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Retired man plants trees on forgotten land, now it's Sao Paulo's largest park

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/in-2003-a-retired-man-planted-trees-on-forgotten-land-alone-20-years-later-it-had-become-one-of-sao-paulos-largest-urban-forests/articleshow/132761848.cms
37•rmason•5d ago

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thataccount•5d ago
Typifies the old "you don't plant trees for you but you plant them for those who come after you."
robocat•5d ago
Hélio da Silva, o plantador de árvores

Looks like his real name (da Silva is the most common surname in Brazil) and nominative determinism: "Sun of the Forest". Silvicultura.

I'm trying to get some trees to grow - it's a lot of work: Hélio has spent huge amounts of time and money on it (average wage might be USD1000/month and article says he was spending 7000 a year and if that was in the past then amount is a lot more in today's dollars).

celias•5d ago
The Man Who Planted Trees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY_zuNtf3_g

Hugsbox•1d ago
It's slightly annoying that it literally says in the article that he has a photo album showing the growth of the area over time, yet the article chooses to use an AI-generated image at the top instead to depict that. An AI-generated image that looks like shit. What a way to represent this man's incredible accomplishment.
eru•39m ago
You might like https://saopaulosecreto.com/en/tiquatira-linear-park-en/ better.

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-infer...
417•itvision•6h ago•325 comments

Mario Meets Pareto

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
904•theanonymousone•15h ago•150 comments

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/
100•gnabgib•5h ago•17 comments

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-sola...
158•neversaydie•1d ago•33 comments

I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-trusting-usb-c-cable-labels-started-testing-with-meter-instead/
95•baranul•3d ago•58 comments

Taste Is All That's Left

https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left
231•tsak•9h ago•186 comments

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm
64•Audiophilip•5h ago•11 comments

Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)

https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm
74•sebg•5h ago•3 comments

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/
157•collinmanderson•7h ago•106 comments

Almost no skill required to cook a steak

https://blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/
289•yusyd•11h ago•333 comments

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/
165•tedsanders•9h ago•121 comments

Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

https://provenmetal.com
187•willcarkner•11h ago•132 comments

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74
342•Footkerchief•11h ago•275 comments

Retired man plants trees on forgotten land, now it's Sao Paulo's largest park

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/in-2003-a-retired-man-planted-trees-on-fo...
40•rmason•5d ago•5 comments

Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260731-why-estonians-invite-strangers-into-their-backyards-e...
22•koolhead17•3d ago•4 comments

Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media

https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-medi...
81•boplicity•2h ago•42 comments

The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/07/26/the-sylvester-gallai-theorem/
23•surprisetalk•6d ago•5 comments

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/
259•Wirbelwind•15h ago•194 comments

STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST

https://medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/stv-a-video-codec-for-the-atari-st-6e46355c50e4
24•indyjo•1w ago•2 comments

My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965
92•luu•8h ago•172 comments

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update
226•dsubburam•6h ago•113 comments

Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/ChipTycoon/
114•laurentiurad•6d ago•20 comments

Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

https://github.com/CopilotKit/channels-sdk
91•davidmckayv•10h ago•20 comments

Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/
67•bschne•7h ago•46 comments

The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener

https://danielmangum.com/posts/integrated-timing-belt-loopback-fastener/
104•hasheddan•4d ago•21 comments

Pareto Front

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front
223•binyu•1w ago•95 comments

Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx

https://www.rafa.ee/articles/progressive-enhanced-forms-htmx/
66•mpweiher•1w ago•11 comments

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

https://artificialanalysis.ai/?intelligence=agentic-index
448•apitman•8h ago•286 comments

Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260729051515.htm
75•jandrewrogers•1d ago•82 comments

Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260805-four-simple-rules-behind-japans-most-liveable-cities
83•tchalla•13h ago•106 comments