Hacker News with Generative AI: South Africa

Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets (theguardian.com)
Qantas says it has been forced to delay several of its flights to South Africa at the last minute due to warnings of falling debris from Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets re-entering Earth.

SpaceX, Aviation, South Africa, Delays

177 points by adrian_mrd 2 days ago | 135 comments

McKinsey unit will pay $123M to settle claims it bribed South African officials (cnbc.com)

Business, Corruption, South Africa, Lawsuits

179 points by donsupreme 43 days ago | 123 comments

MPTA Finds Evidence of Gravitational Wave Background (spaceaustralia.com)
The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA) has detected the gravitational wave background within just 4.5 years, using South Africa's sensitive telescope. Lead author Dr. Matt Miles shares insights into this groundbreaking discovery.

Astronomy, Gravitational Waves, Research, South Africa

23 points by raattgift 46 days ago | 0 comments

Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa (ft.com)
Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa

South Africa, Business, Politics, History

21 points by NN88 69 days ago | 2 comments

Code that helped end Apartheid (wired.com)
John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa’s history.

Cryptography, History, South Africa, Activism

362 points by impish9208 92 days ago | 207 comments

Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code (jgc.org)
It's not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down the apartheid system in South Africa, and code that was used for secure communication using one-time pads smuggled into South Africa by a flight attendant on floppy disks. But I found myself doing that one morning recently after having helped decrypt a 30 year old PKZIP file whose password had long been forgotten.

Cryptography, History, South Africa, Open Source

316 points by jgrahamc 133 days ago | 37 comments

Let's consign CAP to the cabinet of curiosities (brooker.co.za)

Politics, South Africa, Opinion

135 points by nalgeon 177 days ago | 151 comments

The Rhisotope Project: Insertion of radioisotopes into live rhinoceros (wits.ac.za)