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The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It

The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The 80-sec­ond clip above cap­tures a rock­et launch, some­thing of which we’ve all seen footage at one time or anoth­er. What makes its view­ers call it “the great­est shot in tele­vi­sion” still today, 45 years after it first aired, may take more than one view­ing to notice. In it, sci­ence his­to­ri­an James Burke speaks about how “cer­tain gas­es ignite, and that the ther­mos flask per­mits you to store vast quan­ti­ties of those gas­es safe­ly, in their frozen liq­uid form, until you want to ignite…
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Im going back to writing code by hand

Im going back to writing code by hand

💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 09 May, 2026 Here is k10s: https://github.com/shvbsle/k10s/tree/archive/go-v0.4.0 234 commits. ~30 weekends. Built entirely on vibe-coded sessions with Claude, whenever my tokens lasted long enough to ship something. I'm archiving my TUI tool and rewriting it from scratch. k10s started as a GPU-aware Kubernetes dashboard (and my first foray into building something serious with AI). Think k9s but built for the people running NVIDIA clusters, people who actually care about GPU utilization, DCGM metrics, and which nodes are sitting idle burning $32/hr. I built it in…
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Make America AI Ready: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Recommendations

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Analysis by: Jane Castleman, Sam Hafferty, Steven Kelts, Arvind Narayanan, Francesco Salvi, Hilke SchellmannEdited by: Sam Hafferty, Steven Kelts, Arvind Narayanan, Hilke Schellmann The Trump administration has made artificial intelligence a centerpiece of its economic agenda, promising to retrain a workforce it says must be ready to compete in an AI-driven future. One early piece of that effort: a free text-message course from the Department of Labor (DOL) and private partner Arist called, “Make America AI-Ready”, is a useful start on the journey to AI…
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PlayStation Emulator Devs Beg People To Stop Spamming AI Code

PlayStation Emulator Devs Beg People To Stop Spamming AI Code

💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The team behind RPCS3, the open-source PlayStation 3 emulator, took to X today to very kindly and civilly request that users “stop submitting AI slop code pull requests” to its GitHub page. Then they immediately proceeded to tell the AI-brain-rotted tech bros attempting to justify their vibe-coding nonsense to kick rocks in the replies, which is somewhat less civil but far more entertaining to read. RPCS3 has been around since 2011, and it’s remained the go-to PS3 emulator of choice for the majority of users…
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Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I’ve been experimenting with running local models on and off for a bit and I’ve finally found a setup that seems to work reasonably. It’s nothing like the output of a SOTA model, but the excitement of being able to have a local model do basic tasks, research, and planning, more than makes up for it! No internet connection required! Not to mention that it’s a way of reducing your dependence on big US tech, even if just a tiny bit. I gotta say though,…
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Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises

Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Maryland Office of People’s Counsel (OPC), a state agency that represents its utility consumers, filed a complaint before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding PJM Interconnection, LLC’s plans to charge it $2 billion of the $22 billion it spent to upgrade its grid to accommodate increasing demand from data centers. According to the OPC’s press release, this $2 billion bill will cost the state’s consumers an extra $1.6 billion in the next ten years alone — that means an extra $823 million for…
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years.I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.It’s been super fun to experiment & integrate MCP into it.We just passed 2000 developers last month actively deploying with canine.I'm working on https://engine.buildIt's a durable orchestration system for AI code generation which solves the problem of not being able to trust LLMs to complete long running (and high quality) implementations without having to babysit…
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SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here’s how that could impact the atmosphere and the night sky

SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here’s how that could impact the atmosphere and the night sky

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Most of humanity has a great propensity to think in the short-term, but generally, long-term considerations — air pollution, deforestation and emissions, for example — just aren't our thing. That's partly why scientists are deeply concerned about a recent SpaceX proposal to launch one million satellites — data centres — into orbit around Earth. Their concerns range from losing the natural night sky, to losing access to space, to the environmental impact on our atmosphere.At the moment, there are roughly 16,000 satellites orbiting Earth, 14,000 of…
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Spain just became one of Europe’s cheapest power markets. Here is how.

Spain just became one of Europe’s cheapest power markets. Here is how.

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In the first four months of 2026, the average wholesale electricity price in Spain was €44 per megawatt-hour. In Italy, it was €127. In Germany, €96. In the UK, €103. Spain is now cheaper than France, well below the central-European bloc, and within striking distance of the Nordic hydro-and-nuclear heavyweights that have always topped the cheap-power league.This is not where most observers expected Spain to be. A decade ago, Spain was a cautionary tale of stranded solar investment and one of Europe’s more expensive power…
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Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES | Andrew Nesbitt

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES | Andrew Nesbitt

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Report filed: 03:47 UTCStatus: Resolved (accidentally)Severity: Critical → Catastrophic → Somehow FineDuration: 73 hoursAffected systems: Yes Executive Summary: A security incident occurred. It has been resolved. We take security seriously. Please see previous 14 incident reports for details on how seriously. Summary A compromised dependency in the JavaScript ecosystem led to credential theft, which enabled a supply chain attack on a Rust compression library, which was vendored into a Python build tool, which shipped malware to approximately 4 million developers before being inadvertently patched…
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