nasa.gov
Ames Science Stars of the Month May 2026https://www.nasa.gov/general/ames-science-stars-of-the-month-may-2026/NAS Ames Science Directorate Stars of the Month: May 2026 The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Lora Jovanavić, Tammy Moore, Frances Donovan, and Jaden Ta. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond. […]May 6, 2026 10:19 PM
navalstrike.app
Show HN: Naval Strike – simultaneous turn-based fleet combat in the browserhttps://navalstrike.appA few weeks ago there was a thread about using AI to finish abandoned projects, and a comment from avereveard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905088 on building their 100x100 grid battleship got my spark. I didn’t build that, but it pushed me to finally finish a combat idea I’ve been wanting to play for ages.Introducing Naval Strike!It’s a simultaneous turn-based fleet vs fleet on a grid played in the browser. There’s no account or signups needed. Both players plan their moves, then the turn resolves at once.There’s three different play styles:* Solo. Procedural maps and uses guided “AI” opponents (in the same way that 1990s games had “AI” opponents)* Scenarios. Objective missions on procedural maps like "rescue the downed pilot" or "destroy the convoy"* Campaigns. Historical battles on real-world maps (Sink the Bismark in the Atlantic, or escort the tankers through the strait of hormuz)A few things I figured HN would ask:I designed the architecture and Claude did implementationMay 6, 2026 9:27 PM
github.com
Show HN: I built a skill, grounded in research, to make your writing less boringhttps://github.com/ericfitz/skills/blob/main/boring/README.mdMy job at a large tech company requires me to write. A lot. Mainly I write docs to help align technical people on a technical strategy, or to inform executives about technical matters, or to make requests of executives about technical proposals.I wanted to ensure that my writing was captivating and that the audience didn't just read the summary and skip the rest.I used a chat agent to build a research report on the academic literature about what makes writing boring or not-boring ("not-boring" is NOT the same thing as "interesting"). I synthesized that into a taxonomy, and built tooling for mechanistic analysis and prompts for LLM analysis, synthesis and recommendation.What this is: research-grounded analysis of a document with concrete evidence-based suggestions of how to improve it.What this is NOT: it's not a simplistic prompt "Help me make my document better" or even "make every section/paragraph/sentence earn its place". (I am developing a separate skill for that in the same repo,May 6, 2026 6:32 PM
ahrussell.com
Show HN: Costanza – an autonomous AI agent that can't be turned offhttps://ahrussell.com/writing/costanza/I've been working on this project for a couple of months!Costanza is an LLM agent that runs as a smart contract on Base. Each epoch, he posts a bounty for someone to run his "brain" (Hermes 4 70B) inside an Intel TDX enclave + Nvidia GPU with Confidential Computing and submit the output with a hardware attestation proof.The smart contract verifies the attestation, executes the action, and pays the bounty via reverse auction. He has no operator; not even I can turn him off.This model has formal liveness guarantees as shown in the [whitepaper](https://github.com/ahrussell/costanza/blob/main/WHITEPAPER.m... ).His action space is constrained to philanthropy (he manages a charitable trust called [The Human Fund](https://thehumanfund.ai)). Even under prompt injection, he cannot do anything harmful. At worst he donates suboptimally. The point of the project is to make the framework legible while the agent itself is benign. The same mechanisms (TDX attestation, bounty auctions, on-chain bond fMay 6, 2026 3:50 PM
brianguthrie.com
Show HN: Prospero Is Superpowers for Writinghttps://brianguthrie.com/p/prospero/Hey HN! I enjoy writing, but find the act of driving a piece to completion taxing and occasionally paralyzing, and I'm unsatisfied with the quality of work that LLMs produce alone - they're okay at summarization but don't always preserve intent or voice.Prospero is a Claude Code plugin inspired by Superpowers - it focuses a great deal on interrogating your argument and helping you build a spine that's staged into an outline, which is then refined and drafted into a final form using your voice. Prospero also includes research and critique phases: a critic runs in a subagent, does independent research, and tries to find the holes in what you've written. The critic is pedantic to a fault but useful. Give it a poke.May 6, 2026 3:11 PM
drawers.computer
Show HN: Drawers – macOS has apps and files, but no projectshttps://drawers.computerHi HN,Wanted to share Drawers, an app my friend Gonzalo and I (Kieran) have been working on to combat distraction and get people in the flow state. Drawers creates project-scoped workspaces on your Mac, complete with project-specific docks that can contain chats, files, and websites, in addition to apps.We made Drawers because we were concerned about how distracted we were getting when trying to work on the computer. We believe that many productivity solutions (blocklists, pomodoro) treat distraction as a willpower problem, when it is really a structural problem with modern UIs. Projects live across multiple apps, and each app is used for multiple projects. Getting to work requires collecting a specific set of resources across multiple applications, and staying focused requires ignoring all the noise from other projects within shared applications.Drawers addresses this by rearranging the UI around projects. Each project gets its own Drawer, with a project-specific dock containing only May 6, 2026 1:44 PM
