spacenews.com
SpaceX launches Transporter-17 amid concerns about rideshare program’s futurehttps://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-transporter-17-amid-concerns-about-rideshare-programs-future/SpaceX launched the latest in its Transporter series of rideshare missions July 7 as industry concerns about the program’s future reach what one rival company executive called a panic. The post SpaceX launches Transporter-17 amid concerns about rideshare program’s future appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 7, 2026 3:31 PM
hnsubstacks.com
Show HN: hnsubstacks – Browse only Substacks submitted to HNhttps://hnsubstacks.com/I made an HN clone that lists only Substacks posted here.- Why? Over the years, I've discovered some great blogs here, so I thought it would be nice to have a filter for them.- Why only Substacks then and not blogs more generally? Because it's easy to query for "substack.com" in the public HN Algolia API (see below). Plus, hnblogs was already taken :)- What about substacks on custom domains then? At the bottom of the page there is a form to submit a custom domain. The site attempts to auto-validate that it is a Substack. If that fails, it is marked for manual review (which I'll do every once in a while). Approved ones will be included in the results.- How? I use HN's Algolia API to fetch substack stories by searching for "substack.com" in the url. I do this via a CloudFlare worker that has 3 separate cron triggers: (1) fetches new stories every 10 minutes and saves them in a KV store. (2) runs 2 minutes after the first, computes hot stories from new ones by simulating HN's score algoriJul 7, 2026 2:31 PM
news.google.com
Takashi Yamazaki To Direct New 20th Century Studios Film "Nue"https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilgFBVV95cUxPYVVjRmpKdVBNQ1VLMXJiSnJEd2YtX29zOHUtMWpCTDFPOEZrdlI5Y1R6TmFXUkRsYnc1ZV9wYkNXQjJacnhhYWJhVDVJcy1tcXFheGRmUUtDMjhaSEFkQ25hMWx5WW55RDlaWWxnc1lyU3haZ2FjUjU0ajRnczhnenZMZlZ4ZGY1ckk3X2tnNnJVQXgxZXc?oc=5Takashi Yamazaki To Direct New 20th Century Studios Film "Nue" whatsondisneyplus.comJul 7, 2026 7:00 AM
bing.com
‘Idiocracy’ Is The Film That Best Captures The American Experience, Say NYT Readershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8aba802e2746619d18594ddae70f8e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2026%2F07%2Fidiocracy-film-poll-best-depicts-america-1236974472%2F&c=14931007168376951959&mkt=en-usAsk many cinephiles to pick the best American film ever made and many might pick The Godfather. That’s long been the go-to answer for most. But ask the question in a slightly different way — “What ...Jul 6, 2026 8:06 AM
cooked.house
Show HN: I hated how much my 12-year-old played Roblox, so we built our own FPShttps://cooked.houseI'm a father of two, 7 and 12. They are obsessed with Roblox, especially Rivals.Like a lot of parents, we did not love it. We tried the usual things: block it, limit it, set timers." It became a daily battle, a lose-lose situation.So I flipped the problem.Instead of fighting what they loved, I decided to lean into it, but with a twist.Why just play an FPS when you could build one together?My kids became the PMs. Claude and I became their engineer.I was shocked by how fast we moved. We picked a name, Cooked and started building.Get in. Lock in. Get cooked!In the first 3 hours, we had an actual FPS we could play together in the browser.Next day I invited my friend's two kids over. Suddenly, I had four PMs.We had 3 laptops, 1 iPad and 1 iPhone.So in 30mins we added mobile support and could play all 5 together.The kids would ask for features:"Can we have a rocket launcher that knocks people off the map?""The knife should stab faster when you hold it."I know almost nothing about FPS design,Jul 5, 2026 5:14 PM
bing.com
Hegseth creates powerful new drone office, pulling authority from the military serviceshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8993b51fff4639ae65ee8925eeebd6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.defensenews.com%2Fnews%2Fpentagon-congress%2F2026%2F07%2F02%2Fhegseth-creates-powerful-new-drone-office-pulling-authority-from-the-military-services%2F&c=6860249626658805798&mkt=en-usDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth has consolidated nearly all of the Pentagon’s drone and autonomous systems programs under a single new office that reports directly to his deputy and will oversee what ...Jul 2, 2026 12:02 PM
