Hacker News with Generative AI: Family

Modern dog ownership has redefined family and parenting (eurekalert.org)
Birth rates are declining worldwide, while dog parenting practices are gaining popularity. What does this growing “furry children” trend reveal about our societies?
Pets, Family, Social Trends, Demographics
10 points by nreece 15 hours ago | 13 comments
Opinion: How to pull your family members out of the information rabbit hole (statepress.com)
Many of us may have friends and family who have fallen down the information rabbit holes of intense partisanship, conspiracy theories or deeper holes of extremism.
Social Media, News, Politics, Family, Misinformation
44 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 30 comments
Gemini figured out my nephew’s name (nawaz.org)
Artificial Intelligence, Family, Personal Stories
185 points by BeetleB 5 days ago | 111 comments
SaṃVega: The urgent realization that you need a more meaningful life (bigthink.com)
Carlos comes back from work and it’s late — so late that as he pulls his car into the drive he sees every room in the house is dark. His job is working him to the bone. He feels like he never sees his family anymore. Carlos bought his daughter a toy from her favorite TV show last week. She smiled. But later his wife tells him that his daughter hasn’t watched that show for months.
Life Purpose, Meaningful Life, Work-Life Balance, Family
4 points by Brajeshwar 5 days ago | 0 comments
The Problem with Teens Isn't Smartphones–It's Their Families (grimoiremanor.substack.com)
The last 5 years, if not more, has seen the US and other countries like the UK gripped by the narrative that there’s a youth mental health crisis.
Family, Social Issues
69 points by illinx 7 days ago | 63 comments
Show HN: I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting (nullonerror.org)
Do you work from home, and do people in your household always show up at the worst possible moments?
IoT, Productivity, Family
121 points by delduca 12 days ago | 78 comments
Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016) (theguardian.com)
After Henry James’s death 100 years ago, his relatives were at pains to remove any hints of his sexuality from his letters and biography
LGBTQ+, Literature, Biography, History, Family
16 points by benbreen 13 days ago | 24 comments
American dads are spending more time with their kids since Covid (nytimes.com)
Parenting, Family, COVID-19, Social Change
5 points by williamsmj 22 days ago | 0 comments
'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber (espn.com)
Bill Stampfl vanished climbing Peru's highest mountain 22 years ago. This is the story of the hiker who found him and brought closure to Stampfl's family. Illustrations by Guy Shield
Missing Persons, Climbing, Peru, Family
147 points by gmays 22 days ago | 71 comments
Ted Kaczynski's brother wrote him for decades to explain why he turned him in (nytimes.com)
Ted Kaczynski, whose anti-tech rants are finding a new generation of readers, shunned the brother who called the F.B.I. in an effort to halt his campaign of violence.
Ted Kaczynski, Crime, Family, History, Social Commentary
29 points by axiomdata316 24 days ago | 17 comments
Julian Assange and his family in Rome for Pope Francis's funeral (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Julian Assange, Pope Francis, Death, Family, Italy
6 points by giuliomagnifico 27 days ago | 0 comments
My parents holding hands after their assisted death (theguardian.com)
This is a photo of my parents right after their deaths, in Assen, the Netherlands, on 1 May 2024. My father Klaas Roemers was 90, my mother Fenny Roemers-Visser was 86.
Assisted Suicide, Death, Family, Netherlands
13 points by tiniuclx 37 days ago | 0 comments
MSU study finds number of US nonparents who never want children is growing (msutoday.msu.edu)
Recent data from Pew Research Center suggest that Americans are rethinking whether they want to become parents. This could be part of a long-term trend, as a research team from Michigan State University found that the percentage of nonparents in the United States who never want children has doubled over the past 20 years.
Demographics, Family, Parenting, Social Trends, Research
12 points by ivewonyoung 44 days ago | 9 comments
Silicon Valley 'nepo baby' publishes scathing first novel about growing up rich (sfstandard.com)
In his debut book, Daniel Breyer, son of billionaire VC Jim Breyer, skewers the world of wealth and privilege he grew up in.
Silicon Valley, Social Commentary, Wealth, Family, Literature
23 points by CalChris 46 days ago | 15 comments
Kagi for Kids (kagi.com)
The Kagi Family Plan is perfect for families wanting to search smarter, emphasizing learning over consumption while respecting your family's privacy.
Family, Privacy, Search Engines, Education
198 points by ryanjamurphy 53 days ago | 166 comments
George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father (theguardian.com)
Richard Blair didn’t have the easiest start in life. At three weeks old, he was adopted. Nine months later, his adoptive mother, Eileen, died at 39, after an allergic reaction to the anaesthetic she was given for a hysterectomy. Family and friends expected Blair’s father, Eric, to un-adopt him. Fortunately, Eric, better known as George Orwell, was an unusually hands-on dad for the 1940s.
