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  1. L'Affaire Siloxane (mceglowski.substack.com)
    299 points 11
  2. How should we think about Starship? (mceglowski.substack.com)
    5 points 1
  3. Microbial Dark Matter and the Search for Life on Earth (mceglowski.substack.com)
    1 points 1
  4. Artemis II is not safe to fly (idlewords.com)
    909 points 80
  5. Ask HN: How to keep Chinese crawlers from taking down my site?

    I run Pinboard, a bookmarking website with about 20K active users. By design, public pages on Pinboard are supposed to be visible to anyone, whether or not they have an account on the site. However, since about August…

    8 points 16
  6. Wide Binary Results Favoring MOND (tritonstation.com)
    2 points 0
  7. Megaplume of water vapor erupting on Enceladus caught by Webb Telescope (arstechnica.com)
    6 points 0
  8. Turnspit Dogs (2014) (npr.org)
    2 points 0
  9. Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay (nytimes.com)
    28 points 8
  10. Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth (1600 Ly) (noirlab.edu)
    1 points 0
  11. ISS in danger of debris from Russian antisatellite test (spaceflightnow.com)
    9 points 1
  12. Three thylacines (Tasmanian wolves) have apparently been photographed alive (twitter.com)
    27 points 2
  13. Transcript of Microsoft President Brad Smith's Town Hall on the Company PAC (notes.pinboard.in)
    3 points 0
  14. Ask HN: How good is facial recognition at large scale?

    Facial recognition in public contexts is routinely in the news, especially when it is being conducted by authoritarian regimes. But I have also heard anectodally that current techniques are brittle and lead to large…

    2 points 0
  15. The Fall of WeWork: How a Startup Darling Came Unglued (wsj.com)
    16 points 1
  16. Disney Blocks Winnie the Pooh Page in Hong Kong (twitter.com)
    27 points 1
  17. Microsoft's words vs. actions on DACA and other issues (idlewords.com)
    8 points 3
  18. Twitter was down (status.twitterstat.us)
    695 points 543
  19. ACLU is mass-mailing thumb drive-like devices as part of a marketing campaign (twitter.com)
    23 points 0
  20. Uber’s Operating and Marketing Chiefs Step Down in Leadership Shakeup (bloomberg.com)
    81 points 38
  21. Wall Street's Love Affair with Tesla Is Over (cnn.com)
    1 points 0
  22. Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data scraped and exposed (techcrunch.com)
    244 points 160
  23. WeWork Files for IPO (nytimes.com)
    299 points 322
  24. PetSmart’s online business, Chewy.com, files to go public (cnbc.com)
    3 points 3
  25. Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad as 2016 (washingtonpost.com)
    130 points 113