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The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 14:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 19:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Elon Musk Swipes Back at Trump After Apparent Peace Offering

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-07-26 23:20:05

Yesterday, President Trump seemed to offer an olive branch to his former “first buddy,” Elon Musk, amidst their ongoing spat. In a post made to Truth Social, Trump claimed that he didn’t wish any harm on Elon or his businesses. “Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon’s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large-scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government. This is not so! I want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE, in fact, THRIVE like never before!”

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Rocket Report: Channeling the future at Wallops; SpaceX recovers rocket wreckage

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-27 19:41:43

Welcome to Edition 8.04 of the Rocket Report! The Pentagon's Golden Dome missile defense shield will be a lot of things. Along with new sensors, command and control systems, and satellites, Golden Dome will require a lot of rockets. The pieces of the Golden Dome architecture operating in orbit will ride to space on commercial launch vehicles. And Golden Dome's space-based interceptors will essentially be designed as flying fuel tanks with rocket engines. This shouldn't be overlooked, and that's

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Is Trump Trying to Get Back in Elon Musk’s Good Graces?

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-07-27 21:10:01

Elon Musk and Donald Trump joined forces before the 2024 presidential election to help each other out. Trump needed Musk’s money to buy votes and Musk needed Trump to decimate the federal government while making sure contracts with his own companies remained untouched. But the two men had a very messy falling out back in late May, when Musk departed his government role with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. But no matter how much the men may bicker in public, they keep trying to si

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Starlink outage: Service returns after over two hours down

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-28 11:41:06

SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service experienced a global outage on Thursday that lasted for over two hours. Reports of connectivity issues started around 3:20PM ET, based on DownDetector. SpaceX didn't acknowledged the outage until 4:05PM ET, via a post on the Starlink X account. Service began to come back for some at around 5:30PM ET, and Michael Nicolls, Starlink's VP of engineering, said the provider had "mostly recovered" at 6:23PM ET. Users across the US, Europe, the UK and Asia r

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Starlink is experiencing a network outage

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-28 19:52:00

SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service is experiencing an outage. Reports of connectivity issues started around 3:20PM ET, based on DownDetector, though SpaceX has only recently acknowledged the outage via a post on the Starlink X account. Users across the US, Europe and the UK have also reported issues on r/starlink, the service's Reddit page, and SpaceX has even acknowledged the outage on Starlink's website. The number of people potentially impacted could number in the millions — as of

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Inter-Planetary Network Special Interest Group

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 19:19:57

IPNSIG was founded in 1998 by Vint Cerf and researchers within academia and NASA/JPL. We are now a full Chapter within the Internet Society, known as the Interplanetary Chapter. We work to extend terrestrial networking into solar system space, which is consistent with the Internet Society’s objectives to grow the internet to unpopulated areas, and connect the unconnected domain—and to ensure that even in space, “The Internet is for Everyone”.

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SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-30 03:12:09

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million mission to study a phenomenon of space physics that has eluded researchers since the dawn of the Space Age. The twin spacecraft are part of the NASA-funded TRACERS mission, which will spend at least a year measuring plasma conditions in narrow regions of Earth's magnetic field known as polar cusps. As the name suggests, these regions are located over the poles. They play

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A troubled SPAC plans to buy iRocket for $400M but it already returned most of its cash

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-07-30 19:03:33

An unproven small launch startup is partnering with a severely depleted SPAC trust to do the impossible: go public in a deal they say will be valued at $400 million. Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. (iRocket) and BPGC Acquisition Corp., a special purpose vehicle company founded by former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, is aiming to close the transaction in the fourth quarter of this year. Interestingly, the SPAC has been depleted of most of its cash after it raised $345 million in its IPO i

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SpaceX Has the Nerve to Be Mad About a Competitor’s Massive Satellites Littering Earth Orbit

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-07-31 11:55:20

Despite owning more than half of the satellites currently in low Earth orbit, SpaceX is complaining about AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird constellation and how it’ll introduce added risks. In a letter sent to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX raised concerns that AST SpaceMobile poses a threat to the sustainability of low Earth orbit. Elon Musk’s space venture accused the Texas startup of underestimating collision risks in space and whether its satellites pose a threat to people on

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South Korea Plans to Build a Base on the Moon

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2025-08-01 18:00:00

China, India, and Japan are not the only countries on the Asian continent looking to establish themselves in the fledgling space economy. South Korea also wants to be in the space race, and even plans for a presence beyond Earth’s orbit, with ambitions to create its own lunar base within 20 years. At a public meeting held at the National Research Foundation of Korea on July 17, the South Korean AeroSpace Administration (KASA) released a roadmap proposing “five core missions, including low-Earth

