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You can do it quite reliably from aerial imagery at ~7cm resolution or so. For urban areas (if you have access to the data) you can pull out the type of panel and its size and get a reasonably good estimate on power output.

Also doable maybe a bit less reliably with high res satellite (30cm res).

Depending on how remote the area the data can be a bit out of date (years even)

Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:47AM (#50219636)
I saw your keynote at BSides a few weeks ago and it blew my mind and it looks like it was just the beginning!
Is this the app that exposed their read/write github keys to a million repos?
https://swipetris.com/

I play this and compete for high scores against the other like 6 people who play it

I'm seeing one of these posted nearly every day. Its some kind of million dollar homepage kinda thing over and over, I wonder if this is what LLMs suggest if you ask like 'how do i make money online'
Re:Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:44AM (#48988887)
https://github.com/IsaacPushButton/reddit-reader-userscript

I got fable to whip it up, use at your own risk

Re:Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:59PM (#48985948)
First I made a userscript that auto-redirects me to old.reddit, then they did this. So now I have my userscript fetch the .json version of the url, and render a minimal hackernews style UI instead of the bloated normal site.
Re:Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack on Saturday June 27, 2026 @07:00AM (#48697150)
Thats a quote from the attacker, not part of the article itself. I don't think they are suggesting the article was AI written.
Re:GeoLibre 1.0 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:25PM (#48484717)
Gave this a little go. The web version was giving me IO errors for any file I tried to load in. The desktop version worked a little better and could render some smaller files (~30mb geopackage, 300kb SHP.zip).

Trying to load some bigger files >1gb kind of just sat on 'Importing data...' for a while, then the screen went blank and I lost all my layers.

Got mixed results with a grab bag of other spatial files I had laying around. A lightweight alternative to QGIS would be good but it feels like this has a way to go.

Id love to hear more about this
Is anyone else feeling like this kind of ai-psychosis + github link posting is becoming really common?