Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) by acyou on Monday July 28, 2025 @12:58AM (#44707346)

Surface level thinking, ecological disaster in the making. Birds and bats and other bugs eat mosquitoes to live. Killing all the mosquitoes is like the Chinese killing all the sparrows. We do not understand, and we do not want to understand, the deep consequences of our actions.

People who think we can reengineer and shape ecology by eliminating key species are here on the dunning Kruger curve.

Better option, if you really want to fight malaria go fight that directly, leave mosquitoes out of it.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) by jjcob on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:47AM (#44708317)

In general I agree that messing with ecosystems sometimes has unpredictable consequences.

In the case of mosquitos, though, they cause so much suffering, that it would be stupid to not work on eradicating them because of possible negative consequences.

We have to be careful, of course (widespread use of insecticides is a problem), but targeted measures are really unlikely to cause more harm than mosquitos already do.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) by stathibus on Monday July 28, 2025 @01:23AM (#44707464)

Yeah well mosquitoes should definitely be made extinct btw but there’s no way a robot that kills bugs in your back yard is going to accomplish that so you can put your pitchfork down

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) by dartharva on Monday July 28, 2025 @10:11AM (#44711074)

Mosquitos can thrive and play their part in the food chain as much as they want.. outdoors.

What bird or bat or other bugs is getting their food needs fulfilled by hunting mosquitos inside your house?

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