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What Happens When Doctors Can't Trust the Government?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/opinion/doctors-government-agencies.html
1•mitchbob•4m ago•1 comments

A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/ai-alpha-school-austin-texas.html
2•mitchbob•7m ago•1 comments

Intel cutting cutting-edge node funds would mean no more Moore's Law

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/28/intel_cuts_to_cuttingedge_node/
1•rntn•11m ago•0 comments

Impact Mapping Solo

http://www.roundcrisis.com/2025/07/22/impact-mapping/
1•adrianhoward•13m ago•0 comments

'We want Starlink': from isolation to integration – the Korubo after contact

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/28/we-want-starlink-from-isolation-to-integration-what-happened-to-the-korubo-people-after-contact
1•impish9208•14m ago•0 comments

The Quality of CPI Data Continues to Deteriorate

https://www.apolloacademy.com/the-quality-of-the-cpi-data-continues-to-deteriorate/
1•akyuu•15m ago•0 comments

Don't Use External CSS

https://maurycyz.com/misc/inline_css/
1•edweis•16m ago•1 comments

Building a Modern and Frugal Kubernetes Network with Cilium ClusterMesh

https://medium.com/@shih.chieh.cheng/from-laptop-to-hybrid-cloud-building-a-modern-and-frugal-kubernetes-network-with-cilium-67559d404eca
1•shscs911•19m ago•0 comments

I built life planner for you

https://lifeecalendar.com/
1•zemil•29m ago•0 comments

Hi

4•kokyaw•32m ago•0 comments

Open Source Remote Mini Hackathon for Super Productivity

https://old.reddit.com/r/superProductivity/comments/1m8dppz/check_out_the_super_productivity_remote_mini/
1•johannesjo•33m ago•1 comments

Would you use a GitHub-based portfolio generator?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeD32nb3rJejmFhlxZNfLIAaorjZ8kYj9FNQfw0yZ3DwWSJqQ/viewform?usp=header
2•cyriendufay•33m ago•1 comments

Generative AI. "Slop Generators, are unsuitable for use [ ]"

https://asahilinux.org/docs/project/policies/slop/
5•aleksjess•38m ago•1 comments

Silent Crow claims to have hacked Aeroflot

https://www.reuters.com/en/russias-aeroflot-suffers-it-failure-hackers-claim-responsibility-2025-07-28/
3•ivan_gammel•39m ago•0 comments

Gamers bypass UK age verification with Death Stranding – no real face

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/gamers-bypass-uk-age-verification-with-death-stranding-no-real-face-or-vpn-required
2•chrisjj•42m ago•2 comments

Iranian Supreme Leader sleeps and gets 'high on substances' all day

https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/world-news/iranian-supreme-leader-sleeps-and-gets-high-on-substances-all-day-mossad-linked-social-media-account-claims/
1•mhga•43m ago•0 comments

Passive Queue: The Rails Background Job System That Transcends Processing

https://mensfeld.pl/2025/07/passive-queue-zero-execution-infinite-zen/
2•thunderbong•48m ago•0 comments

The Nvidia Neverending Thread: Chasing MinGW Support Since the Dawn of Time

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/cuda-with-mingw-how-to-get-cuda-running-under-mingw/415
1•gioelecantoni•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Rm-safely – a safety net for rm command

https://github.com/zdk/rm-safely
1•zdkaster•1h ago•0 comments

Ladybird Proves You Can Just Build a New Web Browser

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ladybird-proves-you-can-just-build
2•philipallstar•1h ago•1 comments

Mistral AI submits lifecycle analysis for one of their model

https://mistral.ai/news/our-contribution-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai?trk=public_post_comment-text
2•phtrivier•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How do you imagine an AI-driven utopia?

1•msvana•1h ago•0 comments

US-EU Deal sets 15% tariffs on most goods

https://apnews.com/article/trump-scotland-tariffs-europe-8d2fb467d64f7fdfc4797dbebd54e8fc
3•glimshe•1h ago•0 comments

The intimacy of never talking again

https://personalscriptures.substack.com/p/the-intimacy-of-never-talking-again
1•arthurmorgan•1h ago•0 comments

The key to increasing standard of living is increasing labor productivity

https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/the-key-to-increasing-standard-of
2•mustaphah•1h ago•0 comments

Dynamic Phase Alignment in Audio [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNCVj_RtdZw
1•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

Building stronger engineering teams with aligned autonomy

https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/14/building-stronger-engineering-teams-with-aligned-autonomy/
1•r4um•1h ago•0 comments

Big Brother gets new powers in China with digital ID system

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/15/china-digital-id-internet-surveillance/
2•perihelions•1h ago•0 comments

Building SaaS billing with an open-source commerce platform

https://medusajs.com/blog/building-medusa-with-medusa-billing/
3•srindom•1h ago•0 comments

How to prioritize marketing when attribution is broken and AI is changing rules?

