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2025 AsiaLLVM Developers' Meeting Talks

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_R5A0lGi1ADKfJbzpA0rMDCb5T3QGe5k
1•matt_d•1m ago•1 comments

Open Co-Scientist Agents: Recreating Google's AI Co-Scientist in LangGraph

https://github.com/conradry/open-coscientist-agents
1•conradry•1m ago•0 comments

The Mechanic Johnny Cash and Elvis Would've Wanted (Toolbox Tour) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrHtzSIh2GQ
1•meandave•1m ago•0 comments

What happens to your brain when you watch videos online at faster speeds

https://theconversation.com/what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-watch-videos-online-at-faster-speeds-than-normal-259930
1•Duanemclemore•12m ago•1 comments

Is that a Lululemon Scuba hoodie or Costco dupe? No one has to know

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/2025/01/25/costco-dupe-lululemon-scuba-hoodie-danskin/
2•walterbell•12m ago•0 comments

Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead of Thousands

https://aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-microsoft-phil-spencer
2•Narishma•13m ago•0 comments

Mr. Abrego's Account of Torture at CECOT in El Salvador

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/mr-abregos-account-of-torture-at
2•tastyface•15m ago•1 comments

Interview Centers similar to SAT/GRE testing centers

https://spotlyn.com
1•varunmara•16m ago•1 comments

GoHardDrive Leaked Personal Data for Customers

https://mtlynch.io/goharddrive-leak/
1•shaunpud•19m ago•0 comments

Four integers are enough to write a Snake Game

https://www.andreinc.net/2022/05/01/4-integers-are-enough-to-write-a-snake-game
1•wonger_•21m ago•0 comments

It Came from Outside Our Solar System, and It Looks Like a Comet

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/science/interstellar-object-a11pi3z.html
2•handfuloflight•24m ago•0 comments

Pampena vs. Musk (ND Cal 2022) 30 June 2025 Order on motion to compel responses [pdf]

https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.cand.401655/gov.uscourts.cand.401655.218.0.pdf
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•25m ago•0 comments

Copyleft-Next

https://next.copyleft.org/
1•Bogdanp•32m ago•0 comments

The 1996 movie Independence Day in real time

https://bsky.app/profile/1996id4.bsky.social
1•Kye•37m ago•0 comments

European summers are getting brutally hot. So why is air conditioning so rare?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/climate/europe-air-conditioning-heat-wave-intl-latam
3•sleepyguy•39m ago•1 comments

multi_db: repo that uses Datastar and has a multi db setup, one for each user

https://github.com/asmorris/multi_db
1•thunderbong•42m ago•0 comments

CSS conditionals with the new if() function

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/if-article
1•b_mc2•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made an MCP Server for Whois and RDAP

https://github.com/elgertam/whois-rdap-mcp
1•elgertam•43m ago•0 comments

France and Switzerland shut down nuclear power plants amid scorching heatwave

https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/02/france-and-switzerland-shut-down-nuclear-power-plants-amid-scorching-heatwave
3•toomuchtodo•49m ago•0 comments

Dialects for Humans: Sounding Distinct from LLMs

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yRoXmjBKJFbc6zSFq/dialects-for-humans-sounding-distinct-from-llms
1•nebrelbug•51m ago•1 comments

Conventions for Extensible System Calls(2020)

https://lwn.net/Articles/830666/
1•howtofly•52m ago•0 comments

The deception that we crave

https://billmei.net/blog/love-reinforcement-learning
1•Kortaggio•56m ago•0 comments

The Salvadoran beach town that became a Bitcoin testbed

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250625-the-beach-town-that-became-a-bitcoin-testbed
1•rmason•58m ago•1 comments

How fast is it really? Latency, measurement and optimization in trading systems

https://www.architect.co/posts/how-fast-is-it-really
1•sneakerblack•1h ago•0 comments

Hacker News vs. Claude Code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDyDb4sX30w
1•pj4533•1h ago•1 comments

LLMs as Compilers

https://resync-games.com/blog/engineering/llms-as-compiler
2•kadhirvelm•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to export web element to code

https://copyui.online
1•Graxi•1h ago•0 comments

2025 Njpls – Revisiting the D Language – My 2^x Programming Language[Ep. 133]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJf0etigg7o
1•MikeShah•1h ago•1 comments

Stacked Clock (2014)

https://www.danieldjohnson.com/2014/06/30/stacked-clock/
1•wonger_•1h ago•0 comments

Parallel-in-Time Preconditioning for Time-Dependent Variational Mean Field Games

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01958
1•badmonster•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8
231•geox•6h ago

Comments

triceratops•5h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up
NewJazz•3h ago
And two decades before that, Inconvenient Truth.
pstuart•3h ago
And way before that, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here
apgwoz•58m ago
The section of the population that needs to think about the Inconvenient Truth didn’t watch the movie, because they don’t watch documentaries unless it’s about a Poop Cruise, or a celebrity.
bko•3h ago
I think we rely too much on government mandated websites than we do practical common sense that could save lives.

