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1•adamthemuffin•41s ago•0 comments

ByteDance entering the world models race

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-07/bytedance-founder-joins-ai-elite-in-race-to-pe...
1•ltononro•53s ago•0 comments

Justifying text by hand, now at 35 columns

https://en.andros.dev/blog/079a7eaa/justifying-text-by-hand-now-at-35-columns/
1•ibobev•1m ago•0 comments

Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Release Date and Gameplay

https://www.polygon.com/zelda-ocarina-of-time-remake-gameplay-release-date/
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

Apache Iceberg Table Cleanup: A Production Guide

https://lakeops.dev/blog/iceberg-table-cleanup
1•slaiyer6•1m ago•0 comments

Hope Is Not a Forecast

https://thinkingrock.substack.com/p/hope-is-not-a-forecast
1•7777777phil•1m ago•0 comments

The Shortest IPv6 Addresses

https://ache.one/notes/vanity-ipv6
1•birdculture•2m ago•0 comments

Gaussian Point Splatting – a stochastic method for rendering 3DGS scenes

https://jorisar.nl/gaussian_point_splatting/
1•sorenjan•2m ago•0 comments

Bootstrappable Distros

https://github.com/vasi/bootstrappable-distros
1•lioeters•2m ago•0 comments

How to Prepare for AGI

https://www.guidavid.com/writing/how-to-prepare-for-agi
1•gdss•4m ago•0 comments

Microsoft 365 License Audit Guide

https://www.gitbit.org/docs/microsoft-365-license-audit
2•gitbit-org•6m ago•2 comments

Bring any agents into Slack, Teams and Discord

https://www.flintai.dev/products/switch
1•yuedongze•7m ago•0 comments

Air traffic control failure disrupts flights at major UK airports

https://londonlovesbusiness.com/air-traffic-control-failure-disrupts-flights-at-major-uk-airports/
2•Betelbuddy•7m ago•0 comments

Critical vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS are being actively exploited

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/09/vulnerabilities-in-mikrotik-routeros-actively-exploited/
2•margor•8m ago•0 comments

Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality After 9/11 Event

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/nyregion/sept-11-air-quality-cancer.html
1•toomuchtodo•9m ago•1 comments

About Scrolling

https://mudmapmagazine.com/about-scrolling/
1•surprisetalk•9m ago•0 comments

s3backer: FUSE/NBD single file backing store via Amazon S3

https://github.com/archiecobbs/s3backer
1•ryuuseijin•10m ago•0 comments

Are Supabase docs agent-friendly? We didn't know, so we checked

https://supabase.com/blog/are-supabase-docs-agent-friendly
1•FinnLobsien•13m ago•0 comments

NetBSD GSoC 2026 Testing Compat Linux: Syscall Testing

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_testing_compat_linux_2
1•jaypatelani•13m ago•0 comments

I Rewrote My Back End in Go in 72 Hours and Cut My AWS Bill by 94%

https://www.bajura.online/2026/09/i-rewrote-my-backend-in-go-in-72-hours.html
2•odilelof•13m ago•1 comments

Ode to Metadata

https://www.autodidacts.io/ode-to-metadata/
2•Curiositry•14m ago•0 comments

Faster Projected GAN

https://github.com/diarimandimby/Faster-Projected-GAN/
1•Diarimandimby•15m ago•0 comments

Learning Human Health and Diseases from 24-Hour Wrist Movement

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29494
1•brandonb•18m ago•0 comments

Who Is Elizabeth Holmes? What Is "You Can See Everything" About?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/who-is-elizabeth-holmes-of-you-can-see-everything/107127436
4•BLKNSLVR•19m ago•0 comments

Disappointed Optimists

https://cwodtke.com/disappointed-optimists/
5•adrianhoward•19m ago•0 comments

Natural Light Is an Essential Nutrient

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-light-is-an-essential-nutrient
2•bilsbie•19m ago•0 comments

Painting and Color of the Eiffel Tower

https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/painting-eiffel-tower
1•thunderbong•20m ago•0 comments

The Myth of Perfect Knowledge

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/science-objectivity-myth-physics/688532/
3•Brajeshwar•21m ago•0 comments

Did AI Find Murakami's Voice? Student's $2 Experiment Divides China's Literati

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1018966
3•NishanStepak•22m ago•0 comments

The Book of Darius

https://www.bookofdarius.com/
2•derek-larson•22m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

How Climate Resilient Are the Largest Cities?

