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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Got Its Drill Stuck on a Rock. Here’s How They Freed It

This is the first time NASA has encountered a situation like this, and it took nearly a week to resolve.

Wired May 13, 2026 Marta Musso
Technology May 13, 2026

European governments: 3.000 tracking sites, 1.000 phpMyAdmins, and 99% poorly

Article URL: https://internetcleanup.foundation/2026/05/european-governments-3000-tracking-sites-1000-phpmyadmins-and-9...

Technology May 13, 2026

The Emacsification of Software

Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 13, 2026

"I applied to be pope"

Article URL: https://www.thestandard.com.hk/world/article/331886/I-applied-to-be-pope-Losing-grip-on-reality-while-usin...

Technology May 13, 2026

One Startup Is Gambling. Ten Is Mathematics

Article URL: https://www.mynameisfeng.com/blog/one-startup-is-gambling-ten-is-mathematics Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology May 13, 2026

Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117810 Points: 21 # ...

Technology May 13, 2026

We tested super-resolution pre-filter for LPR OCR. It did nothing

Article URL: https://www.wink.co/documentation/Neural-Super-Resolution-Pre-Filter-LPR-2026 Comments URL: https://news.y...

Technology May 13, 2026

Sony’s new Xperia phone gets an overdue redesign

Sony's Xperia 1 flagships have looked more or less the same since 2020, but that's finally changing with the Xperia 1 VI...

Technology May 13, 2026

Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI

Article URL: https://zero-native.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116873 Points: 13 # Comments:...

Technology May 13, 2026

Starship V3

Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116781 Poi...

Technology May 13, 2026

Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea

There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coo...

Technology May 13, 2026

Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI Onto His Kids, Sam Altman Says

Musk’s lawyers questioned Altman over allegations of deception and his network of financial investments, but the OpenA...

Technology May 13, 2026

My graduation cap runs Rust

Article URL: https://ericswpark.com/blog/2026/2026-05-12-my-graduation-cap-runs-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology May 13, 2026

xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight ...

Technology May 12, 2026

You Don't Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, & Women Who Share Gaming

Article URL: https://gardinerbryant.com/you-dont-look-like-a-gamer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 12, 2026

When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/quic-death-spiral-fix/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4811...

Technology May 12, 2026

Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough

After two weeks of hearing from assorted witnesses that he was a lying snake, the jury finally heard from the lying snak...

Technology May 12, 2026

The Cost of Doing Business: How SF's Tax Structure Constrains Economic Growth [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.bayareaeconomy.org/files/pdf/CostofDoingBusiness_TaxStudy_May2026.pdf Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology May 12, 2026

Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260511-kraftwerks-radical-1976-track-radioactivity-became-an-anti-nu...

Technology May 12, 2026

Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to Keep Wayback Machine

Article URL: https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807 Po...

Technology May 12, 2026

The Unitree GD01 Is a Giant Mecha Robot You Can Actually Buy

China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.

Technology May 12, 2026

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/ Comments ...

Technology May 12, 2026

The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home

The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents. ...

Technology May 12, 2026

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

Article URL: https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 12, 2026

Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever

Famous for helping build Apple's iPhones, Foxconn just suffered another cyberattack, highlighting the perils of warehous...

Technology May 12, 2026

EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-fourth-circuit-electronic-device-searches-border-require-warrant...

Technology May 12, 2026

iOS 27 might add a lot more customization to the Camera app

Apple's next iOS update could include something phone photographers have been waiting for: a lot more control over the C...

Technology May 12, 2026

FDA chief resigns after Trump admin forced approval of fruity e-cigs

Makary reportedly spent his year bucking Trump admin and making industry enemies. ...

Technology May 12, 2026

Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/meta-us-employees-organize-protest-against-mouse-tra...

Technology May 12, 2026

Scrcpy v4.0

Article URL: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/tag/v4.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...