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Ask HN: Could cloudy cities build 3,000-foot towers to rise above most clouds?

1•amichail•4h ago
Wouldn’t this allow their citizens to experience sunlight on significantly more days during cloudy winters?”

Comments

Kon-Peki•3h ago
I doubt 3000 feet is tall enough.

But there are plenty of cities that already experience this:

https://iso.500px.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cloudchicag...

A shower thought turned into a beautiful Collatz visualization

https://abstractnonsense.com/collatz/
2•abstractbill•2m ago•0 comments

Linux on Chuwi MiniBook X N150 TwinLake 2-in-1, 10" 2K, 12GB RAM, Intel TXT

https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/05/15/2230
1•transpute•5m ago•0 comments

Deliberate Boredom

https://herbertlui.net/deliberate-boredom/
2•herbertl•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is there a Wikipedia or LLM wrapper for kids (with parental controls)?

2•soferio•13m ago•0 comments

French state covered up Nestle water scandal: Senate report

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/french-state-covered-up-nestle-water-scandal-senate-report/articleshow/121266215.cms
2•wslh•13m ago•0 comments

Real-Time Grass Simulation in the Browser – Over 1M Blades at 60 FPS

https://labs.techredux.co/grass/
1•handfuloflight•14m ago•0 comments

DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage

https://micahflee.com/ddosecrets-publishes-410-gb-of-heap-dumps-hacked-from-telemessages-archive-server/
2•micahflee•14m ago•0 comments

Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.241776
1•Anon84•14m ago•0 comments

DEF CON hackers vs. our internet voting system (SIV.org): Report

https://hack.siv.org/reports/2024defcon
2•arianasiv•14m ago•1 comments

UK study: Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/20/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds
3•kawera•16m ago•0 comments

My Dad's Last Days

https://petros.blog/2024/07/07/my-dads-last-days/
1•overbring_labs•17m ago•0 comments

free AI for Excel

https://aiforexcel.top/
1•rooty_ship•18m ago•0 comments

SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/19/sim_swapper_sec_x_account/
4•gslin•21m ago•0 comments

Smart textile lighting/display system [....]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28459-6
1•sargstuff•22m ago•0 comments

Spain Orders Airbnb to Take Down 66,000 Rental Listings

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/business/airbnb-listings-spain.html
1•stevenwoo•23m ago•1 comments

House orders Pentagon to review if it exposed Americans to weaponised ticks 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/16/pentagon-review-weaponised-ticks-lyme-disease
2•isomorph•23m ago•0 comments

Debugging My RSI

https://debugyourpain.substack.com/p/debugging-my-rsi
1•awakenmyrub•25m ago•0 comments

How Noxx Uses Validation to Parse Complex Resumes with AI

https://medium.com/@masaishi/how-noxx-uses-validation-to-parse-complex-resumes-with-ai-fc2d6eea3e21
1•masaishi•27m ago•1 comments

Mrs. Meir Says Moses Made Israel Oil‐Poor (1973)

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/11/archives/mrs-meir-says-moses-made-israel-oilpoor.html
1•wslh•29m ago•1 comments

Turn text, pdf, link and YouTube to Podcast with AI

https://aivocal.io/ai-podcast
2•caohongyuan•32m ago•1 comments

Old Growth Wood

https://brenthull.com/article/old-growth-wood
1•ksec•34m ago•0 comments

Information Processing via Human Soft Tisssue

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10935315
1•sargstuff•36m ago•0 comments

All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the 19th Century US

https://academic.oup.com/past/article/265/1/97/7625037
1•samclemens•39m ago•0 comments

Trump signs law combating deepfakes and revenge porn

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74qnyz89y3o
2•OutOfHere•43m ago•1 comments

The Top Corporate Board Directors

https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/2025-top-corporate-directors-f605623c
1•impish9208•45m ago•1 comments

is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even-ai
31•modinfo•46m ago•7 comments

Is This Late-Night TV's Last Gasp?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/business/media/late-night-streaming-john-mulaney.html
1•gmays•48m ago•0 comments

Cryptocurrency ATMs target the "unbanked" in Colorado. So do scammers

https://coloradosun.com/2025/05/19/cryptocurrency-atms-scams-colorado/
2•bediger4000•51m ago•0 comments

Google Translate Now Available as Default Translation App on iPhone and iPad

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/19/google-translate-default-option-ios/
1•mfiguiere•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GitPT – Git Prompt Tool

https://github.com/bartaxyz/GitPT
1•bartaxyz•55m ago•0 comments