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The most valuable private company on Earth just opened its books. Starlink revenue, Mars ambitions, orbital data centers — it's all here in the raw filing. 403 HN points and counting.

MIT figured out how to make your iPhone's LiDAR see around corners. Not a prototype sensor — the one already in your pocket. Published in Nature.

Retatrutide just posted 28% average body weight loss at 80 weeks — blowing past Ozempic and Mounjaro. Eli Lilly's next-gen weight loss drug is the real deal.

A defense analyst argues the scale of Gaza's destruction was a choice, not a necessity — and makes the case purely on military logic, not morality. Bracingly specific.

Private companies are now funding experiments to scatter microscopic glass spheres into the stratosphere. The science is real, the governance is nonexistent, and the stakes are planetary.