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smallerize··on Solar panels that plug into your wall
I'm sure it's cheaper to somebody. But with home solar, I can actually cut my power bill by a noticeable fraction.
smallerize··on Solar panels that plug into your wall
In addition to the electronics that others mentioned, they also have limited amperage. That way even if you are pulling from your mains power and the solar at the same time, your circuit hardware shouldn't melt or catch fire.
smallerize··on Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland
The politicians are not "making noise", they have actual power and are making a real difference. (Except for the coal plants, so far, that hasn't held up in court.)

I know you were talking about energy industry, but I think mypalmike was being broader. That's why I called out that I was switching to talking about a different industry.

Efficiency goals are for the whole fleet of cars and don't just include making efficient ICE vehicles. They are moving the target average from 50 MPG to 35 MPG by 2031. That means fewer electric cars. “The standards finalized under the previous administration effectively required a switchover to electric vehicles that was out of step with market realities and customer demand. Today’s final rule is an appropriate course correction” --John Bozzella, president and CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation. https://abcnews.com/Business/trump-administration-rolls-back...

smallerize··on Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland
The market does not fix the administration paying wind projects billions of dollars to stop development.

The market does not fix the administration forcing coal plants to stay open even when they are losing money.

The market does not fix the administration cancelling grants for clean energy projects and subsidies for electric cars, and adding tariffs to solar panel imports.

And US car manufacturers are enthusiastically moving away from their efficiency goals. That market is not moving quickly to renewables.

smallerize··on Tank Body Problem
Well it's plain HTTP. No certificates to get wrong or impersonated I guess lol.
smallerize··on When did Google get so weird?
Try putting spaces around your asterisks.
smallerize··on Font where each token is equal-width
Yesterday's post with more points and comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851883
smallerize··on The 'died with' vs. 'died of' measles discussion misses something important
The statnews article only mentions that the coroner said the death was "with" measles. The Ars Technica article includes the update that the coroner added, that the death was "from" measles. It also goes into detail about why a ruptured spleen implicates measles.
smallerize··on The 'died with' vs. 'died of' measles discussion misses something important
I do not think this was missing from the discussion. This was addressed officially and publicy back on September 4th. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/measles-killed-6-week...
smallerize··on Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'
The report says we will be in trouble in 10-20 years, not 100. Look under "collisions causing collisions". Debris from previous collisions increases the risk of future collisions.
smallerize··on Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/there-are-now-17000-sa... "It does indeed start to look pretty dicey by mid-century."

The report itself https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/ESA_Space_Envi...

About pricing: https://www.satellitetoday.com/launch/2026/09/17/the-era-of-...

smallerize··on Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
Yes, there is a completely different thing with the same name. Race cars can use fuel cells to prevent sloshing. Those are basically fuel tanks with foam in them.
smallerize··on Tokens too cheap to meter
How can the waste product be less radioactive if it has a shorter half-life?
smallerize··on Tokens too cheap to meter
Well in the next 30 years we will have to find a replacement.
smallerize··on Ask HN: What's with the forced lower-casing texts?
It's not new, is it?

2022 https://medium.com/publishous/this-lowercase-trend-annoys-us...

2024 https://sparklin.com/foresight/why-is-everyone-texting-in-lo...

smallerize··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
The Trump administration wanted to cut NASA's science budget in half, so the final number ($7.25B) is about 1% less than last year's budget. https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-r...
smallerize··on The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled
NASA administrator Bill Nelson https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/nasa-says-it-needs-bet... and then, once somewhater cheaper options had been considered, Congress following Trump administration priorities. https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-r...
smallerize··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
No. The sample is only physically measured and then imaged. https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/jpl/the-extraord... All further analysis will happen when the sample is returned to earth.
smallerize··on Lexend: Open typeface shown to improve reading proficiency
The math (in the steps 1-6 section) is so bad that it affects the credibility of the rest.

Edit: The way the results vs Times New Roman were blatantly cherry-picked is also disturbing. The description of p-value is probably irrelevant if you're combining the results of 4 different experiments.

smallerize··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
I think the 1.76 includes that. Plain ternary packed into bytes would be around 1.58.
smallerize··on Ask HN: The amount of AI bot traffic is out control?
How do you know it's facebook's crawler if it going through residential proxies?
smallerize··on Insilico's Co-CEO Has Big Hopes That Fibrosis Drug Can Reverse Aging Too
Rentosertib targets a kinase, TNIK. https://insilico.com/news/xmjsn4l091-insilico-initiates-phas...
smallerize··on [dead]
But teleportation, alternate worlds, immortality, etc are all old ideas. Thousands of years old. Transcendental mediation, just for one example, is pretty accessible.
smallerize··on QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
https://beige.party/@intransitivelie.rss
smallerize··on Comcast "offers" to track you in your home
It's part of the Plume mesh wifi platform. If you get them from any ISP, you can enable this in the app.
smallerize··on Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
It's the context that makes it crazy. Someone asked if there was any evidence of a link between Iraq and WMDs, at a press conference, and this is how he avoided giving an answer or taking any accountability.
smallerize··on RSA-260 Factorized
Yes, but since R&D and funding are in a feedback loop now (promising results -> more money -> better results etc), it might only take a couple more years to get there. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/amazon-quera-promise...
smallerize··on ProgramBench
Did Vals run all those benchmarks themselves? A bunch of these models don't show up on the official ProgramBench leaderboard. https://programbench.com/extended/
smallerize··on Tiny Rust Layout Choices Freed 100 TB of DNS Cache Memory
Did you link to the wrong article? The title is unrelated.
smallerize··on LLMs Are Bad at Teaching
Changing the title like this against the site guidelines.
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