US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (bbc.com)
US pays German firm RWE $1.2B to abandon offshore wind projects.
Strong backlash over $1.2B payout and criticism of "common sense" energy rhetoric.
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US pays German firm RWE $1.2B to abandon offshore wind projects.
Strong backlash over $1.2B payout and criticism of "common sense" energy rhetoric.
Knowledge workers lose faith in careers as AI erodes the meaning of work.
Commenters reject the article, calling it inward-looking and blaming AI for long-standing issues.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 scores 89% on ARC-AGI-1 at $0.02 per task.
Debate over cost comparison with GPT-5.6 Luna and DeepSeek's planned price increase.
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK despite using it internally.
Irony flagged: Oracle bans AI code from public Java while using it internally.
A site owner whose 99% of traffic is bots details a year-long fight to block them.
Most commenters side with the author, distinguishing light scraping from abusive bot attacks, and offer cheap hosting tips.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Two camps form: those expecting lasting AI-fueled demand and those warning of a speculative bubble with default risk.
A research project finds the single slowest x86 instruction by sabotaging CPU performance.
Commenters celebrate the author's prior work and debate whether MMIO exploitation is 'cheating'.
The US economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, missing expectations of 83,000 added roles.
Two camps: those arguing the job loss was foreseen and those calling revisions normal data collection lag.
The Nixpkgs core team disbanded, citing systemic issues with the Steering Committee's governance.
Commenters split: some blame political extremism and drama instigators, others see systemic governance flaws as the root cause.
Apple rejected an astronomy app named Dark Hours after falsely claiming it includes astrology and tarot features.
Strong criticism of Apple's review incompetence, with calls for sideloading and repo-based app distribution.
A Rust-based Postgres extension claims 300x speedups for analytics via batching, operator fusion, and SIMD.
AGPL licensing and AI-generated commits spark debate over adoption and trust.
NASA extended Voyager 2's life by a year by repurposing power from a safety system.
A split emerged between those who see Voyager as invaluable science and those who see it as mainly public relations.
DOE launches Genesis Open Models Initiative and unveils first open-weight model for scientific research.
Thread splits: announcement is preliminary vs. U.S. already has several open-weight models beyond Meta's Llama.
Exponential AI coding costs can be tamed by chasing the efficiency frontier, not the intelligence frontier.
Practical agreement on cost levers, but skepticism about Databricks' motives and the need for domain-specific evals.
AncientLibrary.net offers 1,060 Greek and Latin texts with clickable word parsing and dictionary lookups.
Mixed reception: useful but needs polish; compared to Perseus as a simpler alternative with UI issues.
Former NSA director says PLCs must be removed from the internet after suspected Iran attacks.
Commenters split: air-gap advocates vs. those arguing hardened VPNs can suffice.
A massive iceberg collapses and flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland, captured in 4K.
Skepticism about AI generation is the dominant reaction, despite physics explanations for the event.
Wyzer is a statically typed language aiming to unify memory, thread, and network safety under one ownership rule.
Criticism that the README hides the novel features instead of showing examples; calls for practical networking/datastructure demos.
A hardware backdoor in VIA C3 x86 CPUs allows userland code to access kernel data.
The thread splits on whether documented processor features count as backdoors, with critics noting VIA's AIS was publicly known.
Cloudflare built Kitesurf, an agent-first browser on Workers using V8 isolates.
Built on Blitz; no bypass for Cloudflare CDN bot detection.