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news.ycombinator.com
Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTVhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463273Hi HN — we’re Julius, Jago, and Nils, and we’re building transload (https://transload.io).transload helps LTL trucking companies measure freight dimensions using the security cameras already installed in their terminals. Instead of sending shipments through a dedicated dimensioning station, we measure them automatically as they move through the normal dock workflow.We’ve put together a small HN-specific demo site here: https://hn.transload.ioIn LTL trucking, dimensions matter because they affect pricing, freight classification, and trailer utilization. If a shipment is larger than the shipper reported, the carrier undercharges for it while still giving up the same amount of trailer space. The obvious fix is to measure every shipment, but thats impossible in a busy freight terminal. Dedicated dimensioning systems work for freight that passes through them, but they add forklift travel, create dock congestion, and change the normal flow of work. In practice, many terminals only measure a
Jun 9, 2026 4:28 PM
plastron.ca
Show HN: Plastron – A spreadsheet you grow into an app, in one index.htmlhttps://plastron.ca/Plastron is a spreadsheet starting with one cel (元) whose formula generates the a readme DOM element but you can make sheets of cels with formulas like =cels(8, 5). It's a single index.html — no build, no server, no install — so it runs locally, offline, and free. Excel is maybe the most useful software ever written, but the moment a sheet wants to be a real app — a UI, a file, a database, something to share — you fall off a cliff and rewrite it as "a real application" (framework + backend + deploy), usually after pleading with IT over licenses. Meanwhile every browser already runs JS, WASM, SQLite, and a filesystem API. An index.html should be all you need.Things to try on the page: =cels("anim", 2, 1, at("a1", "=def(\"ball\", \"js\", \"i => [30+280Math.abs((i/20)%2-1), 30+200Math.abs((i/14)%2-1)]\")"), at("a2", "=simulate(\"ball\", 120)"))=cels("data", 2, 1, at("a1", "=db(\"app\")"), at("a2", "=sql(\"app\", \"create table t(a,b); insert into t values (1,2),(3,4); select * from t\")")
Jun 9, 2026 4:07 PM
bing.com
Brain mechanism reveals how food aroma primes metabolism and may explain obesity riskhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1a8a4a5e486dbcb5a27b79379020&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedicalxpress.com%2Fnews%2F2026-06-brain-mechanism-reveals-food-aroma.html&c=16397751309459273654&mkt=en-usOur brain prepares the body for an incoming meal before we even take the first bite. The aroma of food simmering on the stove, for instance, can trigger the brain to send signals to the pancreas, ...
Jun 9, 2026 1:40 PM
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Ask HN: Are you also experiencing issues with Azure Redis in Western Europe?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460988Context: we've been using Azure Cache for Redis for about two years now. We have constant health checks that require a successful ping on redis. Normally, we might have a small connection issue every 2-3 days well outside office hours, not much else.Over the last two days (June 8 and June 9) we have seen constant network issues between our runtimes (Hetzner, Western Europe) and Azure Redis. I cannot discard it being something on our end. But it is highly suspicious that we have Redis issues while we have minimal to no network issues with Azure Postgres, which is in the same zone as Azure Redis.We see no issues reported by Azure, but that's not much of a reassurance. We've experienced Azure outages in the past (for example, sending of emails) that never had an official mention in any public status page.If you're also experiencing network issues with Azure services in Western Europe, it'd be great to know we're not the only ones.
Jun 9, 2026 1:37 PM
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Show HN: Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagramshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460286Hi HN. My name is Andrey. On a regular business day, I'm a software engineer working at AWS. Outside of work hours, I spend time on my hobby - writing code.I was once building a pet project that allowed customers to spin up fully synchronized blockchain nodes within just a few minutes. The backend was split into a control plane and a data plane, each with its own AWS account. Later I added two more AWS accounts. One for shared RPC nodes. One for the Analytics Service.Since I love to visualize things, I used drawio to visualize the architecture.With time, I noticed a pattern. I'd write some code, add a few lambda functions, update my drawio diagram, write more code, introduce a few more resources, test things, see that everything works fine and go to sleep with a smile on my face. Next week I'd check my diagram, and shockingly, it's missing some of the resources! This kept happening for a few more weeks until I decided to fully abandon the project until my infrastructure diagrams could
Jun 9, 2026 12:35 PM
welter.fuglede.dk
Show HN: Welter's game, a little Nim-like combinatorial gamehttps://welter.fuglede.dkHi HN! Here's a little game I (and my buddy Claude, cf. the obvious CSS gradient tell) set up to explain to my kids some of things we were working on at work.So in the game you're taking turns moving coins down a line until no moves are possible. If you've taken a course on combinatorial game theory, you'll have come across the game of nim and you can think of this one as a variant of nim where there can only be a single coin in every square. The theory of how to play it isn't quite as well-established as for nim though; play with enough coins and I certainly find it quite tricky to mentally reason about whether a position is good or not.One fun fact about Welter's game is that its winning positions form the codewords of a particular error-correcting code called the constant weight binary lexicode (Conway and Sloane, 1986). What that means is that being good at the game is the same as being good at decoding messages in that code. Probably more fun to just play the game though.
