GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

SpaceX Targets 2026 to Test Orbital Flight for Next-Gen Starship Vehicle

wired.com Stephen Clark 2025-09-28 21:30:00

It has been two weeks since SpaceX’s last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time the ship heads into space. Bill Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX executive in charge of build and flight reliability, presented the findings Monday at the American Astronautical Society’s Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Cleveland. The rocket lifted off on August 26 from SpaceX’s launch pad in Starbase, Te

Topics: flight spacex starship test tiles

Shop Amazon

SpaceX Targets an Orbital Starship Flight with a Next-Gen Vehicle in 2026

wired.com Stephen Clark 2025-09-30 13:30:00

It has been two weeks since SpaceX’s last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time the ship heads into space. Bill Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX executive in charge of build and flight reliability, presented the findings Monday at the American Astronautical Society’s Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Cleveland. The rocket lifted off on August 26 from SpaceX’s launch pad in Starbase, Te

Topics: flight spacex starship test tiles

Shop Amazon

The Pixel’s latest Android update has a hidden trick for organizing your Quick Settings

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 22:30:39

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR A hidden feature in Android 16 QPR1 offers a new, faster way to reorganize your Quick Settings tiles. Instead of dragging and dropping, you can double-tap a tile to select it and then tap its new position to move it. This method is more precise and avoids the awkward scrolling and accidental drops common with the old way. Google rolled out the Android 16 QPR1 update to Pixel devices last week, bringing the company’s new Material 3 Expressive design to the

Topics: android quick settings tile tiles

Shop Amazon

SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 21:43:02

It has been two weeks since SpaceX's last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time the ship heads into space. Bill Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX executive in charge of build and flight reliability, presented the findings Monday at the American Astronautical Society's Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Cleveland. The rocket lifted off on August 26 from SpaceX's launch pad in Starbase, Te

Topics: ship spacex starship test tiles

Shop Amazon

How to build vector tiles from scratch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 13:40:47

As I add more data to the NYC Chaos Dashboard, a website that maps live urban activity, I have been looking for a more efficient way to render the map. Since I collect all of the data in one process and return the Dashboard as one HTML file, I kept wondering how I could optimize the map’s loading time by pre-processing the data as much as possible in the backend. This is where vector tiles come in. The code shown in this post is written in Go. Why generate tiles? Initially, all of the map’s d

Topics: int map tile tiles zoom

Shop Amazon

Triangle Grids (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Vsevolod Kvachev 2025-10-09 08:46:05

Grids are great for tactical gameplay of turn-based games because they allow discrete movement steps. That means that you can bind positioning to other resources such as movement points, action points, food, etc. Grids divide the infinite variety of movement options into a few specific ones, which can be considered separately by the player’s tactical mind. The most popular grid types are hexes and squares. But what about triangles? Your browser does not support the video tag. Types of Grids: C

Topics: grid grids pos tiles triangle

Shop Amazon

Triangle Grids

news.ycombinator.com Vsevolod Kvachev 2025-10-10 04:46:05

Grids are great for tactical gameplay of turn-based games because they allow discrete movement steps. That means that you can bind positioning to other resources such as movement points, action points, food, etc. Grids divide the infinite variety of movement options into a few specific ones, which can be considered separately by the player’s tactical mind. The most popular grid types are hexes and squares. But what about triangles? Your browser does not support the video tag. Types of Grids: C

Topics: grid grids pos tiles triangle

Shop Amazon

The Pixel 10 has a new way to customize Quick Settings. Here’s how I created the perfect setup

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 03:00:08

Joe Maring / Android Authority There are so many software changes to talk about with the Google Pixel 10, and perhaps one of the biggest is Google’s Material 3 Expressive redesign. We’ve been discussing Material 3 Expressive for a while now, but the Pixel 10 series is the first set of phones to ship with the software in a fully finished build. As I’ve been testing all the various Material 3 Expressive updates on the Pixel 10 Pro, something that has stood out to me is the new Quick Settings UI.

