All 12 moonwalkers had ”lunar hay fever” from dust smelling like gunpowder
Science & Exploration 04/07/2018 111221 views 661 likes When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, the dust that clung to their spacesuits made their throats sore and their eyes water. Lunar dust is made of sharp, abrasive and nasty particles, but how toxic is it for humans? The “lunar hay fever”, as NASA astronaut […]
Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
Ship and run software with isolation by default. This is a CLI tool that lets you: Manage and run custom Linux virtual machines locally with: sub-second cold start, cross-platform (macOS, Linux), elastic memory usage. Pack a stateful virtual machine into a single file (.smolmachine) to rehydrate on any supported platform. # install (macOS + Linux) […]
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering
At Kyber, we’re building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65% less time drafting, and compress overall communication cycle times by 5x. Our vision is for every enterprise to seamlessly leverage AI templates to generate every […]
NASA Force
NASA Force is a new hiring initiative—developed in partnership with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management—designed to bring exceptional technical talent into mission-critical roles that support NASA’s exploration, research, and advanced technology priorities. Highly skilled early- to mid- career engineers, technologists, and innovators join NASA for focused term appointments, typically 1–2 years with the possibility […]
Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 migration guide says the new tokenizer uses ”roughly 1.0 to 1.35x as many tokens” as 4.6. I measured 1.47x on technical docs. 1.45x on a real CLAUDE.md file. The top of Anthropic’s range is where most Claude Code content actually sits, not the middle. Same sticker price. Same quota. More tokens […]
NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
Risky Bulletin Newsletter April 17, 2026 Written by Catalin Cimpanu News Editor This newsletter is brought to you by Corelight. You can subscribe to an audio version of this newsletter as a podcast by searching for ”Risky Business” in your podcatcher or subscribing via this RSS feed. You can also add the Risky Business newsletter […]
Claude Design
Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more. Claude Design is powered by our most capable vision model, Claude Opus 4.7, and is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. […]
Iceye Open Data
Open SAR Example of the Month: SpaceX Starbase at Boca Chica State Park This SAR acquisition of SpaceX’s Starbase facility at Boca Chica, Texas, captures the rapid infrastructure buildout at one of the world’s most active launch sites. Download the full dataset and explore it yourself. see data →
Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-Hosted Object Storage
Healthchecks.io ping endpoints accept HTTP HEAD, GET, and POST request methods. When using HTTP POST, clients can include an arbitrary payload in the request body. Healthchecks.io stores the first 100kB of the request body. If the request body is tiny, Healthchecks.io stores it in the PostgreSQL database. Otherwise, it stores it in S3-compatible object storage. […]
It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation A recent deep dive into the American adtech surveillance system Webloc highlights the national security and privacy risks of pervasive and easily obtainable geolocation data. It brings home, once again, that the U.S. needs to clamp down on the collection and sale of geolocation data. […]