By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller
Spread across NASA’s headquarters and 10 field centers, which dot the United States from sea to sea, the space agency has had a workforce of nearly 18,000 civil servants. However, by the end of today, that number will have shrunk by about 10 percent since the beginning of the second Trump administration four weeks ago. […]
Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
Acer Laptop prices in the U.S. are set to rise by 10% from March 2025, commented CEO Jason Chen in an interview with The Telegraph. Chen states that the price hike is a direct result of the Trump administration’s incoming tariffs. “We will have to adjust the end user price to reflect the tariff,” Chen […]
DotSlash: Simplified Executable Deployment
DotSlash (dotslash) is a command-line tool that lets you represent a set of platform-specific, heavyweight executables with an equivalent small, easy-to-read text file. In turn, this makes it efficient to store executables in source control without hurting repository size. This paves the way for checking build toolchains and other tools directly into the repo, reducing […]
Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with Built-In Realtime Visualizations
Easily add interactivity to your scripts using Scripton’s UI toolkit. from scripton import ui … def render(state): # Process using current state depth, image = mask_using_depth( threshold=state.threshold ) # Display results show(depth, title=’Depth’, key=’depth’) show(image, title=’Masked Output’, key=’image’) def reset(): state.threshold = 20 return ui.HStack( ui.Button( label=’Reset’, on_click=reset ), ui.Slider( label=’Depth Threshold’, value=state.bind.threshold, range=(0, 20) […]
Agent-Less System Monitoring with Elixir Broadway
We’ve started working on something that will be a critical component the Opsmaru platform. This part requires having proper infrastructure monitoring for several reasons. While Opsmaru has health monitoring for every cluster managed by the platform, it doesn’t give us deep insights into the metrics of the systems. Up until this point we’ve delayed the […]
Show HN: Welcome, Cot: the Rust web framework for lazy developers
18 February 2025 Cot was born out of frustration – the kind that every Rust developer feels when searching for a batteries-included, Django-like web framework that just handles the basics for you. While Rust is a really mature language, the web ecosystem is still sort of lacking. Let’s change that. Motivation There is a variety […]
The Ideal Candidate Will Be Punched In the Stomach
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done? Published February 13, 2025 “It would feel so good to say goodbye, when I’m with you I wanna die!” Typically you would try to time your footsteps to the beat of the song—a permanent habit from your time in a marching band—but the tempo of this one is […]
Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal
Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s cryptography to be actually secure, the CEO started spreading misleading bullshit about Signal®. Since then, I’ve been flooded with people asking me about various other […]
All-optical control of charge-trapping defects in rare-earth doped oxides
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Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down
Days after a DRM driver developer orphaned his drivers due to health reasons in stepping down, the sole maintainer at large of the Linux wireless (WiFi) drivers is stepping down and without any immediate replacement. Kalle Valo who has been a Qualcomm Atheros engineer for more than the past decade and contributor to the Linux […]