For instance, over 175,000 people die from heat exposure each year across the WHO European Region. Compare that to 1-2k in the US.

In this case, the Don't Look Up scenario is that people don't want to get A/C and governments sometimes make it very hard for them, killing hundreds of thousands because... I don't know why. But at least EU has nice proclamations and accords on the risk of climate change.

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/01-08-2024-statement--h...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2822854

triceratops•2h ago
How do governments make it "very hard" to get A/C?
bko•1h ago
Several EU countries have mandatory temperature limits for air conditioning in public buildings. Spain, Italy, and Greece have all announced that A/C in public buildings cannot be set lower than 27C (80F) in summer

Some excepts allow up to 25C like restaurants and some work places

The EU's F-Gas Regulation creates significant restrictions on refrigerants used in air conditioning

There's significant red tape when installing AC due to building regulations

90% of US homes have AC while only 20% of European homes have it

Fun fact, some EU countries even have laws telling you how much you can open your windows! In the UK, there is a law that in any public building, windows must not open more than 100mm (about 4 inches).

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spain-restricts-us...

https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/fluorinated-greenhous...

https://qualityautoglasstint.com/cracking-the-code-understan...

triceratops•1h ago
> Several EU countries have mandatory temperature limits for air conditioning in public buildings. Spain, Italy, and Greece have all announced that A/C in public buildings cannot be set lower than 27C (80F) in summer

How does that make it "hard" to get A/C in private homes? And are there a lot of heat-related deaths at 27C?

> The EU's F-Gas Regulation creates significant restrictions on refrigerants used in air conditioning

You should maybe look into why those exist. Air conditioning refrigerants are themselves major greenhouse gases and many deplete the ozone layer. Try also comparing those regulations to American ones. They're likely not very different.

> 90% of US homes have AC while only 20% of European homes have it

The US is richer and hotter. There's nothing like Florida or south Texas or Las Vegas or Phoenix in Europe.

> There's significant red tape when installing AC due to building regulations

Do tell...

> some EU countries even have laws telling you how much you can open your windows! In the UK...

Did you write this with an LLM or something? The third link you provided says nothing of the sort. It's about tint regulations on automobile windows FFS.

billfor•2h ago
Cold still kills at least 2x the number of people in the same region. 363,800 deaths are attributed to cold exposure.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/21/heat...

Brybry•1h ago
Couldn't they push heat pump units that cool and heat (with a bonus of not being reliant on wood or natural gas)?

Or do the regions that matter the most get too cold for heat pumps?

mayneack•1h ago
What does this have to do with government mandated websites? Seems that the US had a government website about climate and few heat deaths. If the number of heat deaths goes up this year without the websites would you think that is because the website went away (obviously not).

Seems like a website with information about climate change without a mandate about max AC is a pretty conservative strategy all things considered.

Rexxar•30m ago
The first number is based on statistical observation of mortality rate the second is based on classification by doctor at death. It's not comparable at all. For example, if there is an increase in heart related death when it's hot it's not accounted in second stats.

WHO European region also covered Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and other countries from central Asia so I don't see how you can conclude anything about EU with this piece of statistic. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WHO_regions)

dottjt•2h ago
I liked the idea behind the movie, but the movie itself wasn't very good. It was a bit like the movie Mickey 17, it didn't quite know what it wanted to be and tried to be a lot of things, but none of it really stuck and it ended up being a bit incoherent. The ending I thought was powerful though.
timr•2h ago
> I liked the idea behind the movie, but the movie itself wasn't very good.

Agreed. My problem with it was that it was self-congratulatory and snobby, which is always what you want out of Hollywood actors.

