Say goodbye to Comet 3I/ATLAS! Watch it head for interstellar space in real-time with this free Jan. 16 livestream
3I/ATLAS is heading away from the sun on an escape trajectory from our solar system....
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The Alignment Game (2023)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BYh9ZtEv4k7xoSXmtf1q... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641216 Points: 31 # Comments: 4...
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Show HN: The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert
It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...
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An oncologist was shocked to learn she had breast cancer. She had no symptoms and thought she was low-risk.
Dr. Sue Hwang, a radiation oncologist, said her own experience with breast cancer helped her see vulnerability as a strength instead of a weakness. Tim Brown Oncologist Sue Hwang was diagnosed with br...
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Solve the MH370 Paradox in 10 Seconds
Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380531233_Solve_the_MH370_Paradox_in_10_Seconds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669250 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
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Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability (2023)
Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20230920164939/https://samiramly.com/chess Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666574 Points: 3 # Comments: 1...
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2025 was the third hottest year on record
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/14/2025-was-the-third-hottest-year-on-record Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659913 Points: 8 # Comments: 2...
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Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant
Article URL: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/01/Earth_from_Space_The_fate_of_a_giant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649813 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
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The string theory hype machine will never die
Article URL: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15407 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621518 Points: 6 # Comments: 0...
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2025 was the third warmest year on record
Droughts, hurricanes and wildfires are becoming the new normal. Global temperatures have shattered records for more than a decade....
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Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers
Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first...
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Space.com headlines crossword quiz for week of Jan. 5, 2026: The moon met which bright star in the night sky this week?
Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlines....
Jan 10Space.comScience
Jupiter has more oxygen than the sun, new simulations reveal
Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's planets formed....
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Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-renewable-photo-essay Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630369 Points: 18 # Comments: 0...
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Vera Rubin Observatory spots the fastest-spinning large asteroid ever found
The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new "superfast rotator" asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever found....
Jan 8Space.comScience
On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]
Article URL: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/crisis/crisis.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644962 Points: 8 # Comments: 0...
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How Earth's orbit might help us find oil reserves within the planet
Scientists studying Jurassic rocks in China found that cyclical changes in Earth's orbit affected not only the climate, but also the development of shale oil reserves....
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Why the world’s fattest parrots now feel frisky enough to save their species
After a four-year hiatus, conservationists in New Zealand are relieved that the flightless kākāpo is once again breeding. Fewer than 300 of the parrots exist....
4dWashington Postenvironment
The near death -- and last-minute reprieve -- of a trial for an HIV vaccine
A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started. (Image credit: Tommy Trenc...
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Astronaut on ISS captures spectacular orbital video of zodiacal light, auroras and the Pleiades
Kimiya Yui released the timelapse footage to celebrate his 300th cumulative day spent orbiting Earth....
Jan 10Space.comScience
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