Show HN: Ifso – A personal finance simulator for major life decisionsHello all!Ifso is a personal finance simulator that takes all of your various accounts (like taxable brokerages, retirement accounts, loans, etc) and various life events (like income changes, retirement, purchasing a home, increasing principal contributions to your home mortgage, etc.) and plays it out year by year for you. The simulation engine underneath the hood handles all of the tax math, capital gains math, investment growth rates, home appreciation, vehicle depreciation, loan amortization, and more. You can then create multiple scenarios by duplicating an existing one or creating a fresh new one, and compare two scenarios side by side, helping you understand how big decisions would affect your overall financial wellbeing and goals.This project started off as something I wanted to use myself. I didn't really find a lot of the one-off calculators helpful since they don't take all of the other factors in my finances into account, and they also don't allow flexibility in what you ca
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IMAGESpace: Second spacewalk for French astronaut Sophie AdenotA week after her first historic spacewalk, French astronaut Sophie Adenot began her second spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday as part of her mission. Here are some (time-lapsed) images from the start of the extravehicular activity, which aims to replace a communications antenna. The spacewalk is expected to last around six and a half hours.
IMAGEAstronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot on SpacewalkFrom left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) work together during a six‑hour and 23‑minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2026. The pair will finish installing a high-speed […]
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IMAGEUS economic D-Day sanctions: 'Repeated bombing attacks across Iran failed to change the calculus'Genie Godula is pleased to welcome Imran Bayoumi, Deputy Director & Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He sees the Trump administration’s new sanctions strategy toward Iran as an attempt to seek economic leverage where military force has so far failed to produce any results. But its effectiveness rests on several unresolved assumptions. Chief among them is whether Washington can compel China, Iran’s largest oil customer, to comply despite Beijing’s growing economic resilience. Iran, meanwhile, has decades of experience curtailing sanctions and is again threatening regional escalation.
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