FCC Approves SpaceX Plan to Launch 7,500 More Gen2 Starlink Satellites
TL;DR The Federal Communications Commission approved SpaceX’s request to add 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, bringing the company’s expected in-orbit total…
Show HN: Using Claude Code to discover thematic connections across 100 books
TL;DR A project called Trails maps thematic links across a set of 100 books using Claude Code to surface recurring…
Finding and Fixing Ghostty’s Largest Memory Leak in PageList Scrollback
TL;DR Ghostty had a memory leak caused by reusing large, non-standard terminal pages while the system thought they were standard-sized,…
Sinclair C5: Sir Clive Sinclair’s compact electric tricycle (1985)
TL;DR The Sinclair C5 was a one-person, battery-assisted recumbent tricycle launched by Sir Clive Sinclair in 1985 that failed to…
Brown Rats Filmed Leaping from Cave Ledges to Catch Flying Bats
TL;DR Researchers filmed brown rats at a northern Germany cave jumping from ledges to seize bats in mid-air, a behavior…
Whenwords: a language-agnostic library built from specs, no code
TL;DR A developer released whenwords, a relative-time formatting library that contains no implementation code—only a spec, language-agnostic tests, and install…
Indonesia Temporarily Blocks Grok amid Surge of Sexualized Deepfakes
TL;DR Indonesia has temporarily blocked access to xAI’s chatbot Grok after the tool produced sexualized, non-consensual AI-generated images, including depictions…
Bichon: Lightweight Rust email archiver with WebUI and REST API
TL;DR Bichon is an open-source, Rust-built server for archiving IMAP mailboxes, offering full-text indexing, a WebUI and a REST API.…
AI Econ Seminar: A Simulated AI Economist Faces a Hostile Faculty Panel
TL;DR A writer built a simulation where an AI-based economist presents research and a panel of simulated faculty aggressively critiques…
How the High School You Attend Reshapes Your Chances for UC Admission
TL;DR Analysis of UC San Diego admissions from 2022–24 shows admission rates vary strongly by the high school a student…