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U.S. Startup Plans to Beam Sunlight Using Space Mirrors

https://orbitaltoday.com/2025/07/31/startup-plans-to-beam-sunlight-to-earth-using-space-mirrors/
2•herodotus•3h ago

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herodotus•3h ago
Could this be the worst startup idea ever? Light pollution is bad at least for human health, animal behaviour and insect survival.
dlcarrier•3h ago
That was one of my favorite powerplants in SimCity 2000, except it converted the sunlight into microwave radiation, before beaming it down. One of the disasters that SimCity 2000 included was that the beam would miss and destroy nearby buildings.

A Cure for Technology Addiction

https://lorn.us/posts/a-cure-for-technology-addiction/
1•atropoles•2m ago•0 comments

Oakland to silence police radios from public beginning Wednesday

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/31/oakland-to-silence-police-radios-from-public-beginning-wed...
1•pfexec•5m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's surprise settlement adds new wrinkle in AI copyright war

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/anthropics-surprise-settlement-adds-new-wrinkle-ai-copyr...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•6m ago•0 comments

Vvvv Gamma 7.0 Release

https://vvvv.org/blog/2025/vvvv-gamma-7.0-release/
1•bj-rn•6m ago•0 comments

Triboluminescence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence
1•bookofjoe•9m ago•0 comments

Data-Driven Mechanism Design: Jointly Eliciting Preferences and Information [pdf]

https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2025-03/d2418r1.pdf
1•sito42•9m ago•0 comments

The FTC Warns Big Tech Companies Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-companies-in-the-us-have-been-told-not-to-apply-the-digital-...
1•kurhan•9m ago•0 comments

Apple: 11-Inch MacBook Air and Two Other Macs Are Now Obsolete

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/31/11-inch-macbook-air-is-obsolete/
2•tosh•9m ago•0 comments

Inside The Box: Everything I Did with an Arduino Starter Kit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25vJvHLKvSE
1•lopespm•11m ago•0 comments

Inverting the Xorshift128 random number generator

https://littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/inverting-the-xorshift128-random-number-genera...
1•rurban•13m ago•0 comments

Is It a Comet or Alien Technology? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsyzVoIuUGU
1•breadwinner•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to edit images with AI

https://pixeledit.ai
1•andreict•15m ago•0 comments

Super Micro shares dip after AI server maker flags financial control concerns

https://www.reuters.com/business/super-micro-shares-dip-after-ai-server-maker-flags-financial-con...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•15m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT affirmed Greenwich man's fears before murder-suicide

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/chatgpt-greenwich-ct-murder-stein-erik-soelberg-21022277.php
1•healsdata•18m ago•0 comments

Ayfkm blog: Painful bureaucratic journeys of a multicultural family

https://ayfkm.blog/
1•lollobomb•19m ago•0 comments

Writing in Djot

https://pdx.su/blog/2025-06-28-writing-in-djot/
1•networked•19m ago•0 comments

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

https://danwang.co/breakneck/
2•naves•26m ago•0 comments

Media Influence and Spatial Voting: The Role of Perceived Party Positions

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-025-10031-9
1•PaulHoule•26m ago•0 comments

90% of European gaming revenue in 2024 was digital purchases with only 15% on PC [pdf]

https://www.videogameseurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/VGE-2024-KF-2024.pdf
1•HelloUsername•28m ago•0 comments

What Is Algebra? (2011)

https://profkeithdevlin.org/2011/11/20/what-is-algebra/
1•FromTheArchives•29m ago•0 comments

Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all

https://grist.org/accountability/chicago-lead-pipe-replacement-map-health/
3•rntn•30m ago•1 comments

Vibe Security – Vibe-coding security scanner that works

https://vibesecurity.co/
1•benstirling•30m ago•0 comments

Apple Hints at iPhone 17 Models Lacking SIM Card Slot in More Countries

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/31/apple-hints-at-esim-only-iphone-17/
2•onesandofgrain•30m ago•0 comments

Double-tap strike kills 5 more journalists in Gaza hospital

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/obituary-hussam-al-masri-reuters-journalist-killed...
5•andrepd•37m ago•2 comments

Ocean current 'collapse' could trigger 'profound cooling' in northern Europe

https://www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-current-collapse-could-trigger-profound-cooling-in-northern-eur...
3•shinryuu•37m ago•0 comments

Firer

https://firer.io
1•robertsinc•39m ago•1 comments

Rome Podcast (2007)

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/2007/07/
2•sonicrocketman•42m ago•0 comments

Binary Inference Dictionaries for Electoral NLP

https://matthodges.com/posts/2023-10-01-BIDEN-binary-inference-dictionaries-for-electoral-nlp/
1•m-hodges•44m ago•0 comments

The 'self-inflicted injury' to US tourism making Americans angry, disappointed

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/travel/international-tourist-decline-united-states
13•mikhael•46m ago•0 comments

How many HTTP requests/second can a Single Machine handle?

https://binaryigor.com/how-many-http-requests-can-a-single-machine-handle.html
16•BinaryIgor•52m ago•8 comments