Being preached at about science by a population of people who probably mostly failed high school science is not a good time.

barbecue_sauce•1h ago
Why would you assume people that went on to have successful film careers failed high school science? Just because someone doesn't pursue science as a career doesn't mean they received bad grades in it, especially at a high school level.
timr•1h ago
I’m not assuming anything - this is why I used words like “probably” and “mostly” - but let’s just say that I’ve known my share of actors, and I’m willing to take the odds.
jahsome•1h ago
It's so funny to me you'd whine about "preaching" and then take such a needlessly judgemental and demonstrably false stance, and then double down and lie when it's pointed out. Truly, a person of science.
timr•1h ago
Sorry, where did I “lie”?

I expressed an opinion.

p1necone•1h ago
People who complain about being "preached" at while the world burns behind them are exactly the kind of people the movie is poking fun at
triceratops•1h ago
Actors act, writers write. You seem to be confused about who was "preaching".

I've confirmed that both writers of the movie graduated high school, and one of them even graduated college.

timr•1h ago
Good for them?

I guess we can infer that graduating from high school is no insurance against making a bad movie.

nothrabannosir•9m ago
> Being preached at about science by a population of people who probably mostly failed high school science is not a good time.

I agree with the part about preaching, but fair is fair: they were preaching scientific consensus. They preach what is said by the overwhelming majority of active scientific researchers in this field.

You didn’t say they were wrong I agree, but still .. they were (/ are) right. And why should they be perfect, anyway? They are who they are, flawed and all, but they are right about this and they were right to make that movie and they were right about people being selfish.

Ironically you could say that we are now basically reenacting the movie, proving its point. There’s an asteroid heading for us and here we are, judging the high school grades of the people telling us about its trajectory.

I thought it was very depressing and surprisingly self reflective and poignant in that sense.

triceratops•1h ago
Agree, great idea, strong ending, kinda saggy middle.
999900000999•1h ago
Too many high price celebrities. I’m sure they’re all great people, but I was more focused on them than the actual movies message which is an issue.
aaroninsf•5h ago
The current administration is not merely racists, autocratic, and hell bent on insuring all wealth is held by the oligarch class,

it is also engaged in the most venal, short-sighted, and destructive assault on the basic functions of governance and civil society I can imagine.

I don't care what one's view is on the appropriate scale and role of federal governance, some operations are best and only accomplished at that level,

and this short of bullshit is not just a disservice to, it is an attack on the citizenry.

janice1999•5h ago
Destroying federal governance seems on point for people who read Yarvin and want to rule feudal micro-states as techno-kings.
amarcheschi•4h ago
I guess they see themselves as high officers in those states. I fail to understand how someone could read about living in a dictatorship and go "yeah, I would like to live like that"
jfengel•4h ago
You don't have to see yourself as a high officer. You just have to imagine that you will be restored to your deserved state. In that state you are slightly better than average, and only those who are morally defective suffer. (Those are the ones who are now unjustly keeping you from succeeding on your merits.)

The high officials are the truly great ones who have restored the natural order. You don't need that. You just require being recognized as somewhat better than most.

Larrikin•4h ago
This is how the entire history of racism worked in the United States. You may be a poor white person, living in a crappy neighborhood, with a crappy job, but atleast you're not black with things like Jim Crow, police, and redlining making sure legally your life is even worse. Plus your boss looks just like you and said you're a cultural fit so you may even be rich like him one day!
Hikikomori•3h ago
Racists were just temporarily embarrassed by the civil war.
e40•3h ago
Were they? If so, embarrassed about what? Losing it?
janice1999•3h ago
You reminded me of the Lyndon B Johnson quote which seems more relevant that ever. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
anigbrowl•4h ago
Evidence suggests ~30% of people are content to be worse off in order to inflict a larger loss upon others. This paper makes for rather grim reading but imho provides a very useful heuristic for understanding the political enfironment in an era of mass communication.

Humans display a reduced set of consistent behavioral phenotypes in dyadic games

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451

spencerflem•2h ago
This really feels like the best explanation for what's happening right now :c
SchemaLoad•1h ago
Isn't 30% roughly the percent of people who voted for this situation?
andrekandre•4h ago

  > I fail to understand how someone could read about living in a dictatorship and go "yeah, I would like to live like that"
fwiw there are religious people who read about the great kings in the bible and wish they had one of those today, and they vote (not endorsing, just sharing my experience)
padjo•3h ago
There are also religious people who look forward to the coming of the “end times”. They also vote.
andrekandre•3h ago
yep, they definitely do
g-b-r•3h ago
Partly being submissive, partly betting on being among the rulers, partly distaste for most of the world, and partly just idiocy and insanity
johannes1234321•3h ago
Democracy is complicated. The world is complex, but you get only a limited set of choices (in some implementation a few more, in others a few less) which means the burden in the end is on you. Now you take the wannabe dictator, which takes that all of you "I'm like your dad and will care about all those problems, so you only have to care about your direct environment, doing your job, taking care of your family, all else will be handled"
MangoToupe•4h ago
Wow, that's possibly the bleakest set of opinions I've ever seen detailed.

