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A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 15:11:48

Left: Gigantic Jet Event from the International Space Station, taken by NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers. (Credit: Ayers) Right: Sprite event appearing over a lightning strike, seen from space. This photo was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 44. Credit: NASA astronauts on board Expedition 44 Did you see that gorgeous photo NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took on July 3, 2025? Originally thought to be a sprite, Ayers confirmed catching an even rarer form of a

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Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 21:13:06

Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own. The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it dozens of times on the same page. Markdown in a plain <textarea> was the best alternative to a full WYSIWYG, but its main drawback is how ugly it looks without any formatting. I can handle it, but my clients certainly can'

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‘Superman’ and ‘Star Wars’ Actor Terence Stamp Dies at Age 87

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-18 02:45:51

English actor Terence Stamp, seen across a variety of film and TV over the decades, has passed away at 87 years old. In a statement to Reuters, the actor’s family revealed he passed on Sunday morning. Born July 22, 1938, he made his film debut with the 1962 adaptation of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd as the title character. The role earned him an Academy Award nomination and recognition that allowed him to star in films like 1965’s The Collector and 1967’s Poor Cow. Genre-wise, Terence Stamp fa

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Deal: Save a whopping $800 on the Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 05:05:16

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Ampace Andes 1500 Portable Power Station has become my go-to battery solution for most of my needs. Mainly because it is both portable and powerful enough to run all my electronics. Needless to say, I would recommend it, especially at today’s heavily discounted price. You can get it at a massive $800 discount, bringing the price down to a very amicable $599. Buy the Ampace Andes 1500 Portable Power Station for just $599 ($800 off) This offer is available

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dbrand’s Joy-Con grip nightmare is coming to an end as it starts shipping replacements

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 10:16:50

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority TL;DR Accessory maker dbrand has officially started shipping its Joy-Lock Grips. The replacement grips are designed so that Joy-Cons won’t detach from the Switch 2, even when 87% of the console’s weight is put on the magnetic hinge. The replacement kit also includes a set of Dock Adapter Friction Pads. Accessory maker dbrand is well-known for its high-quality products. However, the company recently found itself embroiled in controversy shortly after releasing

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SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-18 10:20:24

SpaceX is continuing with final preparations for the 10th full-scale test flight of the company's enormous Starship rocket after receiving launch approval Friday from the Federal Aviation Administration. Engineers completed a final test of Starship's propulsion system with a so-called "spin prime" test Wednesday at the launch site in South Texas. Ground crews then rolled the ship back to a nearby hangar for engine inspections, touchups to its heat shield, and a handful of other chores to ready

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SpaceX Has Likely Skirted Federal Income Taxes for Decades, Investigation Reveals

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-18 15:25:29

Since its founding in 2002, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has emerged as the leading force in commercial spaceflight and a key launch provider for the U.S. government. A recent investigation suggests its dominance may stem—at least in part—from two decades of federal tax avoidance. Internal company documents reviewed exclusively by The New York Times show that SpaceX can exploit net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards, a U.S. tax provision that lets companies use past losses to offset future taxable income

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Trump wants to clean up the space industry’s red tape: Here’s who wins

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-18 20:09:09

During a press conference in late 2024, President Donald Trump vowed to “slash massive numbers of job-killing regulations” in his second term and pledged to eliminate 10 old rules for every new one. Now, he’s bringing that deregulation drive to commercial space, ordering federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spaceport development, and clear out the Federal Aviation Administration’s industry advisory board. “Inefficient permitting processes discourage investment and innova

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Death and What Comes Next (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 16:01:01

The L-Space Web Death and What Comes Next A Discworld short story By Terry Pratchett Copyright © Terry Pratchett 2002 When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead." There was a sigh from Death. Oh dear, one of those, he thought. This is going to be about quantum again. He hated dealing with philosophers. They always tried to wriggle out of it. "You see," said the philosopher, while Death, motionless, watched

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Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma

news.ycombinator.com Brad W. Setser 2025-11-20 11:08:42

Sometimes a news story makes your case for you. That happened this past week, when the Wall Street Journal published a remarkable story on surging U.S. imports of peptides and protein-based hormones from Ireland. Chelsey Dulaney and Jared Hopkins wrote: “Planes have been jetting from Ireland to the U.S. this year carrying something more valuable than gold: $36 billion worth of hormones for popular obesity and diabetes drugs … The peptide- and protein-based hormones feed into a category of drug

