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Networking and the Internet, from First Principles

https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/
65•faza•1h ago•29 comments

Your code is fast – if you're lucky

https://tiki.li/blog/lucky_code.html
46•chrka•2h ago•7 comments

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
300•hhs•15h ago•120 comments

Semantic/Hybrid Search in the Browser

https://bart.degoe.de/semantic-search-in-your-browser/
4•bartdegoede•38m ago•0 comments

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/
636•speckx•21h ago•208 comments

Google Search lets creators know more about their reach

https://www.theverge.com/tech/961955/google-search-console-reach-platform-properties
40•herbertl•3d ago•21 comments

Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials

https://alexandrepoupeau.com/otary/learn/
48•poupeaua•3d ago•1 comments

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/
1240•stock_toaster•16h ago•659 comments

FCC Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/climate/fcc-space-mirror.html
23•reaperducer•1h ago•13 comments

An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
243•chmaynard•18h ago•244 comments

An iroh powered smart fan

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/an-iroh-powered-smart-fan
131•surprisetalk•4d ago•35 comments

The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits

https://questdb.com/blog/jvm-jit-known-bits/
41•rowbin•5d ago•0 comments

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-sate...
225•CrankyBear•19h ago•736 comments

The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)

https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/
149•mvdtnz•8h ago•48 comments

Good Tools Are Invisible

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/
487•theanonymousone•1d ago•218 comments

AI 2040: Plan A

https://ai-2040.com/
311•kschaul•1d ago•334 comments

Late Bronze Age Collapse

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
387•dmonay•1d ago•267 comments

The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/
233•markus_zhang•20h ago•80 comments

Silent speech with ultrasound

https://alephneuro.com/blog/silent-speech
72•chrwn•3d ago•15 comments

Combustion engine web-based simulator

https://combustionlab.net
200•mytuny•5d ago•70 comments

After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell

https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-f...
174•aviaviavi•1d ago•211 comments

Alternate clock designs and time systems

https://serialc.github.io/altClocks/
170•ethanpil•4d ago•92 comments

Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-5-inference
94•theanonymousone•4d ago•37 comments

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-s...
208•simonebrunozzi•21h ago•156 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf
484•scrlk•19h ago•394 comments

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
871•vforno•2d ago•215 comments

Show HN: Sdlc factory built on pi.dev:intent->DDD->architecture->tested code

https://github.com/arman-jalili/guardian-framework
3•arman-w-jalili•4d ago•0 comments

New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban
567•randycupertino•19h ago•277 comments

A love letter to flashcards

https://lesleylai.info/en/flashcards/
164•surprisetalk•22h ago•98 comments

Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept
145•simonpure•22h ago•114 comments
Open in hackernews

FCC Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/climate/fcc-space-mirror.html
22•reaperducer•1h ago

Comments

assbuttbuttass•55m ago
We've entered the "bond villain" era of VC startups
ben_w•23m ago
That was some time ago. Musk himself tweeted about getting a volcano lair in 2015.
fragmede•16m ago
2014 was the inflection point. 2013 brought us the term unicorn for companies, and was just long enough after the iphone that we were starting to make sense of it. That's when Elon Musk became a household name thanks to Tesla and SpaceX. Then there was Palantir. Google bought Deepmind in 2014. Google Facebook Amazon and Apple showed founders that software startups could transform the world, and the world leapt at the chance.
ChrisArchitect•31m ago
Blog post: https://www.reflectorbital.com/blog-posts/humanity-has-an-en...
ryankrage77•27m ago
Annoyingly and predictably, reads like AI slop. You can practically guess the prompt goes something along the lines of 'write a press release explaining why this bad idea is a good idea'.
blondie9x•12m ago
I think this company intentionally ignored discussing how battery storage has made solar energy a much more effective and viable solution.
ben_w•5m ago
Never mind that, they're ignoring light bulbs for the S&R stuff.
postalrat•9m ago
Do you have anything to say about the project itself or do you only care about your perception of ai slop?
ben_w•9m ago
They seem to be talking about each satellite managing the luminosity of the full moon over a few square kilometres, and getting a few tens of thousands of them.

Even if you ignoring how much drag these must have, and hence how much electrical power you'd need for an ion drive just to keep them up, each spot being a few km across (and only getting light while the satellite is over your horizon) is just not compelling.

Given most people don't have any reason to illuminate several square kilometres at once, for realistic scenarios it will take a lot of satellites before you beat the cheap battery-powered floodlights in my local Aldi or Kaufland, and the batteries in those lasts a lot longer than the 10-15 or so minutes each satellites will be over the horizon, and reflectors like these can only supply sunlight close to sunset otherwise the earth blocks the sun from them.

In the list of things which, if you could make them at all useful, would also be relatively easy to redesign as weapons.

formvoltron•8m ago
this is the sort of startup we get when memes rule the investing landscape.
Avicebron•5m ago
“The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was" - Douglas Adams