I can't help but think that this is typical self-loathing and ensuing self-destruction turned towards society itself. I need to read his actual writing, though. I'm sure there's also some element of actively pandering towards people in power desperate to justify their hold through some ideology.

zingababba•4h ago
Just read his Gray Mirror posts or watch a podcast with him. If you really want to get the full experience you need to go back to his unqualified reservations stuff but it can be VERY tedious.
sorcerer-mar•1h ago
He is simply not that smart nor that interesting. Just a mega cringe-lord loser who got the ear of other cringe-lord losers who happen to be unfathomably wealthy.
g-b-r•3h ago
So you don't know that the vice-president's mentor completely agrees with him
MangoToupe•3h ago
Of course I know Thiel is probably one of the most evil people alive. But I suspect he's a lot more evil than he's let us know. But this guy seems to have built his career off of actively propagating resentment and hate. If you read about Thiel's upbringing it's entirely unsurprising the two get along so well.

CF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swakopmund#Until_Namibian_Inde...

> Swakomund was known for its continued glorification of Nazism after World War II, including the celebration of Hitler's birthday and "Heil Hitler" Nazi salutes given by residents. In 1976, The New York Times quoted a German working in a Swakopmund hotel who described the city as "more German than Germany". As of the 1980s, Nazi paraphernalia was available to buy in shops.

g-b-r•16m ago
Yeah, I knew where he grew up
gsf_emergency_2•3h ago
I can outbleak that! In 2 paragraphs!

Although it seems more robust in the long term*, anti-intellectualism probably has a cliff of adaptivity, just like academia, ideology, or indeed any collection of values

*The foundations of China's rise can ultimately be traced to the cultural revolution? Now we wait.

SSilver2k2•4h ago
Agreed.
thr0waway001•4h ago
If the US was a rebellious teenager then they are past their doing coke and doing corn phase and onto their face tattoo and smoking meth phase.
pstuart•3h ago
The administration is so devoid of any value it staggers the mind. The only thing that I can agree with is that our dependence on China is not a good thing (Oh yes, and minimizing governmental fraud and waste) -- the concepts, not any of the actions done to address these concerns.

What makes this mess even more disheartening is that about of third of the population loves it.

ChrisArchitect•4h ago
Earlier, without discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44439836
archildress•4h ago
I just feel extremely sad about the mass quantity of events like this happening right now because they are all aggregate to huge negative effects but the average person knows nothing of it. It feels so unfixable.
beanjammin•3h ago
They certainly want us to feel like its unfixable, but it's not. Were govt to put the effort into the energy transition that we saw in the early days of covid we could zero our emissions, and relatively quickly. The technology is largely available, it needs to be implemented.

The ties between the fossil fuel industry and the far right are clear. Apathy, indifference, inertia, they are all products of propaganda and updated Cambridge Analytica methods.

Fossil fuel interests will stop at nothing to further their greed.

schmidtleonard•1h ago
I was hoping this would be the one silver lining of having Elon in government, that they would keep the renewable subsidies or at least keep the fossil fuel lobby in check, but no, Republicans gonna Republican.
SchemaLoad•1h ago
The US is just going to become irrelevant for the next few decades. Anything important will move to the EU and China. No one can trust the US to function properly anymore.
ThatMedicIsASpy•1h ago
Doubt with the whole tech stack. Germany is using a lot more Palantir in the police. I'd love to see change.
jordanb•38m ago
> EU

Wishful thinking. Ukraine losing the war will be the end of Europe, and Europe will increasingly be ran by right-wing autocrats shredding the social state and blaming immigrants.

DaSHacka•9m ago
> The US is just going to become irrelevant for the next few decades. Anything important will move to the EU and China. No one can trust the US to function properly anymore.

Haha, care to elaborate? I'm legitimately curious how in the heck you came to that conclusion.

Remember, the U.S. is currently still #1.

