German receives 1700 identical letters from taxman

  by f_allwein on 11/7/2024, 9:59 PM with 0 comments

• by f_allwein on 11/7/2024, 9:55 PM with comments

• Amazon, Tesla and Meta among top companies undermining democracy

  by f_allwein on 9/23/2024, 3:21 PM with 8 comments

• Spare a thought for poor Ireland – forced to collect €13B from Apple

  by f_allwein on 9/16/2024, 6:25 AM with 0 comments

• Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links

  by f_allwein on 9/15/2024, 6:36 AM with 113 comments

• by f_allwein on 9/14/2024, 10:18 AM with comments

• Physicist MV Ramana on why nuclear power is not a clean energy panacea

  by f_allwein on 9/4/2024, 10:51 AM with 2 comments

• Building the Future: Introducing Our Flying Suit Project [video]

  by f_allwein on 8/25/2024, 8:05 AM with 0 comments

• TV set has become a digital billboard. And it's only getting worse

  by f_allwein on 8/19/2024, 11:37 AM with 24 comments

• Vaults of ambition: shock find under London Museum enchants its builders

  by f_allwein on 8/19/2024, 7:37 AM with 1 comments

• Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

  by f_allwein on 7/13/2024, 9:19 PM with 268 comments

• More than 1k hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approaching 52C in Mecca

  by f_allwein on 6/21/2024, 4:08 AM with 15 comments

• How we are all in denial about the climate crisis

  by f_allwein on 6/20/2024, 8:06 PM with 2 comments

• Scientists develop method of making healthier, more sustainable chocolate

  by f_allwein on 6/1/2024, 9:52 PM with 0 comments

• Apple elaborates on rare iOS 17.5 bug that resurfaced deleted photos

  by f_allwein on 5/25/2024, 11:50 AM with 0 comments

• Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?

  by f_allwein on 5/22/2024, 11:44 AM with 170 comments

• The iPad Launched 14 Years Ago Today

  by f_allwein on 4/3/2024, 5:25 PM with 0 comments

• by f_allwein on 2/26/2024, 11:23 AM with comments

• Ask HN: How to Explain Tech to Parents?

  by f_allwein on 12/29/2023, 6:38 PM with 20 comments

• EU agrees 'historic' deal with first laws to regulate AI

  by f_allwein on 12/9/2023, 5:18 AM with 1 comments

• Films that made people emigrate

  by f_allwein on 12/3/2023, 6:34 AM with 67 comments

• 'You live in your own bubble': Swedish city takes on loneliness with a simple hi

  by f_allwein on 11/21/2023, 5:23 PM with 0 comments

• First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS

  by f_allwein on 6/8/2023, 8:40 PM with 1 comments

• Too tired to cook. Too easy to open a packet. It’s not our fault we eat junk

  by f_allwein on 5/14/2023, 6:23 AM with 1 comments

• A UFO in 1665: The Air Battle of Stralsund

  by f_allwein on 5/8/2023, 7:19 AM with 3 comments

• VR Bus – A Unique Experience in Imperial Rome

  by f_allwein on 4/16/2023, 9:03 PM with 3 comments

• The Cure’s Robert Smith convinces Ticketmaster to refund ‘unduly high’ fees

  by f_allwein on 3/17/2023, 8:26 AM with 1 comments

• I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it

  by f_allwein on 3/7/2023, 12:40 PM with 96 comments

• Emergency landing strands passengers – never to see midnight on New Year’s Eve

  by f_allwein on 12/31/2022, 8:44 AM with 0 comments

• Switching World to Renewable Energy Will Cost $62T, Payback Would Take 6 Years

  by f_allwein on 10/8/2022, 7:22 PM with 68 comments

• Queen's lying-in-state: How long is the queue?

  by f_allwein on 9/17/2022, 3:55 AM with 1 comments

• New Green NCAP emissions ratings cast doubt on electric cars’ green credentials

  by f_allwein on 4/24/2022, 10:18 PM with 2 comments

• What are the most effective ways to get cars out of cities?

