> Is violence HN worthy when it is directed upward on the org chart?

Generally, world news and politics are not supposed to be submitted unless there's a tech industry connection. The exception seems to be world-changing news, and there's a light touch on YC-affiliated news for conflict of interest reasons.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That's not really accurate in terms of how we moderate stories with political charge on HN. I've written about this many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If you or anyone want to understand how we actually approach this, all the information is accessible through those links.

We stopped going to the moon because it's a vanity project. It's expensive, risky, and there isn't much more science to do or that can't be done by robots.

Hopefully this time we can keep going for what we can do for engineering instead of what we can do for science.

Someone at the utility went through the same math you are and decided it isn't worth it at scale. It's probably not worth it at small scale.

The UK is world leading in battery rollout because someone did the sums and decided it did make sense at scale.

Or it is! And they can do it cheaper at-scale than you can.

Back of the envelope I did one time told me i could earn more by picking up cans off the street and trading them for the deposit.

Still, it would feel nice - after the initial cost- to have very cheap power (only charge when cheap).

There is no such thing as "the utility" in Europe. It is legally not allowed for a single company to both operate (parts of) the grid and trade in electricity.

The fossil fuel lobby can only do so much. Solar has gotten so cheap it's taking over on its own. Companies are doing it for no reason other than the math makes sense. EV batteries are nearing that point too. You can only keep BYD out of the US for so long.

Except it's already possible to install a third-party app store or OS on Android devices. The process isn't trivial, but it's officially supported.

Haven't you heard? Google is changing their traditional policy on """side loading""" apps and are, quite soon from now, planning to lock the whole thing down and make users submit to anal probing to opt out. Android has been good but times are changing and we need to stop trusting old institutions.

That's cool, but on a practical level, can I generate whatever the APK equivalent for iOS is and just give it to my friends with iPhones?

Yes. They will have to reload the app every 7 days, but yes.

For some uses right now, this makes sense, but it has to be at scale. If you're working on something that will ship in two years and is used by end users, it might not be worth the effort since production will catch up.

> it might not be worth the effort since production will catch up.

Sounds unlikely.

Unless RAM use would impact financial metrics, it would be hard to justify the work on memory footprint if customer doesn’t complain a lot.

Latex gloves aren't plastic.

Nitrile is though. And latex is arguably just a natural plastic (maybe the natural plastic). There is also synthetic latex though I'm not sure if that's used for gloves

"Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code"

https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/100-percent-of-code-at-anthro...

> Right now for most products at Anthropic it's effectively 100% just Claude writing

- Mike Krieger, chief product officer of Anthropic

Go to market.

Either you need the cash now and are already in short-term treasuries or you're it it for the long-term and you'll be laughing at this question when the Dow hits 100k.