How do you propose it becomes utterly irrelevant?

wmoxam•4h ago
Don't look up!
gmuslera•4h ago
It´s not so severe, it was just that those servers and the people maintaining them, melt in the latest heatwave. Nothing to worry about.
thr0waway001•4h ago
That’s some 1984 shit right there yo!
russdill•3h ago
Really? I was thinking 4 or 5 decades before then
mrtksn•4h ago
Right, nice savings and opportunities for fossil energy industry. Good job.

So what is the plan for handling the US nuclear warhead stockpile as the empire crumbles? I'm worried about billionaires with nukes. Maybe not the person directly but people behind all that envision super wealthy city-states and I totally expect those to have nukes.

The nuclear codes won't stop anyone with time and engineers. These are intended for physically arming the strong link in the warhead that is supposed to send the signal to the exclusion zone but someone with unrestricted access should be able to override it and send the signal directly. Although over the years the mechanical systems were replaced with electronics that eventually become encrypted microelectronics, IIUC the actual device that does the kaboom remained with its original design and applying voltage will be able to trigger it. Safe against rough handlers(i.e. crazy solders) but won't stop people with unrestricted access.

Henchman21•4h ago
There is no plan, and I am not sure why you’d think otherwise?
mrtksn•4h ago
I think there must be a plan after the USSR collapse. Somehow they did not let rough agents obtaining the warheads but there were enough rumors, literature and media around it to prompt a consideration IMHO.
KerrAvon•3h ago
tl;dr: the Soviet state didn't collapse in the manner of a zombie apocalypse or environmental catastrophe, it collapsed politically; there was continuity in command / control until the weapons were all moved back physically into Russia.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/16mab9x/when...

johannes1234321•3h ago
By the time you could act it's too late, if you don't want to dismantle the nukes independently. It's a consequence of the existence.

Just imagine Biden having commanded to trigger a process which destroys the nuclear material (by triggering some degeneratio process or something) would that have been accepted or would everybody have said that limits U.S.'s strategic options permantly in too high degree?

KerrAvon•3h ago
China and India both know how to handle nuclear weapons and would be interested in ensuring safe handling.
krisoft•2h ago
> IIUC the actual device that does the kaboom remained with its original design and applying voltage will be able to trigger it

That is not my understanding. My understanding is that the proper implosion requires very precise timing of signals for each shaped charge element otherwise the implosion ends up being lopsided and the nuke fizzles instead of exploding. These timings depend not just on the shape of the charges, but also on the relative wire lengths from the detonator to the explosives. (In theory these wire lengths can be unique for each warhead, thus making the timings for each warhead unique). The detonation circuit is not just comparing the code with an expected one, but using it to create the right signal timings. In other words the right code plus the information in the electronics together gives the timings for the signals with which they propagate through the different length of wires such that they form the right implosion.

To reverse engineer this you need to figure out when each explosive element needs to be triggered to form the explosion. Then you need to figure out when the signals need to leave the electronics such that it travels through the wiring looms just right to create the desired explosive pattern. And then you need to figure out what code you need to supply the electronics so it produces this desired electronic timing to achieve the above.

That is three wickedly hard challenge. And you will only know if your people pulled each of them off corectly, when you try to detonate the warhead.

> won't stop people with unrestricted access

That is true. But it is not like all they would need to do is to apply voltage on a single line, like some crazy hot-wiring car tief. Their best and easiest bet is to dissasemble the warhead and use the fissile material from it inside of an implosion device of their own design.

Havoc•3h ago
Gotta provide a smokescreen for “Drill baby drill”
matcha-video•2h ago
It wasn't supposed to be literal :(
deadbabe•3h ago
There are other countries.
timr•3h ago
Well, let's not do 30 seconds of trivial fact-gathering on the issue or anything, and instead jump to wild conclusions.

The problem is that globalchange.gov is failing DNS lookup. The domain is still registered, and the nameservers are supposed to be these:

  nserver:      A.NS.GOV 199.33.230.1
  nserver:      B.NS.GOV 199.33.231.1
  nserver:      C.NS.GOV 199.33.232.1
  nserver:      D.NS.GOV 199.33.233.1
Barring any evidence to the contrary, it could simply be a misconfiguration. This kind of stuff does happen, particularly when a government agency is running DNS.

Edit: For those who insist on downvoting facts, other, better articles have both found the report on a NOAA server [1], and had official response from government spokespeople about what is actually going on [2]. There's no need to speculate.