Topics: 10 pixel quick settings tiles

Shop Amazon

Starship’s heat shield appears to have performed quite well in test

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-18 21:10:39

One of the more curious aspects of the 10th flight of SpaceX's Starship rocket on Tuesday was the striking orange discoloration of the second stage. This could be observed on video taken from a buoy near the landing site as the vehicle made a soft landing in the Indian Ocean. This color—so different from the silvery skin and black tiles that cover Starship's upper stage—led to all sorts of speculation. Had heating damaged the stainless steel skin? Had the vehicle's tiles been shucked off, leavi

Topics: heat shield starship tiles vehicle

Shop Amazon

After using the Galaxy Watch 8, there’s one feature I hope Google steals for the Pixel Watch 4

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 17:00:50

Joe Maring / Android Authority It’s a damn good time right now to be a smartwatch fan. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 series recently launched, the Pixel Watch 4 is right around the corner, Wear OS 6 is chock-full of impressive changes, and Gemini has finally replaced Google Assistant on our wrists. The Pixel Watch 4 is expected to arrive on August 20, and it’s shaping up quite nicely. We’ve seen leaks teasing a bigger battery, brighter display, and faster charging (with a funky new charging mechani

Topics: google page tile tiles watch

Shop Amazon

OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

news.ycombinator.com Zsolt Ero 2025-11-23 15:31:30

I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles from Btrfs proved to be a great choice, nginx is amazing, and life is good. Then, out of the blue, I'm getting reports that some tiles are not loading, which normally means tile generation bugs, but not this time. I look into the nginx logs and see this: 20

Topics: cloudflare openfreemap requests tiles traffic

Shop Amazon

Truchet Tiles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 14:53:50

Square tiles used in graphic design In information visualization and graphic design, Truchet tiles are square tiles decorated with patterns that are not rotationally symmetric. When placed in a square tiling of the plane, they can form varied patterns, and the orientation of each tile can be used to visualize information associated with the tile's position within the tiling.[1] Truchet tiles were first described in a 1704 memoir by Sébastien Truchet entitled "Mémoire sur les combinaisons", and

Topics: edit square tile tiles truchet

Shop Amazon

Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 22:20:16

We are happy to announce the deployment of Vector Tiles on OpenStreetMap Foundation servers and the publication of the layer on the OSM website! We have been working hard to bring you a fresh look to OSM data, paired with exciting technological upgrades. Work has been progressing since last year. In June 2024 we shared progress, including the launch of the vector tiles demo site, as well as details on the technical background on the tools being used. Since then we have put the tile generation p

Topics: new styles tile tiles vector

Shop Amazon

Herringbone Tiles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 17:42:04

Herringbone Tiles Sean Barrett Silver Spaceship Software In this paper I'll describe a method for expanding on the technique of Wang Tiles for generating large 2D regions from smaller ones. I call the technique "Herringbone Wang Tiles" or just "Herringbone Tiles". It is also of particular relevance to the map system used in Infamous by Sucker Punch. For an unreleased indie CRPG I worked on in 2010, I used an extremely simple method of dungeon map generation. It involves assembling a large

Topics: constraints edge edges tile tiles

Shop Amazon

The one Android settings shortcut I can't live without - and how to customize it

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-27 17:39:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Android is chock-full of features that appeal to a wide variety of users. Some of those features have been met with wide acceptance, while others tend to be relegated to a smaller cross-section of users. Some features are there, waiting for you to make use of them, and yet they go either ignored or underused. One such example is Quick Settings. This feature has been available on Android for quite some time, and exists as a collection of tiles at the

Topics: android quick settings shade tiles

Shop Amazon

You're probably not using one of Android's best features - here's how it saves me time every day