  by f_allwein on 4/16/2022, 12:26 PM with 3 comments

• Madman Theory

  by f_allwein on 3/2/2022, 7:02 AM with 0 comments

• ‘Killed by indifference’: France shocked by death on busy Paris street

  by f_allwein on 1/29/2022, 7:06 AM with 0 comments

• Buy Nothing Day

  by f_allwein on 11/26/2021, 5:56 AM with 3 comments

• COP26 and the Five Stages of Grief

  by f_allwein on 10/29/2021, 5:33 AM with 0 comments

• Dromos: Autonomous Network Transit. 21st century Transport for smart cities

  by f_allwein on 9/10/2021, 7:17 AM with 0 comments

• Local makers lead the rebirth of the department store

  by f_allwein on 9/9/2021, 9:05 AM with 0 comments

• Why the New York Subway Keeps Flooding–and What to Do About It

  by f_allwein on 9/3/2021, 9:27 PM with 3 comments

• Brussels battles old prejudices as it frees unloved river from its vault

  by f_allwein on 8/27/2021, 6:27 PM with 78 comments

• Experience: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

  by f_allwein on 4/17/2021, 6:54 AM with 0 comments

• Our research shows working from home works, in moderation

  by f_allwein on 3/22/2021, 6:26 AM with 0 comments

• Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

  by f_allwein on 3/15/2021, 9:12 PM with 0 comments

• The private life of Sir Chris Hohn – the man paid £1m a day

  by f_allwein on 3/6/2021, 11:31 AM with 0 comments

• Touching Fish craze sees China's youth find ways to laze amid '996' work culture

  by f_allwein on 1/23/2021, 3:45 AM with 0 comments

• The Gift of Death (2012)

  by f_allwein on 11/27/2020, 5:59 PM with 0 comments

• Travel firm bucks trend by launching no-fly startup during lockdown

  by f_allwein on 11/23/2020, 10:14 PM with 0 comments

• What If There _Is_ Life on Venus?

  by f_allwein on 10/24/2020, 7:16 AM with 32 comments

• Turkmenistan Banned Black Cars. So What?

  by f_allwein on 7/20/2020, 6:43 AM with 0 comments

• Here’s To you: 15 years of Google Earth stories

  by f_allwein on 7/9/2020, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• Max Valier

  by f_allwein on 5/24/2020, 6:18 AM with 0 comments

• Special Issue: How We Will All Solve the Climate Crisis

  by f_allwein on 4/23/2020, 5:01 AM with 0 comments

• Italy’s Alpine Border Melts and Leaves a Pasta Restaurant in Switzerland–Maybe

  by f_allwein on 4/16/2020, 10:37 AM with 0 comments

• Thermomix TM6: It’s the robotic equivalent of your own personal sous chef

  by f_allwein on 3/5/2020, 6:01 AM with 0 comments

• 'Earth sandwich': two men, two slices of bread and 12,724km of filling

  by f_allwein on 1/21/2020, 5:41 AM with 0 comments

• 'I feel bombarded with to-dos': the hell of life admin – and how to get on top

  by f_allwein on 9/8/2019, 5:22 AM with 0 comments

• The Great Climate Conundrum

  by f_allwein on 7/25/2019, 7:23 PM with 0 comments

• How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?

  by f_allwein on 7/19/2019, 2:40 AM with 0 comments

• The wrong kind of trees: Ireland's afforestation meets resistance

  by f_allwein on 7/8/2019, 7:58 AM with 87 comments

• Planting a trillion trees could be our best strategy to tackle climate change

  by f_allwein on 7/4/2019, 6:38 PM with 6 comments

• 4 Alternative Sleeping Cycles That You Didn’t Know About

  by f_allwein on 5/31/2019, 10:12 PM with 0 comments

• 'Climate Emergency' Declared by Welsh Government

  by f_allwein on 4/29/2019, 8:06 PM with 0 comments

• I worked on Attenborough’s documentary. The grim reality gave me climate anxiety

