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Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•1m ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•1m ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•3m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? With Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
1•consumer451•6m ago•1 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•19m ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
1•jesperordrup•24m ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•25m ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•25m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•32m ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
5•keepamovin•40m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
2•sickthecat•45m ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
2•imthepk•50m ago•0 comments

How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•51m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•55m ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2j80klmo
3•breve•56m ago•1 comments

The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•58m ago•0 comments

Rentahuman.ai Turns Humans into On-Demand Labor for AI Agents

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/02/05/when-ai-agents-start-hiring-humans-rentahuma...
1•tempodox•1h ago•0 comments

StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

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https://afelyon.com/
1•AbduNebu•1h ago•0 comments

Trump says America should move on from Epstein – it may not be that easy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4gj71z0m0o
7•tempodox•1h ago•4 comments

Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

https://github.com/salva-imm/tiny-clippy
1•salvadorda656•1h ago•0 comments

LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMQbsOTX-o
1•adityaathalye•1h ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-moves-deport-5-year-old-detained-minnesota-2026-02-06/
9•petethomas•1h ago•3 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-embassy-mcdonalds-restaurants-austria-hotline-americans-consular-...
2•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid Formatter – CLI and library to auto-format Mermaid diagrams

https://github.com/chenyanchen/mermaid-formatter
1•astm•1h ago•0 comments

RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

https://h3manth.com/scribe/rfcs-vs-readmes/
3•init0•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Bans on gas-powered leaf blowers are spreading around the US

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/31/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-banned/83966488007/
23•geox•7mo ago

Comments

m3kw9•7mo ago
I'd ban them base on just noise alone
olyjohn•7mo ago
Then you'll have to bad electric ones too. Because they are also loud as shit.
mingus88•7mo ago
Both systems essentially rotate a fan and that noise will never go away

But if you are trying to equate the noise of a few 4-stroke gas engines with that of brushless electric motors then I don’t think you are acting in good faith

onewheeltom•7mo ago
Leaf blowers are normally 2 stroke which are noisier than 4 stroke and they generate more pollution
plorkyeran•7mo ago
Electric leaf blowers are still loud, but there's a 10-20 dB difference.
ignu•7mo ago
I'd gladly suffer the indignity of stepping on a few leaves if I didn't have to listen to an hour of blaring leaf-blower every Tuesday morning.
xnx•7mo ago
Leaf litter is also where juvenile lightning bugs live. Less leaf litter = less lightning bugs.
Macha•7mo ago
Is that a worse problem than hours of leaf blower noise?

I googled and apparently it's another name for fireflies and on my list of insects that cause problems, fireflies don't make the list.

mingus88•7mo ago
Insect populations are dying out and it’s a huge problem we don’t talk enough about.

People are calling out fireflys because they are (were) very visible but it’s a problem for every species. We are replacing native plants with low pile outdoor carpet in the suburbs, and dousing everything else in pesticide

xnx•7mo ago
I mean to discourage people from blowing away their leaves.

Less leaf blowing may also result in more lightning bugs / fireflies, which many people enjoy.

JumpCrisscross•7mo ago
> Leaf litter is also where juvenile lightning bugs live

Also various species of bumblebee and fledgling birds, from magpies to owls.

seatac76•7mo ago
This I can get behind. The Monday morning smell of gasoline fumes and noise is something I can do without.
antibull•7mo ago
USAtoday is a propaganda rag. Gas powered tools are needed because electric tools still can't do large jobs very effectively. It has absolutely nothing to do woth proping up the oil industry. That's just a straw man used to push more control over your life and freedom of choice. Electric tools are 90% made of petroleum oil. They batteries are mined with petroleum oil. The batteries are charged by oil as well.
mingus88•7mo ago
Like other areas of electrification, centralizing the generation of power used to charge is a significant step in the right direction

We are hopelessly addicted to petroleum but taking all of those little motors out of our neighborhoods is good and useful and we should do more of it. They are much more inefficient and pollute to a greater degree than generating that power in a plant

That said, I love my electric blower and trimmer. One even has a cord so no batteries needed.

But all the crews that service large areas and are out all day long working still will use gas for a long time. It’s just not practical at that scale.

jsbisviewtiful•7mo ago
> Electric tools are 90% made of petroleum oil. They batteries are mined with petroleum oil. The batteries are charged by oil as well.

These are the same weak and increasingly inaccurate with more time arguments that are constantly tossed around. It's so similar to a parrot that can't stop yapping its phrases. Fossil fuels are destroying the planet and they are replaceable - especially outside of the industrial markets.

It's also quite humorous to notice so many pro-fossil fuel posts having typos in them. It's no wonder propaganda works so well on the uneducated.

impossiblefork•7mo ago
You can use a rake though.
xnx•7mo ago
It seems like enforcing noise nuisance laws would be a good route to go. It would tackle unmuffled 2-stroke engines and many motorcycles at the same time.
antisthenes•7mo ago
Enforcing noise nuisance is impossible in practice.

By the time police (?) arrives to check it out in 90% of cases, the source of disturbance will be long gone.

So it's a huge waste of taxpayer dollars, because you could be enforcing something more important (e.g. traffic or crime prevention)

xnx•7mo ago
> Enforcing noise nuisance is impossible in practice.

Definitely a challenge, but where there's a will there's a way.

An app for reporting would be great, though calibration might be a dealbreaker.

hysan•7mo ago
Just enforcing it at all would bring about a huge amount of change. I literally see police chilling in their cars while obnoxiously loud cars & motorcycles drive by and they do nothing even though my city has noise ordinance laws. The biggest problem isn’t the lack of laws but the enforcement of them. I’d wager that many of those people feel like they can get away with it not because the police will arrive too late, but because the police don’t care to enforce what’s right in front of their faces.
JumpCrisscross•7mo ago
> Enforcing noise nuisance is impossible in practice

Just add a pair of calibrated microphones to traffic cam setups.

jauntywundrkind•7mo ago
DC did this and it's such a huge amazing quality of life benefit. It's superb & excellent.

Cities should do a lot more to tackle noise & pollution.

msgodel•7mo ago
Electric leaf blowers are surprisingly bad. I recently bought one and had to spend half an hour going through probably close to 100 devices that were way oversized for the battery pack they came with. The one I settled on has much less power than most of them but seems to do ok.

There's something about battery technology where the parameters are just slightly too complex for marketing people to communicate usable information to users. It's so frustrating.

toomuchtodo•7mo ago
You don’t have to ban it everywhere, just enough jurisdictions to where minimum remaining demand falls below what is commercially viable to sustain a business building combustion powered implements.