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Swift and Cute 2D Game Framework: Setting Up a Project with CMake

https://layer22.com/swift-and-cute-framework-setting-up-a-project-with-cmake
9•pusewicz•43m ago•2 comments

Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration

https://portal.gov.cz/e-petice/1205-petice-za-povinne-zverejneni-zdrojovych-kodu-softwaru-pouzitych-ve-verejne-sprave
27•harvie•2h ago•3 comments

Fuzzer Blind Spots (Meet Jepsen)

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-06-06-fuzzer-blind-spots-meet-jepsen/
11•todsacerdoti•49m ago•0 comments

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful
835•DavideNL•6h ago•347 comments

Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11

https://jepsen.io/analyses/tigerbeetle-0.16.11
40•aphyr•1h ago•1 comments

Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-freight-rail-fueled-a-new-luxury-overnight-train-startup
11•Ozarkian•3h ago•2 comments

The impossible predicament of the death newts

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/
484•bdr•22h ago•167 comments

Tokasaurus: An LLM inference engine for high-throughput workloads

https://scalingintelligence.stanford.edu/blogs/tokasaurus/
177•rsehrlich•14h ago•23 comments

Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite

https://github.com/wey-gu/py-pglite
112•wey-gu•11h ago•32 comments

X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x-changes-its-terms-to-bar-training-of-ai-models-using-its-content/
149•bundie•19h ago•150 comments

Show HN: Claude Composer

https://github.com/possibilities/claude-composer
126•mikebannister•13h ago•65 comments

How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy

https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/
195•BUFU•11h ago•170 comments

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406•256dpi•1d ago•172 comments

What a developer needs to know about SCIM

https://tesseral.com/blog/what-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-scim
115•noleary•13h ago•23 comments

APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Haskell (2024)

https://scharenbroch.dev/projects/apl-interpreter/
111•ofalkaed•14h ago•43 comments

Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way

https://lebcit.github.io/post/meet-aether-a-cms-that-actually-gets-out-of-your-way/
13•LebCit•4h ago•2 comments

AMD Radeon 8050S "Strix Halo" Linux Graphics Performance Review

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-8050s-graphics
8•rbanffy•1h ago•0 comments

Seven Days at the Bin Store

https://defector.com/seven-days-at-the-bin-store
188•zdw•19h ago•91 comments

Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/defending-adverbs-exuberantly-if
39•benbreen•15h ago•17 comments

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87•echollama•13h ago•40 comments

Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law

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146•BafS•1h ago•48 comments

Open Source Distilling

https://opensourcedistilling.com/
50•nativeit•10h ago•23 comments

SkyRoof: New Ham Satellite Tracking and SDR Receiver Software

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/skyroof-new-ham-satellite-tracking-and-sdr-receiver-software/
92•rmason•16h ago•8 comments

I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/08/06/i-made-search-worse-elasticsearch
83•softwaredoug•17h ago•12 comments

Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Digital-Minister-wants-open-standards-and-open-source-as-guiding-principle-10414632.html
47•donutloop•5h ago•35 comments

The Universal Tech Tree

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-universal-tech-tree
111•mitchbob•3d ago•48 comments

Converge (YC S23) Well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers

https://www.runconverge.com/careers
1•thomashlvt•14h ago

Show HN: Lambduck, a Functional Programming Brainfuck

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45•jorkingit•12h ago•17 comments

Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first

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336•picture•1d ago•282 comments

Programming language Dino and its implementation

https://github.com/dino-lang/dino
51•90s_dev•18h ago•16 comments
Open in hackernews

A Spiral Structure in the Inner Oort Cloud

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbf9b
135•gnabgib•1d ago

Comments

girvo•1d ago
Meta: I can't even get into the site, the hCaptcha shows an image (a table and chairs) that never shows up even after 20+ "Skip" clicks...
SCUSKU•1d ago
Here's the PDF: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbf9b/...
tonyhart7•1d ago
I fucking hate that chaptcha
recursive•1d ago
I got the same thing. The correct answer for me was the fancy desserts, because they go on a fancy restaurant table I guess.
samyok•1d ago
you have to click on the fruit cups, as it asks what fits the "theme" of the image.

