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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
905•vincent_s•7h ago•542 comments

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic
66•minimaxir•1h ago•23 comments

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
435•jervant•6h ago•102 comments

Decoy Font

https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font
313•ray__•5h ago•83 comments

Mathematics of Data Science

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11938
31•Anon84•1h ago•1 comments

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

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708
38•anyonecancode•1h ago•6 comments

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/
191•xnx•6h ago•108 comments

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/
122•uneven9434•5h ago•90 comments

OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

https://community.oneplus.com/thread/2170715118587871237
503•pilililo2•12h ago•289 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
67•hershyb_•2h ago•60 comments

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)

https://immersivemath.com/ila/
126•srean•6h ago•24 comments

The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260715-how-period-trackers-share-womens-private-details
40•tchalla•1h ago•14 comments

Abstracting Effects with Continuations

https://crowdhailer.me/2026-07-15/abstracting-effects-with-continuations/
14•crowdhailer•11h ago•0 comments

Pseudpocalypse

https://dynomight.net/pseudpocalypse/
48•surprisetalk•2d ago•24 comments

Show HN: Libretto PR agents – Automatically fix failing playwright scripts

https://libretto.sh/debug-agents
8•muchael•1h ago•0 comments

Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adaptional/jobs
1•acesohc•5h ago

CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026

https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/
45•speckx•4h ago•39 comments

Show HN: BambooGrid – Open-source web UI for power grid modeling and power flow

https://bamboo.kickstage.com
13•soaringmonchi•6h ago•2 comments

Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/goes-19-safe-hold
141•yabones•8h ago•70 comments

How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM

https://www.zhinit.dev/blog/training-a-kick-drum-diffusion-model
81•zhinit•7h ago•52 comments

Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps

20•XiaHua•5h ago•9 comments

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig
360•jorangreef•10h ago•201 comments

Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos

https://timelinescan.com/
11•HoserHoser•1h ago•16 comments

Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/guest/optimizing-lua-string-literals-to-save-400-bytes/
27•ibobev•3d ago•4 comments

Guide to data tools landscape for developers

https://sinja.io/blog/data-landscape-guide-for-developers
104•OlegWock•7h ago•31 comments

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/
161•JeremyTheo•10h ago•163 comments

AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes

https://nicholas-afk.github.io/AttoChess/
24•SeenNotHeard•3h ago•15 comments

Ente – Opening Our Books

https://ente.com/open/
219•Sherex•11h ago•84 comments

Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/sony-deletes-a-bunch-more-movies-from-the-accounts-of-people-...
558•nekusar•10h ago•341 comments

Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer

https://github.com/patonw/leaves
60•patonw•6h ago•19 comments
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Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708
38•anyonecancode•1h ago

Comments

WillAdams•54m ago
Is it wrong that I was hoping for something along the lines of:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-would-we-know...

except where they are noting how helium is being allowed to escape and not being captured as was previously done by the now shut down U.S. National Helium Reserve.

ck2•44m ago
wow 50 light years is indeed "nearby" in relative terms

nearly 6x the size of earth though, good luck trying to launch a probe off that surface

NASA has a neat "exoplanet catalog" which is about to leap in size next few years with new telescopes and techniques

* https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/lhs-1140-b/

pixl97•36m ago
6x time size (diameter?) or 6 times the mass. Evidently the Earth used to be much larger in size but not mass because of large amounts of trapped hydrogen/helium. It's since leaked from the crust and been blown off into space.
ck2•24m ago
the catalog says 6.38x mass in one place and 5.6x mass in another

they must be able to calculate mass from orbital physics?

so you'd need a rocket 6x the size of SaturnV or whatever they are using for Artemis to escape it and most of that rocket is to lift the weight of the fuel for said rocket so it might be physically impossible to build such a creature at current level of tech

(might be yet another angle to "why no ETs" unless they are WAY more advanced)

inigyou•9m ago
√(G × mass÷radius) [escape velocity] = v_e × ln(m_0 ÷ m_f) [Tsiolkovsky]

Impossible to tell how much extra mass you need but it's exponential. Adding a unit of v_e [effective exhaust velocity] to escape velocity means you need 2.717 times as much fuel in an ideal rocket.

Earth escape velocity is 11000m/s ignoring atmosphere (which is not ignorable). If the new planet is 6x mass and 2x radius then √3 times escape velocity (about 1.73) would be about 8000m/s extra velocity which is about 3 times a random v_e which means you need about a 25 times bigger rocket. Ignoring the denser atmosphere which makes it even worse.

shagie•7m ago
From the archives ... How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work? https://space.stackexchange.com/q/14383 Feb 3, 2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243303

And related...

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/178131/wha...

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/117347/when-a-pl...