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421•kafked•5h ago•157 comments

Magical Systems Thinking

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/magical-systems-thinking/
36•epb_hn•1h ago•3 comments

486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/486tang_486_on_a_credit_card_size_fpga_board/
66•bitbrewer•2h ago•14 comments

Mago: A fast PHP toolchain written in Rust

https://github.com/carthage-software/mago
67•AbuAssar•2h ago•20 comments

My First Impressions of Gleam

https://mtlynch.io/notes/gleam-first-impressions/
95•AlexeyBrin•4h ago•32 comments

Show HN: CLAVIER-36 (programming environment for generative music)

https://clavier36.com/p/LtZDdcRP3haTWHErgvdM
43•river_dillon•2h ago•11 comments

Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd07nljlyv0o
158•bookofjoe•3h ago•83 comments

Open Source SDR Ham Transceiver Prototype

https://m17project.org/2025/08/18/first-linht-tests/
21•crcastle•3d ago•3 comments

SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V

https://skiftos.org
345•ksec•12h ago•68 comments

UTF-8 is a brilliant design

https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design
708•vishnuharidas•22h ago•283 comments

How to Use Claude Code Subagents to Parallelize Development

https://zachwills.net/how-to-use-claude-code-subagents-to-parallelize-development/
181•zachwills•4d ago•85 comments

Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler (1)

https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2025/06/11/java-25s-new-cpu-time-profiler-1/
122•SerCe•9h ago•63 comments

Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)

https://justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=771
75•v9v•4d ago•18 comments

QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
507•rcarmo•1d ago•116 comments

"Learning how to Learn" will be next generation's most needed skill

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-google-ai-scientist-generation-skill.html
44•Brajeshwar•2h ago•21 comments

The Value of Bringing a Telephoto Lens

https://avidandrew.com/telephoto.html
60•freediver•4d ago•54 comments

Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/
582•mpweiher•1d ago•478 comments

Show HN: Vicinae – a native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae
89•aurellius•3d ago•21 comments

An Annual Blast of Pacific Cold Water Did Not Occur, Alarming Scientists

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/climate/pacific-cold-water-upwelling.html
66•mitchbob•3h ago•18 comments

The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

https://www.tftc.io/treasury-iexpanding-patriot-act/
742•bilsbie•1d ago•526 comments

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art

https://ffglitch.org/gallery/
264•captain_bender•19h ago•36 comments

How 'overworked, underpaid' humans train Google's AI to seem smart

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/11/google-gemini-ai-training-humans
163•Brajeshwar•5h ago•101 comments

Does All Semiconductor Manufacturing Depend on Spruce Pine Quartz? (2024)

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/does-all-semiconductor-manufacturing
38•colinprince•4d ago•23 comments

Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths

https://www.gearnews.com/raspberry-pi-synthesizers-how-the-pi-is-transforming-synths/
106•zdw•13h ago•72 comments

Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/create-thumbnail-is-exif-aware/
62•ingve•4d ago•19 comments

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion

https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
260•pseudolus•10h ago•172 comments

Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction

https://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivc-rent-and-extra...
282•baud147258•16h ago•144 comments

I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode

https://edoput.it/2025/04/16/emacs-paradigm-shift.html
177•Karrot_Kream•20h ago•25 comments

EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

https://www.weplanet.org/post/eu-court-rules-nuclear-energy-is-clean-energy
940•mpweiher•23h ago•943 comments

Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM

https://sporks.space/2025/08/28/tips-for-installing-windows-98-in-qemu-utm/
117•Bogdanp•18h ago•25 comments
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NASA punts decision on Mars sample return to next administration

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-punts-decision-mars-sample-return-next-administration
18•geox•3h ago

Comments

ACCount37•2h ago
This is "news" from the beginning of 2025. The "next administration" in question is Trump administration.

