Hackernews posts about JWST

JWST is the James Webb Space Telescope, a NASA space observatory designed to capture infrared light and explore the universe in unprecedented detail.

1. JWST finds a hidden exoplanet by mapping chemical signatures in a debris disk (science.nasa.gov)
   3 points by MarcoDewey 25 days ago | discuss
2. Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
   490 points by shdon 4 days ago | 225 comments
3. Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification (linuxstans.com)
   344 points by speckx 11 days ago | 545 comments
4. A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux (www.xda-developers.com)
   317 points by theanonymousone 6 days ago | 174 comments
5. I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music (pentaton.app)
   231 points by interfeco 30 days ago | 54 comments
6. Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights (fortune.com)
   195 points by imzadi 25 days ago | 351 comments
7. Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (www.theverge.com)
   193 points by eternalreturn 14 days ago | 205 comments
8. Europe's fires are just the start (economist.com)
   191 points by andsoitis 23 days ago | 345 comments
9. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
   170 points by 01-_- 14 days ago | 14 comments
10. The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020) (www.mcgill.ca)
    166 points by audreyfei 18 days ago | 178 comments
11. Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age (itsfoss.com)
    135 points by WaitWaitWha 13 days ago | 128 comments
12. Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future (arstechnica.com)
    125 points by rbanffy 22 days ago | 134 comments
13. CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back (www.cnn.com)
    114 points by pseudolus 7 days ago | 98 comments
14. I Just Want to Search (www.0xsid.com)
    103 points by ssiddharth about 11 hours ago | 47 comments
15. Is it all just vapourware? (kirahowe.com)
    98 points by Lyngbakr 12 days ago | 192 comments
16. The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet (www.theregister.com)
    85 points by Bender 19 days ago | 148 comments
17. Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History (simpleflying.com)
    65 points by cainxinth 25 days ago | 124 comments
18. My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup (www.fast.ai)
    58 points by eamag 4 days ago | 210 comments
19. The Trumps' Crypto Project Just Got One Step Closer to Becoming a Bank (www.motherjones.com)
    55 points by rib3ye 5 days ago | 34 comments
20. The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
    54 points by igortru 17 days ago | 77 comments
21. You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard (2021) (www.wbur.org)
    50 points by downbad_ 16 days ago | 46 comments
22. "Please just use plain English, I don't understand what you're saying." (twitter.com)
    50 points by alediaferia 26 days ago | 34 comments
23. OpenAI's rogue model attack is just the beginning (blog.peterwildeford.com)
    40 points by radicaldreamer 25 days ago | 22 comments
24. Anthropic Doesn't Want Open Weight Models Banned. Just All That Makes Them Good (www.techdirt.com)
    40 points by cdrnsf 23 days ago | 6 comments
25. The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee (www.wsj.com)
    36 points by paulpauper 19 days ago | 31 comments
26. Just brute force your embeddings (softwaredoug.com)
    35 points by JohnBerryman 22 days ago | 14 comments
27. Judge Voices Doubt US Has Justified Its Ban on Anthropic AI (www.bloomberg.com)
    34 points by sbulaev 22 days ago | discuss
28. The US government just banned Roombas (www.theverge.com)
    32 points by leumon 23 days ago | 14 comments
29. The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story (gigamonkeys.com)
    30 points by kscarlet 17 days ago | 6 comments
30. AI Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature (www.nytimes.com)
    29 points by donohoe 15 days ago | 18 comments