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Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•41s ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

https://twitter.com/alansass/status/2019904035982307406
1•alan_sass•2m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design system generator (mood to CSS in <1 second)

https://huesly.app
1•egeuysall•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 26/02/26 – 5 songs in a day

https://playingwith.variousbits.net/saturday
1•dmje•3m ago•0 comments

Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•5m ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
3•codexon•5m ago•1 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/
1•NaOH•6m ago•0 comments

Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
2•birdculture•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: a glimpse into the future of eye tracking for multi-agent use

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•11m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/the-optima-l-situation
2•subdomain•11m ago•0 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•11m ago•0 comments

Implementing TCP Echo Server in Rust [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOBZ_Xzuio
1•sheerluck•12m ago•0 comments

LicGen – Offline License Generator (CLI and Web UI)

1•tejavvo•15m ago•0 comments

Service Degradation in West US Region

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status?gsid=5616bb85-f380-4a04-85ed-95674eec3d87&utm_source=...
2•_____k•15m ago•0 comments

The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•17m ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
3•CurtHagenlocher•19m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•20m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•20m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•21m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•23m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•25m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•29m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•31m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•35m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•36m ago•1 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•38m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

What are some greenwashing examples in your everyday life?

1•olek•1mo ago
I've been noticing greenwashing everywhere lately and wrote about it here: https://olek.works/notes/greenwashing-everywhere/

A few examples that stood out to me:

Online grocery stores that proudly email receipts instead of printing them—but force you to buy new plastic/paper bags with every delivery instead of offering reusable crates for regular customers.

"100% recycled plastic" bottles that conveniently don't mention plastic degrades with each recycling cycle and ends up in landfills after a few rounds anyway.

Budget airlines that ask passengers to dispose of trash to "help the environment"—while selling everything in single-use plastic and generating dozens of enormous garbage bags per flight. They've just outsourced the guilt.

Once you start seeing it, it's everywhere.

What greenwashing examples have you noticed? I'm collecting them to build a library in the post. Share yours—the more specific, the better. Bonus points for the subtle ones that most people miss.

Comments

oriettaxx•1mo ago
Italian ENI funding everything to prove gas is green
olek•1mo ago
Can you be more specific? Maybe some articles, detailed examples, screenshots, photos, etc.?
oriettaxx•1mo ago
well, ENI is kind of a beast... many want even advice you to dig too much (yes)

Anyhow this specific issue is so evident (and embarrassing) that it got public (despite the huge amount of cash ENI spend in advertisement... there is even a specific talk about this historical huge amount in an US ambassador's cable in wiki-leak, of many years ago)

Here some examples (but just search for "eni greenwashing": my kagi search returns many even English good results):

* https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/polluting-education-enis...

* https://www.petersandpeters.com/case/eni-fine-in-connection-...

Then I just saw this one: https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/how-italian-newspapers... (did not read it, to be honest: I really get too mad)

olek•1mo ago
Your links are really nuggets! Thanks for sharing them! Will dig deeper into them.
tim-tday•1mo ago
You have to consider the purpose of greenwashing. It’s a campaign of misinformation so companies and politicians don’t have to change their behavior due to environmental concerns. The most pernicious campaigns are blame shifting.

The recycling symbol was invented by plastic manufacturers specifically because they were facing public criticism for producing plastic trash. Plastic is not recyclable in an economically viable way. Once China stopped accepting plastic”imports of garbage” there was no place that accepted it. Because it doesn’t actually work well enough to bother.

Glass is chemically recyclable. But the raw material is so cheap it’s not economical viable.

The carbon footprint was invented by fossil fuel companies to shift blame to the consumer. “That coal plant I operate is your fault because you use the power” neatly shits the blame away from people who build and operate coal plants (and resist efforts to de carbonize the grid)

olek•1mo ago
> The carbon footprint was invented by fossil fuel companies to shift blame to the consumer. I highly agree. I'm sick of hearing how this all is my fault, and my little, tiny change changes everything, whereas the companies do nothing.