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Renewable Energy Is Shaping Up to End Decades of Energy Colonialism

xbmcuser — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:59:37 +0000

Article URL: https://ryanhansson.substack.com/p/renewable-energy-could-end-decades

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349761

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New comment by xbmcuser in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

xbmcuser — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:59:31 +0000

This is nothing new Israel has been doing this for years. It's just that people have started waking up to their lies.

New comment by xbmcuser in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

xbmcuser — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:05:57 +0000

its simple demand and supply if you have 100 buyers for 99 the price will shoot up but if you have 100 seller and 99 buyers sellers will drop price so. Previously gas turbines were charging through the nose when sudden demand spikes but now batteries are competing with them and pricing them out

2027 Is Genuinely Looking Apocalyptic [video]

xbmcuser — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFFn6XwN2RY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299109

Points: 3

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New comment by xbmcuser in "DeepSeek API Pricing Update"

xbmcuser — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:07:09 +0000

They benefit from a strong captive market because Chinese firms cannot use Nvidia chips and are legally barred from processing data abroad, forcing them to rely on domestic infrastructure.

New comment by xbmcuser in "Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft"

xbmcuser — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:55:57 +0000

okay but anyway for electric commercial aviation 1000-1200w/kg would be enough to replace 70-80% of all flights.

New comment by xbmcuser in "Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft"

xbmcuser — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:36:17 +0000

This was claimed by CATL chief battery scientist recently or at least that's what the press claimed could be mistranslation from Chinese to English.

New comment by xbmcuser in "Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft"

xbmcuser — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:04:27 +0000

Lithium air batteries theoretically can reach 10000-12000w/kg though they have only reached 1200w in labs so far. Gasoline is 13000w/kg. We don't need to match gasoline as it is inefficient. CATL just got it's 500w/kg batteries for commercial aviation approved I am betting China is going to do the same with electric planes that it did with cars. They can't build a efficient enough jet engine to be competitive yet but they already can build the narrow body planes replace the jet engine with electric take over the market for short haul aviation once the battery densities cross 1000w/hr.

New comment by xbmcuser in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

xbmcuser — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:05:36 +0000

90% of the tech worker population does not work for themselves they work for someone that pays them 1000s in salary for those paying those tech worker spending $40-50k on a server that helps them not pay for 2-3 tech workers is not that big a deal.

New comment by xbmcuser in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

xbmcuser — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:31:22 +0000

well this just shows how good the AI is at programming

New comment by xbmcuser in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

xbmcuser — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:53:16 +0000

That is the problem currently the subscription plans are being subsidized by VC money and token buyers. When Open weight get good enough token buyers build their own servers instead of buying tokens then no one to subsidize the subscriptions

New comment by xbmcuser in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

xbmcuser — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:36:01 +0000

Did you guys read the fine print they plan to increase prices significantly in the future

World oil and gas demand could grow until 2050, IEA says after U.S. pressure

xbmcuser — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:33:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/iea-energy-outlook-2025-9.6976107

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276738

Points: 2

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The End of Hand Welding (I Saw the Proof) [video]

xbmcuser — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:23:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuUq6F_wL5w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232273

Points: 2

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2008 vs. 2026: The Same Dominoes Are Falling [video]

xbmcuser — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:34:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgbzdk-eqJ0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223351

Points: 3

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New comment by xbmcuser in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

xbmcuser — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:08:03 +0000

I disagree the worth of software will become a lot less as LLM take hold and more people outside software devs know how to use them properly. I am the default IT manager for our small office as I am the guy most interested in tech and in the last 2-3 years I am getting llm to write python scripts for me to do work that would have cost $100s of dollars. Currently you need to pay $100-1000s for a software with 100s of features while you might actually need 1 or 2 of the features which you can get the llm to write for you.

As the LLM's keep getting better at writing software actual coding skills required will decrease which will result in a huge influx of software crashing prices. You can see this in already in open source projects in the last 6 months to a year Jellyfin had a huge influx of custom clients made by different people for fixing their own itches about the official software.

New comment by xbmcuser in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

xbmcuser — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:26:56 +0000

Deepseek is open weight/source ie it will be running on US servers in the US maybe by on each companies own servers.

Anthropic AI Mandatory Employee Stock Trading Plans for IPO – This Will Not Go W [video]

xbmcuser — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:59:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi9LsoKISEc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208115

Points: 1

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New comment by xbmcuser in "In China gas engine became a "marketing decoration" for customer's reassurance"

xbmcuser — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:55:58 +0000

Well its one way to solve the range anxiety. How long before they become modular so people only attach them to cars when going on long trips and leave them at home for daily driving.

In China gas engine became a "marketing decoration" for customer's reassurance

xbmcuser — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:50:29 +0000

Article URL: https://carnewschina.com/2026/08/05/in-china-gas-engine-became-a-marketing-decoration-for-customers-reassurance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192945

Points: 3

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