[1] https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61592

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-shutters-majo...

bombcar•3h ago
If you see your hosts file what the DNS used to show, does the server respond?

That’s usually the real test.

timr•3h ago
I don't know, it's a good question. I don't have the IP addresses cached.

NPR notes that the report is here [1], so if someone is trying to hide it, they're not doing a particularly good job.

[1] https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61592

mulmen•3h ago
Sure, it is always DNS. But are other sites on that DNS also down? How long has this site been down? Has anyone acknowledged this outage?

If the DNS is up and the domain is registered it starts to look like a takedown instead of a mistake.

I do know that the EPA took down their EJScreen [1] dataset so it’s not like politically motivated takedowns are unprecedented under the current regime.

[1]: https://screening-tools.com/epa-ejscreen

Glant•3h ago
According to someone from NASA, it was in fact shut down. NASA will eventually re-publish the reports.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-shutters-majo...

timr•3h ago
That's a better article than the link, since they actually bothered to get answers to the question from definitive sources. NPR also linked directly to the NOAA copy of the report, lending credence to the "sloppy relocation" theory of the case:

https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61592

padjo•3h ago
Yes cancelling funding and firing all the people involved is indicative of an honest mistake when moving some stuff around.
timr•2h ago
If they already fired the staff of the agency, it's actually pretty believable that the dedicated website would get shut down. Talk about burying the lede.
triceratops•2h ago
"As of this writing, NASA has not provided any details on when and where the reports will be available again or if the new assessment will proceed."
roxolotl•3h ago
Is it really that unreasonable to believe that a government run by people who’ve regularly called climate change a hoax and has a history of pulling previously public data is pulling the public data about climate change? I don’t disagree that jumping to conclusions is bad but intentionally discounting prior behavior seems just as reckless to me.
toofy•57m ago
no, it isn’t unreasonable at all.

i’ve noticed a large uptick over the past couple years of some people insisting it’s unreasonable to consider context and known past behaviors when we try to discuss things.

again, no, it’s not unreasonable. actually it would be incredibly silly, more unreasonable to ignore their past behaviors when discussing this.

MangoToupe•3h ago
What wild conclusions specifically are you objecting to? This seems an awful lot like burying your head in the sand.
chaoskitty•3h ago
That's hopelessly naive. A "misconfiguration" is the excuse they use after the fact when there's enough outrage that they have to put things back the way they were.
timr•3h ago
I'm not being hopelessly naive. It's certainly possible that they took it down with the explicit intention of hiding information on the internet, but that would also be pretty stupid, since various articles have found the reports on other government servers. So I assume incompetence before malice.

What's already known is that they fired the staff who prepared the report, and are presumably shutting down the agency. Is it really surprising that someone might have turned off the webserver before transferring the domain?

padjo•3h ago
“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries”

Nobody is jumping to conclusions, lots of climate related information is being scrubbed. This website has been down for at least 12 hours. The fact that the domain is still registered proves precisely nothing.

Could it be a misconfiguration? Sure, but available evidence points to an ongoing attempt to erase everything related to climate change.

timr•3h ago
> “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries”

Except they did, as I found an NPR article with official comment, and there's a link downthread to this much better article about the same thing, again with authoritative reply:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-shutters-majo...

padjo•2h ago
And they responded to say “yes we took it down” so what’s your point again?
timr•2h ago
No, they literally said "we're moving it to NASA".

I'm not arguing that the overall fact pattern is good here. I'm saying this article is stupid and lazy.

triceratops•2h ago
"As of this writing, NASA has not provided any details on when and where the reports will be available again or if the new assessment will proceed."
timr•2h ago
Yeah, try reading a better source [1]:

> NASA will now take over, Victoria LaCivita, communications director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told ABC News. "All preexisting reports will be hosted on the NASA website, ensuring compliance with statutorily required reporting," LaCivita said, referring ABC News to NASA for more information.

So, they're explicitly answering the second half of that question. Again, not suggesting the fact pattern is good, just that this article is terrible. I assume the AP could have also managed to get the same quote before running to press with speculation?

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-shutters-majo...

triceratops•2h ago
> Yeah, try reading a better source [1]:

It's from your source. It's the very last sentence in the article as of right now.

timr•2h ago
> It's from your source. It's the very last sentence in the article as of right now.

Sorry, what? I don't have any affiliation with ABC. Someone else posted the link.

