Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
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Solar and batteries can power the world
The full set of technical assumptions, mostly leaning on the Danish Energy Agency Technology Database, can be found here: https://github.com/nworbmot/solar-battery-world/blob/main/defaults.csv As well as the incremental energy cost for the lithium-ion batteries, an inverter cost of 177 €/kW in 2030 and 66 €/kW in 2050 is also included. The lithium-ion batteries have a round-trip efficiency of […]
Show HN: ctx – an Agentic Development Environment (ADE)
ctxis an Agentic Development Environment (ADE) Any coding agent. Containerized workspaces. Unified transcripts and review. ctx is an Agentic Development Environment (ADE) for teams using multiple coding agents. It gives engineers one interface for the real Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more. It gives security and platform teams one controlled runtime with containerized disk and […]
Big-Endian Testing with QEMU
In computing, the terms big endian and little endian refer to the order in which a value’s bytes are stored in memory: with the most significant (big) or least significant (little) part first. For example, the hexadecimal value 0x12345678 consists of four bytes. If we instruct a computer to store it at some memory address […]
Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
1. Apple bricking iPhones and iPads in the UK to protect kids (cybrkyd.com) Cybrkyd — 16 minutes ago 2. Read ”The machines are fine. I’m worried about us.” (mollywhite.net) Molly White — 31 minutes ago 3. DeKay’s brown snake (nateshivar.com) Nate Shivar — 53 minutes ago 4. Buy Local: Another Great Example (beetleypete.com) beetleypete — […]
TDF ejects its core developers
For a rather more polished write-up, complete with pretty pictures please see TDF ejects its core developers. Here is a more personal take. My feeling is that this action has been planned by the TDF rump board’s majority for many months, if not for some years. While we have tried to avoid this outcome, it […]
SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
When I ssh into a server for the first time, I’m confronted with a dialog which asks me to verify I’m actually talking to the machine I expect to be talking to. $ ssh -l jane 192.0.2.65 The authenticity of host ’192.0.2.65 (192.0.2.65)’ can’t be established. ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:4WTRnq2OR1m03TpnHCfkFdlh1gN/PBXE4vDi0WnjFEc. No matching host key […]
Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps
Curated directory of European alternatives Your directory for European software, products and services. For enhanced privacy, quality, and a strong Europe. Find alternative to Stricter Environmental Standards Shorter Supply Chains European Quality
NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns
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April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
Prerequisites Mac mini with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4/M5) At least 24GB unified memory for Gemma 4 26B macOS with Homebrew installed Step 1: Install Ollama Install the Ollama macOS app via Homebrew cask (includes auto-updates and MLX backend): brew install –cask ollama-app This installs: Ollama.app in /Applications/ ollama CLI at /opt/homebrew/bin/ollama Step 2: Start Ollama open […]