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Europe approves EPS Sterna polar microsatellite networkhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Europe_approves_EPS_Sterna_polar_microsatellite_network_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 12, 2026 The EUMETSAT Council has formally endorsed the EUMETSAT Polar System Sterna (EPS Sterna), clearing the way for a new constellation of polar orbiting microsatellites that will deliver frequent microwave measurements of atmospheric temperature, humidity and cloud properties. The decision confirms EPS Sterna as a mandatory programme for EUMETSAT and authorises full scale activities targeting the laJan 14, 2026 7:08 AM
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Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Coworkhttps://github.com/different-ai/openworkhi hn,i built openwork, an open-source, local-first system inspired by claude cowork.it’s a native desktop app that runs on top of opencode (opencode.ai). it’s basically an alternative gui for opencode, which (at least until now) has been more focused on technical folks.the original seed for openwork was simple: i have a home server, and i wanted my wife and i to be able to run privileged workflows. things like controlling home assistant, or deploying custom web apps (e.g. our customs recipe app recipes.benjaminshafii.com), legal torrents, without living in a terminal.our initial setup was running the opencode web server directly and sharing credentials to it. that worked, but i found the web ui unreliable and very unfriendly for non-technical users.the goal with openwork is to bring the kind of workflows i’m used to running in the cli into a gui, while keeping a very deep extensibility mindset. ideally this grows into something closer to an obsidian-style ecosystem, but for agentic woJan 14, 2026 4:55 AM
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Congressional hearing highlights military’s reliance on NOAA datahttps://spacenews.com/congressional-hearing-highlights-militarys-reliance-on-noaa-data/SAN FRANCISCO – A Jan. 13 hearing underscored the importance of ongoing collaboration between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. armed services. U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy witnesses discussed their heavy reliance on datasets and weather models provided by NOAA and said their agencies are working closely to ensure NOAA’s […] The post Congressional hearing highlights military’s reliance on NOAA data appeared first on SpaceNews.Jan 14, 2026 12:41 AM
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Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut downhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603473No public announcement. Just quietly added to killed by google. Step 2 just fails with an error: https://developers.google.com/tenor/guides/quickstartHello Tenor API customer,We're writing to inform you about the deprecation of the Tenor API offering on June 30, 2026. We are making this change to focus our resources on enhancing the main Tenor experience.The Tenor API has been a valuable tool for many developers. We sincerely appreciate your partnership and the innovative ways you have integrated Tenor into your applications. Your contributions have helped shape the Tenor ecosystem.What you need to know Key Dates:Starting January 13, 2026, New API key sign-ups and new integrations will no longer be allowed On June 30, 2026, any API or Ads Distribution Agreements you have with Tenor will be terminated The Tenor API will continue to work for existing integrations until June 30, 2026 Advised Action:Plan and make any necessary changes before June 30, 2026 Potential Impact:After June 30, 20Jan 13, 2026 4:43 PM
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Mixed crystal phase of superionic water mapped inside giant planetshttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Mixed_crystal_phase_of_superionic_water_mapped_inside_giant_planets_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 Temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius and pressures of millions of atmospheres drive water into a superionic state in which hydrogen ions move freely through a solid lattice of oxygen atoms. In this exotic phase, which forms only under extreme conditions, water behaves like a hybrid of solid and liquid and shows very high electrical conductivity. Because this phase can efficientJan 13, 2026 2:50 PM
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Jet from galaxy black hole drives vast stream of super heated gas into spacehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Jet_from_galaxy_black_hole_drives_vast_stream_of_super_heated_gas_into_space_999.htmlIrvine, United States (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 University of California Irvine astronomers have reported the discovery of the largest known stream of super heated gas in the universe flowing out of a nearby spiral galaxy called VV 340a. The team describes the finding, made with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and other facilities, in the journal Science under the identifier 10.1126/science.adp8989. The observations show supJan 13, 2026 2:50 PM
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Bright supernova offers new view of black hole birthhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Bright_supernova_offers_new_view_of_black_hole_birth_999.htmlTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 What astronomers know about the birth of a black hole has long mirrored the objects themselves, tending to be dark, difficult to observe, and seemingly quiet despite their immense gravitational influence. Stellar mass black holes form in the final gravitational collapse of massive stars with several tens of the mass of the Sun, and these heavyweights were thought not to produce bright supernovaJan 13, 2026 2:50 PM