NPR has the same basic comments [2]:

> All five editions of the National Climate Assessment that have been published over the years will also be available on NASA's website, according to NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens. NASA doesn't yet know when that website will be available to the public.

How you get from that to "we don't know if they'll ever publish it again!" is beyond me.

[2] https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5453501/national-climat...

triceratops•1h ago
> I don't have any affiliation with ABC

I didn't say that. You've been posting it everywhere and called it a "better source" that we should all read. Calling it "your source" is a reasonable shorthand.

> How you get from that to "we don't know if they'll ever publish it again!" is beyond me.

I didn't say that either. I only pasted a direct quote from an article you urged everyone to read. How you get from that to what you're saying is beyond me.

timr•34m ago
> I only pasted a direct quote from an article you urged everyone to read.

Mea culpa, I missed the line because it was at stranded at the bottom of a bunch of blocked ads. About the only thing I can say is that "NASA" and "any details" is doing all of the heavy lifting in that sentence.

The reporter just quoted someone from the administration saying that they'll follow the law. So the reporter runs over to NASA, doesn't get an immediate or exact answer, and says "OK, I'll just make it sound like maybe they're being dodgy about following the law, then."

Its a fairly standard reporter trick, but it's sleazy nonetheless: "At press time, we've received no answer from the man about when he stopped beating his wife."

> > How you get from that to "we don't know if they'll ever publish it again!" is beyond me.

> I didn't say that either.

I now realize that this language could be misconstrued. I wasn't literally talking about "you". I meant it as "how one gets from that statement to..", and I was talking about the reporters.

padjo•2h ago
No you said it’s probably a dns configuration, posted some pointless name server addresses and implied government sysadmins are incompetent.

What actually happened is exactly what this article said and I wouldn’t be surprised if they get no response from NOAA because of the administration’s well documented feud with the AP.

And if you believe NASA will publish anything beyond the most perfunctory version of this report under this administration I have a bridge to sell you.

timr•2h ago
> No you said it’s probably a dns configuration,

I said that barring better information, you can't rule it out. Still true.

> posted some pointless name server addresses

They're government servers, is the point. And don't you find it a little bit curious that someone bothered to change the NS records? It's not the usual way that a website goes down. In fact, it's the sort of thing that happens when you're in the process of (potentially incompetently) moving a domain from one server to another.

> What actually happened is exactly what this article said and I wouldn’t be surprised if they get no response from NOAA

Yet other reporters, from multiple different left-leaning news outlets, managed to get these elusive comments from super hard-to-reach people like...the White House press secretary for science policy. It's almost like there was a press conference or something.

Sometimes you actually have to do work to be a reporter, and when you skip that part and jump directly to conspiracy, it's not defensible. It's just trash journalism.

verdverm•28m ago
This administration has lost the benefit of the doubt because they lie so much and rarely follow through.

Until they actually do it, it's more likely they will not and are just saying whatever comes to mind as a way to manipulate the narrative

resters•3h ago
As the US slowly becomes N. Korea...
monetus•1h ago
How in the world did Juche become our national philosophy? I'm not sure, but I think about it all the time now.

I'm on HN, so I tend to want to blame the ad industry. It's pretty nebulous to think that "made in America" directly snowballed into this; so many things did. The freakier nativism in advertising really could use a break right about now though.

sorcerer-mar•1h ago
There's no national philosophy. That's giving these people way too much credit.

"Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman is 100% predictive and descriptive of how we got where we are.

i80and•1h ago
I do think USA-flavored Juche does some explanatory power for the group as a whole, even if the individuals lack any specific philosophy beyond hill climbing.

I do also need to read Postman, though.

GuinansEyebrows•45m ago
Likewise, “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer describes some of the political processes that got us here. That along with “The Family” by Jeff Sharlet to provide a little color to the religious side.
resters•1h ago
I think the "advertising" was the billions spent on what were effectively anti-brown ads to help sell the Iraq/Afghan wars. Meanwhile in the 2000s the GSEs did not disclose their financials bc if they had perhaps the people would have felt the wars had a cost.

Since then it's been gradual attacks on press freedom (WL exposed fraud/propaganda in the Iraq/Afghan wars) and massive profits by the defense industry, resulting in dramatically more lobbying money. Not to mention the US automotive industry and major banks getting bailed out and preventing many small economic corrections that should have occurred.

