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‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms: https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/26/suddenly-energy-independence-feels-practical-europeans-are-building-mini-solar-farms-at-ho

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540383

What is plug-in solar and can it save you money?

Many consumers want to know how long it will take them to make back the upfront costs of solar.

euronews

Hacker News 250 points 6h ago

Make macOS consistently bad (unironically): https://lr0.org/blog/p/macos/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547009

Make MacOS 26 consistently bad (unironically) | La Vita Nouva

Hacker News 250 points 8h ago

If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548243

If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos | Hacker News

Hacker News 250 points 9h ago

We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year: https://www.reco.ai/blog/we-rewrote-jsonata-with-ai

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536712

We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year | Reco

One engineer used AI to rewrite JSONata as a pure-Go library called gnata. Seven hours, $400 in tokens, 1,000x speedup, and $500K/year off our cloud bill.

Hacker News 250 points 9h ago

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544980

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

The Guardian

Hacker News 250 points 9h ago

Desk for people who work at home with a cat: https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a-pet-catphotos/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543943

Japan now has a special desk for people who work at home with a pet cat[Photos]

The Neko House Desk understands who’s really in charge of your home, and helps you convince them to let you have some space too.

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Hacker News 250 points 10h ago

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder: https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/anatomy-of-the-claude-folder

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543139

Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder

A complete guide to CLAUDE.md, custom commands, skills, agents, and permissions, and how to set them up properly.

Daily Dose of Data Science

Hacker News 250 points 11h ago

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/people-inside-microsoft-are-fighting-to-drop-windows-11s-mandatory-microsoft-account-requirements-during-setup

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542695

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop Windows 11's mandatory Microsoft Account requirements during setup

Microsoft's big sweeping set of changes coming soon to Windows 11 don't address its controversial Microsoft account requirements, but that might soon change.

Windows Central

Hacker News 250 points 12h ago

Schedule tasks on the web: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/web-scheduled-tasks

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539188

Schedule tasks on the web - Claude Code Docs

Automate recurring work with cloud scheduled tasks

Claude Code Docs

Hacker News 250 points 15h ago

The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner: https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542057

The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.