Hackernews posts about DOE

DOE is the United States Department of Energy, the federal agency responsible for ensuring America's energy security and promoting innovative energy solutions.

1. Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
   529 points by mbix77 4 days ago | 247 comments
2. What does Palantir actually do? (www.wired.com)
   377 points by mudil 10 days ago | 363 comments
3. GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" (bsky.app)
   340 points by minimaxir 16 days ago | 330 comments
4. How well does the money laundering control system work? (www.journals.uchicago.edu)
   287 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 352 comments
5. How does the US use water? (www.construction-physics.com)
   238 points by juliangamble 3 days ago | 180 comments
6. MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code (lucumr.pocoo.org)
   227 points by the_mitsuhiko 6 days ago | 139 comments
7. Why does a fire truck cost $2m (thehustle.co)
   225 points by Guid_NewGuid 27 days ago | 305 comments
8. AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery (playtechnique.io)
   194 points by gwynforthewyn 6 days ago | 74 comments
9. Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits? (www.dbreunig.com)
   180 points by dbreunig 22 days ago | 86 comments
10. Who does your assistant serve? (xeiaso.net)
    171 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 103 comments
11. What does it mean to be thirsty? (www.quantamagazine.org)
    159 points by pseudolus 12 days ago | 106 comments
12. An LLM does not need to understand MCP (hackteam.io)
    137 points by gethackteam 17 days ago | 105 comments
13. What if A.I. doesn't get better than this? (www.newyorker.com)
    89 points by sundache 11 days ago | 112 comments
14. What Does Consulting Do? (www.nber.org)
    86 points by surprisetalk 16 days ago | 66 comments
15. What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like? (whatdoesonebilliondollarslooklike.website)
    78 points by alexrustic 19 days ago | 94 comments
16. Does OLAP Need an ORM (clickhouse.com)
    74 points by craneca0 6 days ago | 51 comments
17. GPT-5: It just does stuff (www.oneusefulthing.org)
    65 points by paulpauper 13 days ago | 67 comments
18. Does MHz Still Matter? (www.ubicloud.com)
    65 points by furkansahin 1 day ago | 44 comments
19. Why does AI feel so different? (blog.nilenso.com)
    56 points by ath_ray 11 days ago | 101 comments
20. Age verification doesn't need to be a privacy footgun (soatok.blog)
    56 points by zdw 23 days ago | 91 comments
21. How Does a Blind Model See the Earth? (outsidetext.substack.com)
    56 points by recursiveforte 13 days ago | 7 comments
22. Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree (texttoslides.ai)
    54 points by sh_tomer 28 days ago | 92 comments
23. Why Greptile just does code reviews and doesn't also generate code (www.greptile.com)
    54 points by dakshgupta 19 days ago | 10 comments
24. Does the stock market know something we don't? (www.theatlantic.com)
    40 points by littlexsparkee 16 days ago | 33 comments
25. Tech does not deserve special legal treatment (www.ft.com)
    26 points by petethomas 17 days ago | 10 comments
26. $3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE won't allow to retire (www.utilitydive.com)
    23 points by toomuchtodo 7 days ago | 13 comments
27. Renaming this file changes what it does [video] (www.youtube.com)
    22 points by richardboegli 21 days ago | 1 comments
28. Why Doesn't the US Use 220V Like Everyone Else in the World? (2021) (kathylovesphysics.com)
    18 points by throw0101c 29 days ago | 29 comments
29. Does [MacOS] even matter anymore? (www.macworld.com)
    15 points by indigodaddy 29 days ago | 19 comments
30. Why Does Renovating the Fed Cost $2.5B? Asbestos, Height Limits, Lead (www.wsj.com)
    14 points by paulpauper 29 days ago | 2 comments