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Trump Rips Up Environmental Rules Protecting Wildlife From Destructive Rocket Launches

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-20 15:48:14

Their friendship may be over, but president Donald Trump just handed Elon Musk and his company SpaceX a major boon by brushing aside major environmental regulations. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order to accelerate space launches by effectively deregulating the industry. As part of this push, the Federal Aviation Administration is directed to "eliminate or expedite" environmental reviews — an obstacle that has been a persistent thorn in Musk's side. Covering all its bases, the order

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Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-21 05:32:02

Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million. Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should priori

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Private Spaceflight Enters the Wild West as Trump Slashes Regulations

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-21 15:15:17

President Donald Trump is calling for an ease of regulations for commercial spaceflight and streamlining licensing for rocket launches and reentries. The move highly favors companies like SpaceX but could have negative repercussions on environmental habitats surrounding launchpads. On Wednesday, August 13, Trump signed an executive order intended to bolster the spaceflight industry and increase the overall commercial launch cadence. In it, Trump calls on Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who

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‘Peacemaker’ Season 2’s Red Band Trailer Is Ready to Drop Bombs

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-22 00:45:48

Call it a crisis of superhero faith in himself; DC Studios’ Peacemaker (John Cena) is back with a big bombshell of a secret. And no, it’s not that there’s a new theme song or dance—we already knew that. It turns out another pocket dimension really does exist, and it happens to be located in Peacemaker’s daddy’s room. When this piece of information gets out, none other than Rick Flagg Sr. (Frank Grillo) uses it as an excuse to finally exact revenge on the man who killed his son—no matter how muc

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Ice discs slingshot across a metal surface all on their own

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-22 05:44:44

Scientists have figured out how to make frozen discs of ice self-propel across a patterned metal surface, according to a new paper published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. It's the latest breakthrough to come out of the Virginia Tech lab of mechanical engineer Jonathan Boreyko. A few years ago, Boreyko's lab experimentally demonstrated a three-phase Leidenfrost effect in water vapor, liquid water, and ice. The Leidenfrost effect is what happens when you dash a few drops of

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AWS launches AI agent marketplace with a hackathon and $100k in prizes for developers

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-22 10:00:13

Kmatta ZDNET's key takeaways The new agents marketplace will launch in beta next month. The companies will also launch an educational hub for IT clients. Developers could win a chunk of $100,000 for building agents. As is often the case with hyped-up new technologies, interest in AI agents among business leaders is soaring -- some CFOs report committing 25% of their AI budgets to them. However, practical understanding of how to implement and use them effectively remains somewhat fuzzy. A ne

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Reported plans for Apple’s tabletop robot seem both excellent and awful

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-23 06:22:18

Yesterday’s Bloomberg report on Apple’s upcoming tabletop robot didn’t reveal anything new about the hardware, but plans to give it a personality could represent a huge gamble. The starting point seems both uncontroversial and a great idea – basing the UI on the friendly Finder icon that we’ve known and loved since the welcome screen of the original Macintosh back in 1984 … A Finder-based animated face While Mark Gurman said Memoji-styles alternatives are being considered, animating the Finde

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What I look for in typeface licenses

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 03:11:51

Typeface licenses Process Journal I can’t remember the last time I undertook a design project where we didn’t use a commercial typeface. I often recommend these to clients because: The world of commercial typefaces is broad and it opens up a range of high-quality options for a project Using a commercial typeface is an easy way to level-up a design (though it won’t fix a bad design) Supporting independent foundries is important There’s no judgement on open source typefaces – I’m often pairi

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The Grimmest Ensign Deaths on ‘Star Trek’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-23 10:00:15

Lots of people die in Star Trek, and do so pretty horrifically. Boldly going is deadly business, but there’s always something particularly grim when tragedy strikes at the lowest rung on Starfleet’s officer ladder: the lowly ensigns that keep any good starship or space station humming along as they try to survive long enough to eke it out to lieutenant junior grade and beyond. In last week’s episode of Strange New Worlds, we got to sadly see poor Ensign Gamble pay the ultimate price in a particu

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Starlink Rival Announces Plans to Take on Musk With a $1.5 Billion Satellite Push

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-23 20:25:05

Texas startup AST SpaceMobile announced its plan to launch 45 to 60 satellites by 2026, establishing itself as a worthy competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation in building space-based broadband networks. The company announced its second-quarter earnings on Monday, revealing that it had $1.5 billion on its balance sheet to fund the deployment of dozens of its satellites, CNBC reported. The next day, AST SpaceMobile’s shares soared by more than 10% with the prospect of the company providing