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A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency

wired.com Stephen Clark 2025-08-01 19:00:00

You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency for a 25 percent budget cut. On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, August 1. Lystrup has held the top job at Goddard since April 2023, overseeing a staff of more than 8,000 civil servants and contractor employees and a budget last year of about $4.7 billion. These figures make Goddard the

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Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

news.ycombinator.com Passant Rabie 2025-07-30 00:42:53

Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and letting aerodynamics do the rest. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo simulated the release of a paper airplane from the International Space Station (ISS) to see if would survive atmospheric reentry. In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash problem. Rather than relying solely on metals to co

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Elon Now Facing the Possibility That SpaceX Will Never Get Starship Working

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-02 18:13:23

SpaceX is nine full-scale test launches into developing its enormous, nearly 400-feet-tall Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. Over the last two and a half years, we've seen over half a dozen spectacular explosions. Two launches earlier this year sent massive streaks of debris hurtling over the Turks and Caicos Islands, prompting airspace closures. Its most recent test in May ended in an uncontrolled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico after helplessly spinning on its axis and suffering

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Trump wants to “eliminate or expedite” environmental rules for rocket launches

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-02 22:48:59

The Trump administration is considering slashing rules meant to protect the environment and the public during commercial rocket launches, changes that companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX have long sought. A draft executive order being circulated among federal agencies, and viewed by ProPublica, directs Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses. It could also, in time, require states to allow more la

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Environmental protection rules for rocket launches targeted by Trump administration

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-03 03:48:59

The Trump administration is considering slashing rules meant to protect the environment and the public during commercial rocket launches, changes that companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX have long sought. A draft executive order being circulated among federal agencies, and viewed by ProPublica, directs Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses. It could also, in time, require states to allow more la

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After Fight With Musk, Trump Reportedly Ordered Review of Government SpaceX Contracts

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-03 06:15:31

Now that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and president Donald Trump are no longer seeing eye to eye, it sounds like the White House is working to undercut the richest man in the world's revenue from Washington. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Trump aides initiated a review of SpaceX contracts with the federal government to identify potential waste — pointed scrutiny not unlike the so-called Department of Government Efficiency helmed by Musk himself prior to his ousting from the Trump administration.

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Headspace annual subscriptions are 40 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-03 15:28:52

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 . Like any habit, maintaining a meditation practice can be challenging. Having the right tools can make it a bit easier, which is why we're excited to see a subscription to Headspace is back on sale. Right now, you can get one year of Headspace for $42, down from $70. The 40 percent disc

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The ‘Hail Mary’ That Saved NASA’s Juno Camera From Jupiter’s Radiation Hell

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-08-03 15:26:35

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which launched in 2011 to investigate Jupiter’s origin and evolution, travels through the solar system’s most intense planetary radiation fields. When the spacecraft’s JunoCam—a color, visible-light camera—began to suffer the consequences in December 2023, the mission team back on Earth had to think of a remote fix before they lost their chance to photograph the Jovian moon, Io. A relatively simple process was ultimately what enabled the long-distance save: heating the i

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Show HN: A rudimentary game engine to build four dimensional VR evironments

news.ycombinator.com Info Brainpaingames.Com 2025-08-01 13:23:33

Hypershack Hypershack is a standalone, private space designed for tinkering and learning with 4D objects in Virtual Reality. There are some elements designed to help get oriented in the 4d world: there are small particles falling down, i.e. moving towards negative y-axis. The speed they are falling depends on the orientation of the observed 3d space in the 4d world, the closer the 3d space is aligned with y-axis, the faster the particles fall. If you rotate the 3d space to be perpendicular to

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Nearly 3,000 people are leaving NASA, and this director is one of them

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-04 07:44:05

You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency for a 25 percent budget cut. On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, August 1. Lystrup has held the top job at Goddard since April 2023, overseeing a staff of more than 8,000 civil servants and contractor employees, and a budget last year of about $4.7 billion. These figures make Goddard the

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FAA Allows SpaceX to Drop Starship Rocket Bits on Sacred Hawaiian Island

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-04 23:30:51

Elon Musk’s obsession with colonizing Mars is polluting Earth. As SpaceX seeks to ramp up its launches of Starship, it’s also expanding its splashdown area where pieces of the rocket are allowed to litter the Pacific Ocean. A recent expansion threatens marine wildlife surrounding a sacred island in native Hawaiian tradition. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved SpaceX’s request to rain down debris in the waters surrounding Mokumanamana, an uninhabited island in Northwestern Hawaii