Jun 9, 2026 11:58 AM
qunabu.github.io
Show HN: Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einsteinhttps://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/Just for fun and self education, I've built this over a weekend to teach myself why orbits exist, not just show planets going around. Something that was never clearly explain to me in school. It opens with a guided tour that builds the idea up step by step: two bodies and the equal/opposite force, inertia (the Sun is removed and Earth just drifts straight), then "an orbit is falling and continuously missing," cosmic velocities with a little rocket, Voyager 1 & 2's real gravity assists (the clock runs the actual 1977–1989 dates so the planets orbit into their grand-tour alignment and the slingshots line up), and it ends on Einstein — gravity as curved spacetime, the classic rubber-sheet well. What's real: every body uses its real radius/mass and J2000 orbital elements; positions come from solving Kepler's equation each frame. You can toggle to an N-body mode (symplectic leapfrog) that shows live energy drift (~1e-6%) so you can see the integrator is honest. The only thing faked is scale
Jun 9, 2026 11:46 AM
bing.com
As Stars and Mavs plan moves, what will happen to Mike Modano and Dirk Nowitzki statues?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cdddcbf9e41b0a5947cfee939481e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dallasnews.com%2Fsports%2Fstars%2Farticle%2Fdirk-nowitzki-mike-modano-statues-stars-mavericks-22295125.php&c=8014175710854301323&mkt=en-usThe Stars’ and Mavericks’ planned moves away from American Airlines Center in 2031 have left many unanswered questions about the fate of downtown Dallas and the building they’ve occupied for close to ...
Jun 9, 2026 10:01 AM
spacenews.com
Let’s procure in-orbit services like Earth observation data and serviceshttps://spacenews.com/lets-procure-in-orbit-services-like-earth-observation-data-and-services/The Chinese company MizarVision recently gained attention with its open source Earth observation data analysis over the Middle East which showed images of F-35s gathering 24 hours before Operation Epic […] The post Let’s procure in-orbit services like Earth observation data and services appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 9, 2026 10:00 AM
esa.int
Cleaner air and prosperity can go hand in handhttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/Cleaner_air_and_prosperity_can_go_hand_in_handFor decades, economic growth and fossil-fuel consumption have been tightly intertwined. As cities have expanded, rising prosperity has often been accompanied by worsening air pollution. New research, however, suggests that this relationship is changing – and satellite data are helping to prove it.
Jun 9, 2026 7:31 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Do you need go-to-market strategy at early stage?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456858My startup is pre-revenue. Last week i was in one of the local AI Startup meet up, and attended some GTM office hours hosted by some folks from big company marketing team.Was told Go to market strategy is necessary, need professional helps, it will guide how i run growth campaigns(cold emailing), branding(color). and that i am not able to aquire customer maybe because i don't have a go-to-market strategy, and later on followed by a invitation for deeper GTM consultation(paid).Because i haven't successfully gotten any customer, i cannot rule-out this possibility. But i've watched almost all YC videos on how to get first customer,1. having a GTM is never mentioned not to mention as a mandate2. in fact, from one of the Aaron Epstein's video, a sincere, manual, email works best, with a razor sharp ICP, this doesn't sound GTM at all, it's just doing this one, hard-coded step, no strategy is needed.I would love to hear from you folks on your take before i either go work with these GTM folks,
Jun 9, 2026 5:27 AM
bing.com
Josh Allen led the league in merchandise sales last yearhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d211d64b74160a6a44997cadc1403&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcsports.com%2Fnfl%2Fprofootballtalk%2Frumor-mill%2Fnews%2Fjosh-allen-led-the-league-in-merchandise-sales-last-year&c=700079021245912137&mkt=en-usBills quarterback Josh Allen led the NFL in an important statistical category last year: Merchandise sales. The NFL Players Association has released information about sales of officially licensed NFL ...
