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Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/08/05/dnr-closes-additional-areas-of-cunningham-falls-state-park-following-second-beaver-attack/
31•bookofjoe•1h ago

Comments

tomcam•58m ago
"Beaver Attack" was not on my 2026 Hacker News headline bingo card
lithocarpus•50m ago
"Beaver attacks on people are rare and are thought to primarily involve rabid animals" - the article
adzm•45m ago
Confirmed rabies positive by the way.
peri-cl•44m ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260806195522/https://news.mary...
binaryturtle•29m ago
Thanks! The original link gave me a 403 only.
delichon•30m ago
> The injured fisherman in today’s attack, a 19-year-old male, appeared to have sustained a bite to the ankle and transported himself

A disease that propagates itself by making animals want to bite other animals. I suppose rabies is the base phenomenon behind the zombie meme. It's also a good description of a large fraction of social media posts.

Razengan•7m ago
It's amazing how microorganisms, including that Cordyceps fungus, can "control" macro nervous systems so specifically..
walrus01•30m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynona%27s_Big_Brown_Beaver
bogzz•24m ago
This must be payback for us harvesting their delicious anal glands all those years ago.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/26/293406191/do...

Fricken•18m ago
https://youtu.be/YTWqVk03eb0?si=3NW5xcGcqvY1etxM&t=427
profsummergig•14m ago
The heat is driving me crazy too.

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/
399•theanonymousone•4h ago•186 comments

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
456•senko•7h ago•292 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
272•groomlake•6h ago•120 comments

Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/08/05/dnr-closes-additional-areas-of-cunningham-falls-state-pa...
32•bookofjoe•1h ago•11 comments

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

https://github.com/andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker
148•andrewpollack•5h ago•82 comments

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
302•shaunpud•8h ago•123 comments

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-pro...
43•MarcoDewey•2h ago•7 comments

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/
120•gumby•6h ago•45 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
9•hakkikonu•3d ago•2 comments

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
347•bhavansig•12h ago•106 comments

Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/preventing-misfolding-preventing-folding
29•surprisetalk•4d ago•1 comments

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
290•882542F3884314B•11h ago•292 comments

Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
23•robinpdev•1w ago•1 comments

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/
35•skibz•4h ago•7 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
116•electricant•8h ago•21 comments

Monitors for Work

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/08/05/monitors-for-work/
66•edward•3d ago•38 comments

Python string literals are kinda funny

https://sebsite.pw/w/20260806-pystrings.html
55•jandeboevrie•2d ago•35 comments

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/
87•rfarley04•9h ago•69 comments

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
154•geox•4h ago•73 comments

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
197•rbanffy•12h ago•308 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%2...
8•pseudolus•1h ago•1 comments

A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
408•aanet•3d ago•97 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
315•epestr•15h ago•92 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
751•tosh•1d ago•449 comments

From your doorbell to your home network

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-doorbell-hacking/
67•mmoogle•3d ago•8 comments

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/
67•rahen•8h ago•12 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
950•RickJWagner•1d ago•1121 comments

BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'

https://omnistrate.com/blog/byoc-anywhere-the-spectrum-of-bring-your-own-cloud-deployments
62•kkgupta•4d ago•10 comments

Message your other Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging
31•mfiguiere•6h ago•13 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
337•moelf•23h ago•141 comments