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Microplastics are everywhere — including in the air around plastic treaty negotiations

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-11-24 00:11:38

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Thousands of delegates have descended upon Geneva this week for what’s supposed to be the culmination of years of negotiations that, if successful, are supposed to end in a groundbreaking

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Mesmerizing Hypnoloid, a Kinetic Desktop Sculpture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 20:20:00

This Hypnoloid object is sort of the opposite of a spinning top. Whereas a top contacts the surface it's balancing on only at its point, the Hypnoloid contacts the surface with every square millimeter of its surface area. The shape is called an oloid, and it's a bit difficult to understand. The 20th-century German sculptor, inventor and mathematician Paul Schatz, who discovered it, describes it thusly: "If the distance of two centers of disk is equal to the radius, then the convex hull produce

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After first operational launch, here’s the next big test for ULA’s Vulcan rocket

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-24 15:45:16

United Launch Alliance delivered multiple US military satellites into a high-altitude orbit after a prime-time launch Tuesday night, marking an important transition from development to operations for the company's new Vulcan rocket. This mission, officially designated USSF-106 by the US Space Force, was the first flight of ULA's Vulcan rocket to carry national security payloads. Two test flights of the Vulcan rocket last year gave military officials enough confidence to certify it for launching

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SailGP RaceScape XR brings high-speed sailing to your living room

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-25 10:05:02

I can’t say that I have ever paid much attention to competitive sailing. But if I owned an Apple Vision Pro, I would absolutely start following each SailGP race, with the new SailGP RaceScape XR app out today. Here’s what using it looks like. SailGP is a racing league in which 12 F50 foiling catamarans tear down a water track at more than 60 mph. To reduce drag and optimize maneuverability, they use hydrofoils that basically lift them above the water, making for even more interesting sights dur

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Faster NextGen Acela Trains Are Coming to the U.S. at the Worst Time

gizmodo.com David Alff 2025-11-25 10:55:33

When former President Joe Biden unveiled his US$1.9 trillion infrastructure plan in 2021, he found the perfect place to go public: Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station rail yard. Over the din of crackling wires and grumbling engines, the president made his case for revitalizing the country’s roads, ports, airports and rail lines. Behind Biden sat rows of gleaming Amtrak trains. Among them was a prototype of NextGen Acela, a sleek machine engineered to deliver the fastest passenger service in Ame

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Google Photos is testing two time-saving changes to sorting and album sharing (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-25 15:21:36

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos may be changing how you group your photos together based on a person’s face. Google is testing new ways to edit or remove the phone owner’s face in the Photos app. These changes are aimed at reducing the number of taps required to update your face or change the name linked to your photos. Google Photos does an excellent job of grouping photos of the same person, and even pets, based on their faces. Besides clubbing pictures of other peo

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Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-26 20:10:45

After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into space. An experimental military navigation satellite, also more than 10 years in the making, will ride ULA's Vulcan rocket into geosynchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator. There are additional payloads buttoned up inside the Vulcan rocket's nose cone, but of

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Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 12:48:24

Once the basics were done, the real game of Tetris began: First up, just like the conferencing capabilities, we segmented the work modes into 4 distinct groups. It was clear that the space was simply not large enough to support dedicated areas, so we took the equipment and requirements list, and started playing with shelf numbers and their height and made sure that each item is in its best possible ergonomic position. The by far largest amount of devices by volume and space were the musical in

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ULA’s Vulcan Rocket to Launch Mystery Payload on Debut Space Force Mission

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-27 15:25:10

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is gearing up for a long-awaited comeback, returning to secretive payload lifts for the National Security Space Launch program with its heavy-lift Vulcan Centaur rocket. ULA’s Vulcan is set to launch on Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during an hour-long launch window that opens at 7:59 p.m. ET, marking the vehicle’s first flight for the U.S. Space Force’s national security program. It took years of development for the rocket to reach this stage, and

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The ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook's content policy (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Alan Macleod 2025-11-27 20:07:34

It is an uncomfortable job for anyone trying to draw the line between “harmful content and protecting freedom of speech. It’s a balance”, Aaron says. In this official Facebook video, Aaron identifies himself as the manager of “the team that writes the rules for Facebook”, determining “what is acceptable and what is not.” Thus, he and his team effectively decide what content the platform’s 2.9 billion active users see and what they don’t see. Aaron is being interviewed in a bright warehouse-turn

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A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut

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