Jun 9, 2026 4:16 AM
science.nasa.gov
San Francisco’s Metropolitan Mosaichttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/station/san-franciscos-metropolitan-mosaic/Urban development, green spaces, and maritime activity converge in this Northern California city.
Jun 9, 2026 4:00 AM
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Ask HN: Do you also feel like KYC is turning you off to the concept of moneyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454512I don't think we are there yet but if KYC gets even more stringent I anticipate that a hyper curated list or database of where to find the best deals across every domain of life would be worth more than say 100k USD.At least the hypercurated database would be yours and nobody can temper with it or subtract it from you , contrary to the 100k which can be gone in an instant if the bank decides that you are behaving according to abnomal patterns which could be as stupid as flying to Colombia for a vacation and having a good time over there in the many establishments offering a good time for guys.Also banks hate it when you spend it and try every possible move to prevent you from doing so.Maybe I am alone in this but I will start paying much more attention to stuff (both material stuff and experiences) and the funnel to get stuff close to the source and hence get a much better deal for it. What I'd be doing less and less is blindly plowing ahead with vulgar accumulation, because said accum
Jun 9, 2026 12:35 AM
spacenews.com
FCC lets Amazon Leo miss deployment deadline with temporary spectrum penaltyhttps://spacenews.com/fcc-lets-amazon-leo-miss-deployment-deadline-with-temporary-spectrum-penalty/Amazon no longer faces a July 30 cutoff for deploying half its planned 3,232 broadband satellites, but the reprieve comes with a temporary loss of spectrum priority that could give SpaceX and other rivals more leverage in orbit. The post FCC lets Amazon Leo miss deployment deadline with temporary spectrum penalty appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 8, 2026 6:39 PM
blockchainednovel.com
Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to writehttps://www.blockchainednovel.com/It started after reading Stephen King's "On Writing" where he likened the art of writing as the unearthing of an archeological site after you stumbled upon a unique bone of a story. His advice was to choose a domain you are deeply intimate with. For me, I've been a struggling startup founder for 15 years—enough material to inspire a novel.A 1,000-word writing exercise turned into a complete 125k-word manuscript over the course of a year.In year 1, I learned the sheer joy of unencumbered creative flow and authentic expression. A similar flow I used to get from coding (and more recently vibe coding). What made it effortless was a mindset that I was writing for the sake of it, not with the intention of publishing.After a year of keeping it close to my chest, I decided to show it to a few close friends. They liked some of it, destroyed some of it. Some ultimately encouraged me to publish it.In year 2, I learned about the chasm between writing for myself and writing for an audience. Nerdy s
Jun 8, 2026 4:29 PM
nasa.gov
Supersonic!https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/supersonic/On June 5, 2026, NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities later this year. NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less took off and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, reaching a top speed of approximately Mach 1.1 (713 mph). The flight lasted 81 minutes, with the team focusing on flying qualities at both […]
Jun 8, 2026 3:28 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA’s INCUS Satellites Progress Toward Launchhttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/nasas-incus-satellites-progress-toward-launch/Description One of the three satellites that make up NASA’s INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) mission sits on a fixture at the facilities of Blue Canyon Technologies in Lafayette, Colorado. The satellite completed testing in preparation for launch in late May 2026. The mission will make the first space-based survey of the dynamics of tropical […]
Jun 8, 2026 3:22 PM
bing.com
NBA Finals 2026: Here’s Where to Watch Game 3 New York Knicks vs. San Antonio Spurs Live Onlinehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1f16f9bc4c54a5d3b3a3d7132b2b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Fculture%2Fproduct-recommendations%2Fnba-finals-2026-watch-knicks-vs-spurs-live-online-free-1236260941%2F&c=13344627988311848741&mkt=en-usKnicks & Spurs face off for Game 3 on Monday (June 8) — watch the championship series without cable for free. By Rudie Obias All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors.
Jun 8, 2026 2:30 PM