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BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

1•aoijfoqfw•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
1•michaelchicory•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•7m ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•8m ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•9m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
1•calcifer•15m ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•19m ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
2•MilnerRoute•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•21m ago•3 comments

Show HN: GTM MCP Server- Let AI Manage Your Google Tag Manager Containers

https://github.com/paolobietolini/gtm-mcp-server
1•paolobietolini•22m ago•0 comments

Launch of X (Twitter) API Pay-per-Use Pricing

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/announcing-the-launch-of-x-api-pay-per-use-pricing/256476
1•thinkingemote•22m ago•0 comments

Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•24m ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count Event

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•24m ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•26m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
2•consumer451•28m ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•42m ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
2•jesperordrup•47m ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•47m ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•48m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•55m ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
6•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
2•sickthecat•1h ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
2•imthepk•1h ago•0 comments

How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•1h ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•1h ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2j80klmo
3•breve•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Is China Pulling Ahead in the Quest for Fusion Energy?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-nuclear-fusion-reactor
12•pseudolus•9mo ago

Comments

inverted_flag•9mo ago
The answer to "Is China Pulling Ahead in X?" is going to be "yes" for the foreseeable future.
avmich•9mo ago
I'm kinda interested in the demographic trends comparison here...
marssaxman•9mo ago
China has pulled very far ahead in the quest for capturing and storing fusion energy from the sun, which is what really matters now. Fusion reactors will be cool if they can ever be made to work, but they won't be able to compete with renewables, and will thus only be useful in niche environments.
avalys•9mo ago
What do you think is less disruptive for the environment, a 1 GW fusion machine the size of a medium-sized warehouse, or 100 square kilometers of solar panels plus a battery installation?

Renewables are cheap at the margins, but they're not economically competitive if your goal is to support a massive growth of total electrical demand (either because you're a developing country that is growing rapidly, or first-world economy which is decarbonizing and electrifying industry and transportation).

marssaxman•9mo ago
It's not about the environment, it's about the financing. Who's going to put up the money to build the most complicated machines humanity has ever dreamed up, each one a many-years-long construction project very likely to have schedule slippages and cost overruns, when they could get more megawatts for the dollar building easy, reliable, low-maintenance solar parks which start generating revenue within a year?

Some governments will, sure, and perhaps a handful of large, wealthy cities in high latitudes or on small islands, but in general it's difficult to see why an investor would choose to invest in a fusion plant.

peterlada•9mo ago
100 square kilometers of panels is the total energy consumption of the world now, two thirds of which is extracting, shipping refining and trucking around hydrocarbons which are stored sunlight.
avalys•9mo ago
Nope, not at all! That is a roughly correct number for the area of solar panels required to equal a 1 GW baseload power plant.
nitwit005•9mo ago
Given the massive expense on fusion, with nothing close to the desired outcome, I think we should happily let them spend on it instead.
tuatoru•9mo ago
The massive expense is, in the scheme of things, actually quite small. But there's no "there" there with fusion energy: the lower bound on its cost is the cost of fission energy.
avalys•9mo ago
That statement doesn't really make any sense. The expense of producing "fuel" for fusion is much lower than fission, and the improved safety profile means the actual realized engineering costs will also be lower.

Yes, in theory, if you could convince the world to accept thousands of new fission plants, you could probably get the cost pretty low, and that low cost would be pretty close to the same outcome for fission. But, good luck with that! Fusion has a much better chance of actually achieving the theoretical long-term economics of fission.

s1artibartfast•9mo ago
The cost of fission fuel is already miniscule.
avalys•9mo ago
Minuscule sounds like a good lower bound to me! What’s the problem then?
tuatoru•9mo ago
The cost of Ph. D.s to operate the fusion reactor, vs the cost of associate degrees to operate a fission reactor. Also, the short life and disposable nature of the fusion reactor vessel - most proposals deal with neutrons by ablating lithium from the inside wall of the reactor vessel. And disposal costs, much more radioactive material to be disposed of than with fission, and it can't be reprocessed into fuel either. Also, the ancillary equipment needed for startup, and for operation, is much more expensive.

The list goes on. The more you look, the worse it gets.

nitwit005•9mo ago
If tens of billions of dollars isn't a meaningful amount, can you give it to me?
tuatoru•9mo ago
In the context of an overall spend on energy around five trillion dollars, ten billion is 0.002.
credit_guy•9mo ago
Should the doge of Venice have invested any amount of money in Leonardo’s helicopter idea? There essentially was no upper bound in the usefulness of rotary wing vehicles. Yet he probably didn’t spend a single ducat. How silly.
peterlada•9mo ago
It ain't. The lower bound on cost is the fusion energy at a safe 1AU distance. It's ignited and will produce energy for another dozen billion years. With asymptotically zero cost panels and relatively cheap batteries anyone can harness it anywhere.