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PH-1 test flight advances Chinese reusable suborbital spacecraft planshttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/PH_1_test_flight_advances_Chinese_reusable_suborbital_spacecraft_plans_999.htmlTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 A Chinese suborbital spacecraft designed for reusable operations and future space tourism has completed a key test flight, marking a new step in the country's commercial space ambitions. The vehicle, designated PH-1, is developed by Beijing-based commercial aerospace company CAS Space and is intended to support low cost scientific experiments in microgravity as well as pave the way for pasJan 13, 2026 2:50 PM
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Iron rich asteroids show surprising resilience in impact simulation studyhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Iron_rich_asteroids_show_surprising_resilience_in_impact_simulation_study_999.htmlLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new experimental study that shows iron rich asteroids can withstand far more energy than previously estimated before breaking apart. The work provides direct insight into how metallic asteroid material behaves under impact like conditions and could help refine planetary defense strategies. Recent demonstration missions such as NAJan 13, 2026 2:50 PM
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Pandora exoplanet mission checks in after launchhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Pandora_exoplanet_mission_checks_in_after_launch_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 NASA mission controllers have acquired full signal from the agency's Pandora small satellite, confirming the health and initial operations of the exoplanet observatory following launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Jan. 11, 2026. The spacecraft rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East, sharing the flight with the Star-Planet Activity ReJan 13, 2026 2:50 PM
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Show HN: Deterministic state machine to sonify trading volatilityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600978https://liquidityfm.orgI built this because existing market sonification tools usually just map price to pitch, resulting more noise than music. I wanted a system that translated market sentiment into music that I would actually want to listen to in the background while I work.THE LOGIC (State Machine)Instead of raw pitch mapping, I built a deterministic state machine that normalizes live data into 60 distinct audio permutations based on three vectors:1. Sentiment: Candle color streaks (Doom -> Euphoric)2. Energy: Momentum/Volatility (Still -> Explosive)3. Texture: Volume vs 20 MA (Sparse -> Chaotic)If the market enters a "Doom / Explosive / Chaotic" state, the engine triggers heavy distortion and minor keys. If it flips to "Euphoric / Still," it crossfades into ambient major pads.THE ENGINEERINGConsensus Engine: Websockets from Kraken, Binance, and OKX to form an aggregated price and filter out "scam wicks". I specifically chose crypto feeds because they offer continuous high-volume sJan 13, 2026 1:58 PM
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Legacy code modernization – structured process, pay on deliveryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600515Fintech consultant here. I migrate legacy systems (COBOL, Delphi, VB6, old Java, etc.) to modern stacks. Not "paste into Claude and pray" — a repeatable process where AI accelerates analysis and drafts translations, but architecture and business logic validation stay human. I've learned where LLMs hallucinate on legacy (PERFORM THRU, copybooks, JCL dependencies) so your team doesn't have to. Pricing:$500 assessment — full analysis + roadmap, no code leaves your environment $1,500+ module migration — prove the approach on something contained Custom quotes for full systems — pay when deliveredIf your team has bandwidth and wants to DIY, the assessment alone might be worth it. If they're stretched, I take it off their plate entirely. Email me aquilarafaelholanda@gmail.com. Happy to do a quick no-code conversation first.Jan 13, 2026 1:13 PM
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Code Is Cheap. Coherence Is the New Bottleneckhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600376TL;DR: Code is cheap now. Coherence is expensive. If you still treat an LLM like a smarter autocomplete, you will ship fast and drift faster. The next mental model is not "coder with AI" but "architect managing a synthetic team" — with constraints, contracts, evidence, and hard gates.Before I changed my approach, I had two incidents that forced the shift:1. I asked an agent to "make tests pass." It deleted three test files with failing tests.2. I asked an agent to "fix the schema mismatch between dev and prod." It wrote a migration that started with DROP DATABASE because "recreating from scratch is cleaner." I caught it in review. Barely.People keep describing LLMs as tools.A tool does exactly what you do, just faster. A tool does not invent. A tool does not "helpfully" reinterpret your intent. A tool does not optimize for praise. A tool does not create technical debt while sounding confident. LLM coding agents do all of that. They behave less like tools and more like eager juniors witJan 13, 2026 12:59 PM
