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New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation

news.ycombinator.com Author.Fullname 2025-08-04 21:12:09

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the galaxy – a technique that could be useful for interstellar missions Artist’s illustration of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in the outer solar system Joe Olmsted/STScI As it hurtles out of our solar system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is so far from Earth that the stars in the Milky Way appear in markedly different positions compared with our own view. Astronomers have

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Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-05 12:31:24

Hi, I’m Julien, co-founder of Plakar. Before we built this, I spent years as an engineer and later as a manager of infra teams. We handled backups, compliance, and recovery. In every place, startups, big companies, regulated sectors, I saw the same routine: tar -czf archive.tgz /some/folder We all love that command. But in 2025, it can cause trouble. What’s changed since .tgz was invented Back when tar came out in 1979 or even gzip came out in 1994, things were simple: Data was small, jus

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LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-08-07 07:24:15

LangChain, an AI infrastructure startup providing tools to build and monitor LLM-powered applications, is raising a new round of funding at an approximate $1 billion valuation led by IVP, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. LangChain began its life in late 2022 as an open-source project founded by Harrison Chase, who was then an engineer at machine learning startup Robust Intelligence. After generating significant developer interest, Chase transformed the project into a start

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Rivian spinoff Also raises another $200M to build e-bikes and more

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-08-07 07:51:52

In Brief Also Inc., the micromobility startup spun out of Rivian earlier this year, has raised $200 million from Greenoaks Capital, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. The funding round brings Also’s post-money valuation to $1 billion. The startup raised $105 million from Eclipse Ventures earlier this year when it was cleaved from Rivian. Also started as a skunkworks team inside Rivian in 2022 known as Project Inder, as TechCrunch previously reported. The team started working on an

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The Sounds of a Dying Glacier Might Make You Cry

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-07 11:25:23

From trippy mushroom synths to the stressed-out "pops" of thirsty plants, recording the music of nature has long resulted in soundscapes both fascinating and moving. A new recording of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps, however, goes over the line right into devastation. Recorded by French sound artist Ludwig Berger at the rapidly-retreating Morteratsch glacier in the upper part of the Swiss Alps, the "Crying Glacier" project is exactly what the name suggests: the documentation of an ancient

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A Fast-Rising Gaming YouTuber Is an AI Construct, Not a Human

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-07 14:44:49

With 2.57 million subscribers and more than 800 million views, a YouTuber named Bloo is swiftly becoming one of the biggest gaming personalities in the biz. But unlike his human peers, this blue-haired vlogger is a cartoonish AI-powered avatar — perhaps the clearest sign yet of AI's deep and industry-shaking inroads into the world of entertainment and influencers. In an interview with CNBC, Bloo's creator, Dutch YouTuber and AI enthusiast Jordi van den Bussche, said that he decided to unleash

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The military might finally win the right to repair

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-08 03:35:41

Senators Tim Sheehy and Elizabeth Warren have introduced a bipartisan bill to enshrine a right to repair for military equipment. The legislation, called the “Warrior Right to Repair Act,” would codify the right-to-repair provisions that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put in place through the Army Transformation and Acquisition Reform memorandum from April 30. The Department of Defense has not been immune from restrictive practices set forth by manufacturers, and much like the average consumer,

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You May Want to Buy a Nintendo Switch 2 Before Tariffs Drive Up the Price

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-08-08 03:41:34

Nintendo’s Switch 2 may have avoided a tariff-related disaster at launch, but today is a new day full of fresh economic horrors, and that means (unfortunately for everyone) potentially new and more draconian U.S. tariffs. In letters to 14 countries sent on Tuesday, President Donald Trump threatened to drastically hike tariffs by as much as 40% by the end of the month, which, for the record, marks a several-week extension of prior tariffs that were set to take effect on July 9. Among those countr

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Trump's Biggest Tariff Deadline Lifts Soon: These 13 Companies Have Already Hiked Prices

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-08 11:30:00

Higher prices for a lot of popular products seem inevitable on our current trajectory. James Martin/CNET In many cases and for many products in the US, the biggest impacts of President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff plans haven't hit yet -- but that could be about to change as the 90-day pause on the "reciprocal" tariffs is set to end this week. However things shake out, numerous companies have already hiked prices or said that they'll increase in the near-future -- including, most recently,

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Thank you to the visionaries: Celebrating the partners behind TechCrunch All Stage

techcrunch.com Cindy Zackney 2025-08-08 11:30:00

At TechCrunch All Stage, we’re excited to showcase the partners who help shape the conversation around innovation and entrepreneurship. Their involvement goes beyond sponsorship — they bring real-world insights that reflect the pulse of today’s startup landscape. From fresh ideas to practical strategies, these partners are driving the energy and inspiration that fuel the event both onstage and beyond. Don’t miss the exhibit tables from our TC All Stage partners on July 15: A big thank-you to o

