frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html
125•vismit2000•1h ago•59 comments

JPEG Compression

https://www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg
242•vinhnx•4d ago•47 comments

Write up of my homebrew CPU build

https://willwarren.com/2026/03/12/building-my-own-cpu-part-3-from-simulation-to-hardware/
91•wwarren•2d ago•13 comments

Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

https://nightingale.cafe/
79•rzzzzru•3h ago•11 comments

Mistral AI Releases Forge

https://mistral.ai/news/forge
523•pember•14h ago•117 comments

How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly

https://eon.systems/updates/embodied-brain-emulation
28•LopRabbit•2d ago•7 comments

A Decade of Slug

https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html
633•mwkaufma•16h ago•63 comments

Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?

27•hariprasadr•3d ago•23 comments

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/microsofts-unhackable-xbox-one-has-been-h...
704•crtasm•20h ago•256 comments

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science

https://bertrandmeyer.com/2026/03/16/celebrating-tony-hoares-mark-on-computer-science/
45•benhoyt•5h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL

https://oseifert.ch/blog/building-pgit
58•ImGajeed76•1d ago•21 comments

Judge orders restoration of Voice of America

https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-kari-lake-trump-cd6d1ef05272f842705da0ed38d3de24
22•geox•59m ago•4 comments

Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/jit-on-track.html
394•guidoiaquinti•17h ago•220 comments

More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

https://openhardware.directory
250•iosifnicolae2•4d ago•30 comments

Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead

https://ndea.com/jobs/search-guidance
1•mikeknoop•4h ago

The pleasures of poor product design

https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/the-pleasures-of-poor-product-design
139•NaOH•10h ago•48 comments

OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)

https://om.co/2026/03/17/openai-has-new-focus-on-the-ipo/
44•aamederen•1h ago•43 comments

(Media over QUIC) on a Boat

https://moq.dev/blog/on-a-boat/
26•mmcclure•4d ago•2 comments

Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system

https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done
355•stefankuehnel•15h ago•181 comments

Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking

https://github.com/adammiribyan/zeroboot
186•adammiribyan•22h ago•46 comments

Have a fucking website

https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/
496•asukachikaru•8h ago•265 comments

Animation 10k Starlink Satellites

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=03&year=2026
14•MeteorMarc•4h ago•19 comments

Unsloth Studio

https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio
303•brainless•20h ago•58 comments

Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15381
132•aanet•14h ago•67 comments

A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel

https://rovarma.com/articles/a-tale-about-fixing-ebpf-spinlock-issues-in-the-linux-kernel/
110•y1n0•11h ago•8 comments

Leviathan (1651)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm
88•mrwh•3d ago•32 comments

It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4
254•yincrash•4d ago•100 comments

Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/electron-microscopy-shows-mouse-bite-defects-semiconductors
82•hhs•4d ago•21 comments

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ryugu-asteroid-samples-dna-rna.html
254•bookofjoe•23h ago•137 comments

Launch an autonomous AI agent with sandboxed execution in 2 lines of code

https://amaiya.github.io/onprem/examples_agent.html
44•wiseprobe•10h ago•15 comments
Open in hackernews

Animation 10k Starlink Satellites

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=03&year=2026
14•MeteorMarc•4h ago

Comments

aledevv•1h ago
10,000 Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth?? I didn't know there were so many, really so many.

Their presence has already radically transformed the orbital environment.

There are so many that in 2025 alone they performed around 300,000 collision avoidance maneuvers.

In short: on the one hand, they're convenient for us because of their fantastic internet connection, but on the other, they're generating truly unprecedented artificial traffic in space.

All this worries me a little.

mikkupikku•1h ago
You shouldn't be worried about it, these satellites are in Low Earth Orbits that readily decay if the satellites don't regularly reboost themselves using their electric thrusters. And performing collision avoidance maneuvers is just part of how they're designed to work. Note that its 300,000 avoidances, not collisions. These are more like ballerinas than careening billiard balls.
user32489318•1h ago
True, but at scale of 10k, chances of collision due to malfunction are not 0.
madaxe_again•1h ago
And so what if they collide? This isn’t Kessler syndrome territory, it’s low enough orbit that debris would re-enter and burn up rapidly. You’d lose the colliding satellites, and that’s likely all.