here's the pdf, though: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbf9b/...

w10-1•1d ago
Also no access, even after passing human validation - screen dark.
dcassett•1d ago
I've been using the links browser for HN and fall back to a full-fledged browser if I get blocked. Links (and Lynx) give me no problems with TFA.
graemep•1d ago
> I can't even get into the site, the hCaptcha shows an image (a table and chairs) that never shows up even after 20+ "Skip" clicks...

But someone's metrics are showing 20+ bot request blocked!

misja111•1d ago
The bot doesn't believe you're human
gs17•16h ago
It's a really poor design. "Fits the theme", not "is this object". I had a lighthouse and it wanted me to click sharks, because they're both "water" themed.

I asked Gemini to solve this "puzzle" and it could do it. Whatever weird filter they're trying to apply to the images doesn't work well enough.

coke12•1d ago
Our own solar system has what appear to be spiral arms. Very cool finding.
dotancohen•1d ago
Yes, this is interesting, finding complex structures that are found at multiple scales is rather amazing.

The paper attributes the solar system's spiral structure to the galactic tide. If I'm not mistaken, and this might be outdated, the galactic spiral structure is attributed to massive clumping - massive particles attract.

("Massive" meaning particles with mass - not necessarily large. "Particles" meaning macroscopic particles, not subatomic.)

dachris•1d ago
It's amazing, yes, and at the same time, it makes perfect sense.

(Somewhat) similar mechanisms are at work whether you're pulling together stars into a galaxy, hydrogen gas into a solar system or water towards the drain of your bath tub - a pull towards the center, the centripetal force, slight variations producing "artifacts".

dotancohen•1d ago
Well, I would not call these two mechanisms similar, though the artifacts may be similar. I wonder if in fact the spirals are similar, for that matter if mathematicians even have terminology for different types of spirals.

The spirals shown in the paper do look like idealised spirals of very young galaxies, shortly after the bar phase. I wonder, other than spirals, what other artifacts such processes might cause.

Imagine an accretian disk undergoing fusion in spiral-shaped filaments!

ninkendo•1d ago
Also, galaxy spirals are very much an open question. Galaxies don’t rotate the way you’d expect from the matter you see, and it’s the main reason we hypothesize the existence of dark matter. Unless dark matter is the reason the Oort Cloud develops spiral arms, I’d wager the mechanisms are quite different.
awongh•22h ago
> Galaxies don’t rotate the way you’d expect from the matter you see

In what way?

gosub100•17h ago
Given the stars' angular velocity, they should fly out away from the galactic center, but they stay confined to their disc.
AStonesThrow•1d ago
It will be really exciting if we confirm one, then.

The spiral structure here is a hypothesis within a hypothesis. Whatever objects comprise the Oort Cloud, they haven't been directly observed. Scientists have inferred its existence from a variety of comets that seem related and have very, very long orbital periods, such as 200 years, or 2,000 years. So these comets are observed once-in-a-lifetime, or once-in-a-civilization, and the hypotheses say that they're being dislodged somehow from a "cloud of planetesimals" where a bunch more of them are found.

But this supposed cloud would be extremely sparse: plenty of space in-between the very small icy bodies, and individually, they're so much smaller, and so distant from the Sun, that they don't reflect enough light to our telescopes. They really don't send signals in other wavelengths, either, like a pulsar or quasar or something with an active powerplant.

This is beyond the Kuiper Belt, even; the Kuiper Belt, if it indeed be a belt, has offered us a couple of directly-observed objects, including Pluto and Charon.

