Hacker News

Article URL: https://letterfromjail.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644685

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-risk-register-2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644678

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644662

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/jvantuyl/5af744ee99c1938cc47d4b3b35809330

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644656

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-id-do-as-college-freshman.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644653

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Dear HN crowd:

If there were a reasonable probability of you and your continent being without electricity for a year, how would you prepare? I'm interested in your thoughts on the things I listed below -- where to get these things and what I'm missing.

Water: I don't know if the water pressure to my house would stay or not. Assuming not, I need some mechanism for collecting rain water off the roof or off a tarp. I need some water filters that work well for pulling water from a nearby stream. I've seen water purification pills, but are there any without detergents in them? I used to have a house with a well; if I get one again, I'll get a hand-pump for the well. Hopefully the toilets will stay flushable by dumping water in them.

Food: I will keep several buckets of wheat berries and oats. I grind my own wheat regularly anyway. I need a hand-powered grinder to go with them, though. Some extra canned food would be handy. I expect the deer in the nearby forest would disappear quickly, but I might try to shoot one early.

Heat: I need a propane tank and a heater for the house. The propane needs to be used for cooking too. Without electricity, maybe a large battery with a solar charger would be helpful to run a blower? Or maybe a wood-burning stove would be sufficient? There is forest nearby.

Communications: it would be awesome if our phones could work peer-to-peer. I haven't seen that tech yet, though. (Work on it!) Maybe I and my extended family could have satellite phones that only cost when used. It would be nice if they could bring in weather and news. I need solar chargers for all these small devices.

Are there any major needs on that list I'm missing? Some things I might want: extra gasoline, a generator powered by my bicycle, a waterwheel generator, dry beans, and a large house battery (though I haven't been impressed by these yet).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644609

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://xtremeownage.com/2021/06/12/portable-2-4kwh-power-supply-ups/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644589

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/4_day_week_productivity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644572

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Article URL: https://fossforce.com/2025/04/survey-says-more-organizations-are-using-dead-centos-7-than-rhel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644570

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://extraakt.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644564

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpts-o4-mini-o4-mini-high-and-o3-spotted-ahead-of-release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644558

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.sunrisegeek.com/post/xai-elon-musks-ai-company-unveils-api-for-grok-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644540

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://mattsayar.com/im-tired-of-dismissive-anti-ai-bias/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644538

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/learning-assembly-for-fun-and-profit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644534

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/travel/video/alcatraz-island-climate-change-prison-escape-digvid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644527

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.implicator.ai/when-ai-should-say-i-dont-know-but-doesnt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644470

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://nik.art/durable-if-maintained/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644437

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-read-replication-beta/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644410

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Article URL: https://projecttimestamper.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643979

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Article URL: https://www.arroyo.dev/blog/arroyo-is-joining-cloudflare

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643968

Points: 1

# Comments: 0