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Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies

technologyreview.com Becky Ferreira 2025-11-25 18:00:00

In January 2024, Donald Trump revived the space-shield dream at a primary campaign rally in Laconia, New Hampshire, using the Star Wars nickname that Reagan hated. It didn’t work in the 1980s, Trump said, because the technology wasn’t there. But times have changed. Whether in Golden Age Hollywood or Trump’s impromptu dramatizations, the dream of a missile shield is animated by its sheer cinematic allure. “I’ve seen so many things. I’ve seen shots that you wouldn’t even believe,” Trump said. He

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This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up

wired.com Elise Cutts 2025-12-01 17:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately became important objects of mathematical study. So it might be surprising that, millennia later, mysteries still surround even the simplest shape in Plato’s polyhedral universe: the tetrahedron, which has just four triangular faces. One major open problem, for instance, asks how densely you can p

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Trump’s Golden Dome Sparks Unprecedented Surge in Space Force Funding

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-03 22:50:40

The U.S. Space Force’s budget for 2026 could see a 40% increase compared to this year, which is mostly driven by President Donald Trump’s fantasy of creating a futuristic missile defense system that uses space-based sensors and weapons. A recent report by the Center for Space Policy and Strategy highlights the Golden Dome’s role in driving the increase in funding allocated toward the Space Force. Trump announced the ambitious Golden Dome project within one week of taking office, describing a mu

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Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 06:30:49

No feedback, no one to bounce ideas off, no “nice job” at the end of the day. The freedom is great, but it gets weirdly quiet. Anyone else relate?

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Over a million gamers reclaimed censored titles in GOG's 48-hour push

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-13 17:08:00

Recap: GOG recently launched Freedomtobuy.games, a new initiative designed to fight censorship attempts against NSFW-themed games. For 48 hours, the CD Projekt subsidiary game offered users the ability to reclaim 13 games at risk of disappearing – for free. The giveaway has now ended, and downloads were so massive that the company struggled to maintain platform stability. GOG originally launched as "Good Old Games" in 2008, offering DRM-free copies of classic titles updated to run on modern Win

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Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ May Be Ready for Testing Just Before the 2028 Election: Report

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-15 03:00:36

As far as I know, spending over a hundred billion dollars to build a giant, missile-guided protective “dome” that will probably never work is not something many Americans have ever asked the government to do. Nevertheless, Trump has made it a point to do just this. In January, Trump initially announced the “Golden Dome,” a project to protect Americans from the “threat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks.” The project, which is intended to u

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The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 21:49:35

The Big Oops in Type Systems: This Problem Extends to FP as Well Building on Casey Muratori's critique (youtube) of "compile time hierarchies that match the domain model," this problem extends beyond OOP to encompass a broader pattern in static type systems, particularly functional programming approaches that attempt to "make illegal states unrepresentable." Type systems are often ranked in a "correctness hierarchy", with Idris/Haskell at the top, Java/C# in the middle, Python/JavaScript at th

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Caches: LRU vs. Random

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 11:45:02

Once upon a time, my computer architecture professor mentioned that using a random eviction policy for caches really isn't so bad. That random eviction isn't bad can be surprising — if your cache fills up and you have to get rid of something, choosing the least recently used (LRU) is an obvious choice, since you're more likely to use something if you've used it recently. If you have a tight loop, LRU is going to be perfect as long as the loop fits in cache, but it's going to cause a miss every t

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Golden Dome may not be the golden ticket Silicon Valley is hoping for

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-25 17:00:00

Golden Dome, the Trump administration’s gambit to build a next-generation missile defense system, has startups and longstanding defense contractors preparing to duke it out for a piece of a $151 billion multi-year contract. The process to qualify for the $151 billion contract vehicle, essentially an umbrella program, is stacked against most startups – not because of their tech. Instead, smaller companies may be thwarted by a multi-layered, expensive bureaucratic process used to ensure a company

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‘Fantastic Four’ Steps Toward a Solid Box Office Start

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-28 12:33:11

Fantastic Four: First Steps came to a theater near you this weekend, and its opening numbers are looking good. Per the Hollywood Reporter, Marvel’s latest earned $218 million worldwide in its first three days. While it’s slightly behind expectations and the similarly solid $220 million global opening of Superman two weeks prior, this is already more than the 2015 Fantastic movie made in its theatrical run. Of its current take, $118 million came from domestic audiences, where it outperformed ini

