Is NGC 1277 a problem for MOND?(tritonstation.com)

24 points by xqcgrek2 3 years ago | 27 comments

Surprising supernova scars cover the Earth(scientificamerican.com)

119 points by consumer451 2 years ago | 83 comments

Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising(spacenews.com)

43 points by belter 1 year ago | 14 comments

Black hole merger challenges our understanding of black hole formation(gizmodo.com)

47 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 42 comments

“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System(skyatnightmagazine.com)

338 points by fuidani 1 year ago | 265 comments

BBC Sky at Night Magazine news article on astronomers detecting possible biosignature dimethyl sulfide on exoplanet K2-18b, called the most promising signs yet of alien life.

JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe(quantamagazine.org)

322 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 133 comments

Quanta Magazine article on James Webb Space Telescope observations revealing an unexpected abundance of giant black holes in the early universe.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

The Enterprise Experience(churchofturing.github.io)

458 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 130 comments

A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

1248 points by nprateem 3 months ago | 727 comments

Hacker News discussion where a user reports an AWS estimated bill of $1.7 billion despite normal usage under $5, linked to an AWS billing data issue.

How to learn chess as an adult (2021)(alexcrompton.com)

492 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 255 comments

Personal blog post by Alex Crompton describing how he learned chess as an adult, improving from 300 to 1500 Elo in nine months.

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability(eliastaylor.com)

566 points by zkldi 4 days ago | 437 comments

Blog post arguing a newly disclosed PHP vulnerability is hard to exploit and that thousands of LLM-generated GitHub PoC exploits don't work against vanilla PHP.