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. How to Draw a Space Invader (muffinman.io)
   556 points by abdusco 10 days ago | 55 comments
2. Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space (www.livescience.com)
   291 points by Teever 6 days ago | 134 comments
3. SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight (www.space.com)
   288 points by mpweiher 3 days ago | 329 comments
4. What is a color space? (www.makingsoftware.com)
   257 points by vinhnx 5 days ago | 50 comments
5. Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit (www.phoronix.com)
   195 points by teleforce 16 days ago | 59 comments
6. The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019) (mcdreeamiemusings.com)
   194 points by scapecast 1 day ago | 166 comments
7. Content-Aware Spaced Repetition (www.giacomoran.com)
   183 points by ran3000 26 days ago | 65 comments
8. SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python (github.com)
   132 points by marklit 7 days ago | 62 comments
9. Adventures in State Space [video] (www.youtube.com)
   80 points by bo0tzz 6 days ago | 10 comments
10. How to free up and automatically manage disk space for WSL (www.freecodecamp.org)
    66 points by twilight-code 13 days ago | 54 comments
11. At $250M, top AI salaries dwarf the Manhattan Project and the Space Race (arstechnica.com)
    63 points by majkinetor 28 days ago | 15 comments
12. Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space (www.livescience.com)
    61 points by Bluestein 26 days ago | 6 comments
13. A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf] (jonathanadams.pro)
    58 points by keepamovin 11 days ago | 24 comments
14. Texas politicians warn Smithsonian it must not lobby to retain its space shuttle (arstechnica.com)
    44 points by LorenDB 21 days ago | 26 comments
15. SpaceX Gets Billions from the Government, Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes (www.nytimes.com)
    37 points by pretext 14 days ago | 22 comments
16. Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer (2023) (www.righto.com)
    27 points by trymas 5 days ago | 5 comments
17. Create space-saving clones on macOS with Python (alexwlchan.net)
    20 points by ingve 27 days ago | 4 comments
18. Canada's first commercial spaceport is under construction (www.space.com)
    19 points by geox 13 days ago | discuss
19. SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near (arstechnica.com)
    18 points by LorenDB 14 days ago | 7 comments
20. NASA's acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency (arstechnica.com)
    18 points by voxadam 15 days ago | 6 comments
21. SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink (arstechnica.com)
    15 points by unsnap_biceps 10 days ago | 6 comments
22. NASA's acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency (arstechnica.com)
    13 points by Anon84 12 days ago | 3 comments
23. Giant satellite VHF antenna for space-based air traffic service (nanoavionics.com)
    13 points by dzhiurgis 23 days ago | 2 comments
24. Synthetic Biology for Space Exploration (www.nature.com)
    13 points by PaulHoule 26 days ago | 1 comments
25. SpaceX faces two new lawsuits alleging safety‐related retaliation (techcrunch.com)
    13 points by Bluestein 27 days ago | discuss
26. Houston, you've got a space shuttle only NASA won't say which one (arstechnica.com)
    12 points by LorenDB 24 days ago | 6 comments
27. Altman: Graduates will get 'some new well-paid' job in space (fortune.com)
    11 points by Bluestein 19 days ago | 7 comments
28. SpaceX has built the machine to build the machine. But what about the machine? (arstechnica.com)
    10 points by rbanffy 9 days ago | 2 comments
29. Adventures in State Space [video] (www.youtube.com)
    10 points by marvinborner 8 days ago | 1 comments
30. SpaceX to start sending Dragon capsules to Mars in 2 years (twitter.com)
    9 points by TheAlchemist 4 days ago | 12 comments