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Starlink from 1984

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/starlink-from-1984
20•ingve•5d ago

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tristanj•1h ago
I'm guessing it's called StarLink because the design uses a Star network topology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_network
verzali•54m ago
I honestly thought this would be about Teledesic!
Krishnaswaroop•7m ago
This is a great reminder that many of today's "breakthroughs" were imagined decades ago. What's changed isn't just the technology, but the economics and engineering needed to make it practical

EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876
32•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•5 comments

How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year...
86•divbzero•3h ago•50 comments

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
1504•vincent_s•16h ago•900 comments

Pebble Mega Update – July 2026

https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-mega-update-july-2026
69•crazysaem•3h ago•3 comments

An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024)

https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy228/slyy228.pdf?ts=1759892558029
130•gregsadetsky•6d ago•3 comments

GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims

https://privacypros.com.au/privacy-hub/articles/dv-safe-phone-australia/
102•aussieguy1234•5h ago•71 comments

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
641•jervant•15h ago•142 comments

Starlink from 1984

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/starlink-from-1984
20•ingve•5d ago•3 comments

Decoy Font

https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font
513•ray__•15h ago•121 comments

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic
226•minimaxir•11h ago•75 comments

$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6
228•hershyb_•11h ago•273 comments

Solod: Go can be a better C

https://solod.dev
107•koeng•3d ago•39 comments

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

https://github.com/alxndrTL/little-book-rl/
110•mustaphah•8h ago•13 comments

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/
293•xnx•15h ago•148 comments

In Praise of Exhaustive Destructuring

https://antoine.vandecreme.net/blog/exhaustive-destructuring-praise/
8•avandecreme•4d ago•0 comments

M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t13l/executive
58•hnburnsy•6h ago•25 comments

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig
487•jorangreef•19h ago•257 comments

Old Icons

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/07/old-icons/
36•zdw•5d ago•9 comments

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)

https://immersivemath.com/ila/
204•srean•15h ago•26 comments

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/
187•uneven9434•14h ago•129 comments

UIUC AI Teaching Assistant

https://github.com/Center-for-AI-Innovation/ai-teaching-assistant-uiuc
15•teleforce•4h ago•0 comments

Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708
94•anyonecancode•10h ago•27 comments

Mathematics of Data Science

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11938
140•Anon84•10h ago•4 comments

'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/meet-likweli-new-monkey-species-discovered-congo-basin
71•gmays•9h ago•16 comments

The human-in-the-loop is tired

https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tired
160•haritha1313•6h ago•86 comments

Pseudpocalypse

https://dynomight.net/pseudpocalypse/
113•surprisetalk•2d ago•64 comments

Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20

https://github.com/samyeyo/clx
110•_samt_•5d ago•11 comments

Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12395
49•binyu•9h ago•16 comments

CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026

https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/
90•speckx•13h ago•104 comments

What loss.backward() actually does

https://oraziorillo.com/blog/what-loss-backward-actually-does/
8•oraziorillo•5d ago•2 comments