https://alphageo.ai/how-climate-resilient-are-the-worlds-largest-cities/
18•asib•44m ago

Comments

cmiles8•21m ago
Honestly this list sounds like total BS. Doesn’t Chicago have a bunch of people die every time there’s a heatwave because of lack of AC and such? How are they possibly the best prepared city on the planet for climate change? The whole methodology here seems suspect at best.
bobthebuilders•19m ago
This is America, not a Europoor country.
jameshart•14m ago
Chicago is lowest for adjusted risk because it just scores very low for physical risk on their scale. Compared to other cities the adjustment to its risk score for resilience is about typical - not great and not terrible - which suggests that yes, for what physical risks it does face (summer heat) it could probably do more to reduce those risks.
hugs•7m ago
david pogue in "how to prepare for climate change" mentions chicago and the great lakes area in general as a "climate haven", so the idea is not complete bs.
bilsbie•20m ago
Pretty darn resilient considering we’ve predicted climate doom for the last 30 years and they’re still standing.
imtringued•16m ago
If you predict an event that is 100 years away and 30 years pass, does the event that is still 70 years into the future vanish simply because the present arrived as predicted by the forecast?

Mind you, the forecast told us that we're still fine in 2026.

chermi•14m ago
I'm basically on your side here, but there were plenty of models predicting catastrophe by now.
datsci_est_2015•8m ago
Ah yes, I believe one of those models was called the Strawman Model, generated by Elliot F. Strawman during his tenure at MIT. He was forced into retirement due to his deep embarrassment over his model’s inaccuracies.

Anyway, Illinois is about to break the all time record for tornadoes by a single state, previously held by Texas, during the strongest El Niño ever measured. I’ll be proud tucking my kids in and telling them as long as they pray hard enough to the Gods of technological progress, we’ll be guaranteed to stumble upon a carbon sequestration technology akin to the Haber process and they won’t have to be forced into a Sophie’s choice when there’s only enough clean water for 2 of their 3 children.

the_gastropod•7m ago
Mind sharing some? I often hear people believe climate scientists frequently overstate things, and I can’t recall seeing good examples of this.
willmadden•12m ago
My concern with this analysis is that the headline "conclusions" depend on a proprietary composite index and assumptions. Where are the underlying data and methodologies for independent evaluation?

I was also surprised by how little attention the analysis gives to China and India. It's like measuring the smoke from a candle while standing next to two forest fires. The real-world impact is to decimate the economies of Europe while industry moves to China and India, who have no meaningful guardrails at all, making the claimed problem worse.

thenthenthen•4m ago
Mmmm what to say.. I lived in Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai and I would say these cities are not really resilient. Yeah no major dams or glaciers that will trigger natural disasters but every typhoon season parts of these cities are flooded. Past three years I have been knee deep in water 3x a year in Shanghai, I have never seen anything like it (coming from Europe).
Juliate•10m ago
Cities being resilient is one thing. It won't contribute to make agriculture resilient.
hamburga•10m ago
Chicago resident here.

Not disputing the methodology, but our state is the nation's leader in tornadoes (by more than a factor of 2) due to Niña/Niño this year, and Chicago spent a few days this summer with the world's worst air quality due to Canadian wildfire smoke.

Obviously, "resilient" ⍯ "unaffected".

lapcat•4m ago
Wildfire smoke is indeed a major problem.

However, as a lifelong resident of the upper midwest, I don't consider tornadoes a major problem, even at double the rate, because they're extremely localized.

nephihaha•6m ago
Many cities are heat sinks and make the problem worse locally due to lack of tree cover and an overabundance of concreta and tar.
comrade1234•6m ago
There's a very cool project wrapping up here in Zurich where they built a relief tunnel from the sihl river underground downhill to lake Zurich to handle 500-years floods.

One weekend they let people walk the length of the tunnel from the river to the lake. It was a pretty steep slope and about 3/4 down the walls of the tunnel changed from smooth to rough. They had calculated how fast the water would be moving when it hits the rough part and then how much that would slow it down.

Then at the bottom instead of emptying directly into the lake it comes flying out of the tunnel and smashes into a giant cement wall then flows under a roadway into the lake.

Cost was $200 million. A 500-year flood would flood downtown Zurich.

https://www.zh.ch/de/planen-bauen/wasserbau/wasserbauprojekt...

greenie_beans•1m ago
this study has pissed off anti-ai zealots because it used AI. this seems like the perfect use case for ML/AI? like okay, be pissed that somebody is studying how climate change might affect you