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NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
1•geox•32s ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
1•EA-3167•45s ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
2•fliellerjulian•2m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•5m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
1•RickJWagner•6m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•7m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
1•jbegley•7m ago•0 comments

DevXT – Building the Future with AI That Acts

https://devxt.com
2•superpecmuscles•8m ago•4 comments

A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK

https://github.com/CefBoud/MonClaw
1•cefboud•9m ago•0 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
2•amitprasad•9m ago•0 comments

The Internal Negotiation You Have When Your Heart Rate Gets Uncomfortable

https://www.vo2maxpro.com/blog/internal-negotiation-heart-rate
1•GoodluckH•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glance – Fast CSV inspection for the terminal (SIMD-accelerated)

https://github.com/AveryClapp/glance
2•AveryClapp•11m ago•0 comments

Busy for the Next Fifty to Sixty Bud

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1•mithradiumn•12m ago•0 comments

Imperative

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/imperative
1•mithradiumn•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I decomposed 87 tasks to find where AI agents structurally collapse

https://github.com/XxCotHGxX/Instruction_Entropy
1•XxCotHGxX•17m ago•1 comments

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

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3•timpera•18m ago•1 comments

Octrafic – open-source AI-assisted API testing from the CLI

https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli
1•mbadyl•19m ago•1 comments

US Accuses China of Secret Nuclear Testing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-has-been-clear-wanting-new-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-...
2•jandrewrogers•20m ago•1 comments

Peacock. A New Programming Language

2•hashhooshy•25m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
3•bookofjoe•26m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

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Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/ab75cef97954
2•birdculture•31m ago•0 comments

AI overlay that reads anything on your screen (invisible to screen capture)

https://lowlighter.app/
1•andylytic•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Seafloor, be up and running with OpenClaw in 20 seconds

https://seafloor.bot/
1•k0mplex•32m ago•0 comments

Tesla turbine-inspired structure generates electricity using compressed air

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-tesla-turbine-generates-electricity-compressed.html
2•PaulHoule•34m ago•0 comments

State Department deleting 17 years of tweets (2009-2025); preservation needed

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
4•sleazylice•34m ago•1 comments

Learning to code, or building side projects with AI help, this one's for you

https://codeslick.dev/learn
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Effulgence RPG Engine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQOUe9S7dU
1•msuniverse2026•36m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

xPrize in Carbon Removal Goes to Enhanced Rock Weathering

https://spectrum.ieee.org/xprize-carbon-removal
37•pseudolus•9mo ago

Comments

sightbroke•9mo ago
> The company spreads crushed basalt on small farms in India and Africa. The silica-rich volcanic rock improves the quality of the soil for the crops but also helps remove carbon dioxide from the air. It does this by reacting with dissolved CO2 in the soil’s water, turning it into bicarbonate ions and preventing it from returning to the atmosphere

> Carbon dioxide in the air dissolves into rainwater, forming carbonic acid. As rocks are worn away (or weathered) by this slightly acidic water, silicate minerals in the rock dissolve. This releases calcium, magnesium, and other positively charged ions called cations. These cations react with carbonic acid in the water, forming bicarbonate ions.

Here is a dumb question: Would the basalt capture CO2 more effectively if released into the atmosphere or into rain storms?

moomin•9mo ago
You’d need to, at the very least, make it into a powder or it would just fall to the ground anyway. That, in turn, would require you to crush basalt, which is pretty tough and, importantly, energy intensive. And you wouldn’t have any agricultural benefits either.
sightbroke•9mo ago
They're already crushing it here though?

You can still do both things but if the primary goal is to capture carbon my question is if it would capture more if released in the atmosphere (by planes or similar).

zdragnar•9mo ago
You'd want to crush it much more finely for it to have a chance to actually capture anything while in the air, requiring more energy input and causing breathing hazards due to the fine particulates, not to mention staining everything it rains on with the fine basalt.

You could release it extremely high such that it stays suspended a bit longer, but then you'd waste even more energy getting it up there.

metalman•9mo ago
there will be very very little dust fine enough to become suspended in air, without running it through ball mills, which will be stupidly expensive. "crusher dust" is the label given to the fines from rock crushers, that is suitable for use on trsditional "gravel paths" in parks. Basalt is actualy quite friable, and crumbles fairly easily......depending on the type...., some would be more trouble than it's worth.....other types are very crumbly and adding the rock to agricultural soils, has the added benifit of incresing soil fertility, while absorbing CO². So the initial payback from increased production and quality of food, ofsets a portion of the costs, prrhaps all of the costs in situations where the right types of rocks are located near good agricultural candidate areas. The other agricultural carbon capture method is tera pretta or biochar, where organic waste is chared and mixed into soil, where it persists for many millenia, and provides a media for soil biota to live in, and reacts with varios harmfull contaminents to sequester and neutralise through chemical and biological reactions. The impilimentation of any carbon capture method is going to be dependent on local conditions, that will vary quite considerably, ie: what makes sense and is actualy benificial in one area, could easily be a net carbon cost, somewhere else. The main variables will be crushing ,trucking, and spreading costs, and then I think,actual soil ph and chemistry, as certain soil types would prevent any reaction with the rock, and atmospheric carbon. The whole thing, bieng a thing, and a deap rabbit hole wanting dedicated local expertise and knowledge. A personal observation of "carbonate beds" leads me to believe that under certain conditions, the amount of material produced is truely huge.
Teever•9mo ago
I've been wondering for a while now about the viability of asteroid/lunar mining that involves returning the payload of rare earth minerals or titanium in flying wing shaped return vehicles that are wrapped in some sort of mineral that ablates in the atmosphere while absorbing CO2 like this stuff does.

The idea is that we could both eliminate the Earth based pollution associated with mining while sequestering co2 previously emitted by terrestrial mining at the same time.

JumpCrisscross•9mo ago
> Would the basalt capture CO2 more effectively if released into the atmosphere or into rain storms?

Guess: it would do so more quickly, but not necessarily more effectively in the long run to the extent it balances the energy required to loft it. (Even if it's all green. You could just that energy to grind and distribute more basalt to the ground.)

jrapdx3•9mo ago
AFAIK cationic calcium, et. al., combine with dissolved CO2 forming carbonates which having low water solubility eventually precipitate out of solution. Area with "hard water" often have issues with buildup of scale in water pipes. The scale is mainly calcium carbonate and sulfate.

This is normally a gradual process requiring ample moisture. Releasing finely ground rock into the air wouldn't likely be effective. For one thing, such dispersal would be rather dilute. IOW the dispersion wouldn't reliably react with CO3 ions before settling out of the air. Another consideration is the salicaceous content of the rock being a potential health hazard.

The original idea of adding crushed rock to water-containing soil is logically the best way for the project to accomplish its goals.