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Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-star-axis-land-art.html
15•ChrisArchitect•2d ago

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ChrisArchitect•2d ago
non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-...
cratermoon•2d ago
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/ reports the area rates a 2 "average dark sky" on the Bortle scale, just short of an "excellent" score of 1. It's location halfway between Santa Rosa and Las Vegas, New Mexico is as far from populated areas as you might think.
Chris2048•6m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Axis

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/
287•shscs911•4h ago•144 comments

Claude Opus 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
1587•alvis•18h ago•930 comments

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize
266•agnishom•9h ago•40 comments

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

https://saffroncr.itch.io/katavatis/devlog/1534514/building-a-tiny-3d-renderer-for-a-tiny-handheld
55•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•2 comments

GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime

https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-gc
109•phickey•4d ago•8 comments

ARC-AGI Leaderboard

https://arcprize.org/leaderboard
95•rzk•4h ago•73 comments

NYC Apartment Aquaponics

https://erinmurphy.dev/projects/project-2/
61•mm1119•4d ago•19 comments

Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-star-axis-land-art.html
16•ChrisArchitect•2d ago•3 comments

UK AISI / Caisi Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/07/uk-aisi-caisi-preliminary-assessment-kimi-k3s-cyber...
74•walrus01•6h ago•18 comments

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability
317•KraftyOne•16h ago•60 comments

Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

https://extinct-media-museum.blog.jp/otemachi/
43•sohkamyung•5h ago•7 comments

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models
304•aarondong•15h ago•170 comments

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dr...
619•sohkamyung•5d ago•177 comments

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/
597•hhh•23h ago•201 comments

Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots

https://www.bookcorners.org
31•NaOH•2d ago•8 comments

An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener

https://news.mit.edu/2026/three-sided-y-zipper-design-0504
210•crescit_eundo•2d ago•41 comments

Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-achieve-restful-vertical-sleep/
100•hhs•12h ago•21 comments

Firefox Containers Preview

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/
359•twapi•3d ago•103 comments

Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data

https://globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io/
192•eliotho•1d ago•90 comments

MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

https://www.augmental.tech/
20•ZaninAndrea•3h ago•5 comments

Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server

https://twitter.com/fried_rice/status/2080059356322918777
230•Alifatisk•1d ago•67 comments

Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/ethernet_switch_asic/
188•random__duck•4d ago•46 comments

PartialString – A finite-difference time-domain physical modelling synthesiser

https://differentinstruments.com/
25•shmeano•3d ago•4 comments

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18
308•m0do1•22h ago•57 comments

Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

https://www.wsj.com/health/taylor-farms-cyclospora-recall-delay-call-41fef0bc
232•JumpCrisscross•8h ago•108 comments

IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/
302•thisislife2•1d ago•362 comments

Future euro banknote design proposals

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/all-design-proposals.en.html
212•robin_reala•1d ago•198 comments

Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-2Y1LPRek
149•Bootvis•1d ago•149 comments

Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4
198•signa11•18h ago•170 comments

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/nvidia-microsoft-meta-open-weight-ai-models.html
618•louiereederson•21h ago•271 comments