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Best Practices for Ownership in GLib

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/glib-ownership-best-practices/
1•PaulHoule•1m ago•0 comments

The Dead Simple Car Wash Management App

https://CarDesk.net/
1•ahmednefzaoui•2m ago•1 comments

Why Some Models Quantize Better Than Others

https://ym2132.github.io/why_quantization_fails.html
1•Two_hands•3m ago•0 comments

Are F-35s Being Delivered to the USAF Without Radars? Sure Seems Like It

https://www.twz.com/air/are-f-35s-being-delivered-to-the-usaf-without-radars-sure-seems-like-it
1•nradov•4m ago•0 comments

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

https://age-verifier.kibty.town/
2•JustSkyfall•5m ago•0 comments

Military AI Adoption Is Outpacing Global Cooperation

https://www.cfr.org/articles/military-ai-adoption-is-outpacing-global-cooperation
2•geox•6m ago•0 comments

Rust runtime for computer-use agents (native back end and conformance)

https://github.com/xayhemLLC/computer-use-runtime
1•xxayh•7m ago•0 comments

The One Woman Anthropic Trusts to Teach AI Morals

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-amanda-askell-philosopher-ai-3c031883
3•stanislavb•8m ago•0 comments

Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-bi...
3•sohkamyung•11m ago•1 comments

RIP Robert Tinney, the illustrator behind so many Byte magazines

https://tinney.net/in-memoriam
3•ohjeez•13m ago•0 comments

Electrolytes vs. Water: The Surprising Effect on Your Training Zones

https://vo2maxpro.com/blog/electrolytes-vs-water-training-zones
1•GoodluckH•18m ago•0 comments

Attorney General Bonta Announces $2.75M Settlement with Disney

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/california-wont-let-it-go-attorney-general-bonta-announces...
1•sebastian_z•21m ago•1 comments

Building a Pastebin, Hardening Two Services – While Working

https://www.smolkin.org/blog/2026/02/adding-api-auth-admin-panel-with-claude-code.html
1•msmolkin•22m ago•0 comments

Anthropic safety researcher quits, warning 'world is in peril'

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/11/2026/anthropic-safety-researcher-quits-warning-world-is-in-...
2•doener•23m ago•0 comments

Hacker News now thinks coding is solved

https://old.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/comments/1qynmuc/hacker_news_now_thinks_coding_is_solved/
6•Cheyana•24m ago•1 comments

AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/ai-prediction-human-forecasters/685955/
2•cainxinth•25m ago•1 comments

Software Engineering Past, Present, and Future with Grady Booch

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/software-engineering-past-present-and-future-wit...
1•weinzierl•26m ago•0 comments

Why the Economy Hasn't Crashed yet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOR4wuiPeEQ
1•Wilsoniumite•28m ago•0 comments

Alphabet's Rare 100-Year Bond Tells Us That Money Is Easy

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/alphabets-rare-100-year-bond-tells-us-that-money-is-easy-77...
1•RyanShook•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Doodle on Your Partner's Widget

https://trylongdistance.com/
1•VatanaChhorn•31m ago•0 comments

Reducing Attack Surface for AI Agents with Process-Scoped Credentials

https://dreamiurg.net/2026/02/11/reducing-attack-surface-for-ai-agents-process-scoped-credentials...
1•dreamiurg•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: OpenHarness – A harness for open source projects built by AI agents

https://openharn.vercel.app
1•naix•36m ago•0 comments

Claude's impact on older software engineers while listening to country music

https://suno.com/song/0d9b02a2-a709-4b2c-ba66-f62ff9306f79
1•botswana99•36m ago•0 comments

The SaaSpocalypse – The week AI killed software

https://www.fintechbrainfood.com/p/the-saaspocalypse
3•gmays•40m ago•2 comments

Agent Identities – Everything you need to know

https://mrinal.com/articles/agent-identities/
1•mattgreg•40m ago•0 comments

"Free" Surveillance Tech Still Comes at a High and Dangerous Cost

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/free-surveillance-tech-still-comes-high-and-dangerous-cost
2•hn_acker•42m ago•0 comments

Google Tells Employees: Brace for AI or Leave

https://www.gulte.com/trends/395721/brace-for-ai-or-leave-google-tells-employees
5•sowbug•43m ago•1 comments

Cisco Opensourced Tool to Build AI Bill of Materials

https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/aibom
1•hsanthan•43m ago•0 comments

How Does the Initial Interest Confusion Doctrine Improve Trademark Analyses?

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/02/how-does-the-initial-interest-confusion-doctrine-im...
1•hn_acker•43m ago•1 comments

Weekly "Wordle" for Breaking AI Agents

https://playground.fabraix.com/
2•zachdotai•44m ago•1 comments
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Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas

https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-new-uk-onshore-wind-and-solar-is-50-cheaper-than-new-gas/
25•DamonHD•1h ago

Comments

guidedlight•1h ago
Doesn’t gas generators set the market price 98% of the time in the UK?

They need to fix their market pricing mechanism before the public benefit from cheaper renewable energy sources.

jl6•42m ago
It is important to realise that the current pricing mechanism is not an accident, and has some non-obvious benefits that need to be weighed against the obvious drawbacks. Clearly other mechanisms exist, which might solve the obvious drawbacks, but it is a choice of tradeoffs rather than a simple fix.
mjw1007•29m ago
Not any more, according to this article you're commenting on, no.
NVHacker•59m ago
If you are wondering why the air quotes around "50% cheaper", it's because the price of electricity is set based on the price of gas. Crazy, right ? https://www.greeniow.org.uk/why-uk-electricity-prices-are-ti...
triceratops•40m ago
It sounds like a crazy system. But wouldn't it also make deploying renewables there wildly profitable? Sunlight is free but you get paid like you burned natural gas.
blibble•35m ago
that is the idea

but under the cfd mechanism the treasury takes the excess over the strike price

Epa095•38m ago
That's just marginal pricing, which is the pricing in many (most?) markets.

It just means that the price is determined by the price where the demand curve crosses the supply curve.

triceratops•35m ago
> That's just marginal pricing, which is the pricing in many (most?) markets.

I don't pay Johnnie Walker Blue Label prices for Jim Beam.

Epa095•22m ago
But with power the final product it's the same, the production method is different.

So it's more like this: I make a product for 5 and sell it for 6. My production facility is maxed, but there is still much demand. So I (or someone else) sets up another factory, making them for 8 and selling for 9 (there is demand enough). Now, will I keep selling at 6? No, my prices will also increase (to maximise my profit), and the final price will be where the demand curve crosses the supply curve.

I am wind, the new one is gass. We both make the same product, we sell at the same price, but I make a larger profit.

Dylan16807•18m ago
You get simple supply and demand with uniform prices in commodity markets but I'm doubtful that's most markets in general.
triceratops•12m ago
Makes sense. But in a normally functioning market, production at 5 will rapidly ramp up to capture the excess profits to be made by selling at 8. Eventually this will drive everyone's prices to 6 and the ones stuck producing at 7 (natural gas) will be driven out of business.

According to this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982118 there's additional "treasury" (is that the tax authority in the UK?) weirdness that prevents renewables from capturing these profits.

fsh•18m ago
This is highly misleadling. Nobody is setting the price, it is determined by an open market. This naturally drives it towards the price of the cheapest energy source with available capacity (often natural gas). It would be irrational to sell electricity for cheaper than this. If more batteries get deployed, the price will more often get set by battery storage instead.
monsecchris•21m ago
Gas can produce enormous amounts of power at short notice 100% of the time.

The CFDs are locked in at persistently high prices for decades. All these actions will increase costs to customers.