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How to prevent ideological capture of sites like Wikipedia, HNhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290346Someone submitted a link [1] to an article on Wikipedia's whitewashing of Mao titled Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao – The Anatomy of Ideological Capture [2], a topic which in a more generalized form is of interest to the current average HN denizen given the prevalence of Wikipedia in LLM training data. It did not take long for the flaggers and down-voters to take down the article which has only managed to get a few comments, the top one claiming the article to be 'a pretty political take on a Wikipedia article'. I think the subject deserves more discussion since it points out a clear problem with sources like Wikipedia but also because of the way this article was quickly flagged to death. The flagging and down-voting mechanisms make sites like HN vulnerable to the same type of ideological capture as what is discussed in the linked article in that a relatively small group of motivated users can suppress 'unwanted' subjects while boosting those which fit some desired narrative.[1] https://newMay 27, 2026 6:14 AM
spaceflightnow.com
NASA outlines nearly $1 billion investment into initial Moon Base missionshttps://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/27/nasa-outlines-nearly-1-billion-investment-into-initial-moon-base-missions/NASA’s vision for a sprawling Moon Base will cover “hundreds of square miles” to cover the multitudes of various sites that the agency wants to explore.May 27, 2026 1:18 AM
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Show HN: Monkdev is a toolkit and methodology for coding with LLMshttps://github.com/oeo/monkdevI'm sure many people have some solutions similar to this but I've been using some variation of this since roughly the release of Opus 3 to get higher quality results. Like, significantly higher. So I decided to make it into a more structured package.Problem: bad decisions and short sighted solutions due to the LLM not having enough context before acting. They'd read one file, or a few segments of a set of files using a super conservative offset and limit, guess about the rest, apply a patch, run a unit test and then tell you with its entire chest that the code is production-ready.Those bandaids over time became debt, drift, complexity. Unnecessary LOC in a codebase where I find myself wondering is this thing even making me more efficient or should I be in VIM more often and just save myself the API costs (I use OpenCode + OpenRouter and have been known to blast through hundreds of dollars a day in spend using Frontier models).I found that, for whatever reason, LLMs respond to role-playMay 26, 2026 7:08 PM
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Chennai City Lightshttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/chennai-city-lights/Chennai, on India’s southern coast along the Bay of Bengal and with a metropolitan population of about 8.7 million, shines with white LED streetlights in this photograph taken at approximately 9:13 p.m. local time on May 2, 2026, from the International Space Station. Earth observations from the space station let us see how our planet […]May 26, 2026 2:49 PM
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New Instrument Used Antarctic Ice Sheet to Probe Extreme Universehttps://science.nasa.gov/science-research/science-enabling-technology/technology-highlights/new-instrument-used-antarctic-ice-sheet-to-probe-extreme-universe/The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program mission designed to detect the most energetic particles in the universe.May 26, 2026 12:00 PM
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Is it too soon to built software factories?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268815I keep hearing about “software factories” / background coding agents that can autonomously work on production repos. It seems like the capabilities are there, but not sure if we have the right tools yet.There are already some companies providing software for this like ona/factory/codex/claude/cursorOpen-source alternatives - https://github.com/ColeMurray/background-agentsBig companies like stripe/ramp/uber/spotify built their own background-agents infrastructureBut nothing seems to be mature enough to just work fine. Is it too soon?May 25, 2026 4:39 PM
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Show HN: Hackobar – One feed for AI newshttps://hackobar.com/Hey HN,Out of frustration of keeping up with AI news, I built hackobar. It fetches the AI related news from multiple sources such as HN, arxiv, github trending repos, huggingface, many ai subreddits, twitter handles that cover AI, Tech news outlets, major ai lab blogs and of course the numerous AI news letters that are growing by day.GitHub trending repos isn't "news" but as an engineer it matters. you can't read every arXiv paper or every HuggingFace drop. HN has the best discussions, Twitter has some, newsletters have some. I used to check 5 places and still felt behind.Building this was fun. I had to face many technical challenges, even though I have used Claude Code to help build I think the decisions I took to mitigate those challenges are interesting and wanted to share with this crowd.1 Fetching: I had to fetch different sources at different rate because fetching some on regular bases didn't make sense. for example, fetching AI labs blogs every few hours does not make sense but May 25, 2026 4:02 PM
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Ask HN: Encouraging a child's gaming PC build despite fear of gaming addiction?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826332112yo son is doing dedicated research on gaming PC parts and binge-watches videos on how to build (he's not a native English speaker and has no real electronics skills, so this is quite impressive tbh). Me the dad, however, fears that I'm witnessing a FPS addict being born.What's a good Middle Way here? Kid actually building the machine all by himself -- 100% yes, even if it's quite expensive; kid then Counter Striking, Call of Dutying etc for hours on dat 27" screen -- ugh!What complicates things is that I myself am more of a "computational minimalist" using 15 year old machines in a cli-only environment etc. I've tried to show him That Path also ("dude, here's some Turbo Pascal for ya!"), but, well, obviously he's preferring those addictively engineered and GPU-hungry multiplayer games with his friends any day.He's a good kid all in all, actively engaged in competitive rowing, with good grades etc. Plays chess also (but all the other folks are FPSing or Minecrafting, so there's that).May 25, 2026 4:11 AM
