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Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013)

https://www.audubon.org/news/urban-birds-are-rising-earlier-because-traffic-noise
28•thunderbong•2d ago

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gausswho•1d ago
Ladybugs that stash in your house instead of in a log end up waking from winter dormancy earlier than their prey does. They inevitably starve and exhaust their calories. In an old house you can sometimes discover a nook somewhere and uncover a graveyard of thousands of them.
nkrisc•3m ago
I always wondered why I would find so many dead lady bugs around.
metalman•1d ago
I have watched seagulls commuting back and forth at midnight, as city lighting at scale around a large harbour seems to work for some of them. Country gulls still commute at regular diurnal schedules, or at least there still isn't enough light to watch things flying at night. I have watched crows that specialise in catching stuned insects on the verges where a busy hyway intersects a large stretch of mature healthy forest, but not anywhere else.Though I can see smaller birds getting used to crumbs and ends bieng tossed from early commuters breakfasts on the fly.
Qem•1h ago
Given electric cars are quieter, curious about how likely is a reversal of this trend.
kjkjadksj•1h ago
Most traffic noise these days comes from tire noise on roads not the engine, save for muscle cars and the occasional truck I guess. Evs are just as noisy if not moreso because their added weight.
vatsachak•56m ago
This has not been my experience at all. Maybe the human ear tuning exacerbates the engine noise
culopatin•5m ago
I find electric cars louder than the current engines most of the time. The space travel noises they put out while driving are louder than say a non hybrid Camry, not to mention ICE cars don’t make any backing up noises. Parallel parking of electric cars is so annoying. Hybrids too, I can hear the whining of a Prius coming down the street from half a block away.

This is not to say I’m against electric and hybrid cars, I’m all for them. But the fake noises they added are not a benefit.

ohm•24m ago
I was looking up fake owls on Amazon at 4:30 in the morning today because I couldn’t take the bird noise outside.

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https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/nic.de
520•warpspin•5h ago•241 comments

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
441•amrrs•9h ago•198 comments

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/
307•palashawas•8h ago•173 comments

Three Inverse Laws of AI

https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
349•blenderob•9h ago•243 comments

Write some software, give it away for free

https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026
125•nohell•3h ago•93 comments

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI
220•brudgers•9h ago•53 comments

Why most product tours get skipped

https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product-tours-get-skipped
64•pancomplex•4h ago•54 comments

NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5807918/polymarket-panama-prediction-market
193•ilamont•3h ago•87 comments

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99•ouli•7h ago•38 comments

GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752
112•gmays•7h ago•23 comments

Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say

https://apnews.com/article/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-publishers-lawsuit-llama-5609846d4d840014974a8...
119•jethronethro•3h ago•30 comments

Agents for financial services and insurance

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196•louiereederson•10h ago•148 comments

Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013)

https://www.audubon.org/news/urban-birds-are-rising-earlier-because-traffic-noise
28•thunderbong•2d ago•8 comments

Past Ferrari Models, 1947–2023

https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/auto/past-model
17•NaOH•2d ago•3 comments

I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph

https://mohibulsblog.netlify.app/java/100daysofjava/graph/
26•celurian92•2d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

91•mtricot•10h ago•23 comments

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
1239•john-doe•17h ago•839 comments

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723
255•adrianmsmith•13h ago•359 comments

I'm scared about biological computing

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared-About-Biological-Computing
138•kuberwastaken•9h ago•121 comments

California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php
262•littlexsparkee•7h ago•320 comments

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

https://www.robert-glaser.de/when-everyone-has-ai-and-the-company-still-learns-nothing/
309•youngbrioche•15h ago•218 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring- 200k for junior engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/L3copvK-founding-engineer
1•pablo24602•8h ago

Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?

https://distr.sh/blog/running-docker-in-production/
355•pmig•5d ago•255 comments

IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260505-00/?p=112298
298•SeenNotHeard•7h ago•173 comments

Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer

https://physicsworld.com/a/researchers-print-structural-colour-with-an-inkjet-printer/
46•zeristor•2d ago•7 comments

iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

https://walletwallet.alen.ro/blog/ios-27-wallet-create-pass/
379•alentodorov•12h ago•288 comments

The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory

https://academic.oup.com/logcom/article/34/6/1032/7158523
24•danny00•2d ago•0 comments

Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publ...
245•spankibalt•7h ago•183 comments

Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/underwater-robot-tracks-sperm-whale-conversations-re...
52•thedebuglife•2d ago•13 comments

Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/xbox-ceo-ends-copilot-ai-development-overhauls-leadership-3361353/
44•gmays•2h ago•7 comments