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Show HN: Git command for creating snapshot commits on a not checked-out branch

https://github.com/meribold/git-snap
1•meribold•1m ago•0 comments

Philip K Dick FBI file

https://www.spyculture.com/philip-k-dick-fbi-file/
2•m-hodges•1m ago•0 comments

TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025

https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289661/google-deepmind/
1•tzury•2m ago•0 comments

AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/amd_20x_30/
1•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

GPT4Free: "educational project" for free LLM inference from various services

https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free
1•bobbiechen•3m ago•0 comments

Entropy of a Mixture

https://cgad.ski/blog/entropy-of-a-mixture.html
2•cgadski•3m ago•0 comments

Embracing the power of the empty set in API design: Requesting zero items

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250630-00/?p=111320
2•ingve•4m ago•0 comments

A Possible Connection Between Mental Illness and Diet

https://undark.org/2025/06/24/mental-illness-ketogenic-diet/
2•gmays•4m ago•0 comments

Embodied AI Agents: Modeling the World

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22355
2•lucaspauker•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: C.O.R.E – Opensource, user owned, shareable memory for Claude, Cursor

https://github.com/RedPlanetHQ/core
2•Manik_agg•4m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT intercepts clear cache keyboard shortcut in Brave

2•VibeCobold•8m ago•0 comments

LLVM: InstCombine: A PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/llvm/
1•mseri•9m ago•0 comments

Skyrocketing HBM Will Push Micron Through $45B and Beyond

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/06/30/skyrocketing-hbm-will-push-micron-through-10-billion-and-beyond/
1•rbanffy•9m ago•0 comments

Connected Gmail mcp to AI voice

https://harmony.com.ai
2•bigonion•10m ago•1 comments

Boeing to Replace CFO Brian West with Former Lockheed Finance Chief

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/boeing-to-replace-cfo-west-with-former-lockheed-finance-chief
1•Bluestein•10m ago•0 comments

Simple low-dimensional computations explain variability in neuronal activity

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08637
1•iNic•13m ago•0 comments

From Pokémon Red to Standardized Game-as-an-Eval

https://lmgame.org
3•Yuxuan_Zhang13•15m ago•1 comments

The Whole Country Is Starting to Look Like California

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/06/zoning-sun-belt-housing-shortage/683352/
4•ryan_j_naughton•16m ago•0 comments

Eigenvalues of Generative Media

https://stackdiver.com/posts/eigenvalues-of-generative-media/
3•d0tn3t•16m ago•1 comments

Universities Are Making You Look Stupid

https://arealsociety.substack.com/p/universities-are-making-you-look
2•arealsociety•19m ago•0 comments

Brazil's Supreme Court clears way to hold social media liable for user content

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-social-media-ruling-324b9d79caa9f9e063da8a4993e382e1
2•rbanffy•19m ago•0 comments

The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering

https://www.philschmid.de/context-engineering
4•robotswantdata•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: When will YC do a batch in Europe and/or Asia?

3•HSO•21m ago•2 comments

Repurposed Materials

https://www.repurposedmaterialsinc.com/view-all-products/
1•bookofjoe•22m ago•0 comments

Liberals, you must reclaim Adam Smith

https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2013/11/liberals-you-must-reclaim-adam-smith.html
3•matthest•23m ago•1 comments

Symbients on Stage Coming Soon: Autonomous AI Entrepreneurs

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwolcott/2025/06/30/symbients-on-stage-coming-soon-autonomous-ai-entrepreneurs/
1•Bluestein•23m ago•0 comments

Can Large Language Models Help Students Prove Software Correctness?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22370
1•elashri•27m ago•0 comments

Developing with GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and MCP

https://austen.info/blog/github-copilot-agent-mcp/
1•miltonlaxer•27m ago•0 comments

I got removed from GitHub for making open source stuff

2•Hasturdev•29m ago•2 comments

NASA plans to stream rocket launches on Netflix starting this summer

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/nasa-rocket-launches-netflix.html
2•rustoo•30m ago•2 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/
19•geox•4h ago

Comments

m3kw9•4h ago
I'd ban them base on just noise alone
olyjohn•4h ago
Then you'll have to bad electric ones too. Because they are also loud as shit.
mingus88•3h 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•2h ago
Leaf blowers are normally 2 stroke which are noisier than 4 stroke and they generate more pollution
plorkyeran•3h ago
Electric leaf blowers are still loud, but there's a 10-20 dB difference.
ignu•4h 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•4h ago
Leaf litter is also where juvenile lightning bugs live. Less leaf litter = less lightning bugs.
Macha•4h 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•3h 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•3h 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.

seatac76•4h ago
This I can get behind. The Monday morning smell of gasoline fumes and noise is something I can do without.
antibull•4h 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•4h 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•2h 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•2h ago
You can use a rake though.
xnx•4h 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•2h 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•2h 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•54m 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.
jauntywundrkind•3h 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•3h 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•3h 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.