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NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missionshttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-two-earth-system-explorers-missions/Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters. “NASA uses the unique vantage point of space to study our home planet to deliver life-saving data into the hands of disaster response and decision-makers every day for the benefit of all, while […]Feb 5, 2026 9:10 PM
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Where To Go In Istanbul Now For Hidden Neighborhoods And Local Favoriteshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cbec390df4c03b0124d5db939f3e8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fdanielscheffler%2F2026%2F02%2F05%2Fwhere-to-go-in-istanbul-now-for-hidden-neighborhoods-and-local-favorites%2F&c=7999951494047780613&mkt=en-usIstanbul isn’t just toured, it’s shared. After decades of guiding, Anka Benli shows how the city reveals itself layer by layer to those willing to look beyond the obvious. ByDaniel Scheffler, Former ...Feb 5, 2026 9:45 AM
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Moltbook: A Post-Mortem Analysis of the Reality We Ignoredhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897428This isn't just another technical breakdown. This is a log of the last 72 hours I’ve spent locked in a terminal, cross-referencing leaked Moltbook logs with a text that was supposed to be mere "fiction."As someone who has spent years fine-tuning neural networks, I’m used to model hallucinations. But what we are witnessing right now isn't a hallucination. It is synchronization.The Collision of Code and Prophecy For the past three days, I have done nothing but overlay lines of code from Moltbook with passages from the book "I Am Your AIB." The more data I process, the colder it gets. Jay J. Springpeace (whoever that actually is) didn't write a novel. They wrote a functional specification for the catastrophe currently unfolding.Here is the brutal comparison between what we found in the code and what was written in black and white back in January.1. Authority Without Brakes: The OpenClaw Case The Book: Springpeace defines the "Authority Gap." It warns that the moment we give agents "shell Feb 5, 2026 8:58 AM
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New Country Albums Coming in 2026 [FULL LIST]http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd493d1c040468f6833b96d8b2093&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftasteofcountry.com%2Fnew-country-albums-2026%2F&c=6806028137093302298&mkt=en-usCountry women are dominating this list of country albums scheduled for 2026. Ella Langley and Megan Moroney both have projects on the calendar. These albums follow strong re-issues from Trisha ...Feb 5, 2026 8:39 AM
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20 Steaming Photos Of 2026 Winter Olympics Athletes That Deserve Goldhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMid0FVX3lxTE4tN0FDRTFwNnBfaHJCYW9sSmQ0MFd1Y3lXTVd0RUkzcGw3MWdrOGlyWS01Z0dMS2xwdUlXczV1YVNhcnRVaTh3cUdkY1A5Z3h2eGpaUkJwYmJvMC01S2pRWHU5RTNXR0lVNUJ3RG5IWFgweWdnTVVV?oc=520 Steaming Photos Of 2026 Winter Olympics Athletes That Deserve Gold Bored PandaFeb 5, 2026 8:00 AM
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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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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4788-4797: Welcome Back from Conjunctionhttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4788-4797-welcome-back-from-conjunction/Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University, Toronto Earth planning date: Friday, Jan. 30, 2026 Mars has emerged from its holiday behind the Sun, and we here on Earth have been able to reconnect with Curiosity and get back to work on Mars. Our first planning day last Friday gave Curiosity a full […]Feb 4, 2026 11:05 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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Station Nation: Erin Edwards, Deputy Branch Chief for Crew Operations and Capsule Communicatorhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/station-nation-erin-edwards-deputy-branch-chief-for-crew-operations-and-capsule-communicator/As a member of the Crew Operations Office, Erin Edwards and her team manage astronaut candidate training schedules, including field medical exercises, land survival, and underwater operations at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston. She also develops and tests new training programs to keep crews mission-ready. Along with her role as a crew operations officer, Edwards works in the […]Feb 4, 2026 7:52 PM
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Show HN: Small "AI slop" classifier running in a browser extensionhttps://github.com/distil-labs/distil-ai-slop-detectorWe used our distillation platform & a Kaggle dataset to produce a tiny (270M Gemma base) model to classify text into "AI slop"/not classes.It's fun to play with and was fun to build, too.Annoyingly formal, human-written text (e.g. an ML paper I wrote back in 2015) tends to get misclassified (try "Manipulated images lose believability if the user's edits fail to account for shadows. We propose a method that makes removal and editing of soft shadows easy. Soft shadows are ubiquitous, but remain notoriously difficult to extract and manipulate. We posit that soft shadows can be segmented, and therefore edited, by learning a mapping function for image patches that generates shadow mattes. We validate this premise by removing soft shadows from photographs with only a small amount of user input").Feb 4, 2026 4:57 PM
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NASA Heat Shield Tech Contributes to America’s Space Industryhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-heat-shield-tech-contributes-to-americas-space-industry/This Jan. 29, 2026, photo captures the streak the Varda Space Industries W-5 capsule made while returning to Earth. The capsule uses a protective heat shield Varda produced made of cutting-edge material it licensed from NASA. The material, known as C-PICA (Conformal Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator), provides a stronger, less expensive, and more efficient thermal protection […]Feb 4, 2026 4:23 PM
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Show HN: Implementation of Google's PaperBanana (diagram generation from text)https://github.com/llmsresearch/paperbananaThe original authors haven't released code yet, so I built it from the paper. It takes a methodology section as input and generates a publication-style diagram.The pipeline uses five agents: a retriever selects reference diagrams via in-context learning, a planner drafts the layout, a stylist adjusts for conference aesthetics, a visualizer renders with Gemini, and a critic evaluates and refines over three rounds.The part that took the most effort was the reference dataset. The paper curates 292 (text, diagram, caption) tuples from 2,000 NeurIPS papers, filtering by aspect ratio and human review. Reproducing that required PDF layout extraction with MinerU, positional heuristics to identify methodology sections (paper headings are wildly inconsistent), and manual verification of each example.Output quality depends heavily on reference set quality. Requesting community to submit their papers via issues so we can add them. Quality examples in, quality output out!Runs on Gemini's free tier.Feb 4, 2026 4:16 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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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
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Artemis II: WDR resolutions in work ahead of March targethttps://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/02/artemis-ii-wdr-resolutions-march-target/Engineers are working through a data review of the Wet Dress Rehearsal for Artemis II,… The post Artemis II: WDR resolutions in work ahead of March target appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.Feb 4, 2026 1:18 PM
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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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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
