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The Colorado River is running low. The picture looks even worse underground.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/05/27/american-west-drought-water-colorado-river/
23•rblion•1d ago

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Arnt•1d ago
https://archive.is/dXr2K

Tldr: "the region lost 27.8 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003, roughly the same volume as the total capacity of Lake Mead — the nation’s largest reservoir — and that the decline accelerated rapidly over the past decade. These groundwater losses accounted for more than twice the amount taken out of reservoirs in the region during that time."

niobe•1d ago
paywalled
yeah879846•1d ago
https://archive.is/dXr2K
cute_boi•1d ago
They should start to ban water usage to grow Alfalfa. It consumes so much water and is very inefficient.
amanaplanacanal•1d ago
That would likely constitute a taking under the fifth amendment, and they would have to pay the farmers a fair market value.

But yes, they should probably do that.

iamthepieman•1d ago
The worst part is that a lot of the alfalfa and other feedstock crops are shipped out of the country.
davidklemke•1d ago
Climate Town did a great video breaking down where a lot of this ends up, worth the watch if you want some more detailed background on the agreements in place that are leading to this happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusyNT_k-1c
gtani•1d ago
This is a complex set of constraints, and people in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado etc have different perspectives on this. In my mind Lakes Powell/ Mead running low is somehow congruent to the /ZB Treasury futures contract (30 year) running lower, somehow there's a common economic invariant lurking in there.

The somewhat brighter bullet points: Northern California reservoirs are doing prety well, and the Bureau of Reclamatn can again kick the can by draining Flaming Gorge but i think this only works every few years:

https://graphs.water-data.com/flaminggorge/

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain

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weekly watch, showing, surprisingly, nontrivial drought in Florida but drought did visibly abate in Nebraska: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx

Cops want Apple, Google to kill stolen phones remotely – so why won't they?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/04/apple_google_stolen_phones/
1•rntn•56s ago•0 comments

The Texting Network for the End of the World

https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-phone-dead-zones/
1•dotcoma•2m ago•0 comments

The no-nonsense approach to AI agent development

https://vercel.com/blog/the-no-nonsense-approach-to-ai-agent-development
1•cramforce•3m ago•0 comments

Generative AI models are skilled in the art of bullshit

https://www.ft.com/content/55c08fc8-2f0b-4233-b1c6-c1e19d99990f
1•dotcoma•4m ago•0 comments

How Should We Think About the Renaissance?

https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-should-we-think-about-the-renaissance
2•prismatic•6m ago•0 comments

Physicality: The New Age of UI

https://www.lux.camera/physicality-the-new-age-of-ui/
1•robenkleene•6m ago•0 comments

How ancient are our fears not simply of dying but of the undead? Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/how-ancient-are-our-fears-not-simply-of-dying-but-of-the-undead
1•rbanffy•6m ago•0 comments

Can You Control If Amazon Rufus AI Trains on Your Queries?

https://www.askdavetaylor.com/control-amazon-rufus-ai-trains-on-queries/
1•austinallegro•7m ago•0 comments

We built a voice AI agent that answers and makes calls for ecommerce businesses

https://llamalo.ai/
2•anasmidoul•8m ago•2 comments

Globally Based – all-in-one platform for travel management

https://globallybased.com
1•ilyagruzhevski•11m ago•0 comments

TSMC to open up chip design center in Munich to help local chip developers

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmc-to-open-up-chip-design-center-in-munich-to-help-local-chip-developers
1•rbanffy•11m ago•0 comments

Hyundai's Metaplant: Cutting-Edge EV Factory

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyundai-metaplant-georgia
1•rbanffy•12m ago•0 comments

Uber's senior accounts are now widely available

https://www.theverge.com/news/678874/uber-senior-account-elderly-font-simple
1•Tomte•12m ago•0 comments

Return-to-player information increases gamblers' perceived chances of winning

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460325001248
1•PaulHoule•13m ago•0 comments

Upcoming Changes to the Chrome Root Store

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/05/sustaining-digital-certificate-security-chrome-root-store-changes.html
1•Tomte•13m ago•0 comments

My second open source contribution

https://substack.com/home/post/p-165170908
1•fitiavana07•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which LLM Finds Obscure Knife-Brand URLs Cheapest? (8-Model Benchmark)

https://new.knife.day/blog/using-llms-for-knife-brand-research
1•p-s-v•14m ago•0 comments

Meta and Constellation Partner on Clean Energy Project

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/06/meta-constellation-partner-clean-energy-project/
1•doener•15m ago•0 comments

The happiest kids–things parents here in Netherlands never do (2023)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/10/child-psychologist-in-the-netherlands-where-worlds-happiest-kids-live-what-dutch-parents-never-do.html
1•itherseed•16m ago•0 comments

Push Notification Providers in 2025

https://knock.app/blog/evaluating-the-best-push-notifications-providers-2024
1•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

A High IQ Makes You an Outsider, Not a Genius

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/high-iq-intelligence-myth/683023/
3•bell-cot•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NodeCosmos – Open-source products beyond software

1•goran_nc•17m ago•0 comments

How old are you, really?

https://modernmedlife.com/tools/bodyage
1•dosstx1•18m ago•1 comments

Don't McBlock Me

https://www.schneems.com/2025/06/03/dont-mcblock-me/
1•Ozarkian•18m ago•0 comments

The "glamour" of 1980s computer magazines

https://newslttrs.com/the-glamour-of-1980s-computer-magazines/
3•spzb•18m ago•1 comments

Storyteller

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/storyteller
1•hgv•18m ago•0 comments

The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502
1•booleanbetrayal•18m ago•0 comments

Next.js Bundle Sizes: Insights from 300k Domains

https://www.catchmetrics.io/blog/nextjs-bundle-sizes-insights-from-300000-domains
1•martinald•20m ago•1 comments

Tnok – Next Generation Port Security

https://www.ainfosec.com/tnok-next-generation-port-security
5•seanlaplante•20m ago•3 comments

AI coding crash course I wish I had when building my first MVP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPVWHWsJOZ4
1•karenac•23m ago•1 comments