Biography, Family, History, Writing
73 points by lermontov 57 days ago | 25 comments
43-year-old Family Canoe Trip (paddlingmag.com)
On June 14, 1974, my grandma Glady dropped her two sons off at a marina in the Puget Sound. They loaded gear into homemade woodstrip canoes and pushed off into the cold, black water. Decades later, Grandma told me as she watched them disappear into the fog, she wondered if she would ever see her boys again.
Family, Canoeing, Puget Sound, Nostalgia, Personal Stories
103 points by cameron_b 66 days ago | 24 comments
The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Virgins (newyorker.com)
As far as we know, Jesus never said anything about gay sex. He did, however, take a stand on family life: he was opposed. Those who are worthy of Heaven, he says, in Luke 20:35, need not bother with marriage; in fact, per Luke 14:26, the true disciple must “hate” the family he already has.
Religion, Christianity, Family, Sexuality
4 points by Petiver 68 days ago | 0 comments
What My Father's Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing (lithub.com)
The computer lab where I checked my email was in the basement of Cornell’s Electrical and Computer Engineering building. A windowless room with thin, industrial carpet that felt like a second home. There was a vending machine outside the doors where, for under a dollar, I could buy a strawberry Pop-tart for dinner.
Writing, Personal Essays, Family, Education
50 points by PaulHoule 75 days ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Bad ALIENS, 5yo and dad build a game in 8h with AI (nicroto.github.io)
AI, Game Development, Family, Creative Projects, Show HN
8 points by tsenkov 81 days ago | 3 comments
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working (economist.com)
Work hard, children are told, and you will succeed. In recent decades this advice served the talented and the diligent well. Many have made their own fortunes and live comfortably, regardless of how much money they inherited. Now, however, the importance of hereditary wealth is rising around the rich world, and that is a problem.
Economics, Inequality, Wealth, Family, Social Mobility
678 points by pseudolus 84 days ago | 904 comments
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)
My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside in the cold. My dad’s preferred method of improving his lot was improving lots, and my brother and I were “voluntarily” recruited to help working on the buildings we owned.
Family, Real Estate, Immigration, North America
384 points by lis 94 days ago | 210 comments
'You've Blown a Hole in the Family': Inside the Murdochs' Succession Drama (nytimes.com)
More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.
Media, Family, Business, Lawsuits, Succession
15 points by JumpCrisscross 98 days ago | 17 comments
It's not 'emotional labour', it's kin work (thefuturefeeling.substack.com)
I’ve just come back from a seasonal gathering where it was obvious – as it is obvious every year – that the women in the heterosexual couples had done a far larger amount of work than their partners.
Gender, Relationships, Sociology, Family
61 points by bobbiechen 109 days ago | 71 comments
Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018) (medium.com)
As a consequence of scanning thousands of slides, I learned quite a bit about taking photos that capture a family’s life. Here’s a personal memoir, with a few lessons in taking memorable snapshots.
Photography, Family, Memories
404 points by mooreds 117 days ago | 166 comments
The reason for the rise in male childlessness (bbc.com)
When the US vice-presidential candidate JD Vance made a comment about “childless cat ladies”, he evoked an image of educated, urbanite, career-minded women.
Demographics, Social Trends, Gender, Family, Politics
15 points by Qem 121 days ago | 9 comments
A story of three identical strangers (historicflix.com)
In 1980, three young men discovered something truly astonishing: they were identical triplets, separated at birth. They met by chance – up to that point, none even knew that they had siblings.
Identical Triplets, Family, Human Interest, Genetics, Social Media
16 points by 5555624 122 days ago | 11 comments
Genetics, not shared envs, drives parent-child similarities in intelligence (psypost.org)
How much of your cognitive ability is shaped by your genetic inheritance compared to the environment you grow up in? A new study published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility suggests that the transmission of cognitive ability from parents to children is primarily driven by genetics, with little influence from shared environmental factors like family resources. The findings challenge traditional assumptions in social mobility research that often attribute these correlations primarily to socio-economic status.
Genetics, Intelligence, Family, Social Mobility, Research
42 points by amichail 127 days ago | 16 comments
Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an 'inheritocracy' (2024) (theguardian.com)
Family wealth dictates our life choices. So is the Bank of Mum and Dad now behind so many of society’s growing inequalities?
Economics, Inequality, Family, Social Issues, Inheritance
26 points by herbertl 130 days ago | 28 comments
An Illustrator Dies, His Last Book Unfinished. In Steps His Son (nytimes.com)
Charles Santore was in the middle of illustrating the children’s book he did not know would be his last when he began to feel weak.
Family, Death, Art, Books, Children's Literature
7 points by prismatic 130 days ago | 1 comments