spacedaily.com
ReOrbit and Google Cloud develop orbital space cloud networkhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ReOrbit_and_Google_Cloud_develop_orbital_space_cloud_network_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 ReOrbit has launched Space Cloud, a multi year initiative to build a distributed network of software enabled satellites that can move and process data securely in orbit, in collaboration with Google Cloud. The company describes the project as a space based data center network that will combine on board computing, advanced networking and cloud style orchestration to support government, military aFeb 10, 2026 7:40 AM
tangs.dev
Show HN: Tangs.dev – Upload → Save to Drive → Share with Friendshttps://tangs.devHello!I’m the maker of Tangs, a simple way to upload a file, save it directly to your Google Drive, and share it instantly with a temporary link.I built Tangs because sharing files through Drive often feels more complicated than it should be: messy permissions, long links, and too many steps.As a developer, I often prepare documents or presentation materials on my work PC before meetings. But when I need to use those files in a conference room or on another computer, it always becomes a hassle.In a rush, I’d end up emailing attachments to myself, uploading to random shared folders, or dealing with access issues and cluttered links — all just to move a file quickly. It felt unnecessarily frustrating and restrictive, especially for something so common during day-to-day work.That pain point is what led me to build Tangs: a faster, cleaner way to get a file onto the right machine and share it instantly.With Tangs:- Upload once- Save to your own Google Drive- Share in seconds- Minimal GooglFeb 9, 2026 2:39 PM
arstechnica.com
Has Elon Musk given up on Mars?https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/has-elon-musk-given-up-on-mars/"SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon."Feb 9, 2026 2:38 PM
dwrite.me
Show HN: Dwrite.me A minimalist writing space that blocks copypaste to fight AIhttps://dwrite.meLately, the internet has started to feel loud, yet incredibly empty. Every time I browse Google, Medium, or news portals, I run into articles that feel "too perfect." The structure is flawless, the grammar is impeccable, but there is absolutely no soul in them.We all know why. It’s AI.As a developer, I love technology. But as a human, I’ve started to crave writing that has "scars"—writing that has emotion, rhythm, and is actually born from someone’s messy brain, not a polished prompt.That’s why I built dwrite.me.An Internet That’s Too Fast My frustration is simple: We live in an age where everything is expected to be instant. Need a 2,000-word article? One click. Need an opinion? Ask a chatbot.But here’s the problem: If everyone is using AI to write, why should we bother reading each other at all? We aren't exchanging thoughts anymore; we are just swapping machine-processed data. Our way of thinking is becoming lazy. We no longer value the "friction" of struggling to find the right worFeb 9, 2026 5:03 AM
spacedaily.com
The Race Is On: Artemis, China and Musk Turn the Moon Into the Next Strategic High Groundhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_Race_Is_On_Artemis_China_and_Musk_Turn_the_Moon_Into_the_Next_Strategic_High_Ground_999.htmlNew York NY (SPX) Feb 09, 2026 When Artemis II finally lights its engines and arcs away from Cape Canaveral, it will do more than send four astronauts on a ten-day loop around the Moon. It will fire the starting gun on a race that Washington and Beijing still insist does not exist and pull Elon Musk's SpaceX into the center of a contest that blends geopolitics, markets and myth. For two years, NASA has framed Artemis asFeb 9, 2026 4:45 AM
spacedaily.com
Dark matter core may drive Milky Way centerhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Dark_matter_core_may_drive_Milky_Way_center_999.htmlLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 Our Milky Way galaxy may not host a supermassive black hole at its center but instead an enormous concentration of dark matter that exerts an equivalent gravitational influence on nearby stars and gas, according to new research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The authors argue that this invisible substance, which makes up most of the universe's mass, can account bFeb 8, 2026 1:59 AM
spacedaily.com
Gilat books multimillion order for Sidewinder inflight ESA terminalshttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Gilat_books_multimillion_order_for_Sidewinder_inflight_ESA_terminals_999.htmlLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 Gilat Satellite Networks has secured a multimillion order from a major global avionics company for its Sidewinder electronically steered antenna inflight connectivity terminals designed by Gilat Stellar Blu, with deliveries scheduled over the next six months. The new contract underscores growing momentum for the Sidewinder ESA platform as airlines and service providers look to deploy advanFeb 8, 2026 1:59 AM
spacedaily.com
