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Terafab

https://www.terafab.ai/
17•kamaal•1h ago

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actionfromafar•44m ago
It's no longer Mars, it's the Galaxy. Must be a prank site?
Gecko4072•43m ago
Dr. Tom Murphy seems highly relevant here. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/ also: https://escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions
OkWing99•41m ago
Site is legit - https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/?department=terafab&sit...

I wouldn't be surprised if it's another Musk pump-and-dump scheme for SpaceX. We'll be seeing more of these every quarter now.

thehamkercat•36m ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969237

Posted 3 months ago as well, might not be new

BadBadJellyBean•41m ago
At one point people stop believing in these grandiose marketing stunts. I hope the time is now.
grepex•38m ago
For anyone out there who might know:

To achieve a Type II civilization, is a Dyson Swarm currently the best theoretical approach or are there others that are more promising?

ButlerianJihad•34m ago
I don't have an answer for you, but I have a reminder to all the would-be Dyson Sphere buffs out there:

Dyson Spheres are supposed to be built around a star, not around a planet!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

delichon•38m ago
The scale of this thing seems science fictional.

https://x.com/ChrisJBakke/status/2085519392285380966

That's 15 Pentagons.

thehamkercat•38m ago
> 10 Million Tons of mass/year launched into orbit

Not something to be proud of...

delichon•24m ago
Given the fragility of the biosphere and the determination of powerful factions to break it, developing the capability for our species to be a tiny bit existentially independent of it is good.
jrflo•37m ago
> Cost of compute on Earth

    Power build
    Permitting
    Operating costs
    Land
    Energy costs
    Infrastructure
    Cooling
> Cost of compute in space

    Launch cost
    Operating costs
    Satellite build
    Infrastructure
I thought it was pretty hilarious that they removed "cooling" as a requirement for orbital compute when it's actually way harder to keep something cool on a satellite than on earth. There is no matter floating around in orbit to dump heat into...

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45•petercooper•32m ago•37 comments

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o
700•defrost•4h ago•665 comments

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer
59•v0id_isgood•2h ago•25 comments

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
495•boplicity•15h ago•274 comments

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-infer...
772•itvision•19h ago•585 comments

U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

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250•ceejayoz•2h ago•195 comments

Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI

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21•rramadass•5d ago•19 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufMqwyO7pY
20•Bender•29m ago•2 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
44•m3h•4h ago•12 comments

Software is about people, not code

https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/01/27/software-is-about-people-not-code/
15•venamresm__•29m ago•3 comments

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25•stagas•4h ago•0 comments

U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/july-jobs-report-unemployment-0d7c08a7
61•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•3 comments

Taste Is All That's Left

https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left
564•tsak•22h ago•421 comments

US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/americas-largest-newspaper-chain-usa-today-co-partners-with-pal...
70•cdrnsf•1h ago•23 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
42•poly2it•4h ago•8 comments

São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest

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232•rmason•5d ago•97 comments

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-sola...
277•neversaydie•1d ago•54 comments

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm
173•Audiophilip•18h ago•50 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMtzhjCzyc
57•surprisetalk•4d ago•4 comments

TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface

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26•jasim•1w ago•7 comments

Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer

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3•m_kos•3d ago•0 comments

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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453•Footkerchief•23h ago•380 comments

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https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/
276•tedsanders•22h ago•228 comments

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193•gnabgib•17h ago•30 comments

Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

https://provenmetal.com
215•willcarkner•23h ago•151 comments

The BBC Tetris Companion

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47•zdw•1w ago•5 comments

Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer

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120•koolhead17•3d ago•46 comments

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/
252•collinmanderson•20h ago•175 comments

My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965
177•luu•20h ago•305 comments

Mario Meets Pareto

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
1107•theanonymousone•1d ago•163 comments