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Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 21:00:45

Agrawal was in the room, too. "I was on the crew that needed to count the pieces," he told Ars. "I didn’t know the significance of what was happening until after many years, but the Chinese had clearly changed the nature of the space environment." The 2007 anti-satellite test also clearly changed the trajectory of Agrawal's career. We present part of our discussion with Agrawal below, and we'll share the rest of the conversation tomorrow. The text has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity

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Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 03:54:11

Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer Jul 22 2025 You’re probably reading this because you’re using Pydantic yourself. Maybe you’re building a FastAPI application and hit a point where it started getting too big to manage, and you realized you need better separation of concerns. Perhaps you’ve started adopting a clean architecture or onion architecture kind of layering to keep business logic separate from application logic, aiming for better maintainability and testability. But Pydantic is st

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Google invests in carbon dioxide battery for renewable energy storage

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 22:00:45

Google has announced that it has signed a global commercial partnership with Milan-based startup Energy Dome and has also invested in its long duration energy storage (LDES) tech for renewable energy. The deal, its first investment in LDES tech, entails using Energy Dome's carbon dioxide battery for the grids that power Google’s operations around the world. Batteries are used to keep excess energy generated by renewable sources, such as solar and wind, during peak production and when demand is l

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Rocket Report: Channeling the future at Wallops; SpaceX recovers rocket wreckage

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 08:41:43

Welcome to Edition 8.04 of the Rocket Report! The Pentagon's Golden Dome missile defense shield will be a lot of things. Along with new sensors, command and control systems, and satellites, Golden Dome will require a lot of rockets. The pieces of the Golden Dome architecture operating in orbit will ride to space on commercial launch vehicles. And Golden Dome's space-based interceptors will essentially be designed as flying fuel tanks with rocket engines. This shouldn't be overlooked, and that's

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Phishers Target Aviation Execs to Scam Customers

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2026-01-01 21:57:06

KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss’s email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company’s customers into sending a large payment to scammers. An investigation into the attacker’s infrastructure points to a long-running Nigerian cybercrime ring that is actively targeting established companies in the transportation and aviation industries. A reader who works in the transportation industry sent a tip about a recent successful phishing campaign that tricked an e

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A Sweltering Heat Dome Is Pummeling the Middle of the US. Here's What That Means

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 12:15:04

You've probably heard of the heat index, and you might be aware of the National Weather Service's HeatRisk tool, but do you know what a heat dome is? If not, it's the perfect time to learn -- nearly a third of the US is about to be exposed to temperatures above 100 degrees because of one. The NWS has issued a bulletin warning that 100-degree temperatures will likely hit residents in the middle of the US today. The cause for that thermometer spike is a growing heat dome in the Mississippi Valley

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1KB JavaScript Numbers Station

news.ycombinator.com Terence Eden 2026-01-08 08:47:54

Code Golf is the art/science of creating wonderful little demos in an artificially constrained environment. This year the js1024 competition was looking for entries with the theme of "Creepy". I am not a serious bit-twiddler. I can't create JS shaders which produce intricate 3D worlds in a scrap of code. But I can use slightly obscure JavaScript APIs! There's something deliciously creepy about Numbers Stations - the weird radio frequencies which broadcast seemingly random numbers and words. Ar

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“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of

news.ycombinator.com Assaf Pinhasi 2026-01-11 12:33:46

“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well… sort of. Assaf Pinhasi 3 min read · 1 hour ago 1 hour ago -- Listen Share TL;DR There is no dichotomy between domain knowledge vs. “general purpose methods that leverage data+compute”. They are both powerful tools that compensate for each other and need to be balanced and traded off during the model building process. “The bitter lesson” in 30 seconds “The bitter lesson” is one of the most popular opinion pieces about AI research and it’s future. In his w

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7 Weird Sci-Fi Network TV Shows That Aired Just as Streaming Was Taking Over

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-17 12:00:30

Netflix’s first original series, House of Cards, launched in 2013, and television was never the same. But even as Netflix and other platforms began to gain popularity, old-school network and basic cable channels continued to create edgy (and sometimes a bit unhinged) genre shows—the sort of programming that just a few years later would come to dominate the streaming landscape. With that in mind, here are seven weird and wonderful sci-fi shows from the last era of TV before streaming well and tr

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Rough road to “energy dominance” after GOP kneecaps wind and solar

