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New comment by kai_mac in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

kai_mac — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:05:30 +0000

I do think it's a shame that Gemini doesn't have images and richer text, but maybe it would be even less popular/successful if it had those. Gemini won't be the last of these simple protocols so it's a useful learning opportunity.

My project at the moment is kind of related to these "simple web" ideas. Instead of giving up on HTML altogether I'm making a simple web browser, to see if there's a way to render even relatively complex existing pages, like Wikipedia or news sites, without needing to implement much or any CSS. A bit like "reader mode". (link if you are interested: https://codeberg.org/kaimac/weaver)

New comment by kai_mac in "Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets (2023)"

kai_mac — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:14:14 +0000

"For limiting warming to 2°C with 66% or 90% probability, the RCBs are estimated at 940 and 500 GtCO2, respectively. With 40 GtCO2 emitted in 2022, this is roughly equivalent to 23 and 12 years of current CO2 emissions for a 66% or 90% chance, respectively, of limiting warming to 2 °C and 6 years of emissions for a 50% chance of 1.5 °C."

Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets (2023)

kai_mac — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:08:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01848-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522485

Points: 1

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New comment by kai_mac in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

kai_mac — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:12:35 +0000

The 4% figure is for data centres generally afaik, and it's pre-AI

Of course nearly all of that growth is going to be AI

New comment by kai_mac in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

kai_mac — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:14:26 +0000

capitalism is going just great

New comment by kai_mac in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

kai_mac — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:02:29 +0000

butlerian jihad now