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Home batteries: how to install them and how much they cost

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🔥 Discover this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Gear / Products / Home,Gear / Products / Smart Home,Power Trip 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: With electricity costs High-voltage home batteries have never been so attractive. Whether you want to store the surplus generated by your solar panels or simply buy electricity at the cheapest possible price for later use when energy is more expensive, a home battery can help. Installing a home battery has never been easier, but this rapidly expanding market can be confusing, and there are many things to consider before purchasing.I've…

GLM-5.2 vs Claude Opus | Tech Stackups

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: GLM-5.2 just came out, and it's another step forward for what open models can do. The internet promptly freaked out, and it's hard to tell what's real and what's hype. So we ran it head-to-head against Claude Opus 4.8: same one-shot prompt, build a 3D platformer in raw WebGL from scratch. Here's our take after running the test and digging through the benchmarks and the buzz. We're not switching our main off Opus. In our test Opus was faster and shipped a cleaner, more correct…

A critical deadline for Windows and Linux security is approaching

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✨ Read this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Security / Security News,Key Components ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The time is Windows and Linux users should update encryption keys that protect their systems from firmware-based UEFI infections, a malicious form of malware that loads before the operating system starts, and malware protection.Starting June 24, three certificates that cryptographically verify every piece of firmware and software loaded while the system is running will expire. Microsoft-signed certificates are the foundational elements of secure boot, a chain of trust designed by Microsoft. Secure Boot verifies the digital signatures of all firmware loaded…

Codex SQLite feedback logs can write ~640 TB/year and rapidly consume SSD endurance · Issue #28224 · openai/codex · GitHub

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💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Issue Codex is continuously writing a large amount of data to the local SQLite feedback log database: ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite-wal ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite-shm On my machine, after about 21 days of uptime, the main SSD has written about 37 TB. Process/file-level checks show Codex SQLite logs are the main continuous writer. That extrapolates to roughly 640 TB/year. On a 1 TB SSD, that is about 640 full-drive writes per year. Some consumer SSDs are rated around 600 TBW, so this could consume roughly a full drive's warranted…

Buying a used iPhone makes more sense than ever

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✨ Discover this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Upcycle ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: It was already there There are plenty of good reasons why you should consider buying a used iPhone instead of a constant upgrade. It is more environmentally friendly and more cost effective, which is a rarity these days. But some recent developments have converged that have suddenly made buying used cars more attractive.Starting this fall, older iPhones will last longer than ever. Some Apple products will be more expensive. And while buying used — or keeping your own for an…

Desktop apps | Deno Docs

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: deno desktop turns a Deno project (anything from a single TypeScript file to a Next.js app) into a self-contained desktop application. The output is a redistributable binary that bundles your code, the Deno runtime, and a web rendering engine into one bundle per platform. Coming in Deno 2.9 deno desktop ships in Deno v2.9.0 and is not in a stable release yet. To try it now, run deno upgrade canary to install the canary build. The command, configuration keys, and TypeScript APIs may still change…

Ethan Thornton tries to do everything at once

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💥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Hardware,Startups,defense tech,Ethan Thornton,Khosla Ventures,mach industries,Ribbit Capital,Sequoia Capital 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Ethan Thornton left MIT at the age of nineteen to build weapons. The first, a hydrogen-powered system he prototyped using parts from Home Depot and Amazon, didn't work out — "hydrogen was just a bad bet overall," he told me last week at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in Los Angeles. Three years later, his company, Mach Industries, runs six weapons programs, and earlier this month closed a $300 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.8 billion. The startup…

Lars Andersen (@LarsAnders1620) on X

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Police go directly for the circuit breaker panel to avoid being filmed This post will be in English, because there apparently is a lot of interest in what happened to me yesterday. I'm a libertarian danish privacy activist and former police officer and I have been doing activism for about 15 years. I have had a bit of time to think about my arrest and the actions of the masked police that broke down my door - with no prior warning. The prefece to the…

The best NAS devices for your home after months of testing

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🔥 Check out this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Computers,Buying Guide ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Whether you want To back up all your precious files, facilitate sharing and collaboration, or create your own entertainment cloud, network attached storage (NAS) devices are the way to go. These versatile servers can boost your home network and help you offload tasks from your computer and other devices.I've spent the past few months testing NAS devices from some of the top brands with a focus on families looking to create backups and perhaps run an…

Fine Tuning a Local LLM to Categorize Questions

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: As a fun personal project, I have been working on a chatbot for answering general questions about my household on anything from maintenance questions to doctor’s appointments. The general idea is that the chatbot will get its household knowledge through RAG from querying a vector database, but for better results I have made the vector searches metadata aware. Basically, I am running questions through a pre-processing step to categorize questions into known metadata categories (e.g. pool, car, hvac, cooking). The main goal…