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Walmart celebrates Pokémon’s 30th anniversary with huge savings on video gameshttps://news.google.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?oc=5Walmart celebrates Pokémon’s 30th anniversary with huge savings on video games Syracuse.comFeb 27, 2026 8:00 AM
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Show HN: Context Harness – Local first context engine for AI toolshttps://github.com/parallax-labs/context-harnessContext Harness is a single Rust binary that gives AI tools like Cursor and Claude project-specific memory. It ingests docs, code, Jira tickets, Slack threads, and anything else into a local SQLite database, indexes them with FTS5 and optional vector embeddings, and exposes hybrid search via CLI and an MCP-compatible HTTP server.I built this because I kept hitting the same problem: AI tools are powerful but have no memory of my complex multi-repo project. They can't search our internal docs, past incidents, or architecture decisions. Cloud RAG services exist, but they're complex, expensive, and your data leaves your machine. I wanted something I could point at my sources and just run `ctx sync all`.Quick start: # Install (pre-built binaries available for macOS/Linux/Windows) cargo install --git https://github.com/parallax-labs/context-harness.git # Create config and initialize ctx init # Sync your data sources (filesystem, Git, S3, or Lua scripts) ctx sync all # Search from CLI ctx seaFeb 26, 2026 6:26 AM
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What Are Doctor Ratings, and Why Are They Important?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c57c490740849f98dcf105c45369&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthline.com%2Fhealth%2Fonline-doctor-ratings&c=8320010974109830476&mkt=en-usDoctor ratings and reviews grew more important during the COVID-19 pandemic as telehealth visits increased. Research has shown that negative reviews and a doctor’s response to them affected whether a ...Feb 26, 2026 3:40 AM
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NASA’s Webb Examines Cranium Nebulahttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-examines-cranium-nebula/Two heads are better than one in the latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new detail in a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star. Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, inspiring its nickname, the […]Feb 25, 2026 3:00 PM
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Ganymede aurora study links moon and Earth space weatherhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ganymede_aurora_study_links_moon_and_Earth_space_weather_999.htmlLondon (SDX) Feb 25, 2026 New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, reveal that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth, suggesting that the physical processes that generate these lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies. A team from the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Planetary Physics (LPAP) at the University of Liege has used NASA's Juno spacecFeb 25, 2026 10:14 AM
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Investing in QuiverAIhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiYkFVX3lxTE93RzRfd214UmdXQ1I3WkxWVVcyVjRneUZWSGhSOVVZWDVaN25McmNYWE1WdTFXS0w4V0tqc3JwQlN3NnI5bjdvYktITWpCeDhKYV9iSlpCTWhLQ1hkM3FEV29n?oc=5Investing in QuiverAI Andreessen HorowitzFeb 25, 2026 8:00 AM
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A banner year for military space funding— with an unclear path beyondhttps://spacenews.com/a-banner-year-for-military-space-funding-with-an-unclear-path-beyond/Reconciliation boost lifts 2026 totals, but sustainability questions loom for missile defense and Space Development Agency The post A banner year for military space funding— with an unclear path beyond appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 24, 2026 10:48 PM
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4812-4819: Back Into the Hollowshttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4812-4819-back-into-the-hollows/Written by Diana Hayes, Graduate student at York University, Toronto Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 This has been a pretty routine week for Curiosity. As was mentioned last week, we’re now in the final phase of the boxwork exploration campaign. We’re currently making our way toward the eastern contact of the boxwork formation […]Feb 24, 2026 9:21 PM
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Avio to Build $500 Million Facility in Hurt, Virginiahttps://europeanspaceflight.com/avio-to-build-500-million-facility-in-hurt-virginia/Italian rocket builder Avio has announced that it will build its new US-based solid rocket motor manufacturing facility in Hurt, Virginia. Subject to approval by the Virginia General Assembly, the company will be eligible for a $100 million “special appropriation” to supplement the $500 million it plans to invest in the construction and operation of […] The post Avio to Build $500 Million Facility in Hurt, Virginia appeared first on European Spaceflight.Feb 24, 2026 6:23 PM