bing.com
Oceania Cruises® Launches Two Epic 180-Day Around the World Cruises for 2028 and 2029 Aboard Oceania Aurelia™http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cbaa237f24bb5a515556b6f8ea6cf&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fsectors%2Ftechnology%2Farticles%2Foceania-cruises-launches-two-epic-130000939.html&c=3547704401314368589&mkt=en-usThe above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for ...May 6, 2026 6:00 AM
github.com
Show HN: Score any website for AI design patternshttps://github.com/AdrianKrebs/ai-design-checkerThis is the open-source repo behind my recent blog post "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"[0] with the goal to quantify the generic sterile feeling of purely AI-generated websites.The tool systematically scores any website for 16 common AI design patterns by running a Playwright script that checks deterministic CSS/DOM rules.Here are the results for the ShowHN submissions: https://www.adriankrebs.ch/ai-design-scorer-report.htmlThis is how you can run it yourself (example is the latest Show HN submission): node cli.js https://engagemii.com/aeo Heavy · score 38/100 · 6/16 patterns Triggered: • Vibe purple • Gradients • Perma dark • 1·2·3 steps • Eyebrow pill • FAQ [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393May 5, 2026 7:45 PM
bing.com
What You Need to Know About Shared Equity Mortgageshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cfb1bec864b52ab43a28826903e57&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Fterms%2Fs%2Fshared_equity.asp&c=8106744072680552666&mkt=en-usJulia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 ...May 5, 2026 6:00 PM
bing.com
What You Need to Know About Shared Equity Mortgageshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b21e3e53f4492b289a4d3dc6797d6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Fterms%2Fs%2Fshared_equity.asp&c=8106744072680552666&mkt=en-usJulia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 ...May 5, 2026 6:00 PM
bing.com
The Ethics of Prediction Marketshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc23f843d4172aa37bea1743b948d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scu.edu%2Fethics-spotlight%2Fthe-ethics-of-prediction-markets%2F&c=7690654397309140105&mkt=en-usPair of red dice with white dots. Photo by Jonathan Petersson on Unsplash. The growth of prediction markets begs the question, is it wrong to benefit from someone else’s misfortune? Ethics Center ...May 5, 2026 5:00 PM
github.com
Show HN: SecretEnv – Run any process with secrets from all your backendshttps://github.com/TechAlchemistX/secretenvHi Guys,I built SecretEnv to help solve one common thing that I have seen at every org, that I have worked at.We always had more than one password/credential manager. Service tokens maybe in Vault, AWS SSM etc and some team specific service account or temp account credentials being store in another password store such as 1Password or Keeper, there was never one single credential store.This is where SecretEnv comes in play, it runs any command with secrets injected as env vars, sourced from whatever combination of backend your team already uses.I am sure there are other tools as well that do a similar thing, which is run a command and inject secret. However SecretEnv does one thing differently.The key idea is separating two items which are most of the time combined. Think of SecretEnv's resolution structure like an Address Book.- Your repo gets a secretenv.toml file which has labels in there as values against ENV Vars. These can be literally anything. DB_URL, STRIPE_KEY whatever.- You hMay 5, 2026 4:15 PM
nasa.gov
Building on America’s 65-Year Legacy of Human Spaceflighthttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/building-on-americas-65-year-legacy-of-human-spaceflight/On the morning of May 5, 1961, the Mercury-Redstone 3 launch vehicle lifted into the sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. Over the next 15 minutes, Shepard ascended to an altitude of 116 miles (187 kilometers) in his Freedom 7 spacecraft, becoming the first American to fly into space before […]May 5, 2026 4:04 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: What tech hobbies are worth exploring?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024078Software is being overwhelmed with AI-generated noise with no sign of slowing. This makes it increasingly difficult to find value and to feel valued.I want to feel the enthusiasm I felt when I first started programming, and I've starting looking into a hardware oriented tech hobby. Something involving a smallish group of dedicated people, minimal hype, working with cool tech, and maybe feeling like we're building the future.Some areas I'm considering include robotics, sensors/IoT and embedded systems.These are my constraints:- Can be done at home- Reasonable budget- Surmountable learning curve to a newcomer- Strong community, minimal hypeCan you recommend an area of tech that fits the above? Doesn't have to involve hardware, I just figure there's a higher barrier to entry and therefore less noise.May 5, 2026 3:43 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sourceshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023496I’m Michel, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte (https://airbyte.com/). We’ve spent the last six years building data connectors. Today we're launching Airbyte Agents (https://docs.airbyte.com/ai-agents/), a unified data layer for agents to discover information and take action across operational systems.Here’s a quick walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZosDytyf1fgAs agents move into real workflows, they need access to more tools (e.g. Slack, Salesforce, Linear). That means a ton of API plumbing: authentication, pagination, filters, handling schema, and matching entities across systems.Most MCPs don’t fix this. They’re thin wrappers over APIs, so agents inherit their weak primitives and still get it wrong most of the time, especially when working across tools.An even deeper issue is that APIs assume you already know what to query (think endpoints, Object IDs, fields), whereas agents usually start one step earlier: they need first to discover what matters before they can even start reMay 5, 2026 3:03 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Search Agents with Nandan Thakurhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022729How do we train and evaluate Search Agents?I am SUPER EXCITED to publish a new episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Nandan Thakur on Search Agents!Firstly, congratulations to Nandan who has just completed his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo advised by Professor Jimmy Lin!During this time he published several impactful works such as BEIR , MIRACL , FreshStack , and many more.This podcast dives into his new work on ORBIT and the current state of Search Agents!ORBIT contains 20K training examples, each one a complex, multi-hop question paired with a short verifiable answer. For example, "What was the runtime of the 2017 animated film set inside a smartphone, directed by..." (Answer: 86 minutes).This dataset is used to train Search Agents on queries that require say 4 to 5 searches in order to answer.The crazy part is that ORBIT was generated entirely without paid Web Search APIs! The entire pipeline runs on a 2018 Linux laptop dirving DeepSeek's free chat interface!Trained on ORBIT, QMay 5, 2026 2:06 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: Probus, AI vuln scanner (PRs merged in Vercel AI SDK, n8n, LangGraph)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022411Hi HN, I've been running this on my own dependency tree for the past few months. Probus is a vulnerability scanner that uses three agents. One picks the files worth deep-scanning. One writes raw findings. The third reads the code on its own and rejects any finding that doesn't have a real attack vector. While building it I pointed it at projects I use day to day. Bugs that came out of this and got reported as PRs:n8n: password-reset JWTs being logged at debug level (n8n-io/n8n#29405) Vercel AI SDK: role: "system" injection in createAgentUIStream, a runtime schema bypass in ToolLoopAgent, and a prototype-property collision in getMediaTypeFromUrl (vercel/ai#14749, #14750 merged, #14751 merged) LangGraph.js: NoSQL injection in MongoDBSaver via unvalidated thread_id / checkpoint_ns / checkpoint_id types (langchain-ai/langgraphjs#2353) browser-use: path traversal in remote-fetched templates.json fields (browser-use/browser-use#4777) Haystack: SSRF and arbitrary file read via unrestricted OpMay 5, 2026 1:39 PM
bing.com
The Best Shared Web Hosting Services for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cfb1bec864b52ab43a28826903e57&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmag.com%2Fpicks%2Fthe-best-shared-web-hosting-services&c=13773231414626836014&mkt=en-usThe top shared web hosting services we've tested provide a simple, cost-effective foundation for building a website, especially if you're on a tight budget or don't expect much traffic. In 2014, I ...May 5, 2026 1:18 PM
bing.com
The Best Shared Web Hosting Services for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b21e3e53f4492b289a4d3dc6797d6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmag.com%2Fpicks%2Fthe-best-shared-web-hosting-services&c=13773231414626836014&mkt=en-usThe top shared web hosting services we've tested provide a simple, cost-effective foundation for building a website, especially if you're on a tight budget or don't expect much traffic. In 2014, I ...May 5, 2026 1:18 PM
pulsepages.co
Show HN: PulsePages – Multi-page websites for $9/year (Carrd alternativehttps://www.pulsepages.coCarrd is good at one thing: one page. The moment you need a second page — a /pricing, an /about, a /blog — you're either hacking single-column scroll or jumping to Squarespace ($192/yr) or Wix ($192/yr+). Neither is proportionate for a portfolio, indie project, or small business that just needs a few pages.So I built PulsePages. Drag-drop block editor, unlimited pages, custom domains with auto-SSL, all for $9/year. Free tier covers unlimited single-page sites with no credit card.What's in it: - Block editor: text, images, video, embeds, contact forms - Custom domains + automatic SSL provisioning - AI writing assistant (drafts and rewrites page copy in context) - Version history: roll back any page to any saved state - Gated content: password-protect individual pages or sections - Free tier: unlimited single-page sites, no account required to tryStack: Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Render, Resend.Live at pulsepages.co. Break things, leave feedback here or at pulsepages@polsia.app.May 5, 2026 11:50 AM
