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All Four Sentinel-1 Satellites Are Now Live

https://orbitaltoday.com/2026/05/03/all-four-sentinel-1-satellites-are-now-live-and-europes-earth-watch-just-got-stronger/
15•cgeier•4h ago

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smallerfish•1h ago
Better (more accurate) link and title: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Coperni...

We're exploring using the SAR data for conservation / deforestation monitoring. Anybody else working in this space who has blazed the trail?

spelk•1h ago
>We're exploring using the SAR data for conservation / deforestation monitoring. Anybody else working in this space who has blazed the trail?

Dr. Naomi Schwartz and her lab at the University of British Columbia comes to mind for remote sensing applications in relation to deforestation monitoring.

icegreentea2•1h ago
Uhhh... editor/author/LLM was asleep here. There are 4 sentinel-1 sats in orbit, but one of them has been decommissioned because of system failure... as the article itself states.
cgeier•1h ago
You are right. It should be something like “Replacement Sentinel-1 Satellite is Live, Ensuring the Future of ESA‘s Copernicus Program”
ohyoutravel•1h ago
No they’re not. What in the heck? Is this LLM slop?

Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25679
87•mrtz•2d ago•56 comments

Alert-Driven Monitoring

https://simpleobservability.com/docs/alert-driven-monitoring
19•khazit•1h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web

https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web
95•bring-shrubbery•6h ago•17 comments

Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/04/brain-scans-individual-versus-group.html
72•hhs•2d ago•19 comments

Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-...
97•GavinAnderegg•44m ago•73 comments

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
21•teleforce•37m ago•5 comments

A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury

https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
330•unignorant•15h ago•158 comments

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/
428•richardboegli•18h ago•113 comments

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/
387•valzevul•18h ago•91 comments

Dav2d

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
546•dabinat•21h ago•154 comments

Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/02/automating-hermitage.html
4•zdw•19h ago•1 comments

Do_not_track

https://donottrack.sh/
424•RubyGuy•21h ago•134 comments

Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/05/01/windows-quality-update-progress-weve-made-si...
107•jovial_cavalier•1d ago•319 comments

Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades

https://yusufaytas.com/breaking-up-with-wordpress-after-two-decades
24•owenbuilds•46m ago•4 comments

Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work

https://github.com/systalyze/utilyze
32•nateb2022•2d ago•9 comments

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
246•andsoitis•18h ago•129 comments

Haskell: Debugging

https://wiki.haskell.org/Debugging
8•tosh•2d ago•0 comments

Business Owners Are Worst Clients

https://zencapital.substack.com/p/business-owners-are-worst-clients
5•zenincognito•14m ago•1 comments

Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels

https://www.newsonjapan.com/article/149075.php
79•mikhael•13h ago•31 comments

Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK

https://osec.io/blog/2026-04-30-unverified-evaluations-dusk-plonk/
30•deut-erium•2d ago•4 comments

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/news/inventions-battery-reuse-and-recycling-increase-more-seve...
222•JeanKage•3d ago•26 comments

Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing
199•brendanmc6•8h ago•220 comments

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
1356•indrora•19h ago•732 comments

Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-redistricting-supreme-court-have-cut-voters-out-us-h...
21•Propelloni•32m ago•4 comments

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

https://www.mendral.com/blog/agent-harness-belongs-outside-sandbox
132•shad42•17h ago•97 comments

Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services

https://github.com/Matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui
51•thunderbong•4h ago•13 comments

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/
123•dragandj•17h ago•14 comments

A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066156/
100•signa11•2d ago•27 comments

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
257•moosia•1d ago•96 comments

Because it doesn't have to

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/04/because-it-doesnt-have-to.html
66•zdw•3d ago•13 comments