Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?(esa.int)

31 points by rntn 1 year ago | 2 comments

Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1(esa.int)

70 points by divbzero 1 year ago | 15 comments

ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons(esa.int)

269 points by Tevias 3 years ago | 62 comments

20 years of Mars Express(esa.int)

71 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 16 comments

Philae's extraordinary comet landing relived (2024)(esa.int)

18 points by 1970-01-01 4 months ago | 2 comments

Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate(esa.int)

633 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 327 comments

ESA article reporting that Webb observations confirm Hubble's measurements of the Universe's expansion rate, deepening the Hubble tension.

The Lunacy of Artemis(idlewords.com)

649 points by feross 2 years ago | 452 comments

Maciej Cegłowski's long Idle Words essay critiquing NASA's Artemis lunar program, covering the rocket, capsule, orbit, Gateway, lander, and refueling plans.

Calling All Hackers(phrack.org)

522 points by picture 2 years ago | 198 comments

An article titled "Calling All Hackers" from Phrack issue 71, the long-running hacker zine.

GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client(xda-developers.com)

630 points by franczesko 8 months ago | 343 comments

XDA Developers article reporting that GOG calls Linux the next major frontier for gaming and is developing a native Linux client.

Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it(webcache.googleusercontent.com)

738 points by burnerbob 3 years ago | 398 comments

Google cache of a Fly.io community forum thread where a user reports a stopped machine under emergency maintenance that cannot be restarted, destroyed, or redeployed.

Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)(npr.org)

498 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 331 comments

NPR obituary of Allan McDonald, the Morton Thiokol engineer who refused to approve the Challenger launch and exposed the subsequent cover-up.

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes(dank.systems)

426 points by jaykru 1 month ago | 552 comments

Personal blog essay by Jay Kruer arguing LLMs remain overhyped despite headline results like Navier-Stokes, citing poor generalization, reward hacking, and specification costs.