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New comment by gryfft in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

gryfft — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:22:53 +0000

> From March 2025 through June 2026, either solar or wind individually generated more electricity than nuclear every month. In March, April and May 2026, both technologies independently surpassed nuclear generation.

> Global solar capacity increased by 510 GW to 2,383 GW, up 27% year on year, while wind added a record 159 GW to reach 1,291 GW, an increase of 14%. By comparison, installed nuclear capacity rose by just 1.5 GW to 399.5 GW, while operating nuclear capacity declined by 0.5 GW to 368.6 GW.

> More recent data from IEA PVPS indicate that global PV additions reached around 690 GW in 2025, about 180 GW more than the figure used by WNISR. This suggests the gap between solar and nuclear capacity – and their respective growth rates – was even wider than indicated in the report.

> The report identifies falling battery costs as a potential enabler of continued PV expansion, particularly as grids contend with growing volumes of variable renewable generation and periods of low or negative electricity prices. Grid-scale battery deployment accelerated sharply in 2025, with 104 GW and 257 GWh connected during the year. More than 78% of cumulative battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity was installed between 2023 and 2025.

New comment by gryfft in "Become Worthless (To Tech Companies)"

gryfft — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:41:02 +0000

The underlying philosophy really speaks to me. I try never to sign up for anything if I possibly can.

New comment by gryfft in "Sharded matrices and how to multiply them"

gryfft — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:18:05 +0000

[2025]

New comment by gryfft in "[dead]"

gryfft — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:06:45 +0000

Anything further to add?

New comment by gryfft in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

gryfft — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:45:03 +0000

It would be nice to add controls for mobile.

New comment by gryfft in "Macbeth and His Problems"

gryfft — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:00:15 +0000

Not a joke, I think. Thespians are a superstitious bunch and the Scottish play at this point is virtually a self-fulfilling prophecy of disastrous productions.

New comment by gryfft in "De-Brainrot Vacations"

gryfft — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:24:24 +0000

This is something I've felt very deeply intuitively. (It's also something that it feels like my life actively optimizes against to prevent me being able to do it.)

New comment by gryfft in "GPT-6 Astra on robot arms"

gryfft — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:17:44 +0000

An automated service station could be quite compact; it wouldn't need plumbing, lighting, human-comfortable climate control. Parts can be modular, and when a station gets low on spare parts, a self-driving truck could come by to pick up damaged parts and drop off replacements.

We're not there yet, but I think we're a lot closer than most people realize.

New comment by gryfft in "Ask HN: Looking for a sci-fi short story posted here"

gryfft — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:56:25 +0000

Lucky day for me then! Thanks for the recommendation!

Edit: Enjoyed and reshared, good rec

New comment by gryfft in "Ask HN: Looking for a sci-fi short story posted here"

gryfft — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:33:28 +0000

I haven't heard of this one specifically but the themes remind me of Lena [0] and SOMA [1].

0. https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(video_game)

New comment by gryfft in "US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average"

gryfft — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:31:03 +0000

If it's more efficient, is that not an arbitrage opportunity?

New comment by gryfft in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

gryfft — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:26:01 +0000

I believe the saying goes:

  Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

New comment by gryfft in "TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store"

gryfft — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:11:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...

New comment by gryfft in "How much of HN is AI?"

gryfft — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:07:55 +0000

It's like blasting white noise at max volume. I wonder if all communication will eventually be rendered into a homogenous thrumming hiss.

New comment by gryfft in "Ask HN: How do I get Fable to acknowledge me?"

gryfft — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:17:09 +0000

Use the /btw feature. If you talk while it's thinking, it takes what your say as steering, not as the next rung in the conversation. You can also hit escape to make it stop and acknowledge you.

New comment by gryfft in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

gryfft — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:39:42 +0000

Many people feel that winners should be rewarded and losers should be punished.

Systems thinkers may try to push notions of connectedness in societies, and moralists may try to push notions of universal equality of human dignity, but in the end, both are overwhelmingly outnumbered by tribal thinkers, who wish to harm the outgroup at absolutely any cost.

New comment by gryfft in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

gryfft — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:25:28 +0000

I wonder how many people would be on board for a program to make Medicare available for free for households making over $100,000 annually with 1-3 children.

We're talking about families that are provably not lazy or sucking up handouts: taxpaying citizens with beautiful, healthy children. The job creators and professionals driving America, securing their future and their children's future.

If the government were to focus on these first-class citizens, who knows what could be accomplished once the drag is taken off the system of the useless eaters and the welfare queens.

New comment by gryfft in "Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise"

gryfft — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:39:57 +0000

In India*

New comment by gryfft in "Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737"

gryfft — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:49:30 +0000

> the solution would be to respect and pay workers more

Not to worry, they're furiously working on an alternative which will ensure no worker must ever be respected or paid ever again!

New comment by gryfft in "The Science Fiction Book Every Systems Architect Should Read [video]"

gryfft — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:29:58 +0000

To mitigate the clickbait title:

Doggerland by Ben Smith. Here's a review from 2019. [1]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/25/doggerland-rev...