alt Hacker NewsIt seems to be blogspam from the Spain-based Actualidad Blog network.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/actualidad-blog
IA has a capture of the site[0]; the first and only photo in the archived version of TFA appears to be a cropped version of one sourced to AP ([1] photo 2 in the carousel), and it is entirely uncredited in TFA.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20251214073005/https://en.jardin...
[1] https://apnews.com/article/brazil-rio-talipot-palm-flamengo-...
Other reporting I dug up reference the AP and also Reuters as sources for the story.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/once-in-a-lifet...
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Ironically the UX on Reuters and AP wasn’t hugely worse than the blogspam: * the text of the blogspam is pretty faithful to the AP article * Reuters had a fullscreen paywall * the AP had a floating video ad and an interstitial you have to click to get below the fold
I don't know if "blogspam" is fair. This article seems to contain a significant amount of original content that is not lifted/rewritten from elsewhere. The photos do seem to be taken from the AP article without acknowledgement, which is not ideal, but I guess that's for them to worry about.
Overall I think it's an interesting enough topic to warrant HN front page placement, and this is the most extensive article about it. We'd be happy to switch to a different source if someone can recommend a better one.