2025-05-03
A Forgotten Battle Exposes Why Canada Might Want the JAS 39 Gripen over F-35
Key Points: Results from the 2015 “Falcon Strike” exercise, revealed years later by a senior Chinese pilot, showed Thailand’s Saab JAS 39 Gripens dominating China’s Su-27SK fighters in beyond-visual-range (BVR)...
Scientists Say Something Is Corking the Yellowstone Supervolcano
Corked Volcano Researchers have found evidence that a giant "lid" made of magma could be stopping the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park from erupting. As detailed in a paper published...
Scientists Say They've Built a "Black Hole Bomb"
Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb," a concept that dates back to the late 1960s. As New Scientist reports, the idea is to have energy boosted by...
How KuCoin Plans to Rebuild Trust in Crypto: Inside BC Wong’s $2B Vision
KuCoin CEO BC Wong unveils $2B Trust Project at TOKEN2049, aiming to enhance crypto transparency and security.
You May Be Startled to Learn How Many Humans Have Been Killed by Gorillas
With Harambe's tragic death nearly a decade behind us, folks online are now fantasizing about whether 100 men could take on a single gorilla — but in reality, that would...
Oblivion isn't enough? Morrowind just got a whole lot bigger, as community mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt adds the sprawling metropolis of Narsis
Morrowind finally living up to its name, one expansion at a time.
The TechBeat: Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & AI Tools by Aditya Mishra (5/3/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...
Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 3
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
1,000 Steel Coffins? Russia’s T-80 Tank Has Been Smashed to Pieces in Ukraine War
Key Points: Russia’s T-80 main battle tank has suffered disastrously in the Ukraine war, with estimates suggesting up to 1,000 destroyed by Ukrainian drones, anti-tank missiles, and artillery. -Originally designed...
Improperly Stored Session Cookies - What the crates.io Team Is Doing to Fix It
The crates.io team discovered that the contents of the cargo_session cookie were being persisted to our error monitoring service, Sentry...
Introducing the Somar Project - An Educational XR Experience: Godot Showcase
We interviewed Frederic Plourde and Daniel Castellanos who used Godot to create an educational XR experience for SOMAR, a non-profit association focusing on the conservation of marine life in the...
Updates from Comments on "AI 2027 is a Bet Against Amdahl's Law"
Published on May 2, 2025 11:52 PM GMTAI 2027 is a Bet Against Amdahl's Law was my attempt to summarize and analyze "the key load-bearing arguments AI 2027 presents for...
Attend SPAR's virtual demo day! (career fair + talks)
Published on May 2, 2025 11:45 PM GMTDiscuss
Product Pitch to Sales Play - follow up story
Bulding a structured approach to sales success
Why does METR score o3 as effective for such a long time duration despite overall poor scores?
Published on May 2, 2025 10:58 PM GMTEpistemic status: Question, probably missing something.ContextSee the preliminary evaluation of o3 and o4-mini here: https://metr.github.io/autonomy-evals-guide/openai-o3-report/#methodology-overviewThis follows up important work by METR measuring the...
Nurses Are Being Hired Like Ubers
The app lets nurses and nurse aides book individual shifts for a set number of hours with health care facilities, get paid, and move on to the next gig. Essentially,...
Russia’s Su-35 Fighter Has a Message for Any Air Force on Earth
The first time the world saw the Sukhoi Su-35 “Super Flanker” was in the early 1990s. At the beginning of the post-Cold War era, the aircraft followed the same evolutionary...
2025-05-02
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor celebrates the Grand Theft Auto 6 delay: 'WE'RE IN WITH A SHOT! GOTY!'
Luke Dale, the voice of Hans Capon, is thrilled that GTA 6 won't be out until 2026, and for a pretty good reason.
This 'narrative simulator' about a delivery driver in deeply rural Russia is giving me serious Mudrunner meets Disco Elysium vibes
Vasily's just a guy trying to get by.
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