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Astronomer Says the Object Approaching Us From Beyond the Solar System Is Not What We Think

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-18 22:23:20

Earlier this month, astronomers were thrilled to spot an interstellar object — only the third of its kind ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system on an extremely unusual trajectory and at a breakneck velocity. While we're only beginning to understand the unusual object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the discovery led to widespread speculation, with some scientists suggesting that it may be almost as old as the Milky Way galaxy itself, and billions of years older than our own Sun. Uns

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Voxtral – Frontier open source speech understanding models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 04:47:02

Voice: the original UI. Voice was humanity’s first interface—long before writing or typing, it let us share ideas, coordinate work, and build relationships. As digital systems become more capable, voice is returning as our most natural form of human-computer interaction. Yet today’s systems remain limited—unreliable, proprietary, and too brittle for real-world use. Closing this gap demands tools with exceptional transcription, deep understanding, multilingual fluency, and open, flexible deploy

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Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

news.ycombinator.com Maurits Van Hassel 2026-01-20 23:02:51

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Everything We Know About the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

wired.com Shigeyuki Hando 2026-01-25 12:00:00

On July 2, NASA revealed the existence of 3I/ATLAS, only the third ever interstellar object observed in the universe. These are objects that exist in interstellar space—the areas between stars—and which are not gravitationally bound to any star. The two other interstellar objects discovered to date are the comets 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov. 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, when its existence was reported by a telescope at Rio Hurtado in Chile, operated by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Aler

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An Interstellar Comet Is Here, and Its Age Is Mind-Bending

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-27 14:00:26

This article was updated at 9:00 a.m. ET on Friday, July 11, to include new information. After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some well-deserved time off. It would appear the universe had other plans for him. The very next day, the Atlas Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, detected a mysterious object whizzing toward the Sun. Early observations suggested that it came from o

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The Interstellar Visitor Hurtling Toward the Center of Our Star System Is Unimaginably Ancient, Scientists Say

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-28 18:10:23

Astronomers recently confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, came from interstellar space and is now blowing through the solar system at extremely high speeds. It's only the third confirmed interstellar object to have reached our star system, following 'Oumuamua, which was spotted in 2018, and a comet dubbed 2I/Borisov, which was identified in tk. Now, scientists are racing to better understand 3I/ATLAS and whether it can shed more light on the nature of interstellar objects like

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Amazon strikes AI licensing deal with Hearst and Condé Nast

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-30 09:48:49

Digiday is reporting that media conglomerates Hearst and Condé Nast have signed multi-year licensing agreements with Amazon to allow its AI shopping assistant Rufus access to the vast library of content held by the two companies. Between Hearst and Condé Nast, Rufus will have access to Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vogue and The New Yorker, just to name a few. A Hearst spokesperson confirmed to Digiday that the licensing deal with Amazon will allow Rufus broad access to its newspapers and magazines. The pu

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The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-27 18:49:31

Our atmosphere is like one big electrical circuit: Thunderstorms are the batteries that charge it up, and lightning is the current flowing through it. On the ground we see evidence of this circuit when lightning cracks and strikes the ground, or when it lights up deep inside a thundercloud, but high above the clouds lies a secret electrical zoo full of sprites, elves, and jets. These fantastical terms refer to light displays called transient luminous events or TLEs that occur in Earth’s upper a

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A Third Interstellar Visitor Is Here, and Astronomers Might Know Where It Came From

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-31 23:17:26

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some well-deserved time off. It would appear the universe had other plans for him. The very next day, the Atlas Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, detected a mysterious object whizzing toward the Sun. Early observations suggested that it came from outside our solar system, potentially marking the third discovery of an interstellar object

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F1 in Britain: Terrible English summer weather equals entertaining race

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-07 09:04:56

The heat dome that has been oppressing much of Europe seems to have largely ignored the British Isles. Not a drop of rain marred the 24 hour races at Le Mans, the Nürburgring, or Spa-Francorchamps, held unusually over consecutive weekends this June. Similarly, last weekend's Austrian Grand Prix took place under scorching skies that were baking the Tyrolean mountains. No such luck for the vast crowds at Silverstone attending the British Grand Prix this past weekend, who definitely needed their wa

