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Show HN: Imgenhancer.ai – AI tool to upscale, transform, and generate images

https://imgenhancer.ai
1•longshu•42s ago•0 comments

Modeling Uncertainty for Better Outcomes

https://win-vector.com/2025/08/08/modeling-uncertainty-for-better-outcomes/
1•jmount•5m ago•0 comments

Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon

https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/gold_frankincense_and_silicon
1•danaris•8m ago•0 comments

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIb: Children and Childrearing

https://acoup.blog/2025/08/08/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-iiib-children-and-childrearing/
1•Khaine•9m ago•0 comments

The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

https://www.alexkesin.com/p/the-day-novartis-chose-discovery
1•irsagent•12m ago•0 comments

Chatbots Can Go into a Delusional Spiral

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
1•eemolo•18m ago•0 comments

Edison's plan to pay Eaton fire victims could mean less litigation, compensation

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-25/edisons-program-to-pay-eaton-fire-victims-leaves-questions
1•PaulHoule•19m ago•0 comments

Do You Remember What You Read?

https://aethermug.com/posts/do-you-remember-what-you-read
1•mrcgnc•20m ago•0 comments

Substack Raised Another $100M

https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/substack_100_million_raise
1•mooreds•21m ago•1 comments

Linux LED "Candle" Simulator

https://gitlab.com/unixispower/c-toys/-/blob/main/src/candle.c
1•xk3•23m ago•0 comments

Why F# could be the next mainstream programming language (2024)

https://blog.snork.dev/posts/why-f--could-be-the-next-mainstream-programming-language-.html
15•smoothdeveloper•26m ago•20 comments

GPT-5 critics are dead wrong

https://nerds.xyz/2025/08/gpt5-backlash-missing-the-point/
3•BeauNer•31m ago•1 comments

The Fastest Site in the Tour de France

https://csswizardry.com/2025/07/the-fastest-site-in-the-tour-de-france/
1•OuterVale•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Launched a Waitlist for Network for Developers

https://v0-launch-waitlist-page.vercel.app/
1•AbdMog•34m ago•0 comments

James Webb Space Telescope revisits a classic Hubble image of over 2.5k galaxies

https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope/james-webb-space-telescope-revisits-a-classic-hubble-image-of-over-2-500-galaxies
1•bookofjoe•36m ago•0 comments

Courts service 'covered up' IT bug that caused evidence to go missing

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwye2q00k51o
2•1659447091•37m ago•0 comments

Tesla gets rideshare license in Texas for robotaxi service

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-gets-rideshare-license-texas-151800656.html
2•cosmicgadget•43m ago•1 comments

First 25 years of the SuperAging Program

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.70312
1•geox•45m ago•0 comments

UAE offers free open-source AI as alternative to US and China

https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-alternative-uae-falcon-ai/
3•colinprince•47m ago•2 comments

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued
52•Kye•49m ago•11 comments

Trump Administration Threatens to Take over Harvard's Patents

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409
9•jaredwiener•53m ago•3 comments

Major Japan newspaper sues 'free-riding' AI firm Perplexity

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/08/japan/crime-legal/yomiuri-sues-free-riding-ai-firm/
4•anigbrowl•55m ago•0 comments

How Europe is vying for rare earth independence from China

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zp6m4gy7o
3•rguiscard•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a safe anonymous message app

https://subrosa.vercel.app/
1•martianmanhunt•1h ago•1 comments

Some Turbulence at CalyxOS

https://lwn.net/Articles/1033042/
1•BallsInIt•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI that writes correct LangGraph persistence code via self-validation

https://github.com/botingw/langgraph-dev-navigator
1•botingw_job•1h ago•1 comments

An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring

https://jyn.dev/an-engineers-perspective-on-hiring/
2•zdw•1h ago•0 comments

Google Finance testing new AI features

https://blog.google/products/search/google-finance-ai/
3•DocFeind•1h ago•0 comments

Self-Loathing AI

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/08/08/self-loathing-ai/
3•zdw•1h ago•0 comments

A Routine Vaccine May Lower Dementia Risk by as Much as 20%

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-routine-vaccine-may-lower-dementia-risk-by-as-much-as-20
7•amichail•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022)

https://www.embrapa.br/en/busca-de-noticias/-/noticia/75361634/little-known-leguminous-plant-can-increase-beef-production-by-60
54•littlexsparkee•3h ago

Comments

littlexsparkee•2h ago
Due to direct benefit to herders, this is easier to reinforce than methane reductions with supplement e.g. seaweed as has been posted here before, since those benefits are not captured (without a carbon market or climate-friendly consumer branding to command a premium). Even if beef was methane-free, it would still have a larger impact than chicken (without regenerative agriculture, silviculture etc) but projections show that consumption is going to grow steadily as the global middle class grows so adopting these efficiencies will be important.
kazinator•2h ago
> Legume improves bovine digestion and reduces methane emissions.

