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Paris Agreement target won't protect polar ice sheets, scientists warn

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/paris-agreement-target-wont-protect-polar-ice-sheets-scientists-warn/
10•rntn•7h ago

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melling•7h ago
We should be reaching peak coal real soon now:

https://www.iea.org/news/global-coal-demand-is-set-to-platea...

toomuchtodo•6h ago
It’s really all up to China now, to build and sell as many EVs, batteries, and solar panels as they can. They have to crowd out fossil energy usage globally as a global clean energy manufacturing powerhouse.
aziaziazi•36m ago
They might have/choose to create batterie big enough to retrofit their diesel-electric haul truck first, to start at the beginning of the batteries supply chain. Not wanting to sound defeatist but that's not the easiest part.
toomuchtodo•33m ago
https://theicct.org/publication/ze-mhdv-market-china-2024-ma...

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/half-chinas-heavy-tr...

https://electrek.co/2025/05/18/autonomous-electric-haul-truc...

I cannot overstate how much battery manufacturing capacity China is building.

https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batt...

metalman•6h ago
nothing can protect that which no longer exists, which we are most definitly on track in the case of the northern polar ice cover. https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today edit: the article linked in the title of this thread, mentions the effects of ocean warming causing equatorial ocean expansion effects, and as a first for me, that the reduced polar ice caps are reducing gravitaional pull that is changing ocean currents. it's bad when....right

Why did medieval readers kiss, smudge and deface their books?

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/13/why-did-medieval-readers-kiss-smudge-and-deface-their-books/
1•gnabgib•1m ago•0 comments

Temperature-controlled switch activates sperm, is key to fertility

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/temperature-controlled-switch-activates-sperm-is-key-to-fertility/
1•gmays•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Engineering Statics and Dynamics book recommendation

1•areoform•2m ago•0 comments

Chris Maple, creator of the iconic Pokémon logo, reveals his early design drafts

https://www.ign.com/articles/meet-the-man-who-designed-pokemons-iconic-logo
1•frigidwalnut•5m ago•0 comments

Should I Block ICMP?

http://shouldiblockicmp.com/
3•rascul•5m ago•0 comments

Microsoft AI Exec Accidentally Spills Walmart's AI Plans

https://autogpt.net/microsoft-ai-exec-accidentally-spills-walmarts-ai-plans-during-protest-rattled-talk/
1•zhengiszen•6m ago•0 comments

Microsoft employee shouts over Satya Nadella's keynote to protest

https://fortune.com/article/microsoft-employee-protest-satya-nadella-keynote-israel-contracts-gaza-azure/
1•zhengiszen•6m ago•0 comments

Abraham Lincoln artifacts that were once in a museum are going up for auction

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/05/20/abraham-lincoln-artifacts-that-were-once-in-a-museum-are-going-up-for-auction
2•donsupreme•8m ago•0 comments

Politeness to ChatGPT raises OpenAI's operational costs

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/politeness-to-chatgpt-raises-o-qu9DjX3DRp6v5fwHtNVYQA
1•iio7•9m ago•1 comments

CRDTs: Pros and Cons (Lattices and Lettuces?)

https://jhellerstein.github.io/blog/crdt-intro/
2•KraftyOne•10m ago•0 comments

Open Source Can't Coordinate

https://matklad.github.io/2025/05/20/open-source-cant-coordinate.html
3•goranmoomin•14m ago•3 comments

Putting rigid bodies to rest [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/RestingBodies/PuttingRigidBodiesToRest.pdf
1•robinhouston•17m ago•0 comments

Are groovy brains more efficient?

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/21/are-groovy-brains-more-efficient/
2•amichail•17m ago•0 comments

Rosettacode.org Is Down

2•abetusk•20m ago•0 comments

GeoGuessr Most Popular Maps Unplayable Protest of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup

https://aftermath.site/geoguessr-blackout-esports-world-cup-saudi-arabia
1•healsdata•24m ago•0 comments

Running WebAssembly (WASM) Components from the Command Line

https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/invoking-component-functions-in-wasmtime-cli
1•tpmccallum•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dora

https://dorafiles.com
2•ata_aman•27m ago•0 comments

Why Good Programmers Use Bad AI

https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-programmers
1•namanyayg•27m ago•0 comments

Treasury Yields Soar as Ballooning U.S. Deficit Worries Wall Street

https://www.investopedia.com/treasury-yields-soar-as-ballooning-us-deficit-worries-wall-street-11739473
5•inverted_flag•30m ago•1 comments

I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

https://blog.greg.technology/2025/05/20/tinnitus.html
5•gregsadetsky•33m ago•2 comments

AI agents will do the grunt work of coding

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/20/ai-agents-software-programming-coding
1•ripe•35m ago•0 comments

Forensic crime scene reconstruction expert statement on MH370 footage

https://twitter.com/ScottRoderCSTM/status/1924202901850698131
2•jjoe•35m ago•0 comments

The Global Startup Ecosystem Index Report 2025

https://lp.startupblink.com/report-download/
1•myth_drannon•39m ago•0 comments

Unknown strain of bacteria found on China's Tiangong Space Station

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/unknown-strain-of-bacteria-found-on-chinas-tiangong-space-station
3•geox•40m ago•0 comments

These structures shrink when pulled

https://amolf.nl/news/these-structures-shrink-when-pulled
1•gnabgib•48m ago•0 comments

Click: Python CLI Package

https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/
2•sargstuff•53m ago•1 comments

Building a fast website with the MASH stack in Rust

https://emschwartz.me/building-a-fast-website-with-the-mash-stack-in-rust/
2•birdculture•54m ago•0 comments

Southwest will require passengers to keep chargers visible due to fire risk

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5406294/southwest-airlines-will-require-passengers-to-keep-chargers-visible-due-to-fire-risk
2•voxadam•55m ago•1 comments

The Many Types of Polymorphism

https://krishna.github.io/posts/many-types-of-polymorphism/
2•amichail•55m ago•0 comments

Building CLIs with Click in Python [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWacanslfFM
1•sargstuff•56m ago•0 comments