  by f_allwein on 4/29/2019, 5:57 AM with 0 comments

• People eat so much chicken that it's changing the geological record

  by f_allwein on 12/17/2018, 5:46 AM with 3 comments

• London mayor unveils plan to tackle 'climate emergency'

  by f_allwein on 12/11/2018, 11:01 PM with 0 comments

• If climate scientists ruled the world

  by f_allwein on 12/11/2018, 2:28 PM with 0 comments

• UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440

  by f_allwein on 9/9/2018, 8:19 AM with 33 comments

• I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on

  by f_allwein on 9/5/2018, 6:16 AM with 0 comments

• The Blue Pearl – Earrings with a Powerful Headset inside

  by f_allwein on 9/1/2018, 6:24 AM with 0 comments

• The Kitchen of the Future might be no kitchen at all

  by f_allwein on 8/13/2018, 11:45 AM with 0 comments

• Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

  by f_allwein on 8/9/2018, 6:19 AM with 114 comments

• The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub

  by f_allwein on 7/18/2018, 6:14 AM with 0 comments

• 30 years on, world is failing 'miserably’ to address climate change

  by f_allwein on 6/19/2018, 6:21 AM with 0 comments

• OK

  by f_allwein on 5/29/2018, 9:29 AM with 0 comments

• The spectacular power of Big Lens

  by f_allwein on 5/10/2018, 6:38 AM with 0 comments

• Is it weird to eat the same sandwich for lunch every day?

  by f_allwein on 4/26/2018, 10:55 PM with 0 comments

• Bitcoin mining is using as much power as 5,699,560 American households

  by f_allwein on 4/20/2018, 6:16 AM with 2 comments

• Tesla Model 3 Production Finally at 2,500 a Week?

  by f_allwein on 3/29/2018, 5:56 AM with 0 comments

• Be a pioneer – delete Facebook

  by f_allwein on 3/27/2018, 4:48 PM with 14 comments

• Inside the Business of Vicuña, the Wool Worth More Than Gold (2017)

  by f_allwein on 3/4/2018, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• Starbucks introduces 5p surcharge on disposable cups in London

  by f_allwein on 2/28/2018, 10:12 AM with 0 comments

• Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet?

  by f_allwein on 2/23/2018, 8:23 AM with 70 comments

• Are drones really “the most climate friendly way to ship packages”?

  by f_allwein on 2/17/2018, 9:09 AM with 0 comments

• 70 Story tallest timber tower tipped for Tokyo

  by f_allwein on 2/15/2018, 7:03 AM with 0 comments

• German cities to trial free public transport to cut pollution

  by f_allwein on 2/14/2018, 7:16 AM with 9 comments

• Multifamily Passive House in Vancouver

  by f_allwein on 2/10/2018, 9:33 AM with 117 comments

• Remarks Delivered at the World Economic Forum

  by f_allwein on 1/26/2018, 8:12 AM with 0 comments

• Literary fiction in crisis as sales drop dramatically

  by f_allwein on 12/15/2017, 12:05 PM with 45 comments

• Millennials donating 10% of their pay to save the world

  by f_allwein on 12/4/2017, 8:45 AM with 0 comments

• How to Fix Facebook? We Asked 9 Experts

  by f_allwein on 11/1/2017, 9:57 PM with 0 comments

• What is your biggest regret? Here are people's devastatingly honest answers

  by f_allwein on 10/31/2017, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• As interest in eclipse reaches frenzy, viewing glasses in short supply

  by f_allwein on 8/16/2017, 11:17 AM with 0 comments

• 'Anonymous' browsing data can be easily exposed, German researchers reveal

  by f_allwein on 8/1/2017, 12:19 PM with 0 comments

• We are all made of stars: half our bodies' atoms 'formed beyond the Milky Way'

  by f_allwein on 7/27/2017, 7:29 AM with 0 comments

• How luxury flat-owners could shut down the Tate's viewing platform

  by f_allwein on 4/24/2017, 10:27 PM with 0 comments

• Essays for sale: the booming online industry in writing academic work to order

  by f_allwein on 3/4/2017, 11:52 AM with 0 comments

• You mean you doubt Diet Coke’s health claims?

