Hey, it's Earth Day today

4/23/2026 at 1:06:13 AM

While you're contemplating the miracle of Earth, consider how rare wood or chocolate icecream is in the universe as compared to gold or diamonds or similar structures.

Life is rare. This adds a particular irony in wearing uniforms. All the uniqueness of life has this need for uniformity layered over the top.

(These deep thoughts go haywire when you realize that IRS Tax form 1040 is therefore some kind of wonder of creation and is a rare thing in the universe)

by absynth

4/23/2026 at 1:51:11 AM

IRS Tax form 1040 is made from a tree. The tree seems much more miraculous..

by chairmansteve

4/22/2026 at 8:56:17 PM

Happy Earth day! Although I'm having a somewhat sad earth day since I've been scattering wildflower seeds and two days ago the city came though and mowed them all down. So it's less happy than usual, now the flowers are all dead.

by skyberrys

4/23/2026 at 6:52:32 PM

on Earth Day i am thinking to Help founders Build Cool Stuff https://launchcraft.studio/ do check it out even if you are not a founder i would love your feedback

by Punyakrit

4/23/2026 at 7:49:52 PM

On Earth Day, I just launched my own Hacker News app that I really love! https://haiker.app!

by djyde

4/23/2026 at 8:17:10 AM

Humans are ironicial, they do wars on one end and fire missiles to take all efforts 20 years back and then celebrate earth day and talk about Saving nature. Wow :)

by sam_josh1

4/23/2026 at 12:41:23 AM

My contribution today: fewer LLM calls, fewer GPU hours, less CO2.

by aldielshala

4/23/2026 at 5:17:59 AM

Practicing green prompting? It seems like you tried you be attentive today to you computer to return ratio.

by skyberrys

4/23/2026 at 7:42:40 AM

Trying to use human attention, instead of Transformer attention.

by aldielshala

4/23/2026 at 12:41:05 PM

How about no LLMs?

by slipknotfan

4/22/2026 at 11:09:41 PM

Agreed. Maybe let's stop trying to set the world on fire so we can have AI generated cat videos. Just doesn't seem worth it...

by lyfeninja

4/22/2026 at 7:37:47 PM

How do you play your part?

by akashwadhwani35

4/24/2026 at 12:27:23 AM

i want to protect Earth

by blackpink66

4/24/2026 at 1:03:27 AM

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by cindyllm

4/23/2026 at 12:13:11 AM

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by shockedstorys