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The top fell off Australia's first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/the-top-fell-off-australias-first-orbital-class-rocket-delaying-its-launch/
11•LorenDB•10h ago

Comments

spicyusername•10h ago

    Well, the fronts not supposed to fall off, for one thing.
perilunar•9h ago
Hard to believe, but it's 34 years since that classic, and it's still going strong.

And congrats to Gilmour Space, for such a comical mishap.

linksnapzz•8h ago
Some of these rockets are built so the top doesn't fall off at all...
nopelynopington•4h ago
Came here for this, not disappointed.

In case anyone doesn't get it: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM

andrewstuart•9h ago
Sigh.

Apple Says Fortnite for iOS Isn't Blocked Worldwide, Just the U.S.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/16/apple-fortnite-ios-not-blocked-worldwide/
2•smileybarry•3m ago•0 comments

Typograph: Prompt to Font

https://typograph.studio/en
1•handfuloflight•6m ago•0 comments

Harvard bought a Magna Carta copy for $27. It turned out to be an original

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/15/harvard-magna-carta-1300/83643266007/
1•rmason•12m ago•0 comments

Core War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
1•michalpleban•14m ago•0 comments

Reddit is down

2•tom1337•14m ago•0 comments

Yeast-Based LLM Research

1•daly•15m ago•0 comments

Berkshire Hathaway Inc Q4 2024 vs. Q1 2025 13F Holdings Comparison

https://13f.info/13f/000095012325005701-berkshire-hathaway-inc-q1-2025
1•kamaraju•15m ago•0 comments

How to Split Ranges in C++23 and C++26

https://www.cppstories.com/2025/ranges_split_chunk/
2•ibobev•20m ago•0 comments

Leica M10 Battery Teardown and Reverse Engineering

https://tokilabs.co/tech/
1•k2enemy•21m ago•0 comments

The Digital Panopticon Nightmare

https://www.thedissident.news/the-digital-panopticon-nightmare/
3•anigbrowl•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Did anyone else see an avalanche of old email appear in Gmail?

1•DamnInteresting•24m ago•0 comments

Party Till the Break of 10 P.M

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/style/earlybirds-club-dance-party.html
2•whack•26m ago•0 comments

On-Demand: AI Agent Automation

https://on-demand.io/
1•handfuloflight•28m ago•0 comments

U.S. Loses Last Triple-A Credit Rating

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/u-s-loses-last-triple-a-credit-rating-bfcbae5d
7•mudil•31m ago•1 comments

FDA clears first blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer's

https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/16/alzheimers-fujirebio-fda-approval/
1•pseudolus•31m ago•0 comments

Really Really Simple "Pure CSS" Squircles

https://gist.github.com/pouyakary/136fafc75a14abd867e0100856add5a0
3•pmkary•35m ago•0 comments

After HTTPS: Indicating Risk Instead of Security (2019)

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7403/
2•transpute•35m ago•0 comments

Our Idea of Happiness Has Gotten Shallow

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/magazine/happiness-history-living-well.html
1•gmays•40m ago•0 comments

Dept Homeland Security in vetting process for immigrant reality TV show

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/politics/dhs-vetting-immigrant-reality-tv-show
3•jeffwass•41m ago•0 comments

HMPL v3.0: Small template language for displaying UI from server to client

https://github.com/hmpl-language/hmpl/releases/tag/3.0.0
3•todsacerdoti•42m ago•0 comments

Peter Lax, Pre-Eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 98

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.html
3•donohoe•42m ago•1 comments

Beyond the Gang of Four: Practical Design Patterns for Modern AI Systems

https://www.infoq.com/articles/practical-design-patterns-modern-ai-systems/
1•rbanffy•43m ago•0 comments

AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals

https://nautil.us/ai-could-help-humans-understand-animals-1211108/
1•rbanffy•44m ago•0 comments

Slopaganda

https://dbushell.com/2025/05/15/slopaganda/
4•ambigious7777•44m ago•0 comments

Implementing a Toy Optimizer (2022)

https://pypy.org/posts/2022/07/toy-optimizer.html
2•grep_it•50m ago•0 comments

Why are Truffles so expensive? Are they worth it? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKddfnuQtd4
2•lawrenceyan•55m ago•0 comments

SDL3 examples: Full game and app demos

https://examples.libsdl.org/SDL3/demo/
3•xeonmc•57m ago•0 comments

Amazon-owned Zoox issues recall following robotaxi crash

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/amazon-owned-zoox-issues-recall-following-robotaxi-crash/
3•PaulHoule•57m ago•0 comments

China Drops to No. 3 Holder of Treasuries, Falling Behind UK

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/china-falls-to-no-2-holder-of-treasuries-with-uk-on-the-rise
5•JumpCrisscross•58m ago•0 comments

Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01515-z
3•bookofjoe•59m ago•2 comments