Then 20 years after 9/11 when the US has spent 10s of TRILLIONS on wars and virtually nothing on infrastructure, industrial policy, etc., everyone wonders why China appears to be close to leapfrogging. The anti-brown propaganda and "USA USA" jingoism back in the early 2000s is still fresh, benefitting candidates with xenophobic and jingoistic messages. Many feel real economic pain but don't understand that you don't spend $20T without consequences -- plus scapegoating the weakest members of society is apparently more emotionally satisfying.

By the time we got the pandemic both parties realized that they had more to gain from fiscal irresponsibility, and the tribalism of the government's anti-brown propaganda combined with the "multicultural solidarity" focus over class warfare by Dems, led to increasing tribalism and tribe-focused media. Now a large percentage of the population lives in a complete information bubble and is close to worshiping its political favorites as though they are religious icons.

Thus now regardless of which party is in power, there will be a shift to censor and suppress information that is viewed as harmful to society. I honestly blame both parties for their share of this, but the ultimate culprit is feed algorithms that are optimized for emotionally potent content that creates engagement (and ad dollars) and nothing more.

What is actually fascinating about the orignal TikTok is that the algorithm was so much more useful at showing interesting/appealing content that it pretty much overtook Insta, YouTube, and Netflix and required government intervention to stop its growth. This shows us clearly how the major social media platforms were not just wrong about how to maximize profits but wrong on how to entertain and engage people, mistakes that are only possible when there is really not much competition, which is how we now do capitalism in the US -- and by the way if you win you get nationalized.

zmgsabst•25m ago
US spent just under $2T in Iraq and just over $2T in Afghanistan, for a total of just over $4T.
verdverm•34m ago
Hungary is a more accurate analogy.

It's actually where the Heritage Foundation has been trying things out before using in America. The connection between Heritage, Orban, and Trump's circle is concerning. At this point, Trump is more their useful idiot who can be the populous frontman. He's a symptom of the larger frustration with govt and growth in inequality

nektro•2h ago
i think what contributes the most to my sense of dread is the feeling that if you were to tell these decision makers in govt right now "but this'll kill people!" they'd respond "good"
jmholla•2h ago
They don't care about people. Senator Joni Ernst when told that people would die due from the spending bill responded with, "Well, we are all going to die."
mandeepj•2h ago
> Senator Joni Ernst when told that people would die due from the spending bill responded with, "Well, we are all going to die." reply

Well, how many times has she seen a doctor in her life so far? Of course, more than one. Then, why did she do that if she is eventually going to die one day?

rescripting•1h ago
Because she doesn’t see herself as “one of them”.

She is the living embodiment of the Lord Farquaad meme: “Some of you are going to die, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take”

bix6•1h ago
And then doubled down with a later Instagram post making fun of everyone. How are these people our elected officials? It’s unbelievable.
morkalork•2h ago
>I really don't care, do you?
metalman•2h ago
There is a very large amount of redundency in enviromental data gathering and reporting, plus given.the most basic facts that it is impossible to close source the information source, and that there are now countless sensors on.earth and in orbit that can be re calibrated to provide conitiniousl'y consistent new data to older ongoing studies, there is essentialy nothing that can be effected by a political directive to actualy stop reporting, short of martial law, and then people would start printing pamphlets with potatoes and coffee dregs
perrygeo•2h ago
If this administration doesn't want to do anything to solve climate change, that's their choice. It's a terrible choice, but it's in their power to do so.

However, there's a huge difference between dismissing the severity of the evidence vs. going out of your way to hide evidence. The first is born of arrogance. The later is naked cowardice - they know exactly how wrong they are. If they wanted to project strength, they could simply leave the reports up and say "we don't care". Instead they scurry around behind the curtains trying to cover their tracks. Fucking pathetic.

schmidtleonard•1h ago
They're still angry at Fauci for not going along with the world's dumbest coverup attempt in Feb 2020.
zmgsabst•31m ago
That would only be true if you believed the reports were unbiased.
cosmicgadget•2m ago
The non-cowardly thing to do would be to engage scientifically rather than memory hole the consensus.

Or create the impossible requirement that a study have no bias.

userbinator•1h ago
Good. Enough paranoia has been already been caused that too many people are scared to live.
sorcerer-mar•1h ago
Like who, exactly?

How many people have died by climate paranoia versus actual climate change?

userbinator•2m ago
Look at those "extinction rebellion" idiots and the mass hysteria they tried to spread, and people like you and all the others here who have been indoctrinated with "climate change" propaganda. Everyone should just go back to enjoying life while it lasts.