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Oregon School Cell Phone Ban: ‘Engaged students, joyful teachers’

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: There was plenty of uncertainty and debate about the effectiveness of a cell phone ban decreed by executive order last summer. But at least in Estacada, the policy has earned two thumbs up, including approval from a “grumpy old teacher.” Jeff Mellema is a language arts teacher at Estacada High School. He has worked in the building for 24 years, and he said the new policy that prohibits students from using their phones during the day has been a breath of fresh air. “There is…

Having Kids

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: December 2019Before I had kids, I was afraid of having kids. Up to that point I felt about kids the way the young Augustine felt about living virtuously. I'd have been sad to think I'd never have children. But did I want them now? No.If I had kids, I'd become a parent, and parents, as I'd known since I was a kid, were uncool. They were dull and responsible and had no fun. And while it's not surprising that kids would believe that, to be…

‘Walker Texas Ranger’ Action Icon Was 86

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion who became an iconic action star and led the hit series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” has died. He was 86. Norris was hospitalized in Hawaii on Thursday, and his family posted a statement Friday saying that he died that morning. “While we would like to keep the circumstances private, please know that he was surrounded by his family and was at peace,” his family wrote. “To the world, he was a martial artist, actor, and a symbol of strength. To us, he…

The 12” chef knife, a humble plea

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Happy New Year everyone! I want to wish you all a healthy, happy 2025. Hoping it is a big year in the best of ways, and in that spirit, may I offer the following:I recently pulled the 12" chef knife off one of the knife magnets in my kitchen, which doesn't often happen. Sure, if there was an extra large winter squash to cleave or a freak orgy of sauerkraut-making, then yes, but day to day, it's generally getting ignored. Having a 12" chef…

28 April 2025 Blackout

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: SummaryThe final report of the Expert Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal identifies the causes of the blackout and outlines recommendations to strengthen the resilience of Europe’s interconnected electricity system. It was prepared by a technical Expert Panel of 49 members, including representatives from Transmission System Operators (TSOs), Regional Coordination Centres (RCCs), ACER and National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), and was chaired by experts from two unaffected TSOs.The investigation concludes that the blackout resulted from a combination of many…

The Soul of a Pedicab Driver

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Soul of a Pedicab Driver The Soul of a Pedicab Driver by Carl Etnier Pedicabbing doesn't make me a better person. By trying to become a better person, however, I am becoming a better pedicab chauffeur. This is the story of a little spiritual journey I've taken over the last year, stimulated in part by my pedicabbing. I am by hobby a pedicab chauffeur in Oslo. Last year I drove a Chinese cycle rickshaw with 7 gears, while dressed in a tuxedo top…

Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias | Facial recognition

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Essex police have paused the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study found cameras were significantly more likely to target black people than people of other ethnicities.The move to suspend use of the AI-enabled systems was revealed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which regulates the use of the technology deployed so far by at least 13 police forces in London, south and north Wales, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Hampshire, Bedfordshire, Suffolk, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Surrey and Sussex.The ICO said Essex police had…

Open‑AI Searches Not Protected by Privilege

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Management consultants are pushing the promise of materially increased profits due to AI-created efficiencies. Businesses big and small across a wide range of industries, including commercial real estate, are simultaneously reducing their workforces and encouraging their remaining employees to harness AI for sensitive and menial tasks alike. And AI is becoming ubiquitous, especially with younger members of the workforce trying to prove their worth in the new AI age. But what if the problems that inexperienced members of the workforce ask AI to solve were…

450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Newson: 2026-03-16 Our long-term payment provider Nexi has terminated our contract without prior notice. As a result, our supporters’ recurring credit card and direct debit donations have been halted by them. This affects more than 450 FSFE supporters, whom we have already informed by email.If you are donating by direct debit, or if you have set up a recurring donation by credit card before 18 November 2025, you are affected by this. If in those cases, you did not receive an email from us,…

NJIT Physicists Trace Sun’s Magnetic Engine, 200,000 Kilometers Below Surface

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Split image of observations by the NASA space mission SDO/AIA, 171 A channel, showing the Sun at solar minimum (left, December 7, 2019, the start of the current Solar Cycle 25) and the cycle maximum (right, March 8, 2026). Credit: NASA In an analysis of nearly three decades of solar acoustic data, NJIT physicists report evidence that the solar dynamo — the magnetic engine powering the Sun’s 11-year cycles and eruptive events — operates nearly 200,000 kilometers beneath the Sun’s surface.Every eleven years, the…