So it's nice to conjecture and invent proposals for some kind of structure there, but the very existence and extent of the Oort Cloud is something that's been extrapolated and inferred from secondary evidence.

metalman•1d ago
confirmation is unlikely, as imaging and detection out there is not a thing from the intro, "Here we discuss dynamics underlying the Oort spiral and (feeble) prospects for its observational detection." we need a whole new class of space based telescopes for this, and other things like direct observation of surface conditions on.exo planets
jajko•1d ago
Do we know why ie Saturn rings are not spiral-like? Ie due to their age (some relatively recently broken down comets) or some other forces that keep them spread evenly? Or just gravity is too weak amongst them for those smaller pieces of rock
seanhunter•21h ago
Just trying to understand what you're getting at here. About what axis would you expect them to spiral? From normal mechanics + gravity I would expect them to orbit more or less elliptically about the polar axis of Saturn rather than spiral, but I don't know much about astrophysics.
antognini•17h ago
Moons close to the rings tend to keep the particles of the ring confined within a narrow band (which is why they are called "shepherd moons").
throwawaymaths•22h ago
IIRC the galactic spiral is believed explicitly to be not due to gravitational attraction so much as shock wave/traffic jam dynamics (transmitted through gravitational force ofc) -- not sure if that's what you meant by clumping.
antognini•17h ago
The basic theory of spirals is basically that you get spiral structure when the orientation of elliptical orbits shifts with semi-major axis. This leads to what appear to be spiral arms that have higher densities. In these high density regions you get collisions of gas clouds which leads to star formation. The star forming regions produce lots of bright, blue stars, which then make the spiral arms very visible in optical wavelengths.

In this case of the Oort cloud the galactic tides would be what are responsible for inducing the change in orientation of the elliptical orbits as a function of semi-major axis.

doctoboggan•1d ago
> The spiral structure was first identified by examining the simulation in the Hayden Planetarium in preparation for a new space show that describes and visualizes the Oort cloud.

That's a pretty cool way to discover something like this. Here is the simulation animation:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TuacHdAeZ5J8wNAJvlYv435x9Oj...

tristramb•1d ago
You might also appreciate W. W. Morgan's account of his discovery of the Perseus Spiral Arm of our Galaxy in his observational data on OB stars:

"This was in the fall of 1951, and I was walking between the observatory and home, which is only 100 yards away. I was looking up in the sky ... just looking up in the region of the Double Cluster [in Perseus], and I realized I had been getting distance moduli corrected the best way I could with the colors that were available, for numbers of stars in the general region ... Anyway, I was walking. I was looking up at the sky, and it suddenly occurred to me that the double cluster in Perseus, and then a number of stars in Cassiopeia, these are not the bright stars but the distant stars, and even Cepheus, that along there I was getting distance moduli, of between 11 and 12, corrected distance moduli. Well, 11.5 is two kiloparsecs ... and so, I couldn’t wait to get over here and really plot them up. It looked like they were at the same distance ... It looked like a concentration ... And so, as soon as I began plotting this out, the first thing that showed up was that there was a concentration, a long narrow concentration of young stars ... There are HII regions along there too ... And that was the thing that broke [the problem] down."

Full article here: https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_que...

YesThatTom2•1d ago
The ads for Hayden Planetarium show mostly highlight that it’s narrated by Pedro Pascal.

But, yeah, the spiral thing is cool too.

AStonesThrow•2h ago
The past few planetarium shows in my neck-of-the-woods have featured narration by the likes of David Tennant and Diego Luna.

As I understand it, these shows are sort of syndicated and shared among many locations. Some of them were several years old.

dedicate•1d ago
I always pictured it as, like, a super scattered snowball fight way out in the boonies. How does something so delicate even hold that shape out there?

This completely change how we should think about the 'edge' of our solar system!

HappMacDonald•1d ago
Kamina most likely approves
eli_gottlieb•19h ago
I understood that reference.
Eduard•1d ago
could someone explain the significance of this finding? Is it remarkable for being a definable structure in a previously thought random distribution of bodies that make up the Oort cloud?
machenesonk•20h ago
could universe have a spin?
twic•14h ago
They could really do with a 3D model of this, it's rather hard to visualise from the views from two different directions.