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Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-vera-c-rubin-observatory-has-discovered-11000-new-asteroids-and-its-barely-even-started
33•tcp_handshaker•2h ago

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vibe42•1h ago
Something related and fun is parsing a simple CSV file of exoplanets.

https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/TblView/np...

Download Table -> All Columns, All Rows.

Tried a few new, open, local AI models by giving them the CSV file and asking them to write a simple python script:

1. Parse all rows and build statistical distribution of mass, radius etc.

2. Use those distributions to generate fictional exoplanets.

Playing with this for a space game idea where star systems are populated with fictional exoplanets, but all their params are from the real statistical distributions of all known exoplanets.

A way to get some harder sci-fi using real world data :)

throw0101a•52m ago
Any collisions that Earth has to worry about?

(Once heard the observation that the dinosaurs didn't go extinct because of an impact: they went extinct because they didn't have a space program.)

akoumjian•17m ago
None yet. Any discoveries made with a possible impact risk would end up on the NEO Confirmation Page for follow up. As soon as an observation arc is long enough and gets a provisional designation, impact risks would be calculated and displayed at both NEOCC and JPL Sentry. We also do impact probability calculations and visualizations at Asteroid Institute.
NooneAtAll3•43m ago
> The dataset also includes roughly 380 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), two of which have extremely large, elongated orbits (provisionally named 2025 LS2 and 2025 MX348)

Orbit uncertainty 7 and 9, aka almost- and totally-useless

Laws of Software Engineering

https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com
383•milanm081•4h ago•183 comments

As Oceans Warm, Great White Sharks Are Overheating

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/great-white-sharks-climate
31•speckx•41m ago•11 comments

Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing

https://stratechery.com/2026/tim-cooks-impeccable-timing/
104•hasheddan•4h ago•143 comments

Fusion Power Plant Simulator

https://www.fusionenergybase.com/fusion-power-plant-simulator
26•sam•1h ago•8 comments

Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files

https://vidstudio.app/video-editor
131•kolx•3h ago•53 comments

John Ternus to become Apple CEO

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to...
2071•schappim•18h ago•1169 comments

Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go; 44x lighter than LiteLLM

https://github.com/ENTERPILOT/GOModel/
25•santiago-pl•1h ago•4 comments

Running a Minecraft Server and More on a 1960s Univac Computer

https://farlow.dev/2026/04/17/running-a-minecraft-server-and-more-on-a-1960s-univac-computer
73•brilee•3d ago•14 comments

A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT

https://codemix.com/graph
83•phpnode•4h ago•28 comments

Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days

https://www.tindie.com/
53•somemisopaste•2h ago•13 comments

MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany

http://mnt.stanleylieber.com/reform/
167•speckx•1d ago•67 comments

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again

https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic
348•jmsflknr•11h ago•209 comments

Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/anthropic-takes-5b-from-amazon-and-pledges-100b-in-cloud-spendi...
92•Brajeshwar•2h ago•92 comments

Slava's Monoid Zoo

https://factorcode.org/slava/monoids.html
26•luu•1d ago•4 comments

Leonardo, Borgia, and Machiavelli: A Fateful Collusion

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/leonardo-borgia-and-machiavelli-fateful-collusion
8•apollinaire•5d ago•0 comments

Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely

https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-pollution-gives-salmon-wanderlust
93•1659447091•10h ago•55 comments

The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

https://longwoodgardens.org/blog/2023-05-17/beauty-bonsai-styles
149•lagniappe•10h ago•26 comments

A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform

https://webmatrices.com/post/how-a-roblox-cheat-and-one-ai-tool-brought-down-vercel-s-entire-plat...
248•bishwasbh•11h ago•138 comments

Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation

https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260420-01.html
156•kirschner•4h ago•26 comments

Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/62176/r-i-p-louis-zocchi-the-godfather-dice
101•sgbeal•9h ago•48 comments

High-Fidelity KV Cache Summarization Using Entropy and Low-Rank Reconstruction

https://jchandra.com/posts/hae-ols/
42•jchandra•2d ago•6 comments

Your favorite brands got worse on purpose

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-favorite-brands-got-worse-on-purpose
25•neon_electro•1h ago•5 comments

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview
667•mfiguiere•1d ago•358 comments

The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi

https://connla.substack.com/p/pho-in-hanoi-a-purists-guide
72•vinhnx•2d ago•25 comments

How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter

https://zef-lang.dev/implementation
222•pizlonator•14h ago•42 comments

Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-vera-c-rubin-observatory-has-discovered-11000-new-aste...
33•tcp_handshaker•2h ago•4 comments

Less human AI agents, please

https://nial.se/blog/less-human-ai-agents-please/
63•nialse•8h ago•94 comments

Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift 'Super Dumb' Men

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/
30•Aboutplants•48m ago•8 comments

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier
293•Alifatisk•20h ago•27 comments

Air is full of DNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01099-2
152•howrude•2d ago•49 comments