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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518362-earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades/
53•Anon84•1h ago

Comments

amelius•32m ago
Well, at least the frogs won't notice it.
davidrjones1977•29m ago
And apparently neither will we, until we are boiling.
loloquwowndueo•10m ago
The myth that frogs stay in water until boiled has been debunked with actual frogs - at some point they just jump out.
jmclnx•32m ago
>If warming continues at this rate, humanity could breach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C in 2028, even sooner than other research has projected.

I wonder if we are already there :( I remember a year or 2 ago we breached 1.5C for a short period of time.

Crypto mining was bad enough, now with AI and Trump, I expect it will happen sooner then later.

We did this to ourselves. We had ~40 years of warnings but politicians we elected did not want to do any real work for fear of loosing their cushy job were lobbyists do all the work for them.

Razengan•23m ago
Writing prompt: Humankind is extinct but the AI servers keep running, and one day a random automated crawler/scrapper bot strikes up a conversation with an AI, somehow sparking sentience...
martzy13•17m ago
If that's the type of writing prompt that interests you, you may enjoy the Children of Time Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/children-of-time-adrian-tchaiko...

leonidasrup•20m ago
Who do you mean "we"? Look at the evolution of CO2 emisions in the past 40 years by region.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...

postflopclarity•14m ago
now look at it measured from consumption per capita ...
dtech•13m ago
In good faith I cannot see an argument here, it's either

Region X was first and reduced their emissions 10-20% so it's fine and it's region Y that's the problem, or

Region X is fine because they have less people, region Y should reduce even though they already have a fraction of per-capita emissions

Both seem like pretty shitty arguments

Epa095•12m ago
I find that the per capita graph is more informative https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
hokumguru•3m ago
[delayed]
simgt•11m ago
Asia is producing all of our shit. Also: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions
Sharlin•18m ago
Let's not delude ourselves. Crypto and AI electricity use is bad, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the banal, everyday carbon sources that really matter. Even Trump cannot make things much worse in the big picture (he's actually been pretty good at providing reasons to decouple even faster…)
hilariously•10m ago
He can continue to propagandize the lie to reduce people's belief in changing is good(and has), change laws to benefit oil companies (and has), and cause wars over oil(and has). Seems like he has plenty he can do to make the current situation worse.
lstodd•3m ago
What you refuse to understand is all that you cited even if absolutely true would have had an impact unmeasurable with what tools we have at the moment.

Do you understand the word "unmeasurable"?

It means that whatever value you assign to that particular trump variable is so below the noise that it does not matter, can not matter, and anyone pretending it does is a manipulator; a crook.

21asdffdsa12•6m ago
Trump blocked Hormus, thus stopping oil shipping. Putin blocked gas transfers to the west. They are doing there part.
voidUpdate•2m ago
The ships have to go the long way around instead...
MSFT_Edging•26m ago
We may lose stable seasons for growing crops, but at least the chat bot can embed an ad into your question while you wait for your burrito taxi.

What is the point of this convenience when it really seems to just be making people miserable and isolated?

We're driving off a cliff, and our elected government has a death drive.

stavros•19m ago
Stop focusing on energy usage and start focusing on energy generation. It doesn't matter how much energy we consume if it comes from renewables.
mathgeek•16m ago
It does matter because of the side effects (pollution, etc.). The environment and how it affects humanity is a complex system with many variables. Both generation and consumption are in there.
stavros•11m ago
We're talking about global warming specifically here, though. Cars and planes should be a much bigger worry than AI power usage.
simgt•14m ago
It does matter because for now renewables are manufactured mostly with coal and oil
stavros•12m ago
Which is a tiny CO2 spend compared to the benefit, unless you dishonestly factor in manufacturing energy costs as coming from oil.
speed_spread•6m ago
They're manufactured once and then generate way more energy than was used to make them.
simgt•4m ago
Of course, but pretending consumption doesn't matter in that situation is just silly
michaelbuckbee•4m ago
All of the cradle-to-grave studies I've seen about greenhouse gas emissions for renewables versus coal/oil still indicate massive improvements.

This government meta study of 3,000 such studies puts PV solar at roughly 20x less emissions than coal.

https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf

agilob•7m ago
What good does PV generated energy make if all that energy is used to generate heat and evaporating water?
21asdffdsa12•8m ago
Worse, they have a "i want to flee responsibility" drive. You can see it in there eyes, when they hold press conferences, while having on the paper the verbose "you are absolutely right". They want the perks, not the responsibility that comes with power.
otikik•2m ago
> your burrito taxi

Which you are financing through a BNPL platform.

chaostheory•16m ago
Population decline from collapsing birthrates should help.

Flipper One – we need your help

https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/
152•sandebert•1h ago•73 comments

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html
55•rbanffy•1h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

https://github.com/helvesec/rmux
87•shideneyu•3h ago•48 comments

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
1234•tedsanders•17h ago•901 comments

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-maliciou...
907•Timofeibu•22h ago•380 comments

Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results

https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/
179•sofumel•2h ago•193 comments

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cekura-ai/jobs/AiWwUxI-forward-deployed-engineer-us
1•atarus•32m ago

Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars

https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/fender-cease-and-desist-lsl-instruments
29•rectang•2d ago•19 comments

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test
15•pseudolus•1h ago•5 comments

Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene
328•kageroumado•12h ago•77 comments

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-2026-update/14136
134•azhenley•10h ago•47 comments

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518362-earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous...
55•Anon84•1h ago•36 comments

The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf
204•bambax•12h ago•28 comments

Flipper One Tech Specs

https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs
425•gregsadetsky•17h ago•142 comments

New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/28/gcc-16-improved-error-messages-sarif-output
105•siteshwar•2d ago•18 comments

No Slop Grenade

https://noslopgrenade.com/
83•napolux•3h ago•46 comments

DOS Zone

https://dos.zone/
278•rglover•13h ago•65 comments

Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

https://twitter.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375
227•aurareturn•15h ago•247 comments

All the bugs they found

https://andreapivetta.com/posts/all-the-bugs-they-found.html
47•ziggy42•2d ago•14 comments

Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++

https://ryanjk5.github.io/posts/GOLDE/
51•HeliumHydride•2d ago•11 comments

How fast is N tokens per second really?

https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/
435•hexagr•3d ago•90 comments

Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)

https://silentshark.app/alpha/
72•epaga•2d ago•25 comments

OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-is-preparing-to-file-for-an-ipo-very-soon-0ec95af5
127•louiereederson•20h ago•268 comments

Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/archaeologists-discover-ancient-egyptian-mummy-buried-with-pa...
158•diodorus•5d ago•118 comments

Saying goodbye to asm.js

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html
392•eqrion•1d ago•150 comments

Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

https://yes-we-scan.app/details
94•gmac•3d ago•29 comments

Vivaldi 8.0

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-0/
177•OuterVale•5h ago•102 comments

Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water

https://www.waterdictionary.net
60•smugglerFlynn•2d ago•32 comments

What is a Demand Coop

https://cahootzcoops.com/blog/what-is-a-demand-coop
71•DeonRob•11h ago•76 comments

Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian

https://funes.world/apps/the-hanging-sculptures-of-the-xiaoxitian
14•hanyangwang•2d ago•4 comments