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-19 08:45:56

As the One Big Beautiful Bill Act squeaked its way through Congress earlier this month, its supporters heralded what they described as a new era for American energy and echoed what has become a familiar phrase among President Donald Trump’s supporters. “Congress has taken decisive action to advance President Trump’s energy dominance agenda,” said American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers in a statement after the House passed the bill. Republicans concurred, with legislators r

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Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 23:22:33

Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of Open-Source Project PuTTY PupRed bigtech bitvise domainsnatcher putty ssh In the open-source world, trust, transparency, and community stewardship form the foundation of public credibility. But a recent case involving the domain name putty.org calls these values into question. The domain, long associated by users with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, is not controlled by the PuTTY project itself — but by a

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Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 22:33:55

Cloudflare has become the first internet intermediary beyond local residential ISPs, to block access to pirate sites in the UK. Users attempting to access certain pirate sites are greeted with 'Error 451 - Unavailable for Legal Reasons'. In theory, ISP blocking should prevent UK users from even seeing this notice, but a combination of Cloudflare's blocking mechanism and choices made by some VPN users results in a piracy dead end. Internet service providers BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk, EE, a

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Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

news.ycombinator.com Paul Melman 2026-01-21 00:28:36

Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure. Selection criteria for a position of authority are one example of such a metric. When selection criteria are opaque, it is difficult for them to become a target, preserving their utility as measures. For governance positions however, it

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Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

news.ycombinator.com Paul Melman 2026-01-24 06:28:36

Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure. Selection criteria for a position of authority are one example of such a metric. When selection criteria are opaque, it is difficult for them to become a target, preserving their utility as measures. For governance positions however, it

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Faking a JPEG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 06:57:25

25th March 2025: Faking a JPEG Click to expand I've been wittering on about Spigot for a while. It's small web application which generates a fake hierarchy of web pages, on the fly, using a Markov Chain to make gibberish content for aggressive web crawlers to ingest. Spigot has been sitting there, doing its thing, for a few months now, serving over a million pages per day. I've not really been keeping track of what it's up to, but every now and then I look at its logs to see what crawlers are

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Author of William the Conqueror's 'Medieval Big Data' Project Revealed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-26 22:27:24

The findings challenge long-held assumptions about the scale and intent of William the Conqueror’s great survey. Drawing on the earliest surviving manuscript of the survey, known as Exon Domesday, researchers argue that the survey was not simply a means of maximising tax but a far more ambitious and intricate exercise in governmental control - akin to an 11th-century form of big data processing. Professor Stephen Baxter (University of Oxford), Professor Julia Crick (King’s College London), and

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OnePlus launches five new products, including Buds 4 and smaller Watch 3 for the US

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2026-02-05 06:03:39

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. OnePlus has launched five new products today, including the midrange Nord 5 phone and a smaller version of its Watch 3 wearable. The 43mm version of the Watch 3 and the new Buds 4 earbuds are the only new products launching in the US, with the others going on sale in Europe and India. The Watch 3 43mm is exactly what it sounds like: a more compact version of the existing One

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This Weird Pyramid Always Lands on the Same Face, Confirming 40-Year-Old Theory

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-02-07 17:00:57

“Bille” is the first-ever monostable tetrahedron, or a pyramid-like shape with four triangular faces that has one stable resting position. What this means is that Bille, no matter how you throw it and how it lands, will flip back on exactly the same side every single time. In a recent preprint submitted to arXiv, mathematicians revealed the first physical model of Bille, closing a decades-old theory proposed by the renowned British mathematician John Conway. Made of lightweight carbon fiber and

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What Is a Heat Dome? All About the Weather Phenomenon Making Things Hotter

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-07 17:03:03

It's been a hot summer already. As much as the heat in upstate New York has me cooped up inside with the air conditioner blasting, it's nothing compared to other parts of the US being impacted by one of the summer's freakiest weather patterns: the heat dome. If that's a new phrase to you, keep reading and I'll break down what a heat dome is and what causes it, and for more help, read CNET's list of hacks for keeping your home cool in the summer. What's a heat dome? Think of a heat dome as sim

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What should a native DOM templating API look like?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 06:40:57

If you read my previous post, The time is right for a DOM templating API, you might be wondering what such an API would look like. Let's dive into that question now. What are we building? First, let's clarify what we're trying to design here, because when people hear the abstract template API idea described, before there's a concrete proposal or examples, they can sometimes think of very different things. In webcomponents/1069 I propose that we add a "declarative JavaScript templating API"

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