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2026 will be the year of space nuclear power and surviving the lunar nighthttps://spacenews.com/2026-will-be-the-year-of-space-nuclear-power-and-surviving-the-lunar-night/Lunar night survival becomes an imperative “Surviving the lunar night has crossed a critical threshold: what was once a ‘nice-to-have’ is now the imperative for any serious lunar mission. We’re seeing this ‘survive, operate, thrive’ progression play out in real time: we’ve proven we can land repeatedly, now we’re focused on surviving that brutal two-week […] The post 2026 will be the year of space nuclear power and surviving the lunar night appeared first on SpaceNews.Jan 13, 2026 12:00 PM
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A pink aesthetic wallpaper hub for makers/creators, with built-in AI edit toolshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599320This might be a bit of an unconventional Show HN, but I think many of us here (myself included) are tired of generic default wallpapers or overly busy designs. We stare at our screens for so long, and a visual environment that feels calm or joyful can have a real impact on focus and mood.So, I built Pink Canvas (https://pinkcanvas.net).The core is simple: a curated library of pink-themed wallpapers. But I wanted to make it genuinely useful, particularly for the tinkerers and creators among us:Precise Curation: Walls are well-tagged (Kawaii, Floral, Minimalist, Fantasy, etc.) and by resolution (Mobile, Desktop, 4K). It saves the time of sifting through Pinterest or Unsplash for that specific look for a specific device.Built-in Maker Tools: Here's the key feature and why I'm posting it here. I integrated AI Generate and AI Edit tools directly into the site. You can take any wallpaper and, using natural language, ask it to "add a small cat in the corner" or "make it cyberpunk" to create aJan 13, 2026 10:40 AM
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Ask HN: Why are AI coding agents not working for me?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598278I'm really trying to use them with an open mind. I'm writing detailed specs. On failure, I adjust the initial spec, rather than go down the spiral of asking for many adjustments. I'm using Claude Opus 4.5 inside Cursor. My ambitions are also quite low. The latest was to split a mega Python file into a few submodules according to a pretty simple criterion. It's not even that it failed, it is more about the how. It was trying to action the refactor by writing some Python one-liners to edit the file, in an extremely clumsy way - in many cases failing to write syntactically correct Python.I'm torn, as I don't want to be an old man luddite shouting at the clouds "LLMs are garbage", and plenty of reasonable people seem to do well with them. But my experience is rather poor. So, maybe I'm holding it wrong?It's not only failures, to be fair. I found it fairly good at writing a lot of benign code, like tests, simple tools I wouldn't bother with that save me a few mins here and there. But certaiJan 13, 2026 7:44 AM
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Artemis Accords Reach Another Milestone with Portugalhttps://spacepolicyonline.com/news/artemis-accords-reach-another-milestone-with-portugal/Portugal became the 60th country to join the Artemis Accords today. It’s another milestone for the U.S.-led principles for responsible behavior on the Moon. The Accords recently celebrated the fifth […]Jan 13, 2026 3:31 AM
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NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to Watch Crew-12 Launch to Space Stationhttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-spacex-invite-media-to-watch-crew-12-launch-to-space-station/Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA’s 12th rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft carrying astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA announced it is targeting no earlier than Thursday, Jan. […]Jan 12, 2026 11:25 PM
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A Quarter Century in Orbit: Science Shaping Life on Earth and Beyondhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/a-quarter-century-in-orbit-science-shaping-life-on-earth-and-beyond/For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research that is transforming life on Earth and shaping the future of exploration. From growing food and sequencing DNA to studying disease and simulating Mars missions, every experiment aboard the orbiting laboratory expands our understanding of how humans […]Jan 12, 2026 10:43 PM
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Show HN: Epistemic Summary Line for ChatGPThttps://github.com/il-b/epistemic-summaryIt's helpful to have a short summary line in your ChatGPT results:[Certainty: 9/10 | Evidence: consensus (2006) | Dispute: minor (2023) | Temporal: stable (2025) | Sources: IAU.org (2006); NASA.gov (2024)]To add it, paste the following prompt into your Profile - Personalization - Custom instructions text area and press Save--For informational or structured answers, add a compact epistemic summary line immediately below each major section title, formatted in square brackets.The line should include:• Certainty (1–10) based on external documentation or well-established knowledge; be conservative when evidence is limited or interpretive.• Evidence with year(s): primary, secondary, consensus, interpretive (multiple allowed), each with one relevant year in parentheses when available; if no meaningful year or bound exists, output the evidence tag without a year.• Dispute with year: none, minor, or active, where the year indicates when the dispute level was last assessed.• Temporal with year, Jan 12, 2026 8:56 PM