MSR is still in a limbo though, which isn't too surprising - between how much of a disaster was JPL's original MSR proposal, how much of a mess NASA is right now, and how much of a battleground NASA's budget has devolved into.

delichon•2h ago
If NASA doesn't do this, there is still a very well financed private company that intends to do it, as a side effect of colonization, and is actively and credibly developing the capability. How much value is there in the state doing it first?
pohl•2h ago
Interesting, which company is that, and how reliable is their leadership at follow-through?
Simulacra•1h ago
If you're referring SpaceX, the leadership is pretty damn good. Starship, catching it, landing the boosters autonomously, that's pretty serious leadership follow through. Not say they are all great, but SpaceX is certainly ahead in this regard.
kibwen•1h ago
Except, no, Starship is already hugely behind schedule when it comes to promises made for the Artemis program alone, and the design of Artemis has massive compromises to account for Starship (up to a dozen or more Starship launches for a single trip to the moon), which also requires SpaceX to come up with a solution for in-orbit refueling (which they don't yet have, and has never been demonstrated, and by all accounts SpaceX appears to be unreasonably optimistic about the shelf-life of rocket fuel in a hypothetical orbital depot, which is a huge risk to the feasibility of Artemis). In the meantime, Starship has limited independent economic prospects because the world just doesn't have the demand for that much launch capacity, and there's no reason to think that Starship will be more economical for the vast majority of launches (for the same reason that the vast majority of commercial airline flights are not on jumbo jets). SpaceX's mercurial leadership represents an existential risk to the entire company by working on the wrong things and making unrealistic promises that they have no clue how to fulfill, for the same reason that Tesla's mercurial leadership represents an existential risk to the entire company by working on the wrong things (cough, cybertruck, cough) and making unrealistic promises that they have no clue how to fulfill (cough, camera-only autonomous vehicles, cough).
delichon•1h ago
Goals that Elon Musk projects did not achieve in the promised timeline: Tesla Model 3 production, Full-Self-Driving, Mars Colonization, Cybertruck, Starship.

Goals that NASA projects did not achieve in the promised timeline: Artimis I, II and III, Constellation Program, Mars Observer, Climate Orbiter, Polar Lander, and Phobos 1, Hubble Space Telescope, X-33 and -34.

In both cases I think that the unreliability stems not from incompetence, but the degree of difficulty.

dboreham•2h ago
Because the "well funding" that private company intends to use comes from...the US government?
delichon•1h ago
If they are already well funding, for other goals, a company that intends to do it, why not just let them and focus on other priorities?
magicalhippo•1h ago
Guess it depends on the state. China is planning[1] to launch their Mars sample return mission in 2028, and I guess they do care about being first if they can.

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-tianwen-3-...

jmclnx•1h ago
IIRC, Trump wanted to get someone on Mars by 2030 or 2035 ? Well good luck with that.

Cutting funds like that have been doing, it will be lucky if NASA can send someone down the street to get milk :) I would think returning samples from Mars would be a big help on exploring Mars for potential settlements.

I guess they believe Thoughts and Prayers will be enough to explore Mars.

uyzstvqs•1h ago
___This post is misleading___

The article was posted in January of this year. The "next administration" refers to the now-current Trump-Vance administration, which at that point was still incoming.

For those interested in the topic, please follow the official first-party source here: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-sample-return/

cubefox•58m ago
This link doesn't contain any more recent information though. It's not decided yet which return option will be taken. However, judging from the original source, it seems that the first option (sky crane) is developed by NASA internally together with contractors, while the second seems to be some new fixed price contract by some external company. This wasn't clear from the Nature piece.

> During formulation, NASA will proceed with exploring and evaluating two distinct means of landing the payload platform on Mars. The first option will leverage previously flown entry, descent, and landing system designs, namely the sky crane method, demonstrated with the Curiosity and Perseverance missions. The second option will capitalize on using new commercial capabilities to deliver the lander payload to the surface of Mars.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-explore-two-landin...