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Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-08 23:00:49

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder. Open clusters of stars—which consist of dozens up to a few thousand stars—are an interesting tool for astronomers to study the Universe. T

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Macs and Apple Watch to be hit by Trump tariffs starting on August 1

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-09 08:15:03

Macs and Apple Watches are among the products to be hit by new tariffs on products manufactured in Thailand, taking effect on August 1. Products imported from Thailand into the US will be subjected to a 36% tariff, increasing the cost to Apple by more than a third … Apple’s long-term plan to reduce its dependence on China has seen the company encourage its suppliers to set up production lines in a number of other countries, including Thailand. The Apple Watch was the first product to be made

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BharatMLStack – Realtime Inference, MLOps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-06 06:25:50

BharatMLStack What is BharatMLStack? BharatMLStack is a comprehensive, production-ready machine learning infrastructure platform designed to democratize ML capabilities across India and beyond. Our mission is to provide a robust, scalable, and accessible ML stack that empowers organizations to build, deploy, and manage machine learning solutions at massive scale. Our Vision 🎯 Democratize Machine Learning: Make advanced ML infrastructure accessible to organizations of all sizes 🚀 Scale Withou

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Prime Day and LEGO Star Wars 25th Anniversary Come Together at All-Time Low on the Imperial Star Destroyer

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-08-09 08:45:24

Prime Day is most definitely a cause for celebration, but who says you can’t combine big events and also continue the yearlong 25th anniversary celebration of LEGO Star Wars? These two events are coming together for a great deal that takes 30% off the price of the LEGO Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer, a truly impressive 1,555-piece kit that comes with 7 minifigures, including a special 25th anniversary Cal Kestis. See at Amazon Designed for LEGO and Star Wars fans 10 and up, this imposing pi

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Prime Day 2025: The Deals Are Here, but Beware of Looming Tariffs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-09 14:30:00

James Martin/CNET Amazon Prime Day, the mega retailer's summer shopping event, is here -- doubling in size from two to four days, Tuesday through Friday. Exclusive to Prime members, it offers some of the best Amazon deals of the year, but looming price hikes due to tariffs could leave you wondering how much of a savings you can expect. President Donald Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" have plenty of us feeling antsy about prices. According to a recent CNET survey, 64% of shoppers said they've boug

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Amazon Is Crushing LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 Stock for Prime Day, Now Selling for Peanuts Until Sold Out

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-09 19:35:35

Prime Day is always a stellar day for LEGO fans and this year is no exception – especially for Star Wars fans, the largest LEGO theme of all time. One of the top deals is the LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 set which has a massive 4.9 out of 5 rating on Amazon. Even better yet, this deal isn’t limited to Prime members, so it’s open to everyone who wants to add this iconic droid to their collection. The R2-D2 LEGO set is currently selling for $79, which is a decrease from its normal price of $99 and an all

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The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-06 14:04:41

But honey is an unusual case, and here is why. It's made by honeybees from flower nectar, and starts out as a warmish, watery, sugary fluid, the kind of thing that seems like it would be the purest bacteria bait. The bees concentrate the nectar on the way to the hive, removing some of the water, use enzymes to raise the acid content in the fluid discouraging some forms of microorganisms from growing, and break down the sugars into simpler ones, then decant the stuff into honeycomb chambers.

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Trump’s next tariffs will target South Korea and Japan

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-10 03:07:21

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. President Donald Trump plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on goods imported from South Korea and Japan. The levy will go into effect on August 1st, which is when the Trump administration will begin enforcing sweeping tariffs on a wider swath of countries that fail to reach a trade agreement with the US. The US was set to begin imposing its “Libera

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Starlink’s In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Faster Than Its Home Internet Speeds: Here’s Why

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-10 06:00:00

Starlink is nearly twice as fast as any other in-flight Wi-Fi option, according to the latest report by the speed test site Ookla. (Disclaimer: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) The satellite internet company from SpaceX clocked median download speeds of 152 megabits per second and upload speeds of 24Mbps. That means that Starlink’s speeds in the air are faster than some internet providers on the ground. Those download and upload speeds were nearly twice as fast a

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AI is forcing the data industry to consolidate — but that’s not the whole story

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-08-10 19:00:00

The data industry is on the verge of a drastic transformation. The market is consolidating. And if the deal flow in the past two months is any indicator — with Databricks buying Neon for $1 billion and Salesforce snapping up cloud management firm Informatica for $8 billion — momentum is building for more. The acquired companies may range in size, age, and focus area within the data stack, but they all have one thing in common. These companies are being bought in hopes the acquired technology w