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Volaris Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter 2025: EBITDAR Margin of 37.2%http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f5376e124dcaafe0586ec0344c6f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasdaq.com%2Fpress-release%2Fvolaris-reports-financial-results-fourth-quarter-2025-ebitdar-margin-372-2026-02-24&c=14960399069333100341&mkt=en-usMEXICO CITY, Feb. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: VLRS and BMV: VOLAR) (“Volaris” or “the Company”), the ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) ...Feb 24, 2026 2:20 PM
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LambdaVision books space on Starlab commercial space stationhttps://spacenews.com/lambdavision-books-space-on-starlab-commercial-space-station/LambdaVision, a company that has used microgravity experiments on the International Space Station to develop an artificial retina, has booked space on a planned commercial successor. The post LambdaVision books space on Starlab commercial space station appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 24, 2026 12:32 PM
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TotalEnergies in high-stakes French trial over climate changehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/TotalEnergies_in_high-stakes_French_trial_over_climate_change_999.htmlParis, France (AFP) Feb 20, 2026 TotalEnergies faces cutting back oil and gas production if NGOs prevail in a trial that began Thursday over accusations the French energy giant failed to properly consider environmental risks. The case, brought by several NGOs and the city of Paris, is based upon a 2017 law that imposed a "duty of vigilance" on large companies. The law seeks to counter companies offloading responsibilityFeb 24, 2026 11:35 AM
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Rocket re-entry pollution measured in atmosphere for first timehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rocket_re-entry_pollution_measured_in_atmosphere_for_first_time_999.htmlParis, France (AFP) Feb 19, 2026 When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacular fireball that streaked across Europe's skies, delighting stargazers and sending a team of scientists rushing towards their instruments. The German team managed to measure the pollution the rocket's upper stage emitted in our planet's difficult-to-study upper atmosphere - the first time thFeb 24, 2026 8:42 AM
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Show HN: PaperBanana – Paste methodology text, get publication-ready diagramshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132143I got tired of spending hours in PowerPoint and TikZ drawing methodology diagrams for my papers. So I built PaperBanana — you paste your Method section text, and it generates a publication-ready figure in about 2-3 minutes.How it works under the hood:1. A Retriever agent searches a curated database of real academic diagrams to find structurally similar references 2. A Planner agent reads your text and generates a detailed visual description (layout, components, connections, groupings) 3. A Stylist agent polishes the visual aesthetics without changing content 4. Then it enters an iterative loop: a Visualizer generates the image, and a Critic evaluates it and suggests revisions — this repeats 1-5 times (you choose)The key insight is that academic diagrams follow conventions — Transformer architectures, GAN pipelines, RLHF frameworks all have recognizable visual patterns. By retrieving relevant references first, the output is much closer to what you'd actually put in a paper vs. generic AFeb 24, 2026 2:34 AM
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Show HN: Touch Trigonometry – interactive way to understand the trig functionshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/touch-trigonometry/id6758712159I started to teach myself to code around 15 years ago. At the time I was working service industry jobs (restaurant kitchens, coffee shops) and desperate to change my career and life.Around that time there was a new thing called available in HTML5 that you could use to render graphics in web pages without plugins; despite my limited knowledge of tech and lack of coding skills, I knew I wanted to be a part of that.Around that same time, I had also enrolled at the community college for night classes in math. I wanted to "work in tech" after all, so a mathematics brush-up seemed wise. I had always struggled with math. But now that I was both incentivized to learn it, I found myself facing a familiar terror: trigonometry.The other students, just out of high school, seemed to know this stuff. I was simply confused. The same frustration I had felt in high school returned: No one could clearly answer why this stuff worked. Why did we need a "sine" function?So I decided to combine my struggles Feb 23, 2026 8:56 PM
