Hackernews posts about SPAC

SPAC is an acronym for "Special Purpose Acquisition Company", which is a type of publicly traded company that raises capital to take another private company public through a merger or acquisition.

1. Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries (www.linguabase.org)
   151 points by gligierko 23 days ago | 269 comments
2. What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com)
   135 points by benbreen 28 days ago | 129 comments
3. SpaceX IPO Scandal (www.youtube.com)
   124 points by inaros 3 days ago | 30 comments
4. NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun (www.sciencenews.org)
   115 points by pseudolus 10 days ago | 95 comments
5. Next-gen spacecraft are overwhelming communication networks (atempleton.bearblog.dev)
   89 points by korrz 19 days ago | 32 comments
6. From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024) (kaizoudou.com)
   87 points by kqr 14 days ago | 35 comments
7. In space, no one can hear you kernel panic (2020) (increment.com)
   87 points by p0u4a 6 days ago | 23 comments
8. Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input (abjadpro.com)
   69 points by adangit 4 days ago | 23 comments
9. Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces (happel.ai)
   62 points by nill0 16 days ago | 10 comments
10. Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces (lwn.net)
    58 points by voxadam 13 days ago | 62 comments
11. SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support (discourse.threejs.org)
    45 points by ryker2000 21 days ago | 18 comments
12. Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space (observablehq.com)
    40 points by miyuru 30 days ago | 1 comments
13. The Case for Apolitical Tech Spaces (minor.gripe)
    36 points by ai_critic 16 days ago | 54 comments
14. The Space Race's Forgotten Theme Park (daily.jstor.org)
    28 points by anarbadalov 14 days ago | 2 comments
15. Michael Burry worries about "structural manipulation" of Nasdaq-100 for SpaceX (twitter.com)
    24 points by adrianmsmith 4 days ago | 2 comments
16. An Analysis of User-Space Idle State Instructions on x86 Processors (dl.acm.org)
    22 points by blakepelton 12 days ago | 6 comments
17. SpacetimeDB 2.0 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    21 points by aleasoni 22 days ago | 6 comments
18. Scheme 9 from Empty Space (2014) (t3x.org)
    20 points by emigre 23 days ago | discuss
19. Time, Space, and Life as We Know It (2017) (raganwald.com)
    19 points by vismit2000 18 days ago | discuss
20. FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk (www.propublica.org)
    15 points by johnbarron 5 days ago | discuss
21. An honest analysis of SpacetimeDB 2.0's insane benchmark results (gist.github.com)
    12 points by brandonpollack2 21 days ago | 3 comments
22. Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests (www.theguardian.com)
    10 points by billybuckwheat 10 days ago | 4 comments
23. NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander (arstechnica.com)
    10 points by voxadam 8 days ago | 2 comments
24. Show HN: Implementing ping from the Ethernet layer (ARP,IPv4,ICMP in user space) (github.com)
    9 points by ibuki256 23 days ago | 2 comments
25. No space, no power, no support – what life is like for Indian IT workers (theconversation.com)
    9 points by patrakov about 8 hours ago | discuss
26. SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review (strn.cat)
    9 points by Sirupsen 19 days ago | discuss
27. Spacedrive v3: The local-first data engine (spacedrive.com)
    8 points by raybb 6 days ago | discuss
28. SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium (www.bbc.co.uk)
    8 points by jeffwass 27 days ago | discuss
29. A 1,300-pound NASA spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere (www.bbc.com)
    7 points by reconnecting 8 days ago | 1 comments
30. Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems (arxiv.org)
    7 points by ekaesmem 17 days ago | 1 comments