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New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic

https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2026/9/18/new-form-plastic-pollution-discovered-shores-vulnerable-coral-reefs
20•giuliomagnifico•2h ago

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ninininino•1h ago
Plastic also visibly in rocks on the beach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5UoVDxjG1g

https://www.science.org/content/article/rocks-made-plastic-f...

And invisibly in trees: https://www.waldwissen.net/en/forest-ecology/climate-and-env...

Pick your favorite Disney movie, the beautiful nature in it is now infused with plastic.

dvh•1h ago
It's our own K-T layer
testfoobar•27m ago
"The Plastocene – Plastic in the sedimentary record"

https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2019/01/09/the-plastocene...

nomel•4m ago
Maybe they'll call this the Polymeriferous period, and we'll eventually have a microbe that consumes plastic, like the fungi that developed late in the Carboniferous period.
bmk44•37m ago
Reminds me of the classic George Carlin bit:

"The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

Joel_Mckay•15m ago
"Saving the Planet" (George Carlin)

https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c?si=HqyW8mys0uNBuFdW&t=147

Humorous, but not inaccurate about what climate change means to primates. =3

PHP 8.2.35

https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-8.2.35
815•tuyuri•4h ago•461 comments

Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-...
273•ejohnso49•2h ago•141 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/
218•abhisek•4h ago•88 comments

Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

https://scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-of-trust-emudhras-ca-keys-cracked-in-milliseconds/
676•hkc•9h ago•319 comments

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200
253•nnx•4h ago•29 comments

Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities

https://openai.com/index/coordinated-disclosure-of-critical-vulnerabilities/
168•nr378•4h ago•98 comments

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp814l80pw2o
65•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•6 comments

EA is shutting down BioWare

https://www.theverge.com/games/1015647/ea-is-shutting-down-bioware
87•aaronbrethorst•57m ago•40 comments

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud/
103•armcat•5h ago•29 comments

Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data

https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-research-for-complex-biological-data/
86•raahelb•4h ago•35 comments

New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic

https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2026/9/18/new-form-plastic-pollution-discovered-shores-vulne...
22•giuliomagnifico•2h ago•8 comments

Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin

https://apnews.com/article/oregon-waterfall-for-sale-lawmakers-996de63462d49ec3ad9bee1629fb9488
95•surprisetalk•3h ago•61 comments

Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation

https://dri.es/state-of-drupal-presentation-september-2026
66•scottfalconer•1d ago•85 comments

Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era

https://rustoffrails.org/
55•mike1o1•1h ago•47 comments

Your MCU Likely Escaped the eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

https://danielmangum.com/posts/mcu-emudhra-intermediate-ca-compromise/
25•hasheddan•2h ago•12 comments

Launch HN: Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents

https://alterauth.com/
18•simfinii•11h ago•16 comments

The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/the-bridge-to-agent-scale-git-infrastru...
15•Klaster_1•2h ago•0 comments

What I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose

https://wvez.org/blog/learning-to-be-stupid/
62•wvez22•2h ago•39 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

https://9mothers.com/careers
1•ukd1•6h ago

C++ futures part 1: The mental model

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261012-00/?p=112767/
49•ibobev•2d ago•9 comments

Show HN: ULDA – Client-side encryption with a simple JavaScript API

https://demo.ulda.io/
10•nonsence•2d ago•3 comments

A train simulator game for console hackers

https://github.com/antoniovazquezaraujo/LeTrain
4•avaraujo•2d ago•0 comments

Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro

https://www.pagetable.com/303
160•frizlab•2d ago•60 comments

Trials and Tribulations of Native Lua Compilation

https://samyeyo.github.io/clx/blog.html
10•_samt_•3d ago•1 comments

Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/meta-muse-exposes-users-personal-and-business-secrets-wh...
348•gumby•17h ago•151 comments

Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework

https://github.com/vladocar/Sumi.css
49•bepero•5h ago•12 comments

The Decoherence Trap

https://maevyn.codes/decoherence
151•cassianoleal•2d ago•66 comments

Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/10/20/whatever-happened-to-fire-escapes
167•sohkamyung•8h ago•129 comments

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html
16•cbg0•41m ago•2 comments

PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP

https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rce
398•danlark1•4h ago•151 comments