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Haitless: Quit Addictionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128248Break bad habits and track your recovery.Break the cycle. Reclaim your freedom. Habitless is the science-backed tracker built specifically for the discipline of quitting. Whether it’s smoking, alcohol, vaping, or social media, Habitless provides the visual proof and psychological tools you need to stop addictions for good and stay sober. WHY HABITLESS? Most apps track new routines. Habitless tracks your freedom. By combining high-precision streak counting with real-time financial savings, we turn your recovery into a rewarding journey you can actually see.KEY FEATURES • Precision Streak Counter: Track your sobriety down to the second. See exactly how long you’ve been habit-free with our emerald-on-black interface. • Financial Savings Tracker: See the real-world impact. Input your daily spend on cigarettes or drinks and watch your total savings grow in real-time. • Milestone Journey & Badges: Unlock 20+ psychological badges as you progress from "24 Hours Clean" to "Long-term Freedom." •Feb 23, 2026 8:23 PM
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Show HN: Irpapers – Visual embeddings vs. OCR trade-offs in scientific PDFshttps://github.com/weaviate/query-agent-benchmarkingHey HN, we are releasing IRPAPERS to answer a highly pragmatic question: when building a RAG pipeline over PDFs, should you OCR the text or just embed the raw page images?Processing PDFs in production usually involves stringing together brittle OCR heuristics. While recent multimodal embeddings (like ColModernVBERT or ColPali) allow you to skip OCR entirely and retrieve directly from visual layouts, we wanted to measure if the computational overhead is actually worth the utility.The short answer: Transformer-based image pipelines won't be perfect for every use-case, but they fix exactly what OCR breaks.Here is what we found benchmarking 3,230 pages of dense scientific literature:Complementary Bottlenecks: Text representations (BM25 + dense vectors) are highly efficient for exact lexical constraints (e.g., finding a specific acronym like "HyDE"). Conversely, image embeddings shine on spatial architecture diagrams and t-SNE plots where OCR serialization just turns into structural garbageFeb 23, 2026 5:10 PM
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Re-framing orbital debris: from a statistical to dosage approachhttps://spacenews.com/re-framing-orbital-debris-from-a-statistical-to-dosage-approach/Humanity gains insight on how to operate in space with every satellite that we launch. True learning comes from doing; otherwise we lock into lab-born biases that come from asking the wrong questions. I think we are running into that limit with micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) collisions, and we are close to an industry-wide […] The post Re-framing orbital debris: from a statistical to dosage approach appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 23, 2026 2:00 PM
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Meet ESA Astronaut Sophie Adenothttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/02/Meet_ESA_Astronaut_Sophie_AdenotBorn in France in 1982, Sophie Adenot is an engineer, helicopter test pilot and colonel in the French Air and Space Force. Selected as an ESA astronaut in 2022, she completed her basic training at the European Astronaut Centre in 2024 and launched to the International Space Station on 13 February 2026 for her first mission, εpsilon.Feb 23, 2026 10:00 AM
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Show HN: Aethene – Open-source AI memory layerhttps://github.com/akhilponnada/aetheneHey HN, I'm shipping my first open-source project and I'm pretty nervous about it. Aethene is an AI memory API – it gives your AI apps persistent memory. Store conversations, extract facts automatically, search semantically, handle contradictions gracefully. It works well thank most of the memory projects available on the market currently.Why I built this: I was building AI agents and kept running into the same problem – they forget everything. Every conversation starts from zero. I wanted something that could: - Auto-extract facts from conversations (not just store raw text) - Handle "user moved from SF to NYC" without keeping both as true - Search by meaning, not just keywords - Version everything (who said what, when) Tech stack: - TypeScript + Hono (fast, edge-ready) - Convex (real-time DB + vector search) - Gemini (embeddings + extraction) What it does: # Store memory curl -X POST /v1/content -d '{"content": "User loves hiking, lives in SF"}' # Recall naturally curl -X POST /v1/reFeb 22, 2026 1:57 PM
