frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Orbital Data Centers: Why the Hype Outpaces Reality

https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-center-hype
5•rbanffy•1h ago

Comments

NishanStepak•1h ago
The advantage is solar power in space. They will never stop getting sunlight.
root-parent•1h ago
https://youtu.be/-w6G7VEwNq0?t=340
root-parent•1h ago
Data Centers in Space are a practical engineering impossibility, as well as making no economic sense. Engineering and the laws of physics get on the way.

Just because Scott Manley refuses to call that out, so he can do another eight videos about it, don´t stop listening to somebody with the feet on the ground:

"Orbital Data Centers: Spacecraft Constraints and Economic Viability" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27197

"Hot AI in Cold Space: Thermal-Crosstalk-Aware Scheduling for Sustainable Orbital AI Clusters" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26150

"Above the Cloud: Building Data Centers in Space - Richard Campbell - NDC Copenhagen 2026" - https://youtu.be/eo7MEPgWGic

"Space Data Centers Are Dumb" - https://youtu.be/-w6G7VEwNq0

Language Server for YAML Files

https://github.com/redhat-developer/yaml-language-server
1•ankitg12•21s ago•0 comments

Why Gemini 3.1 Pro lost money running Andon Café

https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-gemini-lost-money-andon-cafe
1•EvgeniyZh•1m ago•0 comments

The Brain Prefers to Read on Paper Rather Than on Screens, a New Study Says

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/your-brain-prefers-to-read-on-paper-rather-than-on-screens-n...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•2m ago•0 comments

Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf]

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35310/w35310.pdf
1•Terretta•3m ago•0 comments

Californians can protect their personal data with one click

https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2026/06/30/californians-can-protect-their-personal-data-with-on...
1•anticorporate•3m ago•0 comments

Wordpalette – what color is a word?

https://alganet.github.io/wordpalette/
1•gaigalas•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A free agentic AI security reference (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

https://www.nextkicklabs.com/p/agentic-ai-security-stack-book-release
1•flucktemberg•3m ago•0 comments

Will tech giants ever let us opt out of AI search features?

https://www.fastcompany.com/91561463/google-ai-overviews-users-opt-out-will-that-change
2•anticorporate•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Privacy Magic – a Chrome extension to protect your privacy

https://privacymagic.com/about/
1•arthuredelstein•4m ago•0 comments

We moved a whole codebase onto TypeScript with a fleet of subagents

https://cirrcl.es/blog/typescript-migration-with-subagents?lng=ru
1•alikatyc•5m ago•0 comments

Free API for minimum connection times at airports worldwide

https://minimumconnectiontime.com/api
1•beatthatflight•5m ago•0 comments

How does food get traded around the world?

https://ourworldindata.org/how-does-food-get-traded-around-the-world
1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

America stopped reading: 100 years of survey data

https://ilummi.app/how-america-stopped-reading
1•anttonio•6m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)

2•ethanwillis•7m ago•0 comments

BitTorrent's disastrous, legendary, and controversial story

https://www.theverge.com/tech/959848/bittorrent-story-25-years-piracy
2•Logans_Run•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kube-insight – retained Kubernetes evidence for incident investigations

https://github.com/nowakeai/kube-insight
2•simalapo•11m ago•0 comments

Fedora Council Seeks to Shutdown Current Discussions over AI Developer Desktop

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Council-AI-Desktop
1•rbanffy•12m ago•0 comments

LittleFedi: Light, yet Complete

https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/687a61e9-dae7-4ed2-8c2e-94dfe0bd550c
1•doener•14m ago•0 comments

The security of modern password expiration (2010)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1866307.1866328
1•Tomte•15m ago•0 comments

Video game play linked to small boost in memory and cognitive abilities

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000169182600911X
1•giuliomagnifico•16m ago•0 comments

An AI that finds B2B leads while you work

https://www.relay-brief.com
1•mathias8dev•17m ago•0 comments

Great Songs Are Still Being Made: This Is the Killer Speaking

https://medium.com/the-hitmagist/great-songs-are-still-being-made-this-is-the-killer-speaking-ce3...
1•bryanrasmussen•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hide an encrypted message inside a photo, in the browser

https://vajba.com/hide-message-in-image/
1•trivsamt•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wikicube: instant wiki for any GitHub repo

https://wikicube.vercel.app/wiki/emmett-framework/granian
1•cpnwaugha•19m ago•0 comments

Wine 11.12 Released with Wayland Fractional Scaling, Other Wayland Enhancements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.12-Released
2•rbanffy•20m ago•0 comments

Rosenhan Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
1•thunderbong•21m ago•0 comments

Bowlers Have Snapped over Wall Street's Takeover of the Sport

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/bowling-lucky-strike-lanes-private-equity-lawsuit-6763761f
1•impish9208•23m ago•1 comments

Quake Turns 30: John Romero Plays [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Wekr-wnic
2•skibz•24m ago•0 comments

Many people misunderstand the purpose of code review

https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/115096720350507897
4•ColinWright•24m ago•0 comments

US PC shipments fell 7.0% in 1Q26, forecasted to fall 14% in 2026

https://omdia.tech.informa.com/pr/2026/june/us-pc-shipments-fell-7percent-in-1q26-marking-steepes...
1•giuliomagnifico•26m ago•0 comments