Our engineering team at Neon works across a large codebase written in TypeScript, Go, Rust, and Python. We’ve been experimenting with Cursor as a tool to help us move faster – here’s our favorite workflows, and where we still find a few things missing. Our favorite Cursor workflo...
NASA and the space community had geared up last week for more news about the 2026 budget proposal, including what missions were proposed for cancellation. Jeff Foust reports they also lost the person they had expected would soon take charge at the agency, adding to doubts and fears about the…
The DSP missile warning satellites were to be phased out by the early 2000s as a new line of satellites entered service. But, Dwayne Day finds, DSP satellites appear to remain in service to this day.
SpaceX has become the dominant launch provider while its Starlink constellation gains millions of customers. Claude Lafleur, though, questions whether the company is still a good business.
Many worlds in our solar system and beyond may host life, but determining which are the most promising is a challenge. Daniel Apai describes a new effort to better quantify prospective habitable worlds.
A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve been reluctant to push back on…
ClickHouse 25.5. The one where the vector similarity index moves into beta. Also support for the Hive metastore catalog for Iceberg tables, the ability to track when new functions were added to ClickHouse, implicit table in clickhouse-local, and more.