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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
604•klaussilveira•11h ago•180 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
912•xnx•17h ago•545 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
28•helloplanets•4d ago•21 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
101•matheusalmeida•1d ago•24 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
29•videotopia•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
208•isitcontent•12h ago•24 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
206•dmpetrov•12h ago•98 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
316•vecti•14h ago•138 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
354•aktau•18h ago•180 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
360•ostacke•18h ago•94 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
465•todsacerdoti•19h ago•232 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
4•kaonwarb•3d ago•1 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
24•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
263•eljojo•14h ago•156 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
398•lstoll•18h ago•271 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
80•quibono•4d ago•20 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
54•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
8•bikenaga•3d ago•2 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
238•i5heu•14h ago•182 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
49•gfortaine•9h ago•15 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
138•vmatsiiako•17h ago•60 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
273•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
126•SerCe•8h ago•107 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
68•phreda4•11h ago•13 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
28•gmays•7h ago•9 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1051•cdrnsf•21h ago•432 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
7•jesperordrup•2h ago•2 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
61•rescrv•19h ago•22 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
171•limoce•3d ago•93 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
15•neogoose•4h ago•9 comments
Open in hackernews

ESA’s Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration (2024)

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Connectivity_and_Secure_Communications/ESA_s_Moonlight_programme_Pioneering_the_path_for_lunar_exploration
86•nullhole•6mo ago

Comments

CharlesXY•6mo ago
Honestly, pleasantly surprised that this is a European-led initiative, it’s really great to see ESA stepping up with such an ambitious project.
sandworm101•6mo ago
Mostly European. The ESA map has a little cutout for the one non-european "cooperator" state on the council.

https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Member_States_Co...

ChocolateGod•6mo ago
Canada is currently pretending to be a European country sssh
saubeidl•6mo ago
We'll annex them before the Americans do!
preisschild•6mo ago
For Canada we can rename the EU to just "the Union" or even "The United States" :)
JLemay•6mo ago
I mean it sounds great for materials extraction, but I’m a bit skeptical on infrastructure that will make long-term exploration and a lunar economy actually viable
saubeidl•6mo ago
ESA is leading the way in a bunch of space stuff - we're not great at launchers, but the stuff we send up is top-notch.

There's Euclid, which maps out the visible sky in insane detail [0]

There's Galileo, which provides much higher accuracy than GPS. (20cm vs 5m!)

And then there's Copernicus, which provides open-access Earth Observation as a public good.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZCsUfgLRQ

snickerbockers•6mo ago
>There's Galileo, which provides much higher accuracy than GPS. (20cm vs 5m!)

Very ironic name for a group of satellites orbiting the earth.

BigChemical•6mo ago
The Moonlight programme is one of those low-key projects that could end up being essential. Reliable navigation and comms around the Moon turns exploration into long-term infrastructure. It's less about planting flags, more about making the Moon actually usable.
jcfrei•6mo ago
I mean, kudos to ESA for already thinking about connectivity on the moon. But maybe a bit more pressing would be the launch of IRIS2, so we get at least sovereign satellite based telecommunications in Europe. It's set to launch with the first rockets in 2029 but the full budget post 2027 hasn't even been approved yet.
verzali•6mo ago
IRIS2 is a European Union project, not an ESA project. Different organisations, purposes, and countries.
preisschild•6mo ago
Thats not really true. IRIS^2 is a joint project between the EUSPA and ESA

> The European Space Agency (ESA) is responsible for development and deployment of the system and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) is responsible for the governmental service provision.

The ESA wants to be the "space agency" of the European Union anyways

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS%C2%B2

delijati•6mo ago
Delta-V or better the second book critical mass from Daniel Suarez.
ragebol•6mo ago
The navigation part will be of great use to landers there, I've heard too often that the ground sensing radars lock on too late to help guide the landing. Getting a good location estimate might relieve some of that pressure.

For recent landers also didn't really know where exactly they landed, only after getting spotted in images taken from orbit

sandworm101•6mo ago
No. It is a fundamental data problem relating to sensor accuracy/precision. They are called "suicide burns" for a reason. Start the burn too late and you run out of time and smash into the ground. Start too early and you run out of fuel and smash into the ground. So you need a sensor with error bars similar to your safety window for the planned burn.

Let's say you need to start the burn within a +/-10m box to come to a stop 1 to 21m above the moon surface. You want a sensor with something at least 10m precision but preferably more like 1m. That would be the radar. But then say you have something like a GPS with +/-100m precision. Does that help? Your safe window is somewhere inside that 200m but you cannot be sure where until the radar comes online. So do you use the +/-100m info from the GPS? Do you maneuver to center yourself inside its error bars? All you can be sure of is that you are somewhere within that 200m and are 95% sure you are not within the 10m window. So you make a maneuver anyway. Are you now in any better an information position? No. You are still somewhere in the 200m box and are still very likely outside the 10m box. Heck, you might have been inside the 10m box and just moved yourself out of it. You just wasted fuel. The only logical thing to do is to ignore the GPS and wait for the better/actionable information from the radar. The GPS may give you a warm fuzzy but it doesn't actually help when you only have one shot at the burn.

(This problem is mirrored in areas like missile guidance. Running parallel sensors on a missile sounds like a good idea but in reality leads to confusion, wasted energy/range and reduced chance of getting to the target.)

jvanderbot•6mo ago
Not that I doubt your conclusions necessarily, but isn't this what sensor fusion is for? You can cast it as sensor "selection", which is fine, but given two sensors that show 10/1 accuracy (variance 100:1), and the estimates are consistent, I don't know why you'd expect it to have divergent results. (Am I understanding the problem here?). Your pos/alt is still measurable but with big old error bars until the precise sensors kick in.
nullhole•6mo ago
That's roughly my understanding.

Worth noting too that your original, pre-LPS[1] position/orientation/trajectory is coming from other sensors with their own error bars, namely your IMU and whatever information the ground can glean from radio signals.

If your LPS accuracy is better than your IMU accuracy, I don't see why it wouldn't make sense to start using it once it's available.

[1] gotta call it something and GPS doesn't really fit

sandworm101•6mo ago
You can only fuse sensors that are online. In the recent crashes the radar wasn't. The point is that you cannot swap out a high accuracy sensor, not when doing suicide burns with zero margin.
ragebol•6mo ago
My case was about not having radar at all. Having GPS could buy you some time and start braking already based on GPS even if the radar is still out. Yes, might burn some additional fuel but burning too late sucks harder I suppose.

Also: even tough I couldn't find anything about the navigation (or rather localization?) accuracy of the Moonlight system, I'd expect it to be better than 100m, but I have nothing to confirm or deny this.