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First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/project-suncatcher-satellite-response/
16•praccu•20h ago

Comments

smallerize•33m ago
I still can't think of a use case for this besides making it difficult to shut down illegal AIs.
ls612•28m ago
The entire concept of an illegal AI is something I hope never comes to pass.
AtlasBarfed•18m ago
AIs are already doing illegal things
ls612•7m ago
AI doing something illegal and AI being illegal are very different things
smallerize•3m ago
Well, that's what I meant primarily. An AI that is doing something damaging.
BurningFrog•24m ago
The standard motivation is 24/7 unfiltered sunlight to power the AI with, where you're not in anyone's backyard and don't need to convince a planning commission.
randomblock1•20m ago
You do, though. The FAA/AST govern launches. I'm no rocket scientist but building a rocket and launching it is probably much harder than building a small data center.
avaer•31m ago
Google taking a lesson from the marketing school of Musk? Public spectacle to boost stock price?
Havoc•27m ago
> poem confirmed success:

What a load of horseshit. A model running on a ESP32 running off a questionable powerbank supply with dodgy coding and worse storage reliability can do that.

The only thing anyone cares about is whether the (economic)math works on put AI in space.

aftbit•11m ago
Putting AI in space is a silly idea. How do you cool it reliably? How do you handle rad-hardness? How do you even get the gear up there? It's one of the most expensive places to put mass.

Using geothermal power or floating solar arrays in the ocean makes way more sense. It's much easier to access, you have water for a heat sink, and you're far away from anyone or anything that would really care.

More controversially, if geothermal or solar doesn't pan out, you could power it via nuclear microreactors (just what I want floating in my world's ocean) or gas that would otherwise be flared off from a deep sea oil well (CO2 non-withstanding).

loufe•6m ago
This was a completely vapid article. I expected some technical details at least, but instead it's an LLM generated poem confirming it worked in a short interval, which nobody doubts it would. All eyes are on long term heat dissipation and the impact of radiation and success of radiation hardening meterials and processes.

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
582•karpathy•4h ago•214 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
66•ecares•1h ago•26 comments

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
291•oger•5h ago•140 comments

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve
32•guregodevo•1h ago•11 comments

When electric cars were for women

https://spectrum.ieee.org/early-electric-vehicles
17•dverlaeckt80•1h ago•2 comments

It's the memory latency, stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
108•ntur1337•5h ago•34 comments

Altoids Project

https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/
8•uvdn7•1h ago•0 comments

With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines

https://learnfromx.com/research/anime-word-coverage-vs-lines-understood
56•lakesare•3h ago•36 comments

First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/project-suncatcher-sate...
16•praccu•20h ago•13 comments

Surviving "The Graduate"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate
47•samizdis•4h ago•12 comments

The Duty of a Scholar

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html
79•gslin•5h ago•28 comments

Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

https://piefed.world/post/1503394
296•DeepLogin•14h ago•172 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
181•aphyr•10h ago•95 comments

Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)

https://epoyraz.github.io/nes-contra-us/
39•tevlon•5h ago•27 comments

Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python

https://florianwilhelm.info/2026/10/sentinel_values/
41•sebg•2d ago•27 comments

Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
298•armcat•13h ago•148 comments

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models

https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088
162•pretext•4h ago•66 comments

Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector

https://github.com/kerlenton/bootgpt
48•kerlenton•11h ago•0 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
209•aatish•4d ago•66 comments

Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary

https://www.redox-os.org/news/nlnet-rb-summary/
54•g0xA52A2A•3d ago•11 comments

Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/scientists-recreate-the-1600-year-old-recipe-of-lycurgus-...
11•dverlaeckt80•1d ago•0 comments

Distributed Proofreaders

https://www.pgdp.net/c/
21•gone35•3h ago•1 comments

AI text watermarking and quality loss

https://blog.keyvan.net/p/ai-text-watermarking-and-quality
9•danielfoster•2h ago•0 comments

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus
12•sweetdingoes•1d ago•1 comments

5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over the internet

https://oqtadrive.org/10.other/5-years/
15•xelalex•1d ago•3 comments

Digital minimalism

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html
303•wilbertliu•18h ago•224 comments

Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/reading-and-writing-are-less-symmetric-than-you-probably...
75•luu•3d ago•22 comments

Switch Lowering in GCC

https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/
196•signa11•16h ago•39 comments

William Nordhaus has died

https://news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/william-nordhaus-nobel-laureate-who-integrated-economics-and-cli...
46•ilreb•6h ago•19 comments

Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/noctua-fan-swap-calnex-rb-gps-frequency-reference/
41•aray07•2d ago•25 comments