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Irish datacenters now eat 23% of the national grid, up from 5% a decade ago
Datacenters consumed 7,663 GWh of electricity in Ireland during 2025 — a 10 percent rise over 2024 and now close to a quarter of all metered power use, per Cent
LAPD drops Flock Safety, citing civil liberties and privacy concerns
The Los Angeles Police Department is letting its three-year contract with Flock Safety lapse rather than renew it, with the department's CIO Dean Gialamas citin
LARP: a satire site skewering the AI industry's circular revenue deals
LARP is a parody web app that dresses up accounting fraud as SaaS infrastructure. The premise: two founders wire each other the same $10,000, both book it as re
Pacific Ocean Temperatures Break Off the Historical Chart, and Barely Anyone Noticed
Sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific's Niño 3.4 region—a zone that drives global weather through the El Niño–Southern Oscillation—have not merely
Read a Book a Week by Filling Every Idle Moment Instead of Your Phone
A prolific reader lays out how he went from fewer than ten books a year to roughly one a week, and the core move isn't finding dedicated reading time — it's rep
Show HN: "Super Dario" surfaces as a teaser page — no details yet
A Show HN submission points to superdario.pawb.de, but the page is currently only a placeholder reading "Super Dario: One More Week" — a countdown-style teaser
Still Write Code in 2026? Yes — It's How Engineers Keep Their Attention and Taste
The author accepts the premise that software work has shifted from building software to building the "software factory" — the prompts, skills, tests, linters, t
Susan Rigetti's free DIY physics curriculum returns, updated after 600K readers
Susan Rigetti (formerly Fowler) has published a second edition of her self-study physics guide, first written in 2015 and used by more than 600,000 people since
Swapping Claude Opus for GPT-5.6 wasn't a drop-in — here's what broke
Ploy, which runs an AI agent that builds and edits real marketing websites, has made OpenAI's newly released GPT-5.6 Sol the default model in every workspace, d
Tiny Emulators: A Browser-Based Museum of 8-Bit Machines and Demos
The tiny8bit project (by developer Andre "floooh" Weissflog) is a collection of compact, cycle-accurate emulators for 1980s home computers and arcade hardware,
Why one developer built a full SaaS app in vanilla JS with no framework
Guseyn recounts a year spent building instruxmusic.com—a fairly complex business tool for music schools with scheduling, invoicing, video lessons, file sharing,
Zig's Creator Torches Bun's AI Rewrite as Anthropic Sells the Hype
Ray Myers uses the Bun runtime's port from Zig to Rust as a lens on how AI vendors shape industry narratives. Bun, acquired by Anthropic, was rewritten from Zig