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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•5m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•5m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•8m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•8m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•8m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
1•pseudolus•8m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•9m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•10m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•10m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
2•obscurette•10m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•16m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•17m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•18m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•19m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•19m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•20m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•20m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•23m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•24m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•26m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
1•geox•27m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•28m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•30m ago•2 comments

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-delays-mars-plans-to-focus-on-moon-66d5c542
1•BostonFern•31m 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.