For people too---but you have to pass it through a cow first and eat it in the form of beef. Otherwise ...

Aromasin•1h ago
Gut biome is important for legume consumption. The first few months I went to a plant based diet my digestion was hell. At some point I reached a turning point though, and my gut health became even better than before. My flatulence was so much worse when I was eating meat regularly - often room clearing.
teaearlgraycold•1h ago
I changed to being mostly vegetarian a few years ago and the gas only lasted about a month.
kazinator•27m ago
> Gut biome is important for legume consumption.

Not to mention being a ruminant with multiple stomach compartments and a long gut.

metalman•1h ago
double digit improvements across the board from a perenial pasture mix is realy impressive and likely to spur intrest in finding other combos that give similar results in dairy feed. nitrogen is the key ingredient required for the digestion of all sorts of otherwise waste plant matter by cattle, so if this new pasture cover can be harvested as hay and mixed with other dryed plant matter, it would then be of use in dairy. Hay is still the worlds largest crop.....
zahlman•1h ago
If this has been known for years and nobody's trying to implement it, surely there's a catch?
0cf8612b2e1e•1h ago
Agreed. Farming is incredibly data driven/cost conscious. For the entire industry to not make this an overnight priority says something about the analysis is missing.
Loughla•56m ago
100% accurate. Livestock feed is (like most agriculture) hyper optimized.

If they could increase production by 60% with any additive at all, it would immediately see widespread use.

People still have this weird view of farming that it's like Johnny Goodguy and his family taking care of a small herd. While that exists still, Johnny is also tracking every input and outcome and optimizing daily.

The data collection and use in Ag would astound people.

weaksauce•53m ago
the other people are right that there is crazy data collection and optimization from them... however blind spots can exist and outliers could be possible in that kind of environment.
danielheath•52m ago
“Worked once in a specific tropical pasture”. AFAIK, most beef production is not in the tropics.
Izikiel43•47m ago
South of Brazil is in the tropic of capricorn and it's a beef producing region
strken•35m ago
I'm really curious to see a comparison with all the other common self-regenerating legumes, like clover. Maybe it's better adapted to Brazil?
wonderwonder•1h ago
"There is resistance among farmers not only because the seeds are expensive, but also because the species used so far, especially Stylosanthes, do not persist when associated with Brachiaria grasses", Boddey explains. After some time in the field the leguminous plant wanes or dies, and it is necessary to renew the pasture, which entails further costs and work."

So the farmers did the math and the money doesn't work.

Scientists in this article seem very focused on the climate aspect of it while the farmers themselves are going to be focused on the bottom line. Farmers are not going to entail extra costs if they don't have to much the same as any other business owner.

imoverclocked•1h ago
You might underestimate the ability to market lower-carbon beef though. Where you see a disincentive, others may see the next "organic."
wonderwonder•1h ago
I certainly don't speak for everyone but I don't see that catching on at the individual level. People eat the organic because its objectively healthier. I don't think most people that eat beef would care if its low carbon. I eat a good deal of beef, probably 3 steaks a week personally and another 3 in total for my wife and kids. I'm not going to pay x% more for low carbon. With that said I could absolutely see Europe mandating this and forcing everyone to just pay more for beef. So you're right, if they can target this at governments then they could force it to catch on.
aurelien_gasser•57m ago
> People eat the organic because its objectively healthier

What makes you say it is objectively healthier?

wonderwonder•30m ago
Its a fair question, not sure why you are being downvoted. I don't buy organic. The primary reason for me to consider it healthier is just that the animals are fed (supposedly) on pesticide free feed. My opinion rests on that. If you are speaking from a pure nutrition perspective I would say nothing.

There are others that I am sure would argue for other reasons such as the reduction of drug resistant bacteria for the good of all but I'm not sure that really plays out. It only works if the amount of organic sold far outstrips non organic. It also means intentionally paying more for the good of the commons while the majority don't.

strken•33m ago
That sentence is about other legumes.
fuzztester•51m ago
low contrast text site - barely readable.

https://pasteboard.co/DO3NDAWRwLc4.png

closed asap.

when the fuck will people learn?

wffurr•36m ago
Didn’t look like that for me, plenty of contrast and much sturdier letter forms.

https://pasteboard.co/Xmg4tUPP9Cal.png

iOS 18.5 in app browser

fuzztester•17m ago
wow, interesting, and thanks for the feedback.

android 13 here.

I am not sure what the reason is, then.

I tried increasing the brightness of my screen, but there seems to be no change.

but a lot of people, including on hn, do say that this low contrast thing is a disturbing trend, and from quite sometime now.

it's a pita.

binary132•11m ago
Yeah, renders fine on my device too (ios 18.5 safari)