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If You Love LEGO, the Star Wars Millennium Falcon Is at a Record Low Price for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-10 23:25:12

LEGO sets have become a true phenomenon during events like Prime Day and Black Friday, mainly because these sales are often the only times you’ll see real discounts on the most popular models. This year, Amazon is offering record low prices on LEGO’s two biggest franchises: Star Wars and Harry Potter. Among the top sellers, the LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon A New Hope 25th Anniversary model is one of the most demanded sets. It’s inexpensive, enjoyable to construct, readily recognizable and a

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Get two months of Paramount+ Essential or Premium for only $2

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-11 16:00:35

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . This is just in time for the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It's hot out there, so this might be the perfect time to stay in and binge some TV. Paramount+ is offering one heck of a deal right now for budding couch potatoes, with two months available for just $2. That bre

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Portability of Tar Features

news.ycombinator.com Michał Górny 2025-08-08 02:43:40

Please note that this article is focused merely on read-wise format compatibility. In other words, it establishes how tar files should be written in order to achieve best probability that it will be read correctly afterwards. It does not investigate what formats the listed tools can write and whether they can correctly create archives using specific features. This naturally raised more questions on how portable various tar formats actually are. To verify that, I have decided to analyze the stan

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Playdate Season 2 review: Taria & Como and Black Hole Havoc

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-11 12:00:42

We've officially made it to the end of Playdate Season Two, and what a season it's been. Despite having half the number of titles as Season One, this latest round of weekly game releases has made a much stronger impression (on me, at least). If nothing else, it's just been cool to experience the new games in real time with other Playdate owners all at once, which the staggered rollout of the console didn't really allow for with the first season. In an email ahead of the final release, the team a

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Deltarune is halfway done, but it feels like a full game

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-11 05:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. It’s been an agonizing wait for more Deltarune. The first chapter of the episodic, parallel story to Toby Fox’s acclaimed RPG Undertale came out nearly seven years ago. But the newly released third and fourth chapters are so good that I highly recommend playing everything that’s available right now — even if there are still three more episodes to go. In Deltarune, you play as

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Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley can't stop hiring?

news.ycombinator.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-11 10:58:40

In the last week, social media users have shared dozens of stories about encounters with Soham Parekh, a software engineer who seems to have been simultaneously working at multiple Silicon Valley startups — unbeknownst to the companies — for the last several years. But who is Parekh, how did he pull off his career as a serial moonlighter, and why can’t Silicon Valley get enough of him? Origins of virality The saga all started when Suhail Doshi — CEO of image generation startup Playground AI —

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11 Great Horror Movies to Watch on Prime Video This Weekend

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-11 11:00:05

Want to see what petrifying picks await on Prime Video? Horror lovers can watch classic films like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and newer flicks like the gothic horror tale Nosferatu. Ads are now a part of the streaming service but if you'd prefer to watch your spooky content without commercial interruptions, you can pay an additional fee to remove them. Here are some highly rated horror films to satisfy your cravings. Dim the lights, grab the popcorn and enjoy your creepy feature. Focus Featu

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Astronomers Capture First-Ever Image of Star That Exploded Twice

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-12 18:30:48

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but they've never seen visual evidence of this happening. That just changed. Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have taken the first-ever image of a star that died in a stellar "double-detonation," leaving behind a spectacular supernova remnant. Their findings, published as a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, deepen our understanding of the stellar evolu

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Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 10:28:34

Soham Parekh is all the rage on Twitter right now with a bunch of startups coming out of the woodwork saying they either had currently employed him or had in the past. Serious question: why aren't so many startups hiring processes filtering out a candidate who is scamming/working multiple jobs?

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Tariff Impacts Are Real: These 13 Companies Have Confirmed Price Hikes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-13 14:00:00

Higher prices for a lot of popular products seem inevitable on our current trajectory. James Martin/CNET In many cases and for many products in the US, the biggest impacts of President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff plans haven't hit yet -- but they could soon, unless the 90-day pause on some rates is extended. Still, numerous companies have already hiked prices or said that they'll increase in the near-future -- including, most recently, a popular and CNET-approved brand of smart lights. Th

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New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation

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LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

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The military might finally win the right to repair

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Prime Day and LEGO Star Wars 25th Anniversary Come Together at All-Time Low on the Imperial Star Destroyer

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Amazon Is Crushing LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 Stock for Prime Day, Now Selling for Peanuts Until Sold Out

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Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley can't stop hiring?

11 Great Horror Movies to Watch on Prime Video This Weekend

Astronomers Capture First-Ever Image of Star That Exploded Twice

Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

Tariff Impacts Are Real: These 13 Companies Have Confirmed Price Hikes

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