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Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

1•throwaw12•28s ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•2m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•4m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•7m ago•3 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•8m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•10m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•11m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•13m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•16m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•21m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•23m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•26m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•40m ago•0 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•41m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•54m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•57m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•1h ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
4•throwaw12•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

https://github.com/AleatorAI/OMNI-BLAS
1•LowSpecEng•1h ago•1 comments

The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
1•JasonHEIN•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres' full water use secret

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/amazon-datacentres-water-use-disclosure
49•__luca•3mo ago

Comments

bfkwlfkjf•3mo ago
> Asked about the leaked document, Amazon spokesperson Margaret Callahan described it as “obsolete” and said it “completely misrepresents Amazon’s current water usage strategy”.

> “A document’s existence doesn’t guarantee its accuracy or finality,” she said. “Meetings often reshape documents or reveal flawed findings or claims.”

Here's a person trained to speak in half truths. Am I the only one to find this revolting? Please tell me I'm not alone.

spicyusername•3mo ago
You're definitely not alone. Most people find this problematic.

Unfortunately, most of those people aren't elected.

RandomBacon•3mo ago
> completely misrepresents Amazon’s current water usage

Because their current water use is much higher?

("Strategy" is a meaningless word here.)

rcxdude•3mo ago
Maybe, but it is entirely possible that someone put together some numbers and got them completely wrong, in which case those statements sound pretty reasonable. They could be misleading or outright false, but we don't know that either way based on those statements.
terribleperson•3mo ago
We can make assumptions, however.

The claims made by the document referred to in the article are potentially harmful to Amazon. If they were untrue and the truth painted Amazon in a better light, they would likely be willing to counter the article with information of their own.

That they instead respond with a total non-answer is a signal that either the document is accurate, or the truth is worse.

monerozcash•3mo ago
It seems likely that the news cycle for a story like this is shorter than the time it would take to produce such numbers.
itopaloglu83•3mo ago
Let’s be a huge burden to local utilities that prices skyrocket, make everyone else pay for the infrastructure cost, and then act surprised when people vote to block us.

Yes, we do need the data centers, but people have a saying too.

yostrovs•3mo ago
This article claims that's not happening: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/10/2...
rcxdude•3mo ago
There is a fairly obvious conflict of interest with that article.
Yeul•3mo ago
I don't mind Amazon using the water if they pay for it just like the rest of us.

Unfortunately companies tend to negotiate special deals. And for what? How many local people actually get jobs in a date centre? A few security guards, cleaners and gardeners?

I've seen these things they do everything remote and if that doesn't work they fly in a team.

rangestransform•3mo ago
Even them paying for it shifts the demand curve and makes it expensive for everyone else in the short term, and local government will abuse bureaucracy to make damn sure “short term” is long
egorfine•3mo ago
> Yes, we do need the data centers, but people have a saying too.

Think of the airports. Do we need them? Absolutely. Do people have a say? Yes they do. And that's the problem: they will always say sure but not in my backyard. Obviously no one wants an airport nearby, that's understandable. So in the end expanding an airport (and thus economy) becomes basically impossible.

But in case of airport there is at least a clear case to make. DataCenters? Not so much. Laymen are unable to make an educated decisions here hence they will always vote no.

ETH_start•3mo ago
What would help is an analysis of second order benefits of having a data center, both for the locality and the nation at large. Any realistic analytical framework will acknowledge that all industry incurs some costs, but often still has a net beneficial impact on society due to the positive effect it has on income.
BriggyDwiggs42•3mo ago
How would you suggest AI data centers positively impact income?
ETH_start•3mo ago
They generate jobs for the local communities, income for shareholders and productivity-boosting automation for the economy at large
moi2388•3mo ago
“ Amazon as a whole consumed 105bn gallons of water in total in 2021”

Why arent these just closed systems?

egorfine•3mo ago
Not 100% but mostly, yes.