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Kira Tully
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Kira Tully's personal blog at ephemeral.cx covers programming, systems and security. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts examine US Forest Service budgeting, arguing that wildfire spending has taken a growing share of the budget (16% in 1995 to a projected 67% in 2025), leaving less for roads and trails.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My little corner of the web for sharing wherever my interests take me.
Most-linked posts?
- /2024/09/losing-access-to-the-cascades2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-23
What Hacker News says?
> It sounds like it's a resourcing issue, not a change in philosophy. Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41920127 ("HN: The Forest Service Is Losing 2,400 Jobs–Including Most of Its Trail Workers") Relevant comment by S201: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41922195 "The overall Forest Service budget has indeed been increasing, but it's nearly all going to wildfire fighting. I recently wrote about the stat…
Comment linking /2024/09/losing-access-to-the-cascades
on “USFS decision to halt prescribed burns in California is history repeating”Submitted Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program (2013) as a story · 118 points
HN discussionThe overall Forest Service budget has indeed been increasing, but it's nearly all going to wildfire fighting. I recently wrote about the state of forest road funding and went in depth on this here: https://ephemeral.cx/2024/09/losing-access-to-the-cascades > Overall, in 1995 16% of the Forest Service budget was dedicated to wildfires. By 2015 it was 52% and by 2025 it’s projected to be upwards of 67%. Without large…
Comment linking /2024/09/losing-access-to-the-cascades
on “The Forest Service Is Losing 2,400 Jobs–Including Most of Its Trail Workers”Submitted Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging Ruby, the Hard Way as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating map tiles for FAA sectional charts with GDAL as a story · 1 points
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