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House Committee Approves New NASA Authorization Billhttps://spacepolicyonline.com/news/house-committee-approves-new-nasa-authorization-bill/The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee unanimously approved a new NASA authorization bill today after adopting a number of amendments. Overall the bill reemphasizes congressional commitment to U.S. leadership […]Feb 5, 2026 1:51 AM
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Show HN: Quibble – Adversarial AI document review using Codex and Claudehttps://github.com/mfelix/quibbleI built Quibble to get better feedback on technical documents (specs, plans, RFCs) by having two AI models argue about them. I still don't know if it's any good, so I'm sharing it here hopeful for you to try it out and give me feedback!!!It works like this:1. Codex reviews your document and raises issues/opportunities2. Claude responds to the feedback and revises the document3. Codex checks if the revisions actually addressed the concerns4. Repeat until consensus or max roundsThe adversarial setup catches things a single-pass review misses. Codex tends to be nitpicky about specifics, Claude tends to defend or over-explain, so the tension between them surfaces real problems.You can focus reviews on specific aspects (--focus "security and error handling") and resume sessions if you want to iterate further. Try it out like this (no install needed):npx @mfelix.org/quibble docs/plan.mdRequires the Codex and Claude CLIs on your PATH. Sessions are saved to disk so you can inspect the back-andFeb 4, 2026 11:21 PM
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From building client websites to launching my own SaaShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893115I didn’t start with SaaS. I started by building websites WordPress for survival.My first real projects were simple sites — landing pages, directories, small tools. One of them grew into Around md — a platform that helps people discover restaurants, parks, and interesting places in their city.No VC. No team.Just real users searching for where to go and what to explore around them. Later, I officially opened my company — dricomm.comSounds fancy. Reality was not. Analytics… It was: • clients asking “why numbers don’t match” • analytics dashboards nobody trusted • GDPR emails every few months • cookie banners everywhere • and GA4… always GA4Every site I launched had the same issue: analytics data never felt real. Pageviews were lower than expected. Funnels didn’t make sense. Marketing decisions were based on “best guesses”.And the moment you add a cookie banner — boom: 30–50% of users disappear from your data.At some point I realized something uncomfortable: I don’t actually know what’s haFeb 4, 2026 10:59 PM
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Show HN: Cohesix 0.4.0-alpha, a no-std control-plane OShttps://github.com/lukeb-aidev/cohesixI became increasingly frustrated with control planes that were easy to assemble but hard to audit. The convenience of open-source stacks doesn’t compose with compliance - because every extra daemon and API becomes another surface to explain, version, and defend.I built Cohesix 0.4.0-alpha to treat compliance and security as a systems problem. It is a control-plane OS for edge GPU nodes, running as an seL4 VM, and it exposes a Secure9P namespace instead of a traditional filesystem or RPC layer.The heresy is deliberate. The VM userspace is no_std, no POSIX, no traditional filesystem, no in‑VM RPC, and no background daemons. The interface is a small, explicit grammar: file‑shaped control surfaces under a Secure9P namespace.This is not minimalism for its own sake. It is about determinism, auditability, revocation, bounded behavior, and making failure modes legible. Tickets and leases expire; budgets return ELIMIT instead of mystery latency; /proc exposes queue and lease state.A deployment Feb 4, 2026 10:27 PM
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Evaluation of Adhesive and Solvent Alternatives for PolymericBonding Applicationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/nesc/evaluation-of-adhesive-and-solvent-alternatives-for-polymericbonding-applications/The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) conducted a technical assessment to evaluate alternatives to dichloromethane, traditionally used for bonding transparent polymeric materials. This effort was initiated in response to potential regulatory restrictions under the EPA Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which could impact critical bonding processes used in spaceflight hardware and experimental systems. Download […]Feb 4, 2026 6:09 PM
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Show HN: 8of8 – A trend radar for developers (17 sources, scored 0-100)https://8of8.xyzI built 8of8 because I was tired of finding out about tools and frameworks after everyone else had already written about them.It scans 17+ data sources every 2 hours — Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Reddit, ProductHunt, npm, hiring boards, funding filings, Wikipedia, StackOverflow, VC blogs, DOE research, and more. Every signal gets scored 0-100 across 8 validation dimensions.The idea: if something is trending on GitHub AND companies are hiring for it AND funding is flowing into that sector AND npm downloads are growing — that's not noise, that's signal.Right now there are ~120 qualified signals on the board. The scoring engine cross-validates everything — a signal needs to show up in multiple independent data sources before it scores high.Stack: Python scoring engine, Flask frontend, single Vultr VPS. Data pipeline runs every 2h via cron.Free tier shows all signals with scores. Pro ($29/mo) unlocks per-signal breakdowns, intelligence reports, and email alerts.Would love feedback on theFeb 4, 2026 4:37 PM
