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Orca – The Agent Development Environment

https://www.onorca.dev
1•tyleo•37s ago•0 comments

OxDock – Dockerfile-inspired build DSL for Rust

https://docs.rs/oxdock/latest/oxdock/
1•zombiej5•2m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Strava Is Down

2•charliebwrites•4m ago•0 comments

Culture Becomes a Dark Forest

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/culture-becomes-a-dark-forest
1•reasonableklout•4m ago•0 comments

Unpacking the Navier–Stokes blowup: the math, the machines, & the mathematicians

https://blog.kolen.dev/math/Navier-Stokes
1•KolenCh•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a hand-modeled 3D Windows 98 portfolio with Three.js

https://wesselsdesktop.com/
1•Abstract2D•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SystemFaarDenge – a puzzle game and simulation for system designing

https://systemfaardenge.com/
1•aayushamann•7m ago•0 comments

Seven years of bitwise: Hacker News front page, and the long road into Debian

https://nativeguru.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/seven-years-of-bitwise-a-weekend-project-a-hackernews...
1•stdcall83•8m ago•0 comments

Rethinking Space Opera

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/09/rethinking-space-opera.html
1•pavel_lishin•9m ago•0 comments

GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Messaging/releases/tag/13
1•microtonal•9m ago•0 comments

They Stole Our Code, Now They Want Our Brains (March 2026)

https://www.jernesto.com/articles/on_ai_tools
4•doomishbro•9m ago•1 comments

Git-native task management for local coding agents without MCP

https://gitoza.com/
1•gitoza•9m ago•0 comments

Report Links Pirate IPTV to Hezbollah TV, Calls for U.S. Site-Blocking

https://torrentfreak.com/report-links-pirate-iptv-to-hezbollah-tv-calls-for-u-s-site-blocking/
1•Cider9986•10m ago•0 comments

Governor Newsom signs the strongest child safety chatbot and social media laws

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/10/governor-newsom-signs-the-strongest-child-safety-chatbot-and-so...
2•moneycantbuy•11m ago•1 comments

Spanda: Sub-microsecond LLM epistemic uncertainty in Rust

2•liquidngas•11m ago•1 comments

Curie by colibrì: A 17B language model designed for SSD-backed inference [video]

https://twitter.com/justvugg/status/2098467957990903833
1•vforno•13m ago•0 comments

From 1 to 33 anycast sites at one cloud provider: a staircase, not a curve

https://anycast.dev/notes/33-sites-staircase
2•portalix•15m ago•0 comments

SB-1119 Companion chatbots: children's safety

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1119
1•moneycantbuy•15m ago•1 comments

Infinite-Dimensional Vectors

https://flo.znkr.io/infinite-dimensional-vectors/
1•znkr•15m ago•0 comments

Which C++ hash map should you use?

https://martin.ankerl.com/which-hash-map/
2•klaussilveira•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sheet Insights BI – Local Excel/CSV Dashboards for Windows

https://sheet-insights.netlify.app/
2•emrsayginer•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where are the innovations happening today?

2•cauliflower99•20m ago•0 comments

UK economy unexpectedly grows 0.4% in July boosted by AI

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/11/uk-economy-defies-forecasts-with-surprise-04-gro...
2•Brajeshwar•21m ago•0 comments

Houthis Seize Strategic Red Sea Port, a Major Victory for Iranian Ally

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/world/middleeast/yemens-houthis-seize-strategic-red-sea-port-o...
4•whack•22m ago•0 comments

Basic Atomic Swap Proof of Concept

https://github.com/basicswap/basicswap
2•dRK-U•22m ago•0 comments

Right Click XLSX <-> CSV PowerShell Script

https://github.com/guilamu/Right-Click-XLSX2CSV2XLSX
2•guilamu•22m ago•1 comments

What a Pointer Forgets

https://vxlang.org/blog/what-a-pointer-forgets.html
2•adityazero•24m ago•0 comments

Beyond Solver Verdicts: Generative Reward Models for Autoformalizations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11085
2•vikashjohn2505•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mercator vs. UN's new Equal Earth map, synced side by side

https://newworldsize.com/old-vs-new-world-map/
2•respectattentio•25m ago•1 comments

Terminal velocity: the shell tools that make Claude Code fly

https://nearform.com/digital-community/terminal-velocity-the-shell-tools-that-make-claude-code-fly/
3•rosterbyte•25m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The EPA Is Planning to Scrap Public Review Rules for Data Center Pollution

https://capitalbnews.org/data-centers-permit-rules-epa/
57•doener•54m ago

Comments

paimapi•32m ago
I love this line:

>Last year, Lee Zeldin, who runs the EPA, said it was now the agency’s top priority to “make the United States the artificial intelligence capital of the world.” The 56-year-old agency was established in 1970 to protect the environment and public health.

lol, reminds me of those videos where a host will say one thing and then the cameraman pans to reveal the lie

andai•17m ago
That's a very strange goal for the EPA to have. I mean, it's a worthy goal, but it sounds very much like not their department?
JohnFen•32m ago
That's in line with the EPA's new mission of ensuring environmental degradation.
WarmWash•29m ago
First of all, what is datacenter pollution?

Second, why is the article trying so hard to make datacenters out as racist?

