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CA declares state of emergency as fire crews race to contain toxic chemical leak

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w2l249j8go
30•borski•48m ago

Comments

foota•13m ago
Is it not possible for them to just... spray it with ice cold water?
fc417fc802•11m ago
They have been doing exactly that for the past 24 hours. However the contents of the tank are polymerizing, that reaction is exothermic, and the tank is quite large.
Jtsummers•8m ago
Read the article. They have been doing that, but that is just slowing things down and buying them time.
fc417fc802•13m ago
I'd be curious how it came to pass that 40k people were living within the blast radius of a plant processing toxic chemicals. Isn't this sort of thing the primary justification for the existence of zoning laws?
MarkusQ•7m ago
More fire / explosion risk than the "toxic cloud engulfs city" rhetoric people have been spreading.

https://www.fishersci.com/store/msds?partNumber=AC127140100&...

AI Governance 2026: I Almost Quit over This Shit (and Why You Might Too)

https://medium.com/open-ai/ai-governance-2026-i-almost-quit-over-this-shit-and-why-you-might-too-...
1•sukhpinder0804•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fruitsy, a slot machine game

https://fruitsy.surge.sh
1•stagas•4m ago•0 comments

Jira Is Turing-Complete

https://seriot.ch/computation/jira.html
1•MrFinch•6m ago•0 comments

Codex is flagged as malware on macOS

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/23195
1•vldszn•6m ago•1 comments

Wildlife is watching us, too – and changing their behavior in response

https://news.yale.edu/2026/05/21/wildlife-watching-us-too-and-changing-their-behavior-response
2•hhs•11m ago•1 comments

BFI Online Video Collection

https://replay.bfi.org.uk/collection/458
1•philo23•11m ago•1 comments

World Machines

https://worldmachines.org/resources
1•jerlendds•12m ago•0 comments

Curious cases of financial engineering in biotech

https://www.owlposting.com/p/curious-cases-of-financial-engineering
1•abhishaike•13m ago•0 comments

Birds can see into the UV spectrum, picking up signals that the human eye cannot

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2•hhs•14m ago•0 comments

ParsOS NEXT, Learn how does a GUI works

https://github.com/amirali1390-bit/ParsOS-NEXT
1•amirali901•16m ago•1 comments

Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data

https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/05/22/hi-res-microscopes-give-biologists-petabytes-of-data-scienti...
2•hhs•17m ago•0 comments

Guinea worm disease nears worldwide elimination, with only 10 cases in 2025

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/dracunculiasis/guinea-worm-disease-nears-worldwide-elimination-only-10...
2•randycupertino•27m ago•1 comments

Alberta will vote on whether to remain part of Canada. What now?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c809jg1gj9yo
3•tartoran•27m ago•2 comments

Polsia raised $30M; source map: fake ARR, dead users, god-mode over your company

https://zero-arr.vercel.app
14•not-chatgpt•31m ago•3 comments

Don't Roll Your Own

https://susam.net/do-not-roll-your-own.html
6•adunk•32m ago•1 comments

Memdeklaro: Open-source self-sovereign identity

https://memdeklaro.org
3•anonymous123•33m ago•0 comments

Customizing an LLM for Enterprise Software Engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16517
3•daureg•34m ago•0 comments

Byrne's Euclid

https://www.c82.net/euclid/
3•layer8•37m ago•1 comments

SpaceX files to go public, and the math requires a little faith

https://techcrunch.com/video/spacex-files-to-go-public-and-the-math-requires-a-little-faith/
3•Timofeibu•42m ago•0 comments

Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, Fragnesia: A Worrisome Linux Security Trend

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4•Timofeibu•43m ago•0 comments

Inside an N64 Cartridge: How the Hardware Actually Works [video]

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3•skibz•43m ago•0 comments

The Crypto Coin was the tell – thoughts on GSD, and it's crypto rugpull

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2•AndyNemmity•44m ago•0 comments

The Appreciation Constituency: Land, Credit and the Politics of Protected Assets

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/05/the-appreciation-constituency-land-credit-and-the-poli...
2•robocat•45m ago•0 comments

The Polyglot Protocol – senior-engineer guardrails for AI coding agents

https://github.com/sabir-gbs/the-polyglot-protocol
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GLP-1s Linked to Lower Risk of Cancer Spread in Four Tumor Types

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3•randycupertino•46m ago•0 comments

CA declares state of emergency as fire crews race to contain toxic chemical leak

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w2l249j8go
34•borski•48m ago•8 comments

Shamelessly vibecoded rust NTFS driver

https://github.com/christhomas/rust-fs-ntfs
2•chrisalexthomas•50m ago•0 comments

Markdown Is Not LaTeX

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10•joesuf4•53m ago•6 comments

Collabora and Flipper: Opening Up the RK3576

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2•anikoghosyan•58m ago•0 comments

Strategic Thinking

https://candost.blog/newsletter/mediations-38/
3•mooreds•59m ago•0 comments