How SpaceX Streamlined the Raptor Engine - by Brian Potter

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SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine by eliminating external sensors, igniters, bolted flanges, and internalizing piping via 3D printing, raising thrust about 35% while reducing mass.

GitHub - gadievron/raptor: Raptor turns Claude Code into a general-purpose AI offensive/defensive security agent. By using Claude.md and creating rules, sub-agents, and skills, and orchestrating security tool usage, we configure the agent for adversarial thinking, and perform research or attack/defense operations.
RAPTOR is an autonomous security research framework that turns Claude Code into an offensive/defensive agent by chaining static analysis, LLM validation, and exploit generation.
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SpaceX's improbable success, from an idea Musk saw as having a less than 10% chance to a $2 trillion valuation, is chronicled.
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SpaceX's newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete
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