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chicken-stew··on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Apparently the easiest way to share a subscription list is by first exporting the data with google takeout.
chicken-stew··on The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
As others have stated, neither storage nor generation is evenly spread.

But, like with UPS, 96 seconds is ample time to let delicate systems glide to a standstill or to start the diesel generator.

chicken-stew··on Diamond Transistor
We know that a certain shiny rock consortium has done everything it could to slow down the development of synthetic diamond manufacturing. Maybe things will change when we can have research without a handbrake.
chicken-stew··on Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site
WP was designed around the idea that it should be easier to improve than deteriorate.
chicken-stew··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
This can be done in a distributed way using home batteries. This would increase demand for peak solar production for use outside this peak. At the moment solar production creates a large price disparity that can be corrected with home batteries.
chicken-stew··on Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction
In case there are people wondering: I’m referring to Saxifraga tridactylites and these WP photos almost show what I mean (these photos aren’t mine):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saxifraga_tridactyli...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saxifraga_tridactyli...

If you browse WP commons for this species, you’ll find a few where dirt is stuck to these glands.

chicken-stew··on Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction
Saxifrage is one of my favourite subjects for macro photography and I often noticed the same glandular appendages in plants here in W.EU as well. They’re sparser in number than in your typical insectivorous plant, but have this easily recognisable elongated mushroom shape.
chicken-stew··on I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
Can that technique be applied to packet compression?
chicken-stew··on US Forces Exit Iraq
https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/nea/disarm/

https://web.archive.org/web/20150218235400/https://2001-2009...

chicken-stew··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
Not so long ago I read something on HN which resonated with me: we’re moving into the era that is comparable to car mechanics enthusiasts. You have a previous generation of cars where people just enjoy working on with hand tools, and there’s modern cars where people like to tune with software patches.

From the very start of llms I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with code that was generated for me. Either it’s buggy, it works but I end up losing an evening on some obscure bug, or it’s full of red flags.

My latest hobby project is just in a text editor with markup and that’s it. I’m also done with the augmented assistance in the IDE. I google things I forgot. I constantly read these amazing stories of people vibe-coding some firmware/driver that just works, and honestly I’m starting to question whether I’m reading the posts of some promotional bot.

chicken-stew··on Scientists build most accurate atomic clock
Thank you for taking the time to elaborate.
chicken-stew··on Scientists build most accurate atomic clock
Somewhat off-topic:

I’ve often wondered if a hobby-class atomic clock can be built with “a less accurate gas” that is easy to excite and measure in a feedback loop simply because it’s available in a handy package that lends itself for experimentation without having to mess with melting glass and bottles of pressurised gas. E.g. neon, nitrogen or mercury vapour.

The reason I’m asking is because in RF we often need a stable reference, and these come in a clear $ for phase noise relationship: RC, LC, xtal, TCXO, GPSDO, YIG, Rubidium, …

Price-wise, all atomic clocks come after Rubidium. But would it be possible to build an atomic clock that sits between TCXO and Rb both for price and phase noise, by employing a non-exotic gas in a readily available lamp?

chicken-stew··on Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
Does that jeopardise the Warner Bros deal?
chicken-stew··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

  energy lockdowns
Rationing.

Another item from the soylent green checklist.

chicken-stew··on Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise
I’m away from computer so only skimmed the article until I noticed they use the ADG90x RF switch family.

IIRC that family has a single positive supply rail, and they make a nagative rail internally. The advantage is easy of implementation but you also inject some noise depending on switch position. Is this dealt with in the pub?

chicken-stew··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Would it be legal if the TOS stipulated compensation for rogue behaviour from llms?
chicken-stew··on Icons as a Service
Off-topic:

before clicking the link, for a split second I thought the article was going to be about an image host where you get the resource not by URI but a description of the image. Imagine a world of webs where the “html” consists not of formal markup but of prose that describe the structure, css and javascript. The images don’t have a src, the alt would probably suffice.

chicken-stew··on Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
brew install imhex

Error: imhex: Cask 'imhex' has been disabled because it does not pass the macOS Gatekeeper check! It was disabled on 2026-09-01.

chicken-stew··on A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for
I honestly thought they solved the brit/u.s. stuff years ago.
chicken-stew··on A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for
There’s a fun variation in W-Europe that google needs to spend some time on:

Northern Belgium and the Netherlands have web content in the same language. But google uses the content in one lump. Problem is when you search for employment/fiscal/legal/… you constantly get content that applies to the wrong nationality.

chicken-stew··on Salinental valley – Europe's largest open-air inhalatorium
A video ( in German ) that shows the scale of the site:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUnHfjedqto

chicken-stew··on Google further buries search results under AI mode
https://archive.ph/vjVkZ
chicken-stew··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
And games.
chicken-stew··on A historic El Nino is forming. Here's why scientists are worried [video]
I’d like to suggest to have a () next to the submission title that informs me of the youtube channel. We have (url) to inform us of the website and each can decide whether it’s worth clicking, but youtube is heterogeneous. The title reeks of clickbait.
chicken-stew··on People are worried about America's solvency
I guess most promote the title by sentiment.
chicken-stew··on Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
Ah yes, so that’s why if I ask gemini for a simple low-resource trick to cast a float to its binary representation it is reminded of a work of shakespeare and suggests memcpy.

Or yesterday, when I asked it for the best low resource approach to select the matching string from a collection of strings for a shell interface it suggested an exhaustive string compare over the entire collection. Because it was thinking of how David Lynch would tackle it.

chicken-stew··on RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
I thought cortex-m0 was taking over that slice of the pie.
chicken-stew··on Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf
Another item on the Soylent Green checklist.
chicken-stew··on The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate
Thermal systems are slow. On the planetary scale of pump and dump heat the lag is something like 30 years. So the change you’re experiencing today is the effect of what was exhausted in the 90s. What we’re getting in 2050 is already locked in.
chicken-stew··on Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

  the designer has no awareness of supply chain.
Well, you’re asking for a design that boils down to a single channel downconverting I/Q ADC for 21.4 MHz IF, how many such products do you think there are? The ones by TI have been discontinued, your FPGA has no budget to do it and you don’t want one with more oumph so ADI it is … and Mouser says they have 800 on order, so that’s our only option.
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