MengerSponge•27m ago
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260811-memphis-ai-da...
WarmWash•23m ago
Yeah, but just being a human is enough to qualify for not living in a smog cloud.

Also the article is trying to connect gas turbines from 2 years ago with cancer rates..

standeven•21m ago
The pollution is the immense amount of exhaust from the power generation equipment being installed on site at data centres.

The article is from Capital B, which focuses on news affecting the Black community.

Geof25•21m ago
Pollution happens when you don't have enough power in the grid so you will bring either diesel generators or methane turbines to make power.

Also noise is pollution too.

SoftTalker•12m ago
With diesel over $6/gallon now that's probably not too attractive. Natural gas probably more likely, and less polluting at least as far as particulates go. CO2 still created.

Are all new data centers being built with on-site power generation (for regular operations, not just emergency backup)? I'd assume they'd prefer utility power where they could get it.

GolfPopper•27m ago
This is bad news for everyone (well, except the high priests of the LLMs / nascent Cthulhoid godlings), but it certainly makes the communities who've successfully opposed data centers seem ever more justified in retrospect.
dyauspitr•25m ago
Goddamnit this is the worst possible administration to have while we’re having this massive buildup of data centers. Any reasonable government would have done what Massachusetts did and stipulated that you can build a data center, but it needs to be powered by renewable energy so build out your own energy sources, which would have been a win-win for everyone but instead we get this. Also, if the Democrats were in power, I hope they wouldn’t succumb to a minority in their base and just ban data centers and completely take us out of the race.
l1n•19m ago
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-proposes-streamline-sta...
jeffbee•18m ago
I'm pro-information and believe generally that anti-data-center activists are chasing a Glonzo on par with anti-5G electrosensitives. That said given the tide of opinion I'm overjoyed that Trump and his allies want to step into the fusilade to defend the unpopular.
childofhedgehog•18m ago
Probably an oversimplified question but how do we actually stop this?
JohnFen•11m ago
A good start is to vote in the midterms to reduce the amount of power that these antihuman criminals have. The US is currently in the midst of a serious political disaster and there will be no quick fix to any of this. But if we take every opportunity possible whenever we can to rid ourselves of these people and to stand in their way as much as possible, we can work our way back from the brink.
Y-bar•10m ago
Unfortunately the answer is ”it requires effort”, or in other words: Vote (and hold them accountable after the ballots have been counted), Shout (literally), Protest (including civil disobedience), join any civil or environmental movement, help file legal challenges.

Democracy is for good and for worse not a one-and-done thing, it is a continuous fight.

idontwantthis•6m ago
Elections have consequences. Vote democrat in November and again in 2028. When someone tells you both sides are the same tell them no, it's only Republicans that are allowing Datacenters to sidestep the law in order to poison us more efficiently.
crawfordcomeaux•6m ago
Thousands of people marching on data centers and taking them over at the same time.

Elections will never save you when the parties in power serve the billionaires.

drop_star•11m ago
which reality show host is running the EPA now?
awakeasleep•10m ago
I wonder if you could open any type of business as a datacenter now, to avoid the review.
Analemma_•9m ago
Funnily enough this probably the most safetyist thing the administration could do at the moment, since this will certainly autocatalyze more opposition to DC construction in a bunch of states and probably accelerate state-level moratoriums. A big thank you to the White House for taking AI pause as such an urgent priority.
59percentmore•5m ago
Antis are running out of time to stop what they wish to stop without resorting to destructive methods (bold and extreme action is already necessary).

Pros are running out of time to square their ambitions with a public that's about to go from needing a leg up to a public that wants their heads.

georgemcbay•20m ago
> Second, why is the article trying so hard to make datacenters out as racist?

AI Datacenters are classist.

Because of their negative externalities they will always be constructed near the poor who have the least political power.

Humans are racist.

So there is a strong systemic correlation between that group of disenfranchised people and people of color.

The most directly harmful impacts of datacenters are racist, transitively.

precision1k•16m ago
I live in Loudoun County, the wealthiest county in the United States. The amount of lamborghinis and Ferraris on the road around here is obscene. You know what else we have a lot of? Data centers. Loudoun County is also the data center capital of the US. Your idea that datacenters are racists transitively is woke slop.
georgemcbay•13m ago
The pre-AI datacenters where you live are very different than the Colossus-style methane turbine and inadequately soundproofed AI datacenters that are being built today.
datsci_est_2015•12m ago
> Your idea that datacenters are racists transitively is woke slop.

Your knee jerk reaction to refer to something as “woke slop” belies your privileged distance from anything remotely resembling hardship (I LiVe iN LoUdOuN) and an underdeveloped sense of empathy.

Anyway, we should be extremely skeptical of how infrastructure is built out in the US because of historical baggage. Poverty and industrial development create a vicious cycle that leads people to walk around with their thumb in their ass and claim that the poors just aren’t pulling themselves up by their bootstraps hard enough.

orev•8m ago
Looking at the location of Loudoun County, one could very easily make substantive arguments on why its probably a special case that very easily explains why there a both many data centers and also why it’s a rich area. (Which I will do for you): Being very close to Washington D.C., there are clearly national intelligence interests in having data centers there. And as a suburb of the D.C. area, obviously there’s a lot of money floating around.

But instead of doing that, you choose the culture war instead.