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'Golden Dome' plan has a major obstacle: Physics

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/golden-dome-missile-defense-physics
4•perihelions•1d ago

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GolfPopper•1d ago
The point of the program is not to "defend the US from ICBMs". The point of the program is to transfer dollars from the US government to a selection of approved companies. Physics doesn't enter into it any more than it does in three-card monte.
bell-cot•1d ago
Every military spending program, ever, has had that point.

The devil is always in the details - what's the actual military & side-benefit RoI, vs. the skim & waste?

Dare to be great (2006) [pdf]

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/2006-09-07-dare-to-be-great.pdf
1•simonebrunozzi•5m ago•0 comments

Whole-genome sequencing suggests novel genetic factors associated w Alzheimer's

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59949-y
2•bookofjoe•6m ago•0 comments

Flash - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter written in Rust

https://github.com/raphamorim/flash
1•bananzajr•7m ago•0 comments

White House to pull NASA nominee Isaacman

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/31/2025/white-house-expected-to-pull-nasa-nominee-isaacman
1•cratermoon•7m ago•0 comments

Google Maps can't explain why it falsely labeled German autobahns as closed

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/google-maps-cant-explain-why-it-falsely-labeled-german-autobahns-as-closed/
2•Eduard•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is best practice for passing in public keys to API?

1•jaidenlee•10m ago•0 comments

Hey Rust, I think I know just what the feeling is

https://snth.prose.sh/hey_rust
1•snthpy•14m ago•0 comments

TypeScript Port of Efficientgo/Errors

https://github.com/superbuilders/errors
1•bjornpagen•15m ago•0 comments

Help Wanted to Build an Open Source 'Advanced Data Protection' for Everyone

https://slashdot.org/submission/17336499/help-wanted-to-build-open-source-advanced-data-protection-for-everyone
1•m463•16m ago•0 comments

LLMs Scores at the Visual Physics Comprehension Test

https://cbrower.dev/vpct
2•behnamoh•25m ago•0 comments

Adaptive Maximization of Social Welfare

https://www.econometricsociety.org/publications/econometrica/2025/05/01/Adaptive-Maximization-of-Social-Welfare
2•nabla9•25m ago•0 comments

AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals

https://nautil.us/ai-could-help-humans-understand-animals-1211108/
1•dnetesn•32m ago•0 comments

YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17270
11•greesil•33m ago•0 comments

The Mathematical Mysteries of Fireflies

https://nautil.us/the-mathematical-mysteries-of-fireflies-1204513/
1•dnetesn•33m ago•0 comments

Plutonium Powered Pacemaker (From 1974)

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/miscellaneous/pacemaker.html
3•BafS•36m ago•0 comments

Jared Isaacman told his nomination as NASA administrator will be withdrawn

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/31/nasa-nomination-administrator-senate-isaacman/
2•Firaxus•36m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What API or app-based service do you wish existed – and would pay for?

1•blindprogrammer•38m ago•0 comments

Oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app

https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/
2•marcodiego•40m ago•0 comments

Anatomy of a Textual User Interface

https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2024/09/15/anatomy-of-a-textual-user-interface/
1•tosh•41m ago•0 comments

The Future of Textualize

https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2025/05/07/the-future-of-textualize/
1•tosh•44m ago•0 comments

HIV's Most Promising Breakthrough Has Taken a Hit

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/05/hiv-vaccines-hives-funding/683000/
3•fortran77•44m ago•0 comments

NOAA's 2025 hurricane forecast warns of a busy season

https://theconversation.com/forecasters-expect-a-busy-2025-hurricane-season-a-storm-scientist-explains-why-and-what-meteorologists-are-watching-257223
3•PaulHoule•45m ago•0 comments

Type-level bounded recursion in Rust

https://catgirl.ai/log/typelevel-bounded-recursion/
2•fanf2•45m ago•0 comments

SaaS Marketing Strategies

https://earlytraction.substack.com/p/b2b-saas-marketing-mistake-5-a-bad-strategy
1•superamped•47m ago•2 comments

Learn, build, judge, ship: What to look for in your first (AI) marketer

https://www.gkogan.co/ai-marketer/
1•gk1•47m ago•0 comments

A Closer Exploration of Residential Proxies and Captcha-Breaking Services

https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/vulnerabilities-and-exploits/a-closer-exploration-of-residential-proxies-and-captcha-breaking-services
1•avidiax•47m ago•0 comments

Gptel-autocomplete: Inline code completion in Emacs using gptel

https://github.com/JDNdeveloper/gptel-autocomplete
2•jdn3•51m ago•1 comments

Using openAI APIs requires a 3D face scan?

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1l05kho/using_openai_apis_requires_a_3d_face_scan/
1•miles•56m ago•0 comments

Can AI be trusted in schools?

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/05/30/can-ai-be-trusted-in-schools
1•Anon84•58m ago•0 comments

Don't Buy This

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Buy_This
5•elvis70•59m ago•0 comments