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Proba-3's first artificial solar eclipse

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Proba-3_s_first_artificial_solar_eclipse
15•sohkamyung•2d ago

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hifikuno•4h ago
I know technology has come a long way, but it is amazing to me that they can fly two hunks of metal through space and align their positions down to a millimetre, while being a footy field and a half apart.

I wouldn't even know where to begin to tackle a problem like that.

roughly•3h ago
Now and again the actual engineers at NASA or ESA or the like pull something off like this to remind the rest of us that we're just cosplaying
tialaramex•2h ago
Greg Egan's story "Riding the Crocodile" features a fancier version of this trick, fire three objects from three origins at close to maximum speed, precisely timed to arrive at a point despite the enormous relativistic delays, the objects incorporate powerful magnets, and are designed such that they don't actually collide per se if timing is correct - but as they pass each other at the point where they would collide if shaped differently the magnetic force slows them all and so they eventually stop, together, at this focal point.

The Amalgam in that story have fantastically better technology than we do, but this is certainly at the edge of what's practical for them. It's a fun idea though, I wonder how close we could get with our technology.

prats226•3h ago
Why aren't telescopes built this way?
woleium•2h ago
Mostly because they don’t need to be, i would guess.

Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA

https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
39•the-anarchist•45m ago•5 comments

AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440
171•JnBrymn•5h ago•34 comments

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/
404•wut42•12h ago•184 comments

Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

https://writewithharper.com
157•ReadCarlBarks•8h ago•37 comments

AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-freshly-baked-mi350-an-interview
59•pella•6h ago•29 comments

Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia

https://www.monkeon.co.uk/wikiradio/
76•if-curious•6h ago•17 comments

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/
242•smitop•10h ago•422 comments

Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä

https://jgeekstudies.org/2025/06/20/wilted-lands-and-wounded-worlds-visualizing-environmental-costs-of-war-in-hayao-miyazakis-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/
188•zdw•12h ago•55 comments

I Dropped the Production Database on a Friday Night

https://vince.beehiiv.com/p/how-i-dropped-the-production-database-on-a-friday-night
14•vincejos•2d ago•11 comments

Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

https://github.com/nxtscape/nxtscape
214•felarof•11h ago•158 comments

Show HN: Inspect and extract files from MSI installers directly in your browser

https://pymsi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/msi_viewer.html
86•rmast•7h ago•15 comments

Learn You Galois Fields for Great Good (00)

https://xorvoid.com/galois_fields_for_great_good_00.html
13•signa11•3h ago•1 comments

College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/15/college-baseball-venture-capital-and-the-long-maybe/
137•bcantrill•4d ago•95 comments

Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions (2024)

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/tiny-undervalued-hardware-companions/
4•zdw•1h ago•0 comments

Verified dynamic programming with Σ-types in Lean

https://tannerduve.github.io/blog/memoization-sigma/
58•rck•3d ago•19 comments

Alpha Centauri

https://www.filfre.net/2025/06/alpha-centauri/
99•doppp•11h ago•35 comments

Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser

https://github.com/ebbejan/tux-racer-js
93•retro_guy•10h ago•31 comments

Texas Sheriffs Crack Bitcoin ATM with Power Tools to Retrieve $32,000

https://decrypt.co/326308/texas-sheriffs-crack-bitcoin-atm-with-power-tools-to-retrieve-32000
23•croes•1h ago•8 comments

Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor
164•keepamovin•17h ago•82 comments

No More Shading Languages: Compiling C++ to Vulkan Shaders [pdf]

https://xol.io/random/vcc-paper.pdf
33•pjmlp•2d ago•23 comments

Cracovians: The Twisted Twins of Matrices

https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/cracovians-the-twisted-twins-of-matrices/
56•mci•11h ago•27 comments

A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of robotics

https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong
102•Bogdanp•4d ago•58 comments

Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2025.2504070
52•cratermoon•8h ago•17 comments

A Python-first data lakehouse

https://www.bauplanlabs.com/blog/everything-as-python
102•akshayka•3d ago•30 comments

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses

https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html
18•mantia•1d ago•0 comments

Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/dancing-naked-on-the-head-of-a-pin
46•crescit_eundo•2d ago•2 comments

Proba-3's first artificial solar eclipse

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Proba-3_s_first_artificial_solar_eclipse
15•sohkamyung•2d ago•5 comments

The JAWS shark is public domain

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/
128•MBCook•8h ago•27 comments

Jürgen Schmidhuber:the Father of Generative AI Without Turing Award

http://www.jazzyear.com/article_info.html?id=1352
76•kleiba•8h ago•47 comments

BYD begins testing solid-state EV batteries in the Seal

https://electrek.co/2025/06/20/byd-tests-solid-state-batteries-seal-ev-with-1000-miles-range/
109•toomuchtodo•7h ago•115 comments