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Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires/
18•01-_-•1h ago

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Retr0id•6m ago
> Now Copernicus Browser has also added a straightforward “wildfires” visualization layer for Sentinel-2 imagery that went live on August 4.

I feel like an idiot, I can't figure out how to enable it. Currently I use https://www.firemap.live/ for tracking local wildfires (which isn't something I ever needed to track, prior to this year)

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
132•epestr•4h ago•41 comments

A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
237•aanet•2d ago•47 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
649•tosh•17h ago•394 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
251•moelf•12h ago•89 comments

New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html
48•sbulaev•1h ago•28 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
708•RickJWagner•22h ago•796 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
355•piotrgrabowski•17h ago•90 comments

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)

https://github.com/alfikpl/ao486
26•csmantle•6d ago•2 comments

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-tra...
19•01-_-•1h ago•1 comments

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voya...
251•wglb•9h ago•47 comments

SupererDuperer

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer
115•zdw•6d ago•24 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
210•aagha•16h ago•69 comments

US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
17•rbanffy•1h ago•9 comments

Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html
8•Korwell•1h ago•9 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
381•inigyou•1d ago•350 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
249•moonikakiss•16h ago•208 comments

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413
312•Meleagris•10h ago•152 comments

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years

https://travelandtannins.com/workers-drilling-in-romania-broke-into-a-cave-sealed-for-5-5-million...
98•yk•3d ago•45 comments

Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Abu_Hureyra
8•dieselgate•4d ago•0 comments

From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree

https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/08/03/merkle-tree.html
19•denismenace•3d ago•0 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
169•MarcoDewey•19h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses

https://github.com/aadisang/hand-wave
4•aadisang•3d ago•2 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
188•artninja1988•18h ago•180 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/
180•cckolon•6d ago•22 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-cl...
481•delduca•17h ago•341 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
155•jnord•22h ago•102 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/
292•poly2it•1d ago•146 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
196•m3h•1d ago•52 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych
72•theanonymousone•16h ago•4 comments

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/oop-refl.html
72•birdculture•4d ago•7 comments