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Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-20 09:24:15

TL;DR - if you are not interested in an in-depth overview of what was wrong with the game and how it was fixed, just follow the link to check out a concise changelog and grab SilentPatch for Far Cry: Download SilentPatch for Far Cry Upon downloading, all you need to do is to extract the archive to game’s directory and that’s it! Overview Far Cry (developed by Crytek) once a game considered an example of visual fidelity and de facto a benchmark of then-modern PCs, turns out not to be free of

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Someone paid $5.3 million for a piece of Mars

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-21 13:15:02

Add this to the list of "things that might be fun if you had a buttload of money": Someone forked over $5.3 million in a Sotheby's auction to own a piece of Mars. The Red Planet meteorite was discovered in 2023 in a remote area of the Sahara Desert in Niger. Martian meteorites of any size are incredibly rare. To get here, an asteroid first hits the Red Planet to eject material from its surface. (Sotheby's says there are only 19 Martian craters large enough to have spit out this one.) That chunk

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Astronomers Discover Potential Dwarf Planet Lurking Way Beyond Pluto

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-07-23 17:20:44

Astronomers in Japan have spotted a distant object orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune, pointing to an extraordinary event that took place during the earliest years of the solar system. Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope, perched atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii, to make the discovery. They observed a small object orbiting at a farthest distance of 252 AU from the Sun, in which one astronomical unit equals the average distance between the Sun and Earth. Scientists gave it the formal designat

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Uranus Leaks More Heat Than We Thought

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-07-26 01:25:45

When Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft detected a surprisingly low level of internal heat from the planet. Since then, scientists believed Uranus to be the odd one out in our solar system’s family of giant planets—the others being Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune—who all tend to emit more heat than they absorb from sunlight. Now, a new study suggests that scientists may have had the wrong idea about Voyager 2’s data: Uranus does have an internal heat source similar to its planetary

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Trump Wants to Shut Down Several Perfectly Good Spacecraft Orbiting Mars for No Reason

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-31 00:28:32

The scientific community was appalled by the news that president Donald Trump's administration was looking to deal a devastating blow to NASA's science budget. In its 2026 budget request, released last month, the White House announced it was looking to more cut funding for NASA's science directorate by more than half, leading to overwhelming criticism from the scientific community, as well as from both Republican and Democrat lawmakers. The "skinny" budget calls to end operations of several sp

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Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 12:51:45

What Happened On January 5, 2024, a Boeing 737-9 airplane operated by Alaska Airlines as flight 1282 experienced an in-flight separation of the left mid exit door (MED) plug and rapid depressurization when climbing through about 14,830 ft after takeoff from Portland International Airport (PDX), Portland, Oregon. One flight attendant and 7 passengers received minor injuries; the captain, the first officer, 3 flight attendants, and 164 passengers were uninjured; and the airplane sustained subst

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Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-08-01 14:58:59

D[avid] A[stor] very damping about the Dieppe raid, which he saw at more or less close quarters and which he says was an almost complete failure except for the very heavy destruction of German fighter planes, which was not part of the plan. He says that the affair was definitely misrepresented in the press [1] and is now being misrepresented in the reports to the P.M., and that the main facts were: – Something over 5000 men were engaged, of whom at least 2000 were killed or prisoners. It was not

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George Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-08-02 00:58:59

D[avid] A[stor] very damping about the Dieppe raid, which he saw at more or less close quarters and which he says was an almost complete failure except for the very heavy destruction of German fighter planes, which was not part of the plan. He says that the affair was definitely misrepresented in the press [1] and is now being misrepresented in the reports to the P.M., and that the main facts were: – Something over 5000 men were engaged, of whom at least 2000 were killed or prisoners. It was not

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Could a Paper Plane Thrown from the ISS Survive the Flight?

news.ycombinator.com Universe Today 2025-08-02 16:51:30

Sometimes there are profound questions in life that must be answered, like "What is the meaning of existence?", "Are we alone in the universe?" or "What happens if you throw a paper airplane from the International Space Station?" Luckily, that third one has finally been answered, because of course someone would eventually. A new paper from Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki from the University of Tokyo looks at "the dynamics of an origami space plane during Earth atmospheric reentry" – in ot

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A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory

wired.com Ritsuko Kawai 2025-08-05 18:00:00

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in both size and mass. TOI-6894, located far away from Earth, is one of them. Astronomers previously thought a star like this could not have large planets circulating it, because its mass is only about 20 percent of the sun, meaning its planetary system—generated from materials surrounding the star—would not have contained enough mass to form a giant body like Saturn or Jupiter. But when observi

