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Posted by LorenDB 10 hours ago

NASA Force(nasaforce.gov)
209 points | 227 commentspage 2
bilekas 9 hours ago|
This really screams and reads like a crypto scam or something, also why would they not use the official NASA logo ?

This is so strange.. I'm still not even clear on what it's for..

metalliqaz 8 hours ago|
It reads like it received no proof-reading or editing, and it looks like it was vibe coded.

Intern project?

daviding 9 hours ago||
My 5090 couldn't handle that starfield at the beginning. I got a 1202 alarm just scrolling down..
lucb1e 5 hours ago||
Strange, it works here in Firefox on Linux using the internal GPU (I don't use primusrun for the browser). Normally I'm the first to notice a particularly heavy website or bad FPS in even pretty old games! Wonder how they managed to make it sluggish on a very expensive GPU but get my crappy setup to run it nicely
Flere-Imsaho 7 hours ago|||
It's an OS thing. My Pixel 9 handled it just fine.

Windows by any chance?

joshuat 3 hours ago|||
My MBP M5 couldn't handle it with Firefox but it was fine on Safari, betting it's a WebGL issue or something
pugworthy 4 hours ago|||
My run of the mill notebook computer is showing the Jennifer Lawrence meme clip to you right now, and still performant.
Bender 9 hours ago|||
Odd. My laptop seemed to do fine with a 'NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile [Discrete]' using CachyOS. It could have been a little smoother but it rendered fine. There were a couple spots where it was a little herky-jerky-laggy that maybe needs optimization.
signorovitch 7 hours ago|||
Ran smooth on both my iPhone and my 13-year-old thinkpad x230.
Computer0 5 hours ago||
what OS is on the thinkpad?
ivanjermakov 5 hours ago|||
Probably WebGL is using integrated iGPU for whatever reason. Happened to me on Windows+Brave.
sirtimbly 8 hours ago||
ohhh... right, clearly, they only expected Mac users to open the web page or to apply.
tristor 5 hours ago|||
It choked on my M5 Max MBP w/ 128GB of Unified Memory connected via a TB5 dock over 10GbE directly to my router, which is backed by 5Gbit symmetric fiber. My measured average latency to nasaforce.gov was under 13ms.

So, yeah.

airza 7 hours ago|||
it chokes on my mac also
ISL 8 hours ago||
Spaceflight requires relentless deliberate progress.

An exploding job-recruitment offer might not attract the kind of folks we want designing a system that absolutely must work after a decade in space.

I've worked with NASA and ESA employees/contractors who've made technical miracles happen in space. I don't think any of them would be drawn to this style of recruitment.

sublinear 7 hours ago|
I got the impression that despite using terms like "mission critical", this isn't about the hardcore technical wizardry behind propulsion and safety.

This is a call for developers of the very long tail of logistics related stuff. I'd imagine a moon base would need someone to write the software for schedulers, dashboards, etc. and engineer the parts that interface with and provide non-critical telemetry to those systems. I'm not saying that stuff isn't hard, but it's not anything life or death.

Some of those roles might not even be technical at all and be more about coordinating the human side of those efforts.

1970-01-01 2 hours ago||
NASA FORCE: When you want to figure out how your stargate works, but have a limited budget for the research.
rafram 9 hours ago||
Another barely usable website from the "National Design Studio." I wish they'd take a cue from gov.uk (or even the US Digital Service and 18F, which they gutted) and build clean, functional, and accessible sites... but the crew of web developers who are willing to work for this administration seem way too obsessed with this defense-tech startup landing page aesthetic to care about usability.

The developer of this scroll-smoothing JS library [1] has a lot to answer for.

[1]: https://www.lenis.dev/

beej71 9 hours ago||
It misbehaves on Android FF, as well.
rationalist 6 hours ago||
It works on my Android FF.
jmye 7 hours ago||
Truly the "maximum lethality" of web design. And that's ignoring how terrible "NASA Force" is as a name. It's like it's all out of a bad 80s cartoon.
EricRiese 6 hours ago||
Experience necessary. From Assessment 1, which you only get to after spending $16 ordering your college transcript...

> I have 1 year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal service that included: Performing program/project management of space, aeronautical flight systems or experimental aircraft/aircraft systems that involve planning, researching, designing, developing, testing and evaluating, or completing cost analyses; Analyzing, designing, or operating space flight systems, aeronautical flight systems, experimental aircraft/aircraft systems, or structures operating throughout the earth's atmosphere; Developing requirements and integrating aerospace or flight/ground systems (e.g., payloads, hardware/software, scientific instruments, communication equipment, cargo, or any other specialized equipment).

spelunker 3 hours ago||
They want my college transcript? From the early 00's? I would like to think I've grown a bit professionally since then.
EricRiese 1 hour ago||
It's the government. They care more about creating objective standards so they can't be sued for bias than they do about hiring the best people.
EricRiese 6 hours ago||
I answered honestly that I didn't and it didn't block my submission.

I have the specific Computer Science/Engineering degree they spell out in length in one question (30 credit hours CS, 16 credit hours math/calculus/stats) so I feel like that gives me a chance on top of the narrow window.

Glad I skipped ahead on the optional essay section. YOLO.

cdrnsf 5 hours ago||
10.5MB page weight for a landing page? This national design studio is...not great.
lucb1e 5 hours ago|
Try making a webpage using an LLM when you don't explicitly tell it to optimize for page weight. Not that developers get to spend much time optimizing, but they can actually think and make reasonable choices of how to build it and will notice if it's noticeably slower in e.g. the integration environment compared to localhost (even if I'm sure they have good machines and connections compared to 90% of users, at >10MB you start to notice, whereas token predictors do not have a concept of time while fetching the page in a test run)
maciejzj 9 hours ago||
Is this gig-workification of the space industry?
cshimmin 9 hours ago||
It kinda sounds like a post-doc, in that it provides an on-ramp to working in the industry/institution. But without having to waste your time getting a PhD.
bilekas 9 hours ago||
> But without having to waste your time getting a PhD

Ah yes, that 'waste of times' having to learn things in aeronautics and physics..

GaryBluto 7 hours ago|||
Betteridge's law of Hacker News comments.
drstewart 9 hours ago||
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ButlerianJihad 5 hours ago||
I would personally give anything to work with, next to, alongside, or near Chelsea Gohd, aka Foxanne, the foxiest ever NASA spokeswoman and outreach narrator

https://youtu.be/gNwkawLGDkg?si=tY6FCMtTsOQNRfHG

_joel 5 hours ago||
Not a thirsty rocket
ahhhhnoooo 2 hours ago||
Lol. Gross. Weird comment.
dangoodmanUT 9 hours ago|
you can tell this was generated with Gemini, the way it loves to do those "enter on scroll" sentences
brianjlogan 3 hours ago||
My key indicator is if I scroll right on mobile and see horizontal bleed over. For some reason models still fail at this so it's clearly vibe coded.
lucb1e 5 hours ago||
Do you mean the "highlight more words as you scroll down the text" effect?
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