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-02-06 22:09:36

SOPA Images/Contributor/Getty Android is chock-full of features that appeal to a wide variety of users. Some of those features have been met with wide acceptance, while others tend to be relegated to a smaller cross-section of users. Some features are there, waiting for you to make use of them, and yet they go either ignored or underused. One such example is Quick Settings. This feature has been available on Android for quite some time, and exists as a collection of tiles at the top of the No

Topics: android quick settings shade tiles

Shop Amazon

One UI 8 Watch beta completely overhauls tiles on Galaxy Watch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-13 18:47:22

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR The One UI 8 Watch beta has released, and it brings new tile shapes. Many apps also support smaller tiles which can be stacked in pairs on a single screen. Most of these newly shaped tiles belong to Samsung apps, while other developers, including Google, continue to have circular ones. The Galaxy Watch 8 series has already leaked ahead of its expected arrival, and it has a divisive design change. But with changes to its hardware, Samsung is also plann

Topics: beta shaped tiles ui watch

Shop Amazon

Show HN: Summle – A little maths Game

news.ycombinator.com Nick Nicholaou 2026-02-09 10:58:38

Make sums using the tiles at the bottom to reach the target number at the top, in 5 steps or fewer. Click numbers to add or remove them. Example You can use each number tile once. You may not need all the tiles. You can use yellow subtotal tiles in a new sum. There is at least one solution. New puzzle daily.

Topics: example new number tiles use

Shop Amazon

Using Wave Function Collapse to solve puzzle map generation at scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-27 02:42:34

🎮Game 🧩Puzzle 🤖Algorithm 🎲PCG 💻Game Dev Background Logic Islands, released by sublevelgames on June 20, 2025, is a game where players place islands and walls according to predefined rule sets. The game features 6 different rule sets, and WFC was used to create stages for 3 of these rules. Today, I’d like to share the story behind this implementation. WFC WFC (Wave Function Collapse) is a type of PCG (Procedural Contents Generation) algorithm that analyzes the connectivity patterns of source

Topics: connection islands null tile tiles

Shop Amazon

I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-07 04:58:18

The Fall of Civilizations podcast put out a 6¾-hour episode on the history of the Mongol Empire, which I eagerly listened to. After finishing the episode I wondered about contemporary Mongolian society, I wanted to learn what the lands that the Mongol Empire exploded from are like in our current day. There are many ways to try to understand a society, whether it be quantifying it or looking at the lived experiences within it. If you look at data provided by the World Bank, you’ll see a country t

Topics: data model tile tiles yurts

Shop Amazon

The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Nicolás Hatcher 2026-03-13 08:14:20

The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers Introduction In this blog post you are going to read about two things: A new flashy discovery in mathematics: aperiodic tilings of the plane with a single monotile SAT solvers. A family of not so well known algorithms in computer science Hopefully by the end of the post you will know a fair amount about the hat, the turtle and the spectres and have another powerful tool under your belt, SAT solvers. Thus, you can see this post either as an exercise in r

Topics: hat sat solver tile tiles

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

SpaceX Targets 2026 to Test Orbital Flight for Next-Gen Starship Vehicle

SpaceX Targets an Orbital Starship Flight with a Next-Gen Vehicle in 2026

The Pixel’s latest Android update has a hidden trick for organizing your Quick Settings

SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

How to build vector tiles from scratch

Triangle Grids (2022)

Triangle Grids

The Pixel 10 has a new way to customize Quick Settings. Here’s how I created the perfect setup

Starship’s heat shield appears to have performed quite well in test

After using the Galaxy Watch 8, there’s one feature I hope Google steals for the Pixel Watch 4

OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

Truchet Tiles

Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org

Herringbone Tiles

The one Android settings shortcut I can't live without - and how to customize it

You're probably not using one of Android's best features - here's how it saves me time every day

One UI 8 Watch beta completely overhauls tiles on Galaxy Watch

Show HN: Summle – A little maths Game

Using Wave Function Collapse to solve puzzle map generation at scale

I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning

The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers (2024)

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising