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Nearly 500 Starlink Satellites Have Incinerated in Earth's Atmosphere So Far This Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-14 04:08:00

According to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, 472 Starlink satellites burned up in the atmosphere between December 2024 and May 2025, as SpaceX deorbited around 6% of its active fleet. Starlink satellites are built to last around five years. After that, they're steered into the Earth's atmosphere to burn up. SpaceX, the rocket company owned by Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, launched the first Starlink satellites in 2019, which means we're now seeing its first full-sca

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What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-14 06:29:37

Credit: Ultra Heaven In this post, I analyze nootropics ratings I gathered through a recommender system. Jump directly to What I learned if you don’t like caveats and methodology. The effectiveness of a nootropic varies a lot from one person to another (your mileage will vary). This is why I built a nootropic recommendation system Enter ratings on nootropics you’ve tried, and it will spit out nootropics liked by people with similar rating patterns. This was initially based on the 2016 SlateSta

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Couchers is officially out of beta

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-14 12:05:20

A new chapter: Couchers is officially out of Beta! Quick summary: we are out of Beta and into version 1, we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better! Share the platform with your friends and let's grow the community together! We are super excited to share that Couchers is today finally out of the Beta phase with our version 1 (v1) la

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Couchers is officially out of Beta

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-14 18:05:20

A new chapter: Couchers is officially out of Beta! Quick summary: we are out of Beta and into version 1, we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better! Share the platform with your friends and let's grow the community together! We are super excited to share that Couchers is today finally out of the Beta phase with our version 1 (v1) la

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I'm dialing back my LLM usage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 05:48:22

From the Agentic Engineering Sessions | Aired on July 1st, 2025 We invited Alberto Fortin, a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience, to share his candid journey with AI. Alberto initially embraced LLMs with genuine enthusiasm, hoping they would revolutionize his development workflow. However, after encountering significant challenges while rebuilding his infrastructure with Go and ClickHouse, he wrote a thoughtful blog post reflecting on the gap between AI hype and reality. For

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Why I'm Dialing Back My LLM Usage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 11:48:22

From the Agentic Engineering Sessions | Aired on July 1st, 2025 We invited Alberto Fortin, a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience, to share his candid journey with AI. Alberto initially embraced LLMs with genuine enthusiasm, hoping they would revolutionize his development workflow. However, after encountering significant challenges while rebuilding his infrastructure with Go and ClickHouse, he wrote a thoughtful blog post reflecting on the gap between AI hype and reality. For

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What I learned gathering nootropic ratings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 12:29:37

Credit: Ultra Heaven In this post, I analyze nootropics ratings I gathered through a recommender system. Jump directly to What I learned if you don’t like caveats and methodology. The effectiveness of a nootropic varies a lot from one person to another (your mileage will vary). This is why I built a nootropic recommendation system Enter ratings on nootropics you’ve tried, and it will spit out nootropics liked by people with similar rating patterns. This was initially based on the 2016 SlateSta

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Transform 2025: Why observability is critical for AI agent ecosystems

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2026-02-15 18:50:00

The autonomous software revolution is coming. At Transform 2025, Ashan Willy, CEO of New Relic and Sam Witteveen, CEO and co-founder of Red Dragon AI, talked about how they’re instrumenting agentic systems for measurable ROI and charting the infrastructure roadmap to maximize agentic AI. New Relic provides observability to customers by capturing and correlating application, log, and infrastructure telemetry in real time. Observability goes beyond monitoring — it’s about equipping teams with the

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Bezos-funded satellite tracking methane emissions loses power in space

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-15 18:00:34

MethaneSAT, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) methane-tracking satellite backed by the Bezos Earth Fund, is lost in space. Its ground team lost contact with the spacecraft on June 20 but tried to reestablish a connection until it learned in the morning of July 1 that MethaneSAT had lost power altogether. The team believes that the satellite is likely not recoverable. MethaneSAT collected data on methane emissions that have previously been untrackable in an effort to combat climate change. Met

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Xbox Elite Wireless Controller 2 Is Overkill for Most People, but Still Delivers an Epic Gaming Experience

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-15 17:00:14

The Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 (or Elite 2 for short) has arguably been the industry gold standard for a pro-level game controller for the past decade. Over the years dozens of competitors have cropped up, hoping to give Microsoft a run for its money. While the Elite 2 still isn't perfect, it still sets the bar high. What I like about the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 One of the best things the Elite 2 has going for it is the layout -- it's almost identical to the standa

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Airplane Wi-Fi Is Now … Good?

wired.com Jaclyn Trop 2026-02-15 18:00:00

Expensive and erratic, in-flight Wi-Fi has been more of a punchline than a pipeline over the past decade. But 2025 has marked a sea change for the skies: the rollout of fast, and free, connectivity on most of the world’s major airlines. Satellite technology has enabled leaps in speed and bandwidth. SpaceX’s Starlink network of low Earth orbit satellites, for example, can deliver a connection capable of downloading more than 200 megabits per second—twice as fast as most basic home internet plans

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Elon Musk Adds ‘Sell Cars in Europe’ to His To-Do List

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-02-15 23:50:10

Elon Musk has always worn a lot of hats. Earlier this year, while he was working at the White House, he literally wore several hats on his head at the same time, in a clownish attempt to make this very point to other Trump officials. Even though the billionaire has since parted ways with the administration and is in the midst of an acrimonious spat with the President, he is still keeping busy. Now, he’s reportedly given himself a new job just as he pledged to launch a new political party, thus k

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The wanton destruction of a creative-tech era

news.ycombinator.com The Greg Technology Blog 2026-02-16 21:00:24

Fastly, you killed glitch.com and ruined your karma for 10,000 years. You have “betrayed yourself for nothing.” Glitch was an idealistic place where people gathered and made sites, were inspired by other people’s sites and remixed them, and generally enjoyed themselves. Of course a site like that takes money to run, of course you need people to run it - it was specifically better because of the people that ran it. And I can only be very sympathetic to the fact that it cost money - that it only

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OneAir Subscription for 94% Off With Our Exclusive Code Lets You Save Big on Hotel and Flight Bookings for a Lifetime

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2026-02-16 23:05:40

Travel costs have gotten to the point that you can barely cross the street for $50. What you can do with $50, however, is lock yourself into ridiculously huge airfare and hotel deals with a lifetime subscription to OneAir Elite, the AI-powered service that routinely finds prices between 20% to 60% lower than the ones published on the big travel-deal sites like Expedia and Hotels.com. StackSocial’s 87% off deal on a lifetime subscription to OneAir Elite already takes the price down from $790 to

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Pentagon may put SpaceX at the center of a sensor-to-shooter targeting network

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-16 23:51:52

The Trump administration plans to cancel a fleet of orbiting data relay satellites managed by the Space Development Agency and replace it with a secretive network that, so far, relies primarily on SpaceX's Starlink Internet constellation, according to budget documents. The move prompted questions from lawmakers during a Senate hearing on the Space Force's budget last week. While details of the Pentagon's plan remain secret, the White House proposal would commit $277 million in funding to kick o

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Apple’s satellite SOS feature helps rescue injured climber in Colorado

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-17 03:04:19

A climber stranded at nearly 11,000 feet in the Colorado wilderness was rescued this week thanks to Apple’s Emergency SOS satellite messaging feature. Here’s what happened. Glissading gone wrong As reported by KDVR (via Reddit), a 53-year-old man had just summited Snowmass Mountain on Sunday, before beginning his descent using a glissading technique (which is essentially sliding down the snow-covered slope). That’s when he injured his wrist and realized he couldn’t make it out on his own. Wit

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Apple Watch satellite SOS feature helps rescue injured climber in Colorado

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-17 09:04:19

A climber stranded at nearly 11,000 feet in the Colorado wilderness was rescued this week thanks to Apple’s Emergency SOS satellite messaging feature. Here’s what happened. Glissading gone wrong As reported by KDVR (via Reddit), a 53-year-old man had just summited Snowmass Mountain on Sunday, before beginning his descent using a glissading technique (which is essentially sliding down the snow-covered slope). That’s when he injured his wrist and realized he couldn’t make it out on his own. Wit

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You can snag T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service on any carrier - how to get it for free

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-02-17 23:10:01

Kaye Marie Christofferson / 500px/Getty T-Mobile will officially launch its public Starlink satellite service on Wednesday, July 23. Currently in beta testing, the service will be available for any mobile phone user with a compatible device, including AT&T and Verizon subscribers. In its Monday news release, the Uncarrier explained what Starlink will offer. From the get-go, iOS and Android users alike will be able to send SMS text messages. Other features include MMS (Multimedia Messaging Serv

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Best Internet Providers in Little Rock, Arkansas

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 03:14:00

What is the best internet provider in Little Rock? CNET recommends AT&T Fiber as it's top-choice for the best internet provider in Little Rock, Arkansas. It offers ultra-fast speeds up to 5,000Mbps with symmetrical uploads and downloads, no data caps, no equipment fees and no contracts. However, those top-tier speeds come with a top-tier $245 monthly price tag. For something easier on the wallet, Xfinity is the better pick. Its $40-per-month plan gets you speeds up to 300Mbps, making it a soli

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Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 22:58:22

Why should you choose Pluto? Accelerated Development. Greatly enhanced standard library. Several new syntaxes, such as switch statements, compound operators, ternary expressions, etc. Focused On Lua Compatibility. Pluto is largely compatible with Lua 5.4 source code, but there is an imperfection: Pluto implements new keywords, which can cause conflicts with otherwise normal identifiers such as 'switch', or 'class'. The parser tries to identify what is meant but if that doesn't work, you ca

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T-Mobile Is Bringing Starlink to Your Phone. Check If You’ll Get It for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 02:16:00

Going off-grid might soon be a thing of the past, as T-Mobile’s partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service gets ready to launch on July 23. The alliance will provide direct-to-cell messaging service, called T-Satellite, which will also be available to AT&T and Verizon cellphone customers. T-Mobile says its goal is to “eliminate mobile dead zones for good” by utilizing 657 Starlink satellites that will be used exclusively for cellphone service. T-Satellite has been in beta testing sinc

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Elon Says He’s Launching ‘the America Party’ to Compete With Democrats and Republicans If Budget Bill Passes

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-02-19 09:36:18

Elon Musk is threatening to launch his own political party called the America Party if President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” passes. And while the billionaire oligarch already suggested the idea almost a month ago after his falling out with Trump, he seems serious this time. “If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,” Musk tweeted on Monday. “Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actual

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T-Mobile Is Bringing Starlink to Your Phone. Check If You’ll Get It For Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 08:16:00

Going off-grid might soon be a thing of the past, as T-Mobile’s partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service gets ready to launch on July 23. The alliance will provide direct-to-cell messaging service, called T-Satellite, which will also be available to AT&T and Verizon cellphone customers. T-Mobile says its goal is to “eliminate mobile dead zones for good” by utilizing 657 Starlink satellites that will be used exclusively for cellphone service. T-Satellite has been in beta testing sinc

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Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved

news.ycombinator.com Amsterdam 2026-02-20 03:31:09

The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened. Originally published on 11 May 2023. 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of six topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here. Datadog is a leading observability tooling provider which went publi

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Hundreds of Brother printer models have security flaw that can't be patched

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-20 18:54:02

This could allow bad actors to remotely access these devices. A security company has found eight security vulnerabilities that impact hundreds of Brother printer models. The company has released firmware updates to handle seven of these vulnerabilities, but one security flaw cannot be patched. Brother has indicated that it'll fix the remaining issue during the manufacturing process of future printers, which doesn't help current owners. The company recommends that users change the default main

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UGREEN M4 Mac Mini Dock Costs Peanuts for Early Prime Day, Adds 8TB and 10 Ports to Your Apple Mini PC

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2026-02-20 23:10:51

If you pick up a Mac Mini for yourself, then it might feel like you’ve got everything you need. After all, it’s such a dinky little device, and it houses so much power already, so what else is there? That’s all good and well, but at some point, you may start to want a bit more. Your options at that point often boil down to just having to buy a new one, and that’s a pricey proposition. You don’t have to just do that though, you can actually get an upgrade or two for it. See at Amazon A great ex

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Plantaform Smart Indoor Garden Review: Rewarding but Risky

wired.com Lisa Wood Shapiro 2026-02-21 17:07:00

It was about a week into my journey as a hydroponic lettuce farmer when I noticed my Mila air purifier, set to auto mode, was running at full blast. Its internal air quality sensor told me the air was dirty. Not sure if the sensor was overly sensitive, I swapped it out for the more powerful and far quieter IQ Air Atem X (9/10 WIRED Recommends) and set it on auto mode. Next time I went into my son’s room, the Atem was running at its highest speed. I checked the room’s IQAir Visual Pro Indoor Air

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France is betting Eutelsat can become Europe's answer to Starlink — but experts aren't convinced

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2026-02-21 14:08:36

In this article ETL-FR Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT France views Eutelsat as a strategic asset in the EU's push for technological sovereignty. Benoit Tessier | AFP via Getty Images For years, France's Eutelsat has been trying to build a European alternative to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband service. The company merged with British satellite venture OneWeb in 2023, consolidating the region's satellite communications industry in an effort to catch up to Starlink, whi

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Is being bilingual good for your brain?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 03:50:19

R eams of papers have been published on the cognitive advantages of multilingualism. Beyond the conversational doors it can open, multilingualism is supposed to improve “executive function”, a loose concept that includes the ability to ignore distractions, plan complex tasks and update beliefs as new information arrives. Most striking, numerous studies have even shown that bilinguals undergo a later onset of dementia, perhaps of around four years, on average. But some of these studies have faile

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ZeQLplus: Terminal SQLite Database Browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 10:32:02

ZeQL+ : Terminal SQLite Database Browser Features Open any SQLite database file Very fast Runs in a Terminal / CMD window Tiny executable with no dependencies List all tables in the database to browse Paginated view of table rows Run custom SQL queries and view the results Cross platform: macOS, Linux, Windows Open source Install Pre-built binaries for macOS, Linux, Windows 10+ are available as zip files in the releases page. Just extract and run directly with no need to install. Ho

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Nearly 500 Starlink Satellites Have Incinerated in Earth's Atmosphere So Far This Year

What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

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