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We didn't ask for this internet – Ezra Klein show [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ve02F0gyfjY

1•softwaredoug•1m ago•0 comments

The AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough-electricians-and-plumbers-to-build-ai-data-cen...

1•geox•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MimiClaw, OpenClaw(Clawdbot)on $5 Chips

https://github.com/memovai/mimiclaw

1•ssslvky1•3m ago•0 comments

I Maintain My Blog in the Age of Agents

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-07-how-i-maintain-my-blog-in-the-age-of-agents/

1•jerpint•4m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Nerds

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-fall-of-the-nerds

1•otoolep•5m ago•0 comments

I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading Greek/Latin texts. Would love feedback

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/

1•breadwithjam•8m ago•1 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job

1•cjbarber•9m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442

2•midzer•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video

1•tareq_•12m ago•0 comments

How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel

1•CortexFlow•12m ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding

2•phi-system•12m ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8

2•vkelk•13m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD

2•mmoogle•14m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

3•saikatsg•15m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/

1•HamoodBahzar•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw

2•ykdojo•19m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3

3•gmays•20m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html

2•dhruv3006•22m ago•1 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview

2•mariuz•22m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator

2•RyanMu•25m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

2•ravenical•29m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox

3•rcarmo•29m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf

2•gmays•30m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...

2•andsoitis•30m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

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

2•lysace•31m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list

2•Malfunction92•34m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r

2•carnevalem•34m ago•1 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail

1•zdw•36m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel

2•rcarmo•37m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism

3•0xmattf•38m ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

One of biggest batteries in Europe uses lots of water to stop blackouts

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/24/europe-battery-gallons-water-dinorwig-wales

6•xps•8mo ago

Comments

ggm•8mo ago

Pumped hydro. Britain has four. Cruachan in Scotland near Oban you can visit, not sure about the others. When we all watched the same two TV channels, pre-emptive spin up was a thing to handle "put the kettle on love, Dallas has finished" power surges.

asdefghyk•8mo ago

The hydro in the article - its IMMEDIATE activation still allowed a million people to experience a 45 minute blackout. Trains stopped etc . Pumped hydro will take anywhere from approximate 60 seconds to several minutes to generating power. It also obviously needs to always kept in reserve for such generator dropouts

ggm•8mo ago

It was commissioned in 1984. It's not always kept in reserve. It has a component for black start, it also has a component for surge demand management.