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What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1/voyager-1-what-is-a-light-day/

24•geox•1h ago

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polalavik•25m ago

Free space pathloss for rf signals is proportional to 1/r^2, absolutely bonkers we can get anything from voyager.

freedomben•13m ago

And with 50 year old tech! I do wonder if humanity will get to a point where we can retrieve the spacecraft at some point in the future (cue Star Trek fantasies)

bonzini•6m ago

Technically, the receivers need not use 50 years old tech. I am saying that not to be annoying but because I wonder how much that matters.

soniman•10m ago

So it is traveling 1/18250 the speed of light. That is pretty fast.

zomtorg•5m ago

And the closest known galaxy to the Milky Way, Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, is just 25,000 light-years away - it's almost incomprehensible how fast the universe is!

Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/appraisal-by-ai-model-driven-victim-prioritization-in-the-volt...

116•khalidkhair•2h ago•50 comments

A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages

https://a-side.social/

11•eustoria•1h ago•8 comments

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

https://piefed.world/post/1503394

196•DeepLogin•6h ago•130 comments

We Took over ChatGPT Accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai

216•armcat•6h ago•104 comments

Casio Watches of the 1980s

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/

65•karagenit•1h ago•20 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/

108•aatish•4d ago•24 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4

24•aphyr•3h ago•6 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...

32•luu•3d ago•7 comments

Switch Lowering in GCC

https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/

155•signa11•9h ago•29 comments

Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament

641•input_sh•6h ago•371 comments

Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/

135•fovc•5h ago•82 comments

Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'

https://torrentfreak.com/ex-meta-researcher-torrented-pirated-books-dataset-deleted-it-due-to-all...

61•WesleyGrant782•2h ago•42 comments

Digital minimalism

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html

209•wilbertliu•11h ago•151 comments

Show HN: Jointter – A daily word puzzle using dots and lines

https://www.jointter.com/

4•proy87•55m ago•0 comments

What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1/voyager-1-what-is-a-light-day/

24•geox•1h ago•5 comments

Hunting 'Zombie Accounts' in Active Directory

https://www.fabian.fyi/2026/10/zombie-hunt.html

23•optimiz•1d ago•2 comments

AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura

https://thedataexchange.media/leo-de-moura-lean-aws/

138•datascientist•2d ago•31 comments

Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector

https://github.com/4yk5/Ghostman

11•4yk5•1d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32

https://zebra.rodeo/en/blog/marelleo/

146•foOg•4d ago•40 comments

The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/

543•domhudson•1d ago•388 comments

My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/

352•DHowett•23h ago•108 comments

Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)

https://github.com/chris124567/cfsolve

281•costco•2d ago•95 comments

Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Enlightenment-0.28

10•mikece•57m ago•3 comments

Northflank Breached

https://status.northflank.com

464•js4ever•1d ago•343 comments

Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

https://www.techpolicy.press/breaking-the-open-web-wont-stop-the-bad-bots/

308•raybb•3d ago•134 comments

Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code

https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-...

277•taubek•1d ago•316 comments

Tell HN: Scribd Breached

311•x______________•14h ago•113 comments

The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-climate-culture/the-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-the-stone...

190•dxs•21h ago•86 comments

Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium

358•nanna•1d ago•51 comments

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/

949•_chall•1d ago•542 comments