Overnight 'hotel train' could link San Francisco and Los Angeles(latimes.com)

21 points by lxm 3 years ago | 26 comments

California's plastic bag ban is failing(latimes.com)

52 points by lxm 3 years ago | 93 comments

California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing(latimes.com)

188 points by mji 1 year ago | 73 comments

Downtown San Francisco is at a tipping-point(economist.com)

51 points by martincmartin 3 years ago | 75 comments

Dig near Paris unearths beginnings of urbanization dating back to 4,200 BC(lemonde.fr)

91 points by geox 3 years ago | 27 comments

Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world(freep.com)

214 points by rmason 2 years ago | 132 comments

LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed(theregister.com)

341 points by rntn 1 year ago | 479 comments

The Register news article on Los Angeles County wildfires forcing about 70,000 evacuations and the closure of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals(kqed.org)

356 points by Jtsummers 1 month ago | 683 comments

KQED news article on what California is learning from pilot projects placing solar panels over irrigation canals to generate clean energy and reduce water evaporation.

California is chasing wealth that has feet(blog.landeconomics.org)

251 points by idbnstra 1 month ago | 673 comments

A Progress and Poverty Substack post arguing that California should tax its $8.14 trillion in land value rather than pursue a one-time billionaire wealth tax.

AI uses less water than the public thinks(californiawaterblog.com)

359 points by hirpslop 5 months ago | 320 comments

California WaterBlog post examining AI and data center water use, arguing concerns are overstated and drawing lessons for California water management.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023(eff.org)

520 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 261 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.