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‘Death Wish’ Planet Actively Triggers Destructive Flares From Its Host Star

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-16 05:00:29

A young, energetic star has had just about enough of its clingy planet. The pair are mired in a toxic relationship, with the planet sending waves of energy toward the star—and the host star is responding with violent explosions that are destroying its planet over time. Using the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Cheops mission, a team of astronomers from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy gathered evidence for the first known exoplanet with an apparent death wish. In a paper published We

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PlanetScale for Postgres

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 03:08:29

Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres By Sam Lambert | July 1, 2025 Today we are announcing the private preview of PlanetScale for Postgres: the world’s fastest Postgres hosting platform. You can request access to PlanetScale for Postgres by visiting this link. We are already hosting customers' production workloads with incredible results. Convex, the complete backend solution for app developers, is migrating their reactive database infrastructure to PlanetScale for Postgres. Read more about t

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Benchmarking Postgres

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 09:31:02

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal, Vitess, horizontal sharding, or Enterprise options? Benchmarking Postgres By Benjamin Dicken | July 1, 2025 Today we launched PlanetScale for Postgres. For the past several months, we've been laser focused on building the best Postgres experience on the planet, performance included. To ensure we met our high standard for database performance, we needed a way to measure and compare other options with a standardized, repeatable, and fair method

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James Webb Discovers First-Ever Exoplanet by Taking a Picture of It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-21 05:45:33

Okay, that's pretty cool. World's First Scientists harnessing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope took what appears to be the first-ever direct picture of an exoplanet resulting in its discovery, in yet another accomplishment for the mighty space observatory. An international team of astronomers published a paper on the historic finding in the prestigious journal Nature. "If confirmed, this would represent Webb’s first direct image discovery of a planet," they wrote of the finding, "and the li

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Rubin Observatory’s Stunning Result Proves It’s a ‘Game Changer’ for Spotting Dangerous Asteroids

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-21 09:00:05

Astronomers usually keep their eyes on the sky, but on Monday, June 23, the community turned its attention toward Washington, D.C., as scientists from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveiled the telescope’s first images. Many have waited more than 20 years to see Rubin in action, and its initial findings did not disappoint. Rubin, a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, recently conducted its first 10 hours of test obser

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Webb telescope discovers and photographs its first exoplanet

techspot.com Shawn Knight 2025-08-24 21:53:00

What just happened? The James Webb space telescope has captured what is likely to be the first exoplanet discovered using the advanced observatory. An international team of astronomers uncovered the planet candidate in the debris field surrounding TWA 7, a low-mass star in the constellation Antlia that is located around 111 light-years away from Earth. They used Webb's mid-infrared instrument to suppress the overwhelming glare from the host star, revealing faint objects that would have been too

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NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of an exoplanet

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-27 05:23:48

NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of a planet outside of our solar system, which is the first time it has accomplished such a feat. This is a very big deal because exoplanets don't put out much light, so researchers typically discover new planets through indirect methods like keeping track of shadows as they pass across a host star. Webb, however, didn't have to do all that. It has directly captured images of a planet called TWA 7 b . Scientists believe the planet is

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Webb Telescope Just Did Something It’s Never Done Before—and Astronomers Are Thrilled

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-27 13:00:50

Since it began its science operations in July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has been probing the atmospheres of alien planets to study their potential for habitability. For the first time, however, Webb has discovered its own exoplanet, finding a young system hidden in a swirling cloud of dust and debris. Webb has captured a previously unseen exoplanet, the lightest planet imaged so far—an accomplishment made possible by the space-based telescope’s advanced capabilities. The recent disco

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What would happen if you tried to land on a gas giant?

news.ycombinator.com Rj Mackenzie 2025-09-01 20:37:59

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Email address Sign up Thank you! Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Our solar system contains three types of planets. Between the four terrestrial planets–Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars–and the distant ice giants of Neptune and Uranus, sit two gas giants: Saturn and Jupiter. These planets are mostly composed of hydrogen and helium gas. Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more c

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Something Big Is Twisting Mercury’s Crust

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-02 17:00:50

Mercury has it rough. Not only is it the smallest planet in the solar system, it’s also the closest to our Sun. This unfortunate position has caused Mercury to develop cracks and fractures across its surface, and generate stresses to its crust, a new study has found. Mercury is dry, rugged, and heavily cratered; the planet appears deformed with towering cliffs and ridges, as well as fracture lines that run along its surface. The origin of Mercury’s scars has long been a mystery: How did the pla

