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Show HN: PaySentry – Open-source control plane for AI agent payments

https://github.com/mkmkkkkk/paysentry
1•mkyang•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

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1•ShinyaKoyano•10m ago•0 comments

The Crumbling Workflow Moat: Aggregation Theory's Final Chapter

https://twitter.com/nicbstme/status/2019149771706102022
1•SubiculumCode•15m ago•0 comments

Pax Historia – User and AI powered gaming platform

https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PMu-pax-historia-user-ai-powered-gaming-platform
2•Osiris30•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a RAG engine to search Singaporean laws

https://github.com/adityaprasad-sudo/Explore-Singapore
1•ambitious_potat•21m ago•0 comments

Scams, Fraud, and Fake Apps: How to Protect Your Money in a Mobile-First Economy

https://blog.afrowallet.co/en_GB/tiers-app/scams-fraud-and-fake-apps-in-africa
1•jonatask•21m ago•0 comments

Porting Doom to My WebAssembly VM

https://irreducible.io/blog/porting-doom-to-wasm/
1•irreducible•22m ago•0 comments

Cognitive Style and Visual Attention in Multimodal Museum Exhibitions

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/15/16/2968
1•rbanffy•23m ago•0 comments

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler in a Bash Script

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/full-blown-cross-assembler-in-a-bash-script/
1•grajmanu•28m ago•0 comments

Logic Puzzles: Why the Liar Is the Helpful One

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/knights-and-knaves/
1•wasabi991011•40m ago•0 comments

Optical Combs Help Radio Telescopes Work Together

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2•toomuchtodo•45m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Myanon – fast, deterministic MySQL dump anonymizer

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1•pierrepomes•51m ago•0 comments

The Tao of Programming

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
1•alexjplant•52m ago•0 comments

Forcing Rust: How Big Tech Lobbied the Government into a Language Mandate

https://medium.com/@ognian.milanov/forcing-rust-how-big-tech-lobbied-the-government-into-a-langua...
2•akagusu•52m ago•0 comments

PanelBench: We evaluated Cursor's Visual Editor on 89 test cases. 43 fail

https://www.tryinspector.com/blog/code-first-design-tools
2•quentinrl•55m ago•2 comments

Can You Draw Every Flag in PowerPoint? (Part 2) [video]

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1•fgclue•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP-baepsae – MCP server for iOS Simulator automation

https://github.com/oozoofrog/mcp-baepsae
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Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety

https://github.com/Deso-PK/make-trust-irrelevant
6•DesoPK•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Sem – Semantic diffs and patches for Git

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1•rs545837•1h ago•1 comments

Hello world does not compile

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34•mfiguiere•1h ago•20 comments

Show HN: ZigZag – A Bubble Tea-Inspired TUI Framework for Zig

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3•meszmate•1h ago•0 comments

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Show HN: Django N+1 Queries Checker

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Emacs-tramp-RPC: High-performance TRAMP back end using JSON-RPC instead of shell

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
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Protocol Validation with Affine MPST in Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev
1•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

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5•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

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1•chanip0114•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: DeSync – Decentralized Economic Realm with Blockchain-Based Governance

https://github.com/MelzLabs/DeSync
1•0xUnavailable•1h ago•0 comments

Automatic Programming Returns

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
1•benrules2•1h ago•1 comments

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why%20Are%20there%20Still%20So%20Many%...
2•oidar•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Africa's gigantic $80B dam could transform entire continent

https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/maior-que-a-barragem-tres-gargantas-da-china-o-gigantesco-megaprojeto-africano-de-us-80-bilhoes-que-pode-revolucionar-a-energia-e-transformar-um-continente-inteiro/
24•prmph•6mo ago

Comments

whycome•6mo ago
I tried to read, but that has to be the most user hostile site I’ve ever encountered. Ads and taking me unexpectedly to try to download apps. Wtf
prmph•6mo ago
Sorry, you could use reader view mode, or try this similar (older) story:

https://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/28/business/biggest-hydropow...

tomhow•6mo ago
Since you also posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44640233, which includes discussion of the Grand Inga Dam but also the broader issue of big dams, and because we need to avoid repetition/overlap in front-page stories, I'll bury this submission and leave the other one up.
prmph•6mo ago
Alright
shawnlower2•6mo ago
It's honestly impressive.

https://imgur.com/a/mBoCqt7

The article can be seen on the bottom left...

astar1•6mo ago
>To put it in perspective, it will have a generating capacity far greater than that of the Three Gorges dams in China and Itaipu in Brazil. With a projected capacity to produce 40.000 megawatts of power, the Grand Inga Dam is more than just an ambitious megaproject.

Am I missing something here?

Three Gorges damn has capacity of 80, the new Tibet dam that China already started building has a capacity 300 megawatts https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/21/china-starts-b...

TylerE•6mo ago
Your numbers are wrong. Three Gorges is 22.5GW, not 80.
Sayrus•6mo ago
The source for that number states 22.5 gigawatts capacity. 88.2 is the annual production in TWh. (Or 98TWh according to Wikipedia)
ethan_smith•6mo ago
Three Gorges Dam's capacity is actually 22,500 MW (not 80), and the Yarlung Tsangpo project in Tibet is estimated at 60,000 MW (not 300), making Grand Inga's proposed 40,000 MW capacity indeed significant but not the largest.
andsoitis•6mo ago
Story by BBC in January: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62jmq0z89jo
tomhow•6mo ago
See also:

In a major reversal, the world bank is backing mega dams (2024) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44640233

Proofread0592•6mo ago
Is the CCP funding this? Saw no mention in the article of what government is footing the bill, is the DRC really paying $80B for this? Thats higher than their entire GDP of $66.8B.
victorbjorklund•6mo ago
It's cool but hardly solving the structural issues many econonies there struggle with.