Why “Rains” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Maybe the best way to illustrate our point is to use weather models, as it's pretty tangible for regular people. Weather models are ridiculously advanced running on super comput…
by WarmWash · Oct 6, 2026
isn't this comparison nonsense? When it rains on a farm, the farmer doesn't irrigate. When it rains on a farm, some of the water goes into aquifer. The remaining is runoff. Depe…
by sidewndr46 · Oct 5, 2026
What the water figures show is that water usage is not the problem of these data centers. It's a drop in the bucket, literally. Yet another way to see it is that given the avera…
by mrb · Oct 5, 2026
Most of the water evaporates in the end. Once it rains down again, it can go through water treatment plants again and be reused. The other water contains everything that was in…
by jeroenhd · Oct 5, 2026
High level docs are fine and can be okay or I can see them as being helpful. I did say I'll keep an AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md. There also are SOME docs and sometimes the LLM make…
by kaydub · Oct 5, 2026
OK sure but this is like defense in depth. It's a negligible amount of water, most of it doesn't evaporate, and most of what does rains somewhere it's useful anyway. The actual…
by bpodgursky · Oct 5, 2026
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