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Vol. 2026 · No. 249
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Sun · Sep 6 · 2026

The stack

4 picks · curated
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Ars Technica txt 2h · also HN 663 pts, Reuters

German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached low-Earth orbit Saturday night from Andøya, Norway, seven minutes after liftoff, and deployed payloads on only its second flight. The Munich startup, founded by three students in 2018, is now the clear leader among European launch startups trying to break the continent's stagnant launch market.

02
Hacker News txt 207 c · 449 pts

The revolt of the reader

Bryan Cantrill, speaking for readers, says people can absolutely tell when a piece is LLM-authored and they emphatically care: the structural tells trigger a mid-sentence ejection. His diagnosis is that authors of such pieces are not reading enough to notice, or not reading their own output at all.

03
Hacker News 83 c · 484 pts

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

Six years after Jeff Johnson caught Chrome exempting Google sites from the delete-site-data-on-close setting, he has reproduced it again on Chrome 152: with DuckDuckGo as default search and Chrome sign-in disabled, a single Google search leaves google.com cookies, local storage, and session storage that survive quitting the browser. As far as he can tell www.google.com is the only exempted site.

04
Marginal Revolution txt 20h · job market paper

Short videos, big self-control problems

A Princeton job-market paper by Renjie Bao uses microdata from a US short-drama platform to show paying users watch 82 percent more than they planned. Structural estimates put the temptation horizon at about 11 minutes, long relative to one-minute episodes, which is exactly why short units keep renewing the urge; larger decision units, default limits, and breaks all improve long-run welfare.