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💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Earlier this year, we explained why residents of the PJM area, America’s largest electricity market, have seen their power bills rise by ~20%. We argued that the main culprit was PJM’s auction design choices and how PJM models demand and supply. To better understand the extent of the problem, our Energy Model team spent the last 6 months reverse-engineering PJM’s main system model, the ‘Reserve Requirement Study’, which to date has been a black box. This study is how PJM decides what type of and…

🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Soon after President Donald Trump retook office, researchers and academics across the country began receiving startling news. They were abruptly informed, often mid-project, that their federal grant funding had been terminated. Form letters bearing the news often offered few details beyond that their work no longer aligned with agency priorities. As part of a lawsuit filed by University of California researchers, a handful of federal agencies confirmed…

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Gmail might partially be to blame for me receiving emails from other Sean Conners I was reading the Lobsters thread about the article “A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets” when I left a comment about my own struggles with receiving emails for other Sean Conners. That started a thread that swamped the comment section about other people who had similar stories, so it's nice to know that I'm not alone. Also, here's one of my favorite comments in that thread (for reasons…

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Prolly publishes the prolly Rust library crate. Users depend on the package as prolly-map, while code imports stay concise: use prolly::🔥;. The crate provides content-addressed prolly tree storage primitives: an immutable, ordered key-value index over byte keys and byte values, with stable content-derived structure for efficient structural sharing, diff, merge, and bulk loading. At the API boundary, a Tree is a small persistent handle: root: Option points at the content-addressed root node. config: Config records the chunking and encoding parameters used by the tree. The…

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AGI on the C64, at last We are happy to announce AGI-64, a long-awaited AGI interpreter for the Commodore 64. It is currently around 75% complete for Space Quest 1, which is completely playable now, and the engine aims to support most AGI games of the era. The interpreter is in testing and already supports most standard AGI operations. Free download, your own game files AGI-64 will be a free download when it is ready. It includes a tool that takes the .vol and .obj…

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, production-grade LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP server provides the smarts that power go to definition, code completion, finding references, and semantics-aware syntax highlighting. Before today, Protobuf lacked the same LSP support other major programming languages enjoy. We don’t want to overstate our own work, but this is a game-changer for Protobuf…

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! I have no problem tipping. I love tipping for a job well done. It’s part of American culture.However, I do have a problem being manipulated into it.America didn't just create a tipping culture. We’ve created a guilt culture coupled with technology. Somewhere between the pandemic and the explosion of digital payment screens, saying "thank you" quietly became a financial obligation. What used to be a reward for exceptional service has turned into an expectation for simply completing…

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Sunday, 16 August 2026 When I wrote this week about Anthropic’s announcement that all Claude models, worldwide, would soon begin “watermarking” everything they generate, including text, to comply with this EU regulation, we were left to speculate how this was going to work, because Anthropic offered not even a vague description of how it would work — despite the fact that the title of the announcement was, absurdly and insultingly, “How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content”. My initial speculation was that maybe they’d hide invisible non-printing Unicode characters…

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Engineers are getting excited about software verification! This may come as a surprise, since verification has long been considered useful only in very niche cases (at best; and impractical, useless or a complete waste of time at worst). Yet, the hype around it is clearly here: Google Trends shows a large spike in searches for formal verification/formal methods in the last two years, everybody’s learning Lean, new specification languages are popping up regularly, and there are efforts to verify major applications end-to-end (e.g., the Signal…