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Starship Launch 13 Exposed Fatal Achilles Heel: potential mission-ending delays

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-launch-13-exposed-its-fatal
3•ck2•45m ago

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ck2•43m ago
oh wow that's crazy, never knew it's impossible to store cryogenic fuels in space for more than a few days:

* https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/science-enabling-t...

cratermoon•16m ago
There’s a reason why every nearly spacecraft intended to operate more than a couple of days and be able to maneuver and make trajectory or orbit changes has used hypergolic fuels. They don’t have burn off issues and they don’t need ignition systems. The only exceptions now are the electric propulsion systems like Hall-effect thrusters.
spottedmarley•29m ago
Yes, but once there are a million AGI-level datacenters in space Elon will direct them to invent warp drive and then optimus robots will build it so, no big deal.

Qencode Launches AI Upscaling to Bring Legacy Video Catalogs into the 4K Era

https://news.qencode.com/posts/qencode-launches-ai-upscaling-to-bring-legacy-video-catalogs-into-...
1•QencodeCorp•2m ago•0 comments

The Great Divergence in Software Engineering

https://stack72.dev/the-great-divergence-in-software-engineering/
2•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

Gen Z Can't Afford a First Date

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/nyregion/gen-z-dating-too-expensive-cost.html
1•root-parent•2m ago•0 comments

Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer

https://blog.stackdump.com/posts/petri-net-sequencer
3•m_kos•2m ago•0 comments

Building Scalable GitHub Runner Infrastructure on Sandboxes

https://www.tensorlake.ai/blog/build-your-own-ci-infrastructure
1•diptanu•5m ago•0 comments

What is "Switch Bounce" & how to implement debounce

https://www.picotech.com/library/articles/blog/what-is-switch-bounce-how-to-implement-debounce
2•peter_d_sherman•5m ago•1 comments

Elastic Curves via Geometric Mechanics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29654
2•E-Reverance•5m ago•0 comments

Human Evidence of Novel Writing as a Service

https://vellumproof.com
2•nate•5m ago•0 comments

I shrank my chess engine 70x by trying to compress it

https://latentheat.dev/blog/chess-small-models-search-deeper
2•oli266•6m ago•0 comments

Readable Code Is Unreadable: Incunabulum, an Implementation of J

https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2025-06-06-readable-code-is-unreadable.html
3•lioeters•6m ago•0 comments

An MCP server that lets coding agents query your NestJS API's OpenAPI contract

https://www.nestdocfy.com/
3•MarvinRochaDev•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vinyl – Animated vinyl record wallpaper for Mac, synced to Spotify

https://www.vinylformac.com/
4•sxhivs•7m ago•0 comments

Shell sells Dutch solar farms in retreat from renewables

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/08/shell-sells-dutch-solar-farms-in-retreat-from-renewables/
3•TechTechTech•10m ago•0 comments

Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

https://www.404media.co/own-the-narrative-leaked-flock-guide-shows-how-it-teaches-cops-to-promote...
3•cdrnsf•10m ago•0 comments

My "4-bit" quant was 6.2 bits per weight

https://koleslaw.ai/blog/the-quantization-that-didnt-fit
3•murphman•14m ago•0 comments

Canva is 1% of the way there

https://mili.dev/writing/canva-is-one-percent-of-the-way-there/
3•jmilinovich•15m ago•0 comments

Anthropic CEO Amodei is concerned new talent join for money rather than mission

https://twitter.com/etnshow/status/2084221242614202704
5•theanonymousone•16m ago•0 comments

Monkey interact with AI touch screens in Costa Rica forest

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/costa-rica-scientists-placed-an-ai-touchscreen-in-a-w...
3•jmartrican•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 11-Node Agentic RAG with MCP and PII Shield Under 512MB RAM

https://agentic-rag-financial-parser.onrender.com/
3•ambujkt•17m ago•0 comments

The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/billable-usage-api/
4•ashleypeacock•19m ago•1 comments

Astrophyzix Digital Observatory Help Combat Fake Science and Promote Education

https://www.astrophyzix.com/p/astroping.html
3•SpacenewsUK•20m ago•0 comments

HugeTLB Gigantic Page Overcommit in Linux v6.19

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/hugetlb-gigantic-page-overcommit
3•ankitg12•21m ago•0 comments

Eigendrum: Draw a shape and hear its standing-wave modes

https://baselashraf81.github.io/eigendrum/
3•joshcsimmons•21m ago•0 comments

The Myth of the Food Desert

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/03/food-justice-undone-hanna-garth-book-review
3•eamag•22m ago•0 comments

White House's new upcoming model-testing framework

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/03/white-house-ai-companies-voluntary-framework-meeting.html
4•freakynit•23m ago•0 comments

English to Snacklish Translator

https://exogen.github.io/snacklish/
3•twalichiewicz•24m ago•0 comments

Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Abu_Hureyra
3•dieselgate•25m ago•0 comments

Questions users ask AI assistants

https://frigade.com/blog/ten-common-product-problems-2026
2•pancomplex•27m ago•0 comments

YT Bans ASMR Artists, Accusing Them of Making 'Sexually Gratifying' Content

https://www.404media.co/youtube-asmr-ban-sex-and-nudity-policy/
7•johnbarron•28m ago•1 comments

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/
2•ascorbic•28m ago•0 comments