spaceflightnow.com
Musk praises “epic” Super Heavy-Starship launchhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/23/musk-praises-epic-super-heavy-starship-launch/The Starship upper stage was equipped with six third-generation Raptor engines and one of three optimized for operating in vacuum shut down early during the climb to space. The flight computer kept the other five engines running longer than originally planned to make up for the shortfall, putting the craft on an acceptable sub-orbital trajectory.May 23, 2026 2:47 AM
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Webb Studies Star Clustershttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/webb-studies-star-clusters/This near-infrared image released on May 6, 2026, shows a section of one of the spiral arms of Messier 51 (M51). M51 is one of four nearby galaxies observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in a study of nearly 9,000 star clusters. Data from the study shows that more massive star clusters emerge more […]May 22, 2026 6:23 PM
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Keeping NASA Flying: Ground Crews Ensure Aircraft Readinesshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/keeping-nasa-flying-ground-crews-ensure-aircraft-readiness/From high‑speed research flights to high‑altitude science campaigns, NASA depends on aircraft that perform at their best and the ground crews who keep them mission ready. At NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, specially trained maintenance crews are essential to keeping the agency’s aircraft flying safely and reliably. This year, NASA added two […]May 22, 2026 3:45 PM
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15 Fajita-Inspired Recipes To Make For Dinnerhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidEFVX3lxTE9CQXVIMzRHRnJ6MkFPV2E5blR3NWJ3TVhKZldrMEdMVEF5aVk5RGN3RnlUZUE1OEROYm5JMER4MXR6M2xVSzJ3S2NfOU0xLTB6Uy14dGJpZjNnYmIxTDlyMkh6QkZnUFV4TXNDQUNvM0lQQ21v?oc=515 Fajita-Inspired Recipes To Make For Dinner EatingWellMay 22, 2026 7:00 AM
science.nasa.gov
Tornado Draws a Jagged Line in Mississippihttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/tornado-draws-a-jagged-line-in-mississippi/The strongest of several twisters to touch down in the southern part of the state in early May 2026 left a visible path of damaged vegetation.May 22, 2026 4:01 AM
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Sixth Varda mission successfully returnshttps://spacenews.com/sixth-varda-mission-successfully-returns/Varda Space Industries completed its latest reentry mission May 18 as the company balances supporting pharmaceutical research and hypersonic testing. The post Sixth Varda mission successfully returns appeared first on SpaceNews.May 21, 2026 10:24 PM
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Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice pleasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226107I've a background mostly in ASP.NET full stack software development. I'm very hands on, like to tinker at different things and can learn fast.*Employment History*My employment history is like this: Placement year 2018, worked for the full term + summer, graduated 2020, did backend dev in Python at Company A for 7 months, then full stack ASP.NET at company B for 2.5 years, then co-founded my own company and was the sole developer on our software platform, did all the cloud infra in Azure too. That lasted for another 2.5 or so years. This gives me approx. 7 years of professional software development experience.In May 2025 the company wasn't in a strong financial position, and I started to hunt for jobs. We limped along while I polished it for a launch in September 2025. The site wasn't the success we were hoping. We closed it in February. Despite that, I did learn a lot and my web app development ability is much better as a result.*Job applications*Since May 2025, I've applied for almostMay 21, 2026 5:19 PM
spaceflightnow.com
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch first Starship Version 3 rockethttps://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/21/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-first-starship-version-3-rocket/The mission will see the debut of several upgrades to the launch vehicle, including redesigned engines. Liftoff from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas, is scheduled during a window that opens at 5:30 p.m. CDT (6:30 p.m. EDT / 2230 UTC).May 21, 2026 1:13 PM
spacenews.com
The internet was ‘too expensive’ toohttps://spacenews.com/the-internet-was-too-expensive-too/Every new infrastructure platform can look uneconomic at first. Early systems are often bespoke, supply chains immature and scaling doesn’t yet exist. The result: cost structures can appear daunting, if […] The post The internet was ‘too expensive’ too appeared first on SpaceNews.May 21, 2026 1:00 PM
bing.com
As Nintendo makes Switch 2 more expensive, a rival console actually just slashed its price 40%http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89fc43e823411eb0bbfba25b4594f1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygon.com%2Fboard-price-cut%2F&c=122911337829145224&mkt=en-usNintendo may be raising the price of the Switch 2 later this year, but at least one rival family console just got a little less expensive. Board, an interactive tablet built for board games, has ...May 21, 2026 8:54 AM
esa.int
Stay space chemical compliant in the EUhttps://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/Stay_space_chemical_compliant_in_the_EUOn 2 June, the European Space Agency (ESA) will hold its free REACH workshop on chemical compliance in the space sector. This all-day event will be held at ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, with an option to join online.May 21, 2026 8:10 AM
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NASA Releases Technology Priorities to Energize Space Industryhttps://www.nasa.gov/technology/nasa-releases-technology-priorities-to-energize-space-industry/NASA released the 2026 Civil Space Shortfall Ranking list on Wednesday, which integrates more than 400 responses from stakeholders including industry organizations, government agencies, and academia. Shortfalls refer to technology areas requiring further development to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs. The goal of this document is to rank the space community’s most pervasive shortfalls to […]May 20, 2026 5:11 PM
