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While Blue Origin investigates the root cause behind last night's spectacular explosion of its New Glenn rocket, it's already clear that this will be a major setback for NASA's Moon base plans and Amazon's fledgling Leo space internet constellation. The incident occurred at about 9pm at Blue Origin's Florida launch site during a hot-fire test, […]

Everyone can build it. Almost no one can afford to run it at scale. And the companies selling the picks and shovels are about to get undercut by the same forces they unleashed. by VEKTOR Memory — 20 min read How This Article Started: 20 Forums, 40 Headlines, and a Growing Sense That Everyone Was Confused I woke up to clear skies and the sun finally shining, and I set out to understand this idea, the truth behind it, and the nagging suspicion that the narrative around AI and software costs had become so loud, so uniform, and so confidently confusing that someone needed to sit down and actually go through it. No tweets, or are they now X's? No LinkedIn thought leader infomercials, no Substack hype, just actual research and deep thoughts. So I spent time reading, collating data. Forums, whitepapers, LinkedIn posts, Hacker News threads, VC essays, Reddit arguments. I went looking for the real signal underneath the noise. What I found instead was the full spectrum of human overconfidence, lots of moat real estate. On one end: the hype machine at full throttle. “Software is going to zero.” “A solo dev can now build what a 50-person team built in 2021.” “The era of the $500/month SaaS subscription is over.” “Vibe coding will replace your entire engineering org.” These headlines were everywhere. Breathless. Confident. Shared tens of thousands of times, this angle gets views, of course, the algorithm loves being fed claps, shares, comments, and reposts. Most were written by people who had a very good Tuesday with Codex, Windsurf, Claude and Cursor and decided that instant dev, open source to Github and getting oodles of stars, maybe even roping in a celebrity, was now the permanent condition of software development. “We are now famous on GitHub!" Very hipster, very vibes, see you on the playa.. On the other end: the backlash. Experienced engineer, people with 15 to 25 years in production systems are pushing back hard. “Show me the vibe-coded app that survived its first real

Most scraping projects start by finding a website to scrape. This one started from the opposite direction: I knew the data existed as official government downloads, and my job was to make it accessible via a clean API. The data source Ofsted (the UK school inspections body) publishes monthly management information as CSV files on GOV.UK. The file covers all 22,000+ state-funded schools in England with their latest inspection grades, local authority, postcode, phase, and size data. It's 16 MB, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — explicitly permitting commercial use. No scraping needed. No authentication. Just a CSV download and some parsing logic. The architecture The actor is deliberately simple: Fetch the GOV.UK stats page to find the current month's CSV URL (the URL hash changes with each release) Download the CSV (~16 MB from assets.publishing.service.gov.uk ) Parse it with csv-parse Apply the user's filters (name, local authority, region, postcode prefix) Push matching records to the Apify dataset No Crawlee. No browser. No proxy. Just fetch() and a CSV parser. const match = html . match ( /href=" ( https: \/\/ assets \. publishing \. service \. gov \. uk \/[^ " ] +latest_inspections_as_at [^ " ] + \. csv ) "/ ); That one regex does the URL discovery. The GOV.UK page lists files in reverse chronological order, so the first match is always the latest release. The interesting part: Ofsted changed their grading system mid-build I built this in May 2026. In November 2025, Ofsted scrapped their 20-year-old four-word judgement system (Outstanding / Good / Requires Improvement / Inadequate) and replaced it with a report card format — six separate grade areas, each on a five-point scale: Exceptional Strong Expected standard Needs attention Urgent improvement Plus a standalone Safeguarding verdict (Met / Not met). The April 2026 CSV reflects this change entirely. There's no "Overall effectiveness" column. Schools inspected before November 2025 have null gr

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In Las Vegas, the blazing sun beats down on a makeshift Olympic-length pool. Cody Miller stands on the starting block of lane one. His arms are raised in victory. MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" thumps over the loudspeakers as he rips off his swimming cap, throwing it to the ground. Miller lets out a […]

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The project’s first mission could arrive as soon as this year, with a little help from Blue Origin.

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