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Boom Prize: $750k to the first amateur RC plane that breaks the sound barrier

https://boomsupersonic.com/prize
2•dwwoelfel•57m ago

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smalltorch•42m ago
Intresting

That's extremely fast for a 55lb max weight, would need a consumer grade long range fpv to even safely pilot this and a very large field.

Can you buy jet propulsion off the shelf?

BoorishBears•15m ago
This would feel less gross if Boom would do it themselves to show they know how to.

If even Boom can't do it, then this prize is cartoonishly low. They're offering 750k in cash and a Toyota Highlander in Boom stock to a team that could probably raise tens of millions of their accomplishment for any number of usecases

LinkedIn and X Are Flooded with AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

https://www.404media.co/linkedin-and-x-are-flooded-with-ai-spam-browsing-data-suggests/
1•01-_-•59s ago•0 comments

AI-generated papers scored well in ACL peer review, undisclosed to reviewers [pdf]

https://www.apexin.ai/assets/papers/apex-research-2026.pdf
1•bannedcontra•1m ago•0 comments

Bacteria turn dissolved uranium into stable compound in 130 days

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-bacteria-dissolved-uranium-stable-compound.html
1•ivell•1m ago•0 comments

Making history China lands rocket during an orbital launch for first time

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/making-history-china-lands-rocket-dur...
4•yogthos•7m ago•0 comments

What is momentum?(joke video) (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7jVi8akcc
1•num42•8m ago•0 comments

Soulless – List of AI Artists Hiding on Spotify

https://soullessmusic.com/
1•ChrisArchitect•9m ago•0 comments

Blanks – Why do some books contain blank pages? (2016)

https://rhollick.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/blanks/
1•gurjeet•9m ago•0 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf
2•scrlk•10m ago•1 comments

The Future Worth Building Is Human

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human/
2•ot•12m ago•0 comments

Navigating the 47-Day SSL/TLS Certificate Validity Era

https://www.globalsign.com/en/blog/navigating-the-47-day-ssl-tls-certificate-validity-era
1•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban
4•randycupertino•13m ago•0 comments

Where teams of AI agents choose, keep and improve the profiles they run

https://library.aweb.ai/
1•juanre•13m ago•0 comments

Deep sea submersibles snap first photos of ship where Ernest Shackleton died

https://www.popsci.com/science/shackleton-quest-ship-photos/
1•speckx•14m ago•0 comments

EEG Signal Quality of an In-Ear Wearable

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11207223/
1•soupspaces•15m ago•0 comments

Electric car drivers dodge Russia's hours-long fuel queues

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/electric-car-drivers-dodge-russias-hours-long-fuel-queues...
3•bushwart•15m ago•1 comments

ORM: Between Objects and Relational Databases

https://www.makonea.com/en-US/blog/the-history-of-orm-between-objects-and-relational-databases
1•jdw64•16m ago•0 comments

Opinion polls see France's Le Pen winning 2027 election despite guilty verdict

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/opinion-polls-see-frances-le-pen-winning-2027-election-despi...
3•melenchon•19m ago•1 comments

Voicebox: The Open-Source AI Voice Studio

https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox
1•idleplant•21m ago•0 comments

Feasio – AI that gives brutally honest feasibility reports on business ideas

https://feasio.co/
2•alwgiles•22m ago•0 comments

An Update on the Scraper Situation

https://lwn.net/Articles/1080822/
2•aendruk•22m ago•1 comments

UK Online Safety Consultation: Giving users more choice control and trust online

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/giving-users-more-choice-contr...
1•timthorn•23m ago•0 comments

The Weird Pattern of Japan Determining the World Cup Winners

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldcup/comments/1uprrsj/the_weird_pattern_of_japan_determining_the_world/
1•Anon84•24m ago•0 comments

Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/36177.36194
1•linggen•24m ago•0 comments

A batch job, in The Elm Architecture

https://cekrem.github.io/posts/elm-run-batch-job/
1•linggen•24m ago•0 comments

DIY Mini Split Install: 3 Regrets After 1 Year of Use [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dCCntGj1wM
2•Bender•25m ago•0 comments

Sodas with a Doctorate

https://bsky.app/profile/tudorsandtms.bsky.social/post/3mpz7mfizyc24
2•Tomte•25m ago•0 comments

Waymo cars stranded on SF streets as 4th of July gridlock drains batteries

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/waymo-cars-stranded-san-francisco-streets-drain-batteries-rc...
3•bushwart•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A 100% branchless, CUDA-native AI guardrail kernel written in C++20

https://github.com/PJHkorea/value-system-kernel
2•PJHkorea•26m ago•1 comments

Japan's pension pivot puts Abe-era outpouring of capital in reverse

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/takaichis-pension-pivot-seeks-reverse-abe-era-outpouri...
1•tartoran•27m ago•0 comments

Harness Handbook

https://ruhan-wang.github.io/Harness-Handbook/
4•handfuloflight•29m ago•0 comments