spacedaily.com
NASA Moon mission launch srubbed to March after testhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Moon_mission_launch_delayed_to_March_after_test_999.htmlWashington, United States (AFP) Feb 3, 2026 NASA said Tuesday it's delaying until March the launch of its first crewed flyby mission to the Moon in more than 50 years, after encountering leaks during final tests. The mishaps during a run-through that the US space agency calls a "wet dress rehearsal" dashed hopes that the mission around the Moon could launch as soon as Sunday. The next possible launch window now opens March 6. TheFeb 4, 2026 3:53 PM
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Rock microbes reveal hidden groundwater carbon enginehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rock_microbes_reveal_hidden_groundwater_carbon_engine_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2026 Deep underground, microbial communities living on rock surfaces are emerging as powerful but largely overlooked drivers of groundwater chemistry and carbon storage. A team from the Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse at Friedrich Schiller University Jena has now shown that these attached microbes follow fundamentally different strategies from free-floating cells in groundwater, withFeb 4, 2026 3:53 PM
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Show HN: Humetrical – An Improvement on Team Wellnesshttps://humetrical.comLate last year, my day job had an end-year leadership retreat. The one thing that really stood out to me, a line manager, was our speaker. She talked about the $50B wellness industry and how it was doing it wrong. How they give you $75 yoga stipends for the month, but don't actually address the critical people problems the company is blind to. How we're paid to ignore the problem and just accept that everything is ok.Imagine this: You are a manager, under a director, trying to explain why things are grim. Your director tells their upper management things are fine. Your team is on absolute fire, because no one listens to them, and everyone above their manager thinks things are fine. Things are not fine. The director never does skip 1:1s. Or at best, they ask good questions when they are available, but don't touch on the heart of what the team is suffering from. This was my last year, literally - it sucked.I've worked this industry for 26 years now. As of today, 10 years as an EM. Maybe Feb 4, 2026 3:49 PM
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Iowa State Cyclones guard commit remains in updated Rivals150 rankingshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc9c467924cb4aedd2a06a2c3bd1f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school-sports%2Fiowa-state-cyclones-guard-commit-remains-in-updated-rivals150-rankings%2Far-AA1VGs6M&c=15294981520125156478&mkt=en-usThe Iowa State Cyclones Class of 2026 for men’s basketball recruiting looked very solid once all of the players officially committed to the school. Alas, rankings didn’t reflect just how talented the ...Feb 4, 2026 2:59 PM
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Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to let my OpenClaw Bot remote inhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886176Sharing a build-in-public update.I’ve been working with my assistant “Gideon” (running inside OpenClaw) to solve a very specific problem:I want the agent to control my real browser (logged-in sites, my normal cookies, my actual tabs) - not a sandboxed headless browser - while still keeping the control surface simple and auditable. This means my OpenClaw won't break the moment a site gets "clever".So... We built it! I say we but it was mostly Gideon and I was along for the ride as QA.Why did we bother?Well, because the real world is messy.Headless is fine until you need:• a session that already exists in your day-to-day browser• sites like X/Gmail/anything modern that behaves differently under automation• human-in-the-loop flows where the agent drives, then hands off, then resumesThis connector is basically: agent → my laptop Chrome → real work.How it works (high level)There are 3 pieces:Chrome extension (MV3)• You pair it to a relay URL once• You explicitly choose what the agent can toFeb 4, 2026 2:25 PM
spacedaily.com
Experts warn of urgent need to address human reproduction risks in spacehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Experts_warn_of_urgent_need_to_address_human_reproduction_risks_in_space_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 As commercial spaceflight moves closer to routine operations and missions extend in duration, a new expert report argues that reproductive health in space has shifted from a theoretical concern to an urgently practical issue. The authors warn that space is an environment fundamentally hostile to human biology, yet human activity beyond Earth is rapidly expanding without matching standards for maFeb 4, 2026 1:04 PM
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Lunar soil test chamber paves way for future moon constructionhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Lunar_soil_test_chamber_paves_way_for_future_moon_construction_999.htmlParis, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 Before any building rises on the Moon, engineers will need to understand the soil beneath their structures just as they do on Earth. To address this challenge, a recent ESA Discovery project led by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has produced a design for a specialised calibration chamber that will allow cone penetration instruments to be tested under lunar conditions, providing the gFeb 4, 2026 1:04 PM