2•ivanmarketingua•1h ago•0 comments
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Mistral's new "environmental audit" shows how much AI is hurting the planet

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/mistrals-new-environmental-audit-shows-how-much-ai-is-hurting-the-planet/
15•pjmlp•5h ago

Comments

linotype•3h ago
I’ll stop using ChatGPT when private jets are banned, families drop down to one car and stop having more than two kids. Seriously there are probably more emissions from a few supertankers/cargo carriers than all LLMs combined.
Zacharias030•3h ago
3 if you raise them vegan!
zekrioca•3h ago
No one is asking people to stop using the Internet. However, becoming aware of one’s consumption is important, and as of now, people are generally oblivious to their digital footprint beyond power consumption, which is only one of the aspects.
readthenotes1•2h ago
it made me look. a private jet emits 4,900 g of c02 per mile (how the author's mind didn't explode mixing the measurement systems is beyond me) vs 1 prompt emitting 1.14 g.

https://flybitlux.com/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-priv...

BriggyDwiggs42•1h ago
Honestly not as dramatic as I’d have hoped. 5000 chatgpt prompts propelling a jet for a mile is a pretty surprising amount of energy useage.
M4v3R•3h ago
> environmental impact of a single average prompt (generating 400 tokens' worth of text, or about a page's worth) was relatively minimal: just 1.14 grams of CO2 emitted and 45 milliliters of water consumed

While it’s non-zero, it doesn’t strike me to be “hurting the planet” as some people would want me to believe I’m doing when I decide to use LLMs.

Yes, the training has a much bigger impact but the benefits of training are shared will all users and it’s a one-time cost per model.

I did the math and if I’m right the environmental footprint of a single LLM training, emitting 13,600 metric tons of CO2 and consuming 187,333 cubic meters of water annually, represents 0.000026% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 0.0000047% of freshwater use.

zekrioca•3h ago
How many trainings and retraining are happening as we speak? How many more when the transition from millions of jobs replaced by AI do you expect? What about inference across all of that?
M4v3R•3h ago
> How many trainings and retraining are happening as we speak?

Quite a lot. Let's assume a hundred different LLMs of this scale are being trained at the same time. If you multiply the global use percentages by a hundred you'll get: 0.0026% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 0.00047% of freshwater use. Still a literal drop in the bucket.

> How many more when the transition from millions of jobs replaced by AI do you expect?

Dunno, but the argument is that I should feel bad about my current impact on the environment as I use my LLM to autocomplete my code or answer my questions. We have no idea what the future will hold. We can and of course should do everything to minimize the environmental impact of everything we do, but that's a different discussion. For example switching to clean energy sources will make a big positive impact on these numbers.

> What about inference across all of that?

The report speaks about that, the inference cost in marginal when compared to the training cost (~15% for CO2 and ~9% for water consumption).

zekrioca•3h ago
> Quite a lot. Let's assume a hundred different LLMs of this scale are being trained at the same time.

It won’t be 100, you are underestimating it to make the number be small, ignoring the fact that people are talking about GW worth of continuous power, not counting the refresh rate of GPUs (every 3-5 years the whole infrastructure is renewed).

> Dunno, but the argument is that I should feel bad about my current impact on the environment as I use my LLM to autocomplete my code or answer my questions.

That’s not the argument. The argument is that you should be aware of your consumption and therefore the impact it has. Right now people use everything as a ‘’dumb’’ magical API that just spits things out from nowhere with no impacts.

> The report speaks about that, the inference cost in marginal when compared…

Don’t ignore how many of these are happening as we speak. ChatGPT went from 0 to 100mi users within months, all submitting hundreds of queries.

M4v3R•1h ago
> It won’t be 100, you are underestimating it to make the number be small

Make it a 1000 (I seriously doubt there are one thousand simultaneous training runs of Mistral Large 2 scale models going on every second) and it's still a drop in the bucket.

> not counting the refresh rate of GPUs (every 3-5 years the whole infrastructure is renewed

I am accounting for this by citing annual usage instead of one-time cost.

tomhow•3h ago
Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651661 - July 2025 (56 comments)
riffraff•3h ago
Is this article showing an ai slop header image with credits to Getty Images? I'm deeply confused.
joegibbs•3h ago
It’s definitely a render, look how clear the small text is, you can see the lower resolution ground texture in the foreground.
M95D•2h ago
The surprizing conclusion for me from this article is not how much LLM hurts the planet, but how much video streaming hurts the planet!