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grston Solar energy storage breakthrough could make households self-sufficient

There's also the Picea from a German company that offers hydrogen storage for homes: https://www.homepowersolutions.de/

You actually buy their product already, but the investment and maintenance cost still require a good deal of idealism. But maybe in a couple of years this becomes interesting...

grston Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign

Other EU countries offer this for free, e.g. https://www.a-trust.at/pdfsign

What's even worse is that in Germany most companies and authorities refuse to accept those digitally signed PDFs.

grston Ask HN: Are CO salary disclosure laws affecting remote work opportunities?

Norway is going one step further: it is possibly to check the net income of every resident online: https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/forms/search-the-tax-lists/

grston FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

Having moved from Germany to Austria I was pleasantly surprised that they have a functional national ID system that you can use to sign PDFs with a qualified electronic signature. Within Austria, they have been accepted everywhere so far.

https://www.handy-signatur.at/hs2/#!sign/single

When I tried sending such a document to a German insurance company, they refused to accept it. I ended up faxing the document :/

grston Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?

Releasing the code is the very least you should do to make your analysis reproducible. I would be surprised if it was possible to exactly reproduce the results from the paper alone.

From Heil et al. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01256-7):

> Documenting implementation details without making data, models and code publicly available and usable by other scientists does little to help future scientists attempting the same analyses and less to uncover biases. Authors can only report on biases they already know about, and without the data, models and code, other scientists will be unable to discover issues post hoc.

Even better would be to containerize all software dependencies and orchestrate the analysis with a workflow manager. The authors of the above paper refer to that as "gold standard reproducibility"

grston Milan confirms new cycling network linking 80% of the city to bike paths

> It targets a certain demographic, people who have the physical ability to actually cycle. What about those who cannot, what about disabled people?

So do cars! What about people who can't drive, because they are too young, too old, don't have a license, or don't own a car?