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A Closer Look At Uranus’s Moons Reveals a Surprising Dark Side

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-13 09:00:19

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have tectonic features or a patchwork of ridges and cliffs. Using the Hubble space telescope, scientists took a closer look at the surface of Uranus’s four largest moons and discovered something rather unexpected. For the study, a team of astronomers went searching for signs of interactions between Uranus’s magnetic field and its four largest moons: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Obero

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Scientists Reveal Easy Three-Step Plan to Terraform Mars

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-12 21:45:29

Terraforming, the act of radically transforming a planet's climate and environment to make it suitable for human habitation, currently belongs to the realm of science-fiction. But it's possible, at least in theory, and the idea of terraforming our nearest candidate planet for off-world colonization, Mars, has captivated us for generations. But how would we even begin to pull off such a monumental feat of engineering? You can basically boil it down to three simple steps, argue the authors of a r

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The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-13 17:40:16

Last year, a former quality manager at Boeing warned that the factory that made the 787 Dreamliner—one of the company’s newer models of airplane—was plagued by shoddy work practices and poor oversight. John Barnett, who had worked for the airplane manufacturer for many years before becoming one of its most outspoken critics, said that Boeing was building the planes with ‘sub-standard’ parts and that its mandate of speed and efficiency was endangering lives. Barnett, who refused to fly on the Dre

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If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 07:40:05

Sun Mercury Venus Earth You Are Here Moon Mars Jupiter Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune Pluto (we still love you) That was about 10 million km (6,213,710 mi) just now. Pretty empty out here. Here comes our first planet... As it turns out, things are pretty far apart. We’ll be coming up on a new planet soon. Sit tight. Most of space is just space. Halfway home. Destination: Mars! It would take about seven months to travel this di

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One Survivor Walks Away From Air India Plane Crash That Killed 241: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-16 17:35:39

A London-bound plane carrying 242 people crashed in Ahmedabad, India, shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Air India flight 171 crashed into B.J. Medical College, where early reports suggest dozens more have been killed on the ground, according to the New Indian Express. There was one survivor from the plane, according to the BBC. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh survived the crash, according to the Hindustan Times and the BBC, which cites Ahmedabad’s police chief GS Malik as a source. The man, a 40-year-ol

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Get Outside Just After Sunset to See Six Planets in a Spectacular Planet Parade

cnet.com Joe Hindy 2025-06-02 13:00:02

2025 is starting off with a bang for skygazers, with a planet parade now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. The six planets are visible now, and will remain so until late February. Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye. You'll need a high-powered viewing dev

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Astronomers create first 3D map of a hellish alien planet's atmosphere

techspot.com Zo Ahmed 2025-06-02 10:35:00

The big picture: Nearly 6,000 exoplanets have now been confirmed in the vast expanse of the Milky Way galaxy. Some are believed to have the potential to harbor life, while others are so hostile that they make Venus seem mild by comparison. One such planet is the ultra-hot Jupiter known as WASP-121b, nicknamed Tylos – a world so extreme it defies expectations. Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, completing a

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Latest Tech News

Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry (2018)

Someone paid $5.3 million for a piece of Mars

Astronomers Discover Potential Dwarf Planet Lurking Way Beyond Pluto

Uranus Leaks More Heat Than We Thought

Trump Wants to Shut Down Several Perfectly Good Spacecraft Orbiting Mars for No Reason

Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation

Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

George Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

Could a Paper Plane Thrown from the ISS Survive the Flight?

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‘Death Wish’ Planet Actively Triggers Destructive Flares From Its Host Star

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James Webb Discovers First-Ever Exoplanet by Taking a Picture of It

Rubin Observatory’s Stunning Result Proves It’s a ‘Game Changer’ for Spotting Dangerous Asteroids

Webb telescope discovers and photographs its first exoplanet

NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of an exoplanet

Webb Telescope Just Did Something It’s Never Done Before—and Astronomers Are Thrilled

What would happen if you tried to land on a gas giant?

Something Big Is Twisting Mercury’s Crust

A Closer Look At Uranus’s Moons Reveals a Surprising Dark Side

Scientists Reveal Easy Three-Step Plan to Terraform Mars

The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About

If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)

One Survivor Walks Away From Air India Plane Crash That Killed 241: Report

Get Outside Just After Sunset to See Six Planets in a Spectacular Planet Parade

Astronomers create first 3D map of a hellish alien planet's atmosphere

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