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The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-08-06 03:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Hackers exploited a flaw in Microsoft’s software to attack government agencies Engineers across the world are racing to mitigate the risk it poses. (Bloomberg $) + The attack hones in on servers housed within an organization, not the cloud. (WP $) 2 The French government has launched a criminal probe into X It’s investigating the company’s recommendation algorithm—

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The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity

wired.com Charlie Wood 2025-08-06 03:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally interwoven threads of space and time seem to stop short. These mysterious points are known as singularities. Singularities are predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. According to this theory, clumps of matter o

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Astronomers Detect Entirely New Type of Plasma Wave Above Jupiter’s North Pole

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-06 07:00:55

Since entering Jupiter’s orbit in 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been hard at work unveiling the many mysteries of our solar system’s largest planet. And its latest discovery may be one of the most intriguing yet: an entirely new type of plasma wave near Jupiter’s poles. In a paper published Wednesday in Physical Review Letters, astronomers describe an unusual pattern of plasma waves in Jupiter’s magnetosphere—a magnetic “bubble” shielding the planet from external radiation. Jupiter’s excepti

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Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-06 02:10:56

Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and letting aerodynamics do the rest. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo simulated the release of a paper airplane from the International Space Station (ISS) to see if would survive atmospheric reentry. In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash problem. Rather than relying solely on metals to co

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A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

news.ycombinator.com Steve Nadis 2025-08-07 00:19:17

Kunzinger and Sämann wanted to use their new way of estimating curvature to determine whether these singularity theorems would still be valid if they no longer assumed space-time is smooth. Would singularities persist even in rougher, more realistic-looking spaces? It’s important to find out if the smoothness condition can be waived, Sämann said, because doing so would bring the theorems closer to physical reality. After all, he added, “we believe non-smoothness is an inescapable part of the nat

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Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot

news.ycombinator.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-07 07:12:05

SpaceX employees are more likely to be injured while working at Starbase than any of its other manufacturing facilities, according to company worker safety records reviewed by TechCrunch. Starbase, a sprawling launch-and-manufacturing site that recently incorporated as its own Texas city, logged injury rates almost six times higher than the average for comparable space vehicle manufacturing outfits and nearly three times higher than aerospace manufacturing as a whole in 2024, according to Occup

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SpaceX worker injury rates at Starbase outpace industry rivals

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-07 06:29:06

SpaceX employees are more likely to be injured while working at Starbase than any of its other manufacturing facilities, according to company worker safety records reviewed by TechCrunch. Starbase, a sprawling launch-and-manufacturing site that recently incorporated as its own Texas city, logged injury rates almost six times higher than the average for comparable space vehicle manufacturing outfits and nearly three times higher than aerospace manufacturing as a whole in 2024, according to Occup

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Latest Tech News

The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over

Elon Musk Swipes Back at Trump After Apparent Peace Offering

Rocket Report: Channeling the future at Wallops; SpaceX recovers rocket wreckage

Is Trump Trying to Get Back in Elon Musk’s Good Graces?

Starlink outage: Service returns after over two hours down

Starlink is experiencing a network outage

Inter-Planetary Network Special Interest Group

SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather

A troubled SPAC plans to buy iRocket for $400M but it already returned most of its cash

SpaceX Has the Nerve to Be Mad About a Competitor’s Massive Satellites Littering Earth Orbit

South Korea Plans to Build a Base on the Moon

A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency

Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

Elon Now Facing the Possibility That SpaceX Will Never Get Starship Working

Trump wants to “eliminate or expedite” environmental rules for rocket launches

Environmental protection rules for rocket launches targeted by Trump administration

After Fight With Musk, Trump Reportedly Ordered Review of Government SpaceX Contracts

Headspace annual subscriptions are 40 percent off right now

The ‘Hail Mary’ That Saved NASA’s Juno Camera From Jupiter’s Radiation Hell

Show HN: A rudimentary game engine to build four dimensional VR evironments

Nearly 3,000 people are leaving NASA, and this director is one of them

FAA Allows SpaceX to Drop Starship Rocket Bits on Sacred Hawaiian Island

The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors

The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity

Astronomers Detect Entirely New Type of Plasma Wave Above Jupiter’s North Pole

Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot

SpaceX worker injury rates at Starbase outpace industry rivals

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