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Blue Ghost Photos #
The Firefly Blue Ghost lander touched down on the moon yesterday, and photos from the mission are publically available. Interestingly the photos are specifically hosted on Flickr rather than on Firefly’s website, but nevertheless, there a lot of incredible photos from different angles of the mission. I particularly love this picture of a lunar sunrise, and this video of the moon fly by is also great.
# 2025-03-03 - #space, #hacker-newsLive 'What a week, huh?' #
A truly incredible project which includes variants for the day, week, month, and year. In terms of the technical details, not using JavaScript is an interesting design goal, though it doesn’t seem too necessary for such a small website which relies on client-side info.
# 2025-02-18 - #hacker-newsBoom XB-1 Flight Test #
Super cool to see Boom’s XB-1 breaking the sound barrier on its first supersonic flight. I enjoyed this explanation by one of the commentators covering the difficulties with reaching supersonic speeds and how XB-1’s design optimizes its performance. As an aside, the flight information is really nicely displayed in the livestream, with the Mach being front-and-center since Boom’s main objective is to achieve a value > 1. I’ve also appreciated the same high quality of displayed information in SpaceX and Blue Origin’s streams, with the shown stats being carefully chosen to not cause unnecessary clutter.
# 2025-01-28 - #hacker-newsAuctioned iPhones with TikTok #
This is an interesting phenomena for banned apps on iOS, which obviously doesn’t happen on Android since you can sideload APKs easily. This specific case reminds me of when Flappy Bird was taken down by its creator, with iPhones with the game installed being sold for large amounts of money despite the game’s overall userbase—and therefore the amount of iPhones with the game installed—being extremely large.
# 2025-01-25 - #hacker-newsllama.vim #
A nice AI completion plugin from Georgi Gerganov, the creator of llama.cpp. The completion seems pretty good, but it’s obviously either going to be slower or less accurate than something like Codeium. Of course, the main benefit of llama.vim is being able to generate completions locally, meaning that no private code is accidentally transferred to external servers. While there are already many Vim plugins available for local AI completion, llama.vim’s main advantage is its ease of use through directly integrating with llama.cpp—no configuration is required, and a single command is used to start the completion server. I also like the use of VimL over Lua, since a lot of new plugins are being written solely for Neovim instead of also supporting Vim.
# 2025-01-23 - #ai, #hacker-news, #vim