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Inflatable Space Stations

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/inflatable-space-stations/
23•bensouthwood•4d ago

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peteforde•59m ago
Anything that can be inflated can usually be deflated.
aDyslecticCrow•51m ago
so what? it's only one bar of pressure. Bring some gum.
aDyslecticCrow•52m ago
I suspect without ISRU production of bulk orbit sheet metal, the most feasible solution is to repurpose rockets in their whole.

Building a station this large is gonna be costly even within the cargo hold of starship. But six of them, gutted of insides as welded end to end could provide the vast majority of the bulk mass.

This assume rather sophisticated orbital welding and object manipulation; but its feasible we could do it with robots.

ceejayoz•26m ago
This was considered with the orange Space Shuttle fuel tanks; they went almost all the way to orbit anyways.
maxcan•43m ago
I never understand why the rotating station concepts seem to all have rigid tethers, either in the form of a central boom or a rigid circular structure. It would seem like you could get a much larger diameter, so less rotational velocity and more comfort, by attaching rigid, or inflatable in this case, structures with a tether. Compressive loads are non existent, you just need to resist tensile loads.

Maybe I'll go ask the AI.

_dain_•21m ago
Stationkeeping would be a problem. And difficult to stop it precessing away from the rotation axis you want.

Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data
228•jjmaxwell4•1h ago•69 comments

Bad UX World Cup 2025

https://badux.lol/
36•CharlesW•1h ago•7 comments

FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2
150•meetpateltech•4h ago•49 comments

how to repurpose your old phone into a web server

https://far.computer/how-to/
61•louismerlin•3d ago•26 comments

Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor

https://github.com/flowglad/flowglad
112•agreeahmed•2h ago•79 comments

Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI

120•Weves•5h ago•95 comments

The 101 of analog signal filtering (2024)

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-101-of-analog-signal-filtering
77•harperlee•4d ago•4 comments

Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures
152•pseudolus•7h ago•145 comments

UK intends to scrap jury trials for majority of court cases

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/uk/david-lammy-scrap-jury-trials
3•cbeach•20m ago•0 comments

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/jakarta-tokyo-worlds-biggest-city-population
93•skx001•13h ago•30 comments

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world

https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/11/sharf-preconfigured-brain/
368•XzetaU8•13h ago•248 comments

IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825003853
30•wjb3•41m ago•17 comments

Show HN: Secure private diffchecker with merge support

https://diffchecker.dev
9•subhash_k•1h ago•9 comments

It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties"

https://blog.kizu.dev/css-variables/
62•eustoria•2h ago•43 comments

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/
160•davikr•7h ago•16 comments

Inflatable Space Stations

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/inflatable-space-stations/
23•bensouthwood•4d ago•6 comments

Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2025/ozempic-does-not-slow-alzheimers-study-finds
75•danso•3h ago•48 comments

Most Stable Raspberry Pi? Better NTP with Thermal Management

https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/11/24/worlds-most-stable-raspberry-pi-81-better-ntp-with-ther...
256•todsacerdoti•13h ago•79 comments

Orion 1.0

https://blog.kagi.com/orion
234•STRiDEX•3h ago•127 comments

LPLB: An early research stage MoE load balancer based on linear programming

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/LPLB
19•simonpure•6d ago•0 comments

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/
680•amichail•1d ago•278 comments

Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse

https://www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-interview-backlash-analysis/
134•FiddlerClamp•3h ago•189 comments

US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/us-banks-scramble-to-assess-data-theft-after-hackers-breach-fin...
51•indigodaddy•2h ago•1 comments

Broccoli Man, Remastered

https://mbleigh.dev/posts/broccoli-man-remastered/
127•mbleigh•6d ago•69 comments

PRC elites voice AI-skepticism

https://jamestown.org/prc-elites-voice-ai-skepticism/
95•JumpCrisscross•1d ago•29 comments

Unison 1.0 Release

https://www.unison-lang.org/unison-1-0/
24•pchiusano•31m ago•1 comments

Nearby peer discovery without GPS using environmental fingerprints

https://www.svendewaerhert.com/blog/nearby-peer-discovery/
56•waerhert•4d ago•17 comments

Claude Advanced Tool Use

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
620•lebovic•1d ago•247 comments

Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/25/brain-human-cognitive-development-life-stages-cam...
226•hackernj•6h ago•202 comments

APT Rust requirement raises questions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046841/5bbf1fc049a18947/
219•todsacerdoti•5h ago•393 comments