Why “Per” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Do you mean kwh? Your per Watt is way off. Also France is around 7c (euro) per kwh from nuclear generation. If the whole west was all in on nuclear for last 50 years it would ha…
by chrismustcode · Oct 31, 2026
Or renewables. I remind you that nuclear power is completely economically unviable today because it is the single most expensive way to generate power. Even with Trump rolling b…
by mitxela · Oct 31, 2026
Thank you for the nod to Metamorphosis of the Prime Intellect! I’ve been meaning to revisit it for dog’s years and now I have the impetus :) Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom co…
by alwa · Oct 31, 2026
Great article :D The rabbithole actually goes even deeper because buffering on the read side is almost always good, but reads are often way more latency-sensitive than writes. W…
by Pannoniae · Oct 31, 2026
FWIW, narrow column widths with relatively fewer words per line provably improve readability. Which this site needs because its marketing is Claude slop and is therefore operati…
by dofm · Oct 31, 2026
LLMs are great for rote work, but this obviously goes beyond that. How much are you really giving when you can't even bother to write descriptions for the git repos? I can gener…
by anonymous908213 · Oct 31, 2026
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