Hacker News with Generative AI: Disaster Recovery

L.A. is getting fire recovery wrong. Two experts explain how to do it better (latimes.com)
One month later, two wildfire experts argue that the destruction didn’t have to be as bad as it was.

Wildfires, California, Disaster Recovery, Urban Planning

8 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 0 comments

AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption (theguardian.com)
Researchers have peered inside an ancient scroll that was burned to a crisp in the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago.

Artificial Intelligence, Archaeology, History, Ancient Rome, Disaster Recovery

7 points by pseudolus 14 days ago | 0 comments

Home Loss File System (docs.google.com)
This tool was created by former California wildfire survivors committed to supporting you through the challenging process of disaster recovery.

Disaster Recovery, File Systems, Software, California Wildfires

413 points by borski 39 days ago | 105 comments

A deep-sea 'emergency service' keeps the internet running (bbc.com)
Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole country's internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of the ocean?

Internet Infrastructure, Technology, Underwater Technology, Networking, Disaster Recovery

80 points by rdl 130 days ago | 10 comments

Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel (ieee.org)
Thirteen years since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan, causing a loss of power, meltdowns and a major release of radioactive material, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) finally seems to be close to extracting the first bit of melted fuel from the complex—thanks to a special telescopic robotic device.

Nuclear Power, Robotics, Japan, Disaster Recovery

146 points by rbanffy 138 days ago | 352 comments

Barman: Implement disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL databases (pgbarman.org)