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Exploding primordial black hole model may link extreme neutrino and dark matterhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Exploding_primordial_black_hole_model_may_link_extreme_neutrino_and_dark_matter_999.htmlAmherst MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe capable of producing such energy - 100,000 times more than the highest-energy particle ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. However, a team of pFeb 4, 2026 1:04 PM
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ESA adjusts Cluster orbits for rare twin reentry campaignhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ESA_adjusts_Cluster_orbits_for_rare_twin_reentry_campaign_999.htmlParis, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 When satellites fall back to Earth, most of their structure burns up in the atmosphere, but engineers still lack detailed data on how real spacecraft actually break apart during reentry and which components survive the plunge. To close this gap, the European Space Agency has retargeted the final orbits of its remaining two Cluster satellites so that both can be observed from an aircraft during tFeb 4, 2026 1:04 PM
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Show HN: A 3D chessboard sandbox with optional WebGPU path tracinghttps://chessboard3d.app/I wanted to explore GPU ray tracing, so I built a free chess board that feels like playing at a café in real life.The goal was over-the-board (OTB) realism. It’s a physics-based sandbox where you manually drag pieces, move the rook for castling, and clear captured pieces yourself. You can even knock them over. The original idea came from my friend, Drew Olbrich (lunarskydiving.com), who built an SGI-based version of this concept at PDI in the '90s.I spent three decades writing rendering code at PDI/DreamWorks and NVIDIA. I wrote the rendering pipeline from scratch in WebGPU. It defaults to an optimized rasterized "fast path" but if you have a good GPU, you can enable a real-time path tracer in the settings. I implemented this using a 4-layer depth-peeled G-Buffer and Hierarchical Z-Buffer DDA for ray marching, supporting multi-bounce GI and environment map importance sampling.The scene is lit entirely by a single HDRI environment map, with no local light sources. Since I’m a programmerFeb 4, 2026 12:52 PM
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Ask HN: Where does modern geometry survive contact with SGD?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882060Over the past year I worked through Frankel’s “The Geometry of Physics” cover to cover, not to relearn physics, but to rebuild a modern geometric toolbox as it is actually used there: manifolds, differential forms, connections and curvature, Lie groups and algebras, fiber bundles, gauge structure, and variational principles.The motivation was practical rather than theoretical:Which of these geometric structures, if any, actually survive discretization, noise, and SGD-style training in modern machine learning?In physics, global and coordinate-free formulations were not aesthetic choices; they were forced when local reasoning stopped working. A recurring structural pattern was:structure -> symmetry -> invariance -> dynamics -> observablesIn modern ML we increasingly see analogous issues:* parameter symmetries and large quotient spaces * non-Euclidean data (graphs, meshes, manifolds) * highly structured hypothesis classes * training dynamics that are not well-described by flat Euclidean oFeb 4, 2026 6:07 AM
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"Will Never Write Code By Hand Again": How Anthropic's New AI Tool Is Rattling The Tech Communityhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d17bd8f0a4d918ab805e8ead4982c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ndtv.com%2Ffeature%2Fwill-never-write-code-by-hand-again-how-anthropics-new-ai-tool-is-rattling-the-tech-community-10945964&c=8630538816178500251&mkt=en-usAnthropics' new AI tool sparks fears of SaaSpocalypse and tech stock sell-offs globally The AI automates tasks in legal, sales, marketing, and data analysis, threatening software jobs Indian IT firms ...Feb 4, 2026 5:53 AM
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Markiplier confirms 'Iron Lung' movie's theatrical run extendedhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d0cbd70194a5e80656b9f8c34c290&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Fvideo%2Fmarkiplier-iron-lung-movie-extended&c=2357622297927285808&mkt=en-usAll products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. Popular YouTuber and ...Feb 4, 2026 3:40 AM
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Show HN: NotionPulse – Track time-on-page for your Notion pageshttps://www.notionpulse.ccI’ve been using Notion for sharing documentation and client portals, but I found the lack of engagement metrics frustrating. While some widgets offer simple view counters, they don’t tell me if a user actually read the content or bounced immediately.I built NotionPulse to track actual time-on-page. It works via a minimalist embed that doesn't distract from the Notion aesthetic.Key technical bits: Tracks active tab engagement to ensure the "time spent" is accurate. Minimalist dashboard built with Next.js and Vercel. Working on a sync feature to push these metrics back into Notion DB properties via their API. I’m a solo maker and I’d love to get some technical feedback on the tracking accuracy and the dashboard's utility.Is "time-on-page" a metric you care about for internal docs or public templates?Site: https://www.notionpulse.cc/Feb 3, 2026 11:05 PM