Runaway black hole jet outshines legendary death starhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Runaway_black_hole_jet_outshines_legendary_death_star_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 A supermassive black hole that shredded a nearby star is blasting out a jet of energy that has kept brightening for four years, in one of the most powerful events ever recorded in the universe. The outburst comes from a tidal disruption event designated AT2018hyz, in which a star strayed too close to a black hole and was torn apart by intense gravitational forces in a process astronomers dFeb 8, 2026 1:59 AM
caratria.com
Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendorhttps://caratria.com/Hi HackerNews. I love to play classic engine-building board-games like Splendor with my friends. As I didn't find a free-to-play version that fit my aesthetic standard, I decided to build my own.It's still a little rough around the edges, but you can already play against bots, invite online players via the lobby code, or play on the same machine with your friends.All in the browser. No Login required.I'd really like to hear your opinion and feedback. I'd be happy to play against some of you :)Feb 7, 2026 1:49 PM
spacenews.com
‘We helped usher in the modern era of AI in NGA.’https://spacenews.com/we-helped-usher-in-the-modern-era-of-ai-in-nga/In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In total, more than 5,000 people who were part of the federal space workforce left their positions. […] The post ‘We helped usher in the modern era of AI in NGA.’ appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 6, 2026 4:56 PM
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‘I loved thinking about how to make science possible for America and for the world’https://spacenews.com/i-loved-thinking-about-how-to-make-science-possible-for-america-and-for-the-world/In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In total, more than 5,000 people who were part of the federal space workforce left their positions. […] The post ‘I loved thinking about how to make science possible for America and for the world’ appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 6, 2026 4:55 PM
spacenews.com
‘You need competent people in the government to direct and make decisions.’https://spacenews.com/you-need-competent-people-in-the-government-to-direct-and-make-decisions/In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In total, more than 5,000 people who were part of the federal space workforce left their positions. […] The post ‘You need competent people in the government to direct and make decisions.’ appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 6, 2026 4:55 PM
nasa.gov
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
nasa.gov
Evaluation of Adhesive and Solvent Alternatives for PolymericBonding Applicationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/nesc/evaluation-of-adhesive-and-solvent-alternatives-for-polymericbonding-applications/The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) conducted a technical assessment to evaluate alternatives to dichloromethane, traditionally used for bonding transparent polymeric materials. This effort was initiated in response to potential regulatory restrictions under the EPA Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which could impact critical bonding processes used in spaceflight hardware and experimental systems. Download […]Feb 4, 2026 6:09 PM
spacedaily.com
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
spacedaily.com
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
news.ycombinator.com
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
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Show HN: OpenSymbolicAI – Agents with typed variables, not just context stuffinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876687Hi HN,We've spent the last year building AI agents and kept hitting the same wall: prompt engineering doesn't feel like software engineering. It feels like guessing.We built OpenSymbolicAI to turn agent development into actual programming. It is an open-source framework (MIT) that lets you build agents using typed primitives, explicit decompositions, and unit tests.THE MAIN PROBLEM: CONTEXT WINDOW ABUSEMost agent frameworks (like ReAct) force you to dump tool outputs back into the LLM's context window to decide the next step.Agent searches DB.Agent gets back 50kb of JSON.You paste that 50kb back into the prompt just to ask "What do I do next?"This is slow, expensive, and confuses the model.THE SOLUTION: DATA AS VARIABLESIn OpenSymbolicAI, the LLM generates a plan (code) that manipulates variables. The actual heavy data (search results, PDF contents, API payloads) is stored in the Python/runtime variables and is never passed through the LLM context until a specific primitive actually neFeb 3, 2026 8:19 PM
spacedaily.com
The Perception War: How Artemis II Could Win the Race Without Landinghttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_Perception_War_How_Artemis_II_Could_Win_the_Race_Without_Landing_999.htmlNew York NY (SPX) Jan 31, 2026 As NASA counts down toward humanity's first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century, a question beyond engineering is taking shape: Can a flight that never touches the surface still define who "wins" the Second Moon Race? The answer lies not in propulsion equations or landing dynamics, but in the realm where space programs have always competed most fiercely-perception, prestige, and the stories nations tell about themselves.Feb 3, 2026 4:52 AM