Not that there has been a single starlink collision, but y’know.

jacquesm•1h ago
> Not that there has been a single starlink collision

How sure are you that that would be made public?

Would it be always observed and caught outside of SpaceX?

If not, is that proof that if there such collisions they don't matter?

madaxe_again•1h ago
There are a great many eyes on the sky, and you can’t hide stuff up there - even every secret military satellite is known and tracked - so something as substantial as a collision would likely be known about before it even happens, as ephemera don’t change without an input.
jacquesm•26m ago
Thank you for the answer. I'm aware of the degree of coverage over land but I was wondering about the ocean side of things as well.
karlgkk•31m ago
> How sure are you that that would be made public?

Extremely sure. There are both numerous private, academic, and governmental agencies that are constantly searching for both collision paths, and collision debris.

The debris cloud alone would generate an extremely visible signature.

> Would it be always observed and caught outside of SpaceX?

Yes.

jacquesm•26m ago
Thank you for the answer.
mikkupikku•1h ago
Nobody says the chance of a collisions is zero. That's why it being in LEO is relevant. Internet fools who just get scared by the big number without considering the details of the situation always get this wrong.
user32489318•1h ago
Imagine a threat actor blowing up one or two of them. Or malfunction leading to collision with a launcher. Or any satellite malfunction and failure to de-orbit in time.

Remember MAD, mutual assured distraction? Well we created another one for access to space

Pay08•46m ago
No, we wouldn't.
wongarsu•18m ago
> Or any satellite malfunction and failure to de-orbit in time

Last year they had one "dead as a doornail" Starlink satellite in space. [1] It's v1.5, so deployed sometime between 2021 and 2023. It should be naturally deorbited from atmospheric drag by now.

There was also the other Starlink satellite with a tank rupture last December [2]

A low number of dead satellites isn't an issue as the other satellites can steer around it. Their orbit also quickly decays to a level where it's below the orbital plane of the other satellites. The real danger is if a large enough number malfunction that they start colliding with each other at high speeds

1: https://starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_Satel...

2: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/a-spacex-...

seydor•7m ago
while most of LEO satellites are already probably used for military purposes, they are not subject to MAD deterrence, but probably one of the first easy targets should war erupt
user32489318•1h ago
What I found so fascinating about starling is how easy it was for a single country, even a single company in this case, to pollute near-earth space.

I understand the mechanics of LEO, and the de-orbit mechanics put in place. But the world-wide impact, unknown side-effects on the upper layers of atmosphere on the re-entry of literally thousands of satellites within fairly short period of time?

mikkupikku•1h ago
On a bad year, there might be a few hundred tons of Starlink satellites reentering the atmosphere. In the same year, there will be something like 5000 tons of meteors reentrying, and if you include space dust that radars don't see, you're looking at a few times more than that.

This appeal to scary ignorance to poop on a technology is a cynical reflex. Instead of just saying that a bare number with no context scares you, you should dig deeper and try to actually back up or invalidate your fears.

jacquesm•1h ago
You're low by a factor of three.

You probably could make the same point in a better way as well.

severino•53m ago
True. And what will happen when another company wants their 10k satellites on orbit too? And companies from another countries, as well.
wongarsu•34m ago
It wasn't easy at all. Nobody except SpaceX could have done it at the time. This is the result of SpaceX being able to launch much cheaper than anyone before them, and being able to use these high-cadence launches to both implement and test incremental improvements in their rockets and streamline their reuse of preflown boosters.

SpaceX was the only conceivable launch provider for this, and if it had been an external customer that cares too much about the risk of these launches the incremental improvements that made this cost-effective wouldn't have been possible. Realistically this was only viable for SpaceX doing it as part of R&D for their own rockets. And even then this puts severe financial strain on them because their original business plan was built around having Starship available years ago for even cheaper deployment of bigger satellites

Of course now that it has been done and technology has advanced by ~7 years it is much easier for new mega constellations. But at the time SpaceX started doing it the idea was rightfully called insane