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Ian Littman

@ian.im

Software dev, historically PHP but currently Golang, Mod/infra @ phpc.social, co-organizer longhornphp.com and mergephp.com, co-maintainer at Joind.in

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Retired: the terawatt hour (TWh)

Wired: Strait Of Hormuz (SOh)

Usage:

“Last year the world added an entire Strait of Hormuz worth of new solar power generation.”

#energysky

03.03.2026 21:10 👍 39 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

27.02.2026 23:12 👍 9887 🔁 2803 💬 203 📌 129

✔️ Civic duty (primary early voting) completed
✔️ Local cookie dealer supported (4 boxes)
✔️ Milk tea cold brew ube latte thing ordered (it's tasty)

28.02.2026 00:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

CapMetro tap to pay works as advertised. I like this. So much better than fiddling with an app and a QR code, even though the new readers are way less finicky about said QR codes.

25.02.2026 02:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tapping the sign:

22.02.2026 06:50 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

This creep's entire line of thought here is eugenicist trash. People are PEOPLE. You don't measure their value by energy consumption. They have inherent value as HUMAN BEINGS. A fucking LLM has no inherent human value. You cannot compare them.

22.02.2026 06:15 👍 1781 🔁 475 💬 20 📌 22

No Kings includes Draft Kings

08.02.2026 23:49 👍 26113 🔁 6102 💬 185 📌 110

Then that would be perfectly on brand for Dems to campaign on :p

09.02.2026 04:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

09.02.2026 03:50 👍 11837 🔁 1907 💬 54 📌 36
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Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.

this was fun

www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

09.02.2026 02:34 👍 399 🔁 67 💬 12 📌 5

Bad Bunny is telling the world that the people in Puerto Rico are American citizens and deserve reliable and resilient electricity and infrastructure investment from the U.S. government.

09.02.2026 02:07 👍 1027 🔁 174 💬 12 📌 3

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

09.02.2026 02:09 👍 7145 🔁 1623 💬 189 📌 233

get rid of your fucking ring doorbell grow up!!!!

09.02.2026 02:14 👍 471 🔁 68 💬 5 📌 1

That is indeed eclectic.

08.02.2026 23:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

👀

08.02.2026 23:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Always has been meme. 
“Wait, domain knowledge is the most valuable thing a data scientist can have?”

Always has been meme. “Wait, domain knowledge is the most valuable thing a data scientist can have?”

The better LLMs get, the more data scientists are going to find out the truth.

01.02.2026 16:17 👍 110 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 2

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

01.02.2026 15:40 👍 16723 🔁 4842 💬 94 📌 73

Pulled mine out of the mailbox yesterday or so.

01.02.2026 16:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Temps in the low 20's-30's in the South and renewables holding it down again today:

Texas (ERCOT) - ~50% solar! v. ~30% gas, with batteries dispatching earlier at ~ 6GWs

#energysky

31.01.2026 22:49 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

...not exactly. If it was HN I would've just linked it :)

01.02.2026 04:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is someone in [redacted startup incubator message board] planning to attend so yeah this is real.

The responses to that person are like "uhh there are better things to march for right now, count me out."

01.02.2026 03:51 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

i hope i never hear that encryption is only for criminals “i have nothing to hide” ever again

27.01.2026 01:27 👍 182 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 1

*plays Taps*

27.01.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am not on a bus. The buses aren't running today.

25.01.2026 21:16 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”

25.01.2026 13:50 👍 6025 🔁 2023 💬 331 📌 136

Of note, batteries in ERCOT have been in a holding pattern because we haven't seen the worst in terms of load. Nuclear that's low cost enough to be dispatchable would help, probably.

Batteries will probably save $500/MWh tomorrow for a few hours but that'll be off of $1500/MWh.

25.01.2026 00:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Absolute Immunity Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.

Let me give you a thought experiment:

Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.

www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

13.01.2026 11:41 👍 3554 🔁 893 💬 50 📌 59
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Doesn't work on my S24 sadly. Guess I need to wait for the S26 and then upgrade.

11.01.2026 01:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

04.01.2026 18:49 👍 43465 🔁 16077 💬 326 📌 411

People when I mutter to myself: That boy ain't right.
People when a computer mutters to itself: ooh it's a reasoning model!

04.01.2026 07:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0