GoKawiil - Tech News

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Massively Parallel Postgres Backups (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: postgres, planetscale, wal replay

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Scientists Discover Massive Alien “Exosatellite” (futurism.com)

2026-07-26 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: exosatellite, brown dwarf, european southern observatory

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Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-22 | by Eshan Raul | tags: nasa, james webb space telescope, coronagraphs

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Astronomers Found the First Atmosphere on a Planet in Another Star's Habitable Zone (cnet.com)

2026-07-17 | by See Full Bio | tags: exoplanets, habitable zone, lhs 1140b

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A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for over a Million Stars (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | by Lexi Gault | tags: tess, stellar rotation, exoplanets

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Astronomers Find Biggest Super-Puff Planets Yet That Are Lighter Than Cotton Candy (slashdot.org)

2026-06-27 | get Super-Puff Planet Model Kit → | tags: james webb space telescope, nasa tess satellite, exoplanets

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Scientists Think Uranus and Neptune May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-26 | get Ice Giant Model Kit → | tags: uranus, neptune, ice giants

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NASA's TESS spacecraft finds two 'cotton candy' planets in one system (engadget.com)

2026-06-26 | by Mariella Moon | get Cotton Candy Planet Model → | tags: tess, nasa, exoplanets

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Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-25 | get Magnetic Field Sensor Kit → | tags: exoplanets, magnetic fields, gj 436

10.

OAuth for all (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-25 | get OAuth 2.0 Authorization Kit → | tags: cloudflare, oauth, wrangler

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Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-25 | get OAuth 2.0 Authorization Kit → | tags: cloudflare, oauth, wrangler

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The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-11 | get PostgreSQL Drop Table Guide → | tags: postgres, planetscale, drop table

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The Moons of Uranus May Hold the Key to Finding Missing Planets (wired.com)

2026-06-06 | by Jorge Garay | get Uranus Moon Model Kit → | tags: ejected, instability, moon

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Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert (futurism.com)

2026-06-06 | by Victor Tangermann | get Mars Meteorite Sample → | tags: bell, formed, planets

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Scientists May Have Discovered 27 Star Wars-Like Planets With Two Suns (cnet.com)

2026-05-11 | by See Full Bio | get Star Wars Planet Model Kit → | tags: circumbinary planets, star wars, university of new south wales

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Scientists Discover 27 Potential New Planets That Orbit Two Stars (slashdot.org)

2026-05-04 | get Double Star Planet Model → | tags: planets, two stars, scientists

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Webb Telescope Resolves Cosmic Identity Crisis Between Planets and Stars (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-16 | get NASA Webb Telescope Model → | tags: webb telescope, planets, stars

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B-trees and database indexes (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-13 | get B-tree Database Indexing Guide → | tags: postgresql, planetscale, b-trees

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Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | get PostgreSQL Monitoring Tool → | tags: postgres, planetscale, queue

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Scientists Investigating Whether Object NASA Is Approaching Is Core of Destroyed Planet (futurism.com)

2026-03-31 | by Victor Tangermann | get NASA Planet Core Model → | tags: nasa, 16 psyche, asteroid mining

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'Project Hail Mary': Real Space Science, Real Astrophotography (slashdot.org)

2026-03-29 | by Posted | get Space Telescope Camera → | tags: project hail mary, andy weir, roscosmos

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Astronomers Pinpoint the Best 45 Places in the Galaxy to Look For Alien Life (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-19 | get NASA Astrobiology Book → | tags: exoplanets, alien life, galaxy

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Desperately Seeking Space Friends (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-19 | by Caroline Noël | get NASA Space Pen → | tags: astrobiology, nasa, extraterrestrial

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Astronomers Watch in Amazement as 2 Planets Smash Into Each Other Around Nearby Star (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-13 | get Telescope Astronomy Kit → | tags: astronomers, planets, moon

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The First Planet Parade in 2026 Begins This Weekend: How to See 6 Planets at Once (cnet.com)

2026-02-19 | by See Full Bio | get Astronomy Telescope → | tags: parade, planet, planet parade

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Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-16 | get Datacenter → | tags: cutover, database, migration

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Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-16 | get Datacenter → | tags: cutover, database, migration

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The First Planet Parade of 2026 Is Coming Up Soon: When and How to See It (cnet.com)

2026-02-14 | by See Full Bio | get Spacecraft → | tags: parade, planet, planet parade

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The First Planet Parade of 2026 Is Approaching: When and Where to See It (cnet.com)

2026-02-07 | by See Full Bio | get Galaxy Parade → | tags: parade, planet, planet parade

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The First Planet Parade of 2026 Is Approaching: Here's How to See It (cnet.com)

2026-01-29 | by See Full Bio | get Satellite → | tags: parade, planet, planet parade