Thousands of aircraft once carried millions of passengers across the world. Now, some sit silently in the desert, waiting for their final fate. If you could save ONE aircraft from an airplane graveyard and put it back into service, which aircraft would you choose? With fred_north

We built it. You name it. As we prepare the next generation of spaceships, one of them needs a name, and we’re asking the world to choose it. Details → #nameaspaceship#

Neros CEO @soren_ma says Starlink solved one of the biggest problems for drones operating in contested environments: jamming. "Another trend in Ukraine is there's a lot more Starlink-controlled drones." "Starlink is generally really robust against jamming. It's kind of unique because often with space-based comms, your satellite is so far away that your signal strength is relatively low, and it's actually very easy to jam. This is why GPS is so frequently jammed and really hard to do anything against it because the signal you're getting from the satellite is so weak compared to a jammer sitting on the ground." "Starlink, through a bunch of very, very cool technologies has gotten around that limitation and been a big unlock." @elonmusk

Neros CEO @soren_ma calls out companies who left Ukraine after finding out their products didn't work: "There's very few defense tech startups that have a meaningful amount of equipment deployed in Ukraine." "A lot of companies unfortunately would rather develop on a test range in California and then just put their head in the sand when the thing doesn't work in the battlefield." "It's a clear trend I've observed." "A lot of companies tried to go over or had stuff sent over, and then the first time around it didn't work, and instead of persisting and saying, 'We're gonna fix the stuff that didn't work and try again and try again,' just ended up walking away."

According to a report by The Atlantic, citing a Republican official in Congress, one of the primary holds-ups in the Trump Administration’s decision to license the production of air defense launchers and missiles to Ukraine, particularly the PATRIOT Surface-to-Air Missile System, has been the system’s designers Raytheon and Lockheed. The official states that the two defense contractors “will officially frame their concerns around IP theft and tech transfer,” but “their real worry is that the Ukrainians will find a way to improve the PATRIOT and then produce them at scale faster and for much less money than what the existing production lines in the U.S. could do,” threatening manufacturers in the United States.

According to a report by The Atlantic, citing a Republican official in Congress, one of the primary holds-ups in the Trump Administration’s decision to license the production of air defense launchers and missiles to Ukraine, particularly the PATRIOT Surface-to-Air Missile System, has been the system’s designers Raytheon and Lockheed. The official states that the two defense contractors “will officially frame their concerns around IP theft and tech transfer,” but “their real worry is that the Ukrainians will find a way to improve the PATRIOT and then produce them at scale faster and for much less money than what the existing production lines in the U.S. could do,” threatening manufacturers in the United States.

The startups YC funds now are much more serious than they were in the supposedly good old days. In the last couple days I've met with startups making optical switches, rewriting the software infrastructure of manufacturing, making nuclear reactors, and curing cancer.