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Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Solar System Is Coming From the Center of the Galaxy

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-07 21:45:03

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from interstellar space. Yesterday, the intriguing stranger was named A11pl3Z. Now, it's earned the esteemed designation 3I/ATLAS — that "I" standing for "interstellar." 3I/ATLAS is currently located between the orbits of the asteroid belt and Jupiter, the New York Times reports, where it's about 416 million miles away from the Sun, NASA said. That's equal to four and a half times the

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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

news.ycombinator.com Posted June 2026-02-09 10:32:10

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel The history of the bcachefs filesystem in the kernel has been turbulent, most recently with Linus Torvalds refusing a pull request for the 6.16-rc3 release. Torvalds has now pulled the code in question, but also said: I think we'll be parting ways in the 6.17 merge window. You made it very clear that I can't even question any bug-fixes and I should just pull anything and everything. Honestly, at that point, I don't really feel comfortable being involved

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Confirmed: A Rare Interstellar Object Is Passing Through Our Solar System

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-02-12 23:30:39

Update: July 3, 09:24 a.m. ET: On Wednesday, July 2, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center confirmed that an interstellar object is traveling through our solar system. Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the object appears to be a comet hurtling toward the Sun. Original article follows. Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system. Preliminary observations suggest it came from interstellar space, and if confirme

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Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

news.ycombinator.com Pedro Tavares 2026-02-10 17:43:57

For years, I’ve felt that writing lines of code was never the bottleneck in software engineering. The actual bottlenecks were, and still are, code reviews, knowledge transfer through mentoring and pairing, testing, debugging, and the human overhead of coordination and communication. All of this wrapped inside the labyrinth of tickets, planning meetings, and agile rituals. These processes, meant to drive quality, often slow us down more than the act of writing code itself because they require t

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Large Object From Interstellar Space Detected Heading Toward Center of Solar System

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-14 22:37:47

A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual trajectory. If its interstellar origins were to be confirmed, it'd only be the third of its kind spotted in the solar system in history. An oblong interstellar object, dubbed 'Oumuamua, was first discovered in 2017, while comet 2I/Borisov was detected in 2019. The latest addition, provisionally named A11pl3Z, has a highly unusual trajectory, leading astronomers to believe it may have also origina

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Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience

news.ycombinator.com Paul Gilster 2026-02-28 12:35:56

Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience This morning’s post grows out of listening to John Coltrane’s album Sun Ship earlier in the week. If you’re new to jazz, Sun Ship is not where you want to begin, as Coltrane was already veering in a deeply avant garde direction when he recorded it in 1965. But over the years it has held a fascination for me. Critic Edward Mendelowitz called it “a riveting glimpse of a band traveling at warp speed, alternating shards of chaos and beauty, the white h

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What to read this weekend: Vampires and more vampires

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-18 15:15:17

I was pretty late in getting to this one, as it's been on my list for a good while now, but I really can't think of a better time to have finally picked up this retelling of the original sapphic vampire story, Carmilla, than during Pride Month. And what a treat it is. Hungerstone is a gothic novel that follows Lenore, a woman who has been uprooted from London and moved to the British moorlands by her husband, Henry, to fulfill his career ambitions. Henry is… not the best, and Lenore could defini

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Latest Tech News

Astronomer Says the Object Approaching Us From Beyond the Solar System Is Not What We Think

Voxtral – Frontier open source speech understanding models

Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

Everything We Know About the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

An Interstellar Comet Is Here, and Its Age Is Mind-Bending

The Interstellar Visitor Hurtling Toward the Center of Our Star System Is Unimaginably Ancient, Scientists Say

Amazon strikes AI licensing deal with Hearst and Condé Nast

The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth

A Third Interstellar Visitor Is Here, and Astronomers Might Know Where It Came From

F1 in Britain: Terrible English summer weather equals entertaining race

Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Solar System Is Coming From the Center of the Galaxy

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

Confirmed: A Rare Interstellar Object Is Passing Through Our Solar System

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

Large Object From Interstellar Space Detected Heading Toward Center of Solar System

Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience

What to read this weekend: Vampires and more vampires

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