  by f_allwein on 1/8/2017, 12:09 PM with 0 comments

• Blind NHS patients to be fitted with pioneering bionic eye

  by f_allwein on 12/22/2016, 8:30 AM with 0 comments

• Hands on with Super Mario Run for iPhone

  by f_allwein on 12/8/2016, 8:29 AM with 0 comments

• Toblerone gets more gappy, but its fans are not happy

  by f_allwein on 11/8/2016, 10:28 AM with 2 comments

• In Hamburg, a New Musical Landmark for a City with Plans

  by f_allwein on 11/3/2016, 12:16 AM with 0 comments

• Museum posts 'queen has died' notice to explain vanished ant colony

  by f_allwein on 10/19/2016, 3:30 PM with 0 comments

• Samsung to pay Galaxy Note 7 owners to buy another brand's phone

  by f_allwein on 10/13/2016, 4:52 PM with 0 comments

• Notifications Are Killing Your Productivity: How to Reclaim a Job Well Done

  by f_allwein on 9/22/2016, 3:58 PM with 0 comments

• We Replaced 68 Tube Adverts with Cats. Here’s Why

  by f_allwein on 9/15/2016, 11:51 AM with 0 comments

• Why won't 541,000 young Japanese leave the house?

  by f_allwein on 9/12/2016, 8:13 AM with 0 comments

• After Bee Die-Off, Chinese Apple Farmers Resort to Hand Pollination (2015)

  by f_allwein on 8/30/2016, 6:30 PM with comments

• The 100 best artisan ice cream shops in Italy [Italian]

  by f_allwein on 8/7/2016, 11:11 AM with comments

• 'Terrorism threat is waning’: figures put Europe’s summer of violence in context

  by f_allwein on 7/29/2016, 12:59 AM with 0 comments

• EU referendum: government faces legal action over Brexit decision

  by f_allwein on 7/3/2016, 9:59 PM with 1 comments

• The Director of Helvetica Is Making a Documentary on Dieter Rams

  by f_allwein on 6/23/2016, 11:09 AM with 1 comments

• Restaurant owner jailed for six years over death of peanut allergy customer

  by f_allwein on 5/24/2016, 8:58 PM with 0 comments

• Let's say you're the first human ever to make alien contact (2010)

  by f_allwein on 5/21/2016, 11:27 PM with 0 comments

• Web 0.0

  by f_allwein on 5/15/2016, 6:23 PM with 0 comments

• How Copenhagen rejected 1960s modernist 'utopia'

  by f_allwein on 5/12/2016, 7:14 AM with 0 comments

• Global Citizenship a Growing Sentiment Among Citizens of Emerging Economies

  by f_allwein on 5/9/2016, 7:54 AM with 90 comments

• How Uber conquered London

  by f_allwein on 5/3/2016, 2:42 PM with 64 comments

• “Most unlikely sporting victory of all time”: Leicester City win Premier League

  by f_allwein on 5/2/2016, 9:11 PM with comments

• How Uber conquered London

  by f_allwein on 4/27/2016, 6:39 AM with 0 comments

• Half of Kids Can’t Tell the Difference Between Virtual and Regular Reality

  by f_allwein on 4/25/2016, 9:38 PM with 0 comments

• Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems

  by f_allwein on 4/15/2016, 12:59 PM with 0 comments

• Children spend less time outside than prison inmates

  by f_allwein on 3/26/2016, 5:08 PM with 0 comments

• Practice of killing male chicks to continue in Germany

  by f_allwein on 3/22/2016, 12:53 AM with 0 comments

• Scottish seaplane firm launches London-Essex route

  by f_allwein on 3/14/2016, 11:17 AM with 0 comments

• MH370: head of search says 'very likely' plane will be found by July

  by f_allwein on 3/7/2016, 8:31 AM with 0 comments