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Lightkey··on Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"
I'm still confused by this chart. Nuclear is shown to be a bit more than half the addition of wind power but if you look at the bar chart for electricity, it's suddenly only a small fraction. How does that fit together?
Lightkey··on Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"
This isn't capacity.
Lightkey··on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
I'm curious to see if that is true. The maximum amount of cache addressable per core didn't increase after all.
Lightkey··on Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)
For chat history, there are servers which provide that (IRCv3). I don't know why you would think there are no mobile clients. I don't know anything about anti-Unicode networks but mIRC (Windows-only) famously didn't support it until 2013 or so.
Lightkey··on Ask HN: Does DDG no longer honor "site:" prefix?
Like DDG is a proxy for Bing, so is Startpage a proxy for Google, if you haven ,t tried that.
Lightkey··on Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
> as tou, too, or somewhere between the two.

I see what you did there.

Lightkey··on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
They took their sweet time but both the project lead Ryan Houdek as well as Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais (username Plagman here in the comments) have now come out saying that FEX-Emu was not just sponsored by Valve but is actually their project and that they approached suitable developers with the idea who they have been paying for the development: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valve-have-been-fundin...
Lightkey··on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
https://gamersnexus.net/pc-builds-news/valve-steam-machine-d... "Valve has devoted significant resources to the development of FEX emulation."
Lightkey··on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
Fancy seeing the Plagman here. Last time I saw you was on Freenode (R.I.P.). So you are still working for Valve? ;-)
Lightkey··on Nine things I learned in ninety years
Wear sunscreen?
Lightkey··on Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species
Those are chimera ants. Quick, someone call the Hunter Association before the king hatches!
Lightkey··on Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware
They missed that window when Sierra was still the publisher for Half-Life. Besides, Valve is not a publicly traded company and Gabe Newell as former manager at Microsoft has no interest in getting back together. Valve is betting everything on Linux right now to be more independent from Microsoft.
Lightkey··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
True, there is uranium everywhere. Yet Russia still has a 40% marketshare on enriched uranium because enrichment is the difficult part, just ask the Iranians.
Lightkey··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
Misleading title. The controversial part is that they ruled both nuclear energy AND natural gas plants as clean energy.
Lightkey··on In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month
What a koinkidink, I just saw a news about a research platform for exactly that (okay, it's for ships but still) starting now, with the idea being to use surplus offshore wind electricity which otherwise would go unused: https://www.dlr.de/en/tt/latest/news/2025/synthetic-fuel-fro...
Lightkey··on Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager
Not to be confused with the cirrus7 incus[0], which are fanless PC models based on the ASRock DeskMini series that I'm using right now.

[0] https://www.cirrus7.com/produkte/cirrus7-incus/

Lightkey··on Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system
You are a bit behind on China. This was just published a week ago, showing renewable energy build-out has finally surpassed increased demand for this year, meaning peak coal was probably last year: https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-brics-emergin... (at end of the article).
Lightkey··on Understanding LucasArts' iMUSE System
I remember there being legal threads from LucasArts every few years, presumably when new staff at legal got aware of ScummVM. The ScummVM team got used to it but iMUSE was the only part that could actually get them into trouble because it was still patented back in the early days. Nice to see that Nick Porcino is acknowledging the unofficial implementations in the references, including ScummVM and its now-defunct sister project ResidualVM.
Lightkey··on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
Using proprietary software in-house for management is one thing, forcing outside contributors to use them, another. That is why they went out of their way to avoid Slack when the time came to leave IRC behind and they chose Matrix instead.
Lightkey··on Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may "simply not get made"
MobyGames is a helpful website to search for physical releases, as they include box scans. Sometimes not just of the cover but also the sides.. and top and bottoms of big boxes, where the system requirements were printed back in the day: https://www.mobygames.com/game/15564/half-life-2/cover/group...
Lightkey··on The Memory Wall: Past, Present, and Future of DRAM
Probably on Asianometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G4_RZo41Zw
Lightkey··on EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow
First: nothing against a polemic comment against politicians but in this case, the proposal is coming from the council, which is made of national politicians and this news was written by a EU politician (Patrick Breyer of the Pirate Party Germany), so maybe a bit misplaced.
Lightkey··on Gruen transfer
Also a good reminder that ö, ä, ü should be subtituted with oe (like in Goethe), ae (aether) or ue here (Gruen's original name was Grünbaum); not o, a, u.
Lightkey··on Don't be terrified of Pale Fire
I was so sure this would be a reference about the pale in Disco Elysium..
Lightkey··on Open Sourcing DOS 4
Like ComputerGuru said, even the README of the repository mentions both 4.0 and 4.00 as if they are the same.
Lightkey··on Welcome to Libera Chat
They've added the staff now: https://libera.chat/about
Lightkey··on My Resignation from Freenode
Aggregated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205926
Lightkey··on Leaving Freenode for a new network
Welp, don't feel like repeating every resignation letter, they are aggregated in this previous post that seems to have been buried: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205926
Lightkey··on Freenode resignation is official, not a draft
edk: https://gist.github.com/edk0/478fb4351bc3ba458288d6878032669...

emilsp: https://gist.github.com/pinkisemils/39d4ded8b1639b6f39dcab15...

JonathanD: https://gist.github.com/JonathanD82/6518b93708e0aaf4b8f92c8e...

niko: https://coevoet.fr/freenode.html

Swant: https://swantzter.se/freenode-resignation

Lightkey··on Freenode resignation is official, not a draft
Also grumble and mniip: * grumble has quit (Killed (grumble (My fellow staff so-called 'friends' are about to hand over account data to a non-staff member. I'm leaving freenode forever and I recommend you drop your NickServ account to keep your data safe.)))

<mniip> I've resigned from volunteering for freenode for a good reason and I think you should know as well: https://mniip.com/freenode.txt (sorry for the spam (wait that's cliche))

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