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newtwentysixon Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

Thank you for adding clarity, I came to the discussion wondering whether this is installed capacity, some theoretical capacity, or actual generated units. This is great news to know solar taken the lead over nuclear on actual generated units. Cheers

newtwentysixon F-Droid 2.0

Here's the link someone shared in reddit

https://f-droid.org/repo/org.fdroid.fdroid_2000050.apk

newtwentysixon WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations

Wow! That reminded me of an interesting article in NYT about Skyhook wirless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/technology/start-ups/01lo...

newtwentysixon Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

Good one. My friends are having a fun time

newtwentysixon A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas

p_wall byp_ss link: https://archive.ph/h66Jg

I am not sure whether any recent restrictions against this site here.

newtwentysixon GPT-6 Astra

There was amazon dash button for this

newtwentysixon Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

all the "donations" are working, hence this. same with the meta case too.

newtwentysixon Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

thanks! this is a very helpful one. I am going to try.

newtwentysixon Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

wow! that would have saved some shipping expenses ?

newtwentysixon Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter

poetic :)

newtwentysixon Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

yes!! why is that ? :)

newtwentysixon Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children

16.68 Billion over a period of ten years.

that is pocket change for the company. cut some jobs, reduce some snacks, push more ads. done.

newtwentysixon AWS Acquires DuckDB

super curious what exactly does it mean to acquire an open source product.

newtwentysixon FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

Thanks! I was curious who this Dan is

newtwentysixon Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

I don't know tesla cars. I absolutely agree with the rest of your points

newtwentysixon Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it

the article says 28.42 km. where are you seeing 28000 km ?

newtwentysixon Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100

Nitpick I guess. I feel none of the pics in that page is clicked using this camera.

newtwentysixon Elevators

Double-click to cancel: is there in many of the recent (10+yrs) lifts I've been in

newtwentysixon Elevators

OMG ! This is a huge problem in India. Frustrating.

newtwentysixon A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]

Totally absolutely agree with this. The second wrap or second turn totally solved my problem of slipping knots in shorts and shoes. Game over. Chapter closed for me.

newtwentysixon Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

as the line goes "wheat price goes up , bread price goes up. Wheat price goes down, bread price stays up"

newtwentysixon How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

Agree. The title is partly misleading. I feel they Carefully left out the logo part from the title.

newtwentysixon Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

Because, money. Nothing else.

newtwentysixon U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station"

newtwentysixon Bumblebees show advanced problem-solving skills in new experiment

Wow ! That's mighty interesting. Came across another article of the same :

https://www.science.org/content/article/bees-just-did-someth...

newtwentysixon U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse

The Atlantic Currents are at risk of collapse , or is it the system ?

newtwentysixon What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

My Android phone has a long list of toggles under notification for each app. I am genuinely interested to make good use of that to optimise what notifications I recieve, but I am clueless about what each of them means . For example: badges, floating notifications, permanent notifications, unified support, alerts, etc.

newtwentysixon Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta

Yes, I agree with your point.

newtwentysixon Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta

Well, until some years ago we remembered dozens of phone numbers, birthdays, routes, physical addresses, due dates, etc.

The trick is to "give a tool for 1-2 generations of customers" , and then they'll be fully dependent on the tool.