news.ycombinator.com
STMZ Kinetichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740362Hi everyone! I'm building | STMZ Kinetic (https://stmzkinetic.com), an AI-powered social media workspace for planning, creating, scheduling, and managing content from one place.I'd really appreciate honest feedback from founders and builders. I'm especially interested in:Is the value proposition clear within the first few seconds?Does the landing page build enough trust? What's confusing or missing? Would you consider trying this product? If not, why?Please don't hold back—I'd much rather hear critical feedback than compliments. Thanks in advance!Jun 30, 2026 11:01 PM
esa.int
This Month at ESA: June 2026https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/06/This_Month_at_ESA_June_2026What did space have in store for Europe this month? This June, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was named pilot of NASA's Artemis III mission, Ariane 6 set a new European launch record, Proba-3 returned to operations, ESA satellites detected early signs of El Niño, Euclid unveiled its most detailed view yet of the Milky Way's galactic centre, and Sophie Adenot reached the halfway point of her εpsilon mission aboard the International Space Station.Jun 29, 2026 2:00 PM
gotaper.app
Show HN: Gotaper – A minimalist, journal-inspired race planner for athleteshttps://gotaper.app/Lately I've been planning on running my first 100 miler and been struggling with organizing everything around the race. Been back and forth between google docs, notes, spreadsheets and AI agents. So in the middle of that, and a long run, though about creating a kind of journaling app for taking notes about the race and everything about it and it got interesting. So here is the first kind of working version. I would love some brutally honest feedback: - What do you think? - What is the clunkiest part of your current race-week planning workflow? - Does the journal-style layout give you more data control than just a spreadsheet? - What feature would make you actually drop your current setup for this?Jun 28, 2026 8:18 PM
news.ycombinator.com
My website gets more attacks than human visitorshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677487I run a small self-hosted website on a Raspberry Pi 4B at home. A few weeks ago I started wondering: who actually visits a website in 2026? Not just humans. Everything. So I built a public observability dashboard on top of GoAccess that separates traffic into four categories: human visitors, search engine crawlers, AI retrieval agents, and automated attacks. The numbers from the last 17 days surprised me:4,523 human visits 6,409 automated attack attempts Thousands of crawler requests from search engines and AI systemsThe attacks aren't sophisticated. They're mostly automated scanners probing for .env files, WordPress admin panels, and cloud credentials — hitting every public IP on the internet regardless of what's actually running there. What I found more interesting was the AI agent behavior. AI retrieval agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Amazonbot) behave differently from traditional search crawlers. They hit semantic files aggressively — llms.txt, sitemap.xml, JSON-LD structJun 25, 2026 6:35 PM
sipp.sh
Show HN: Sipp – Run small local LLMs in browser 3x fasterhttps://www.sipp.shHi HN! Sipp is an open-source AI inference library for running local models in browsers with up to 3x faster decode speeds than alternative libraries.My background is in HCI (human-computer interaction) and graphics programming. Me along with my co-founder have been experimenting and thinking a lot about what the next user experience will look like when tokens are commodified to the point of being essentially “free.” A motivation for us was to try to move beyond the chat app and information retrieval use cases that are dominant now, and figure out how AI could instead act as a continuous and silent hand that helps the user indirectly, subtly monitoring their intent and dynamically generating or shifting the UI to meet their needs.In our explorations, we ran into two pain points: 1) when running AI in the browser, performance wasn’t good enough for real-time applications, and model loading and caching were issues; 2) when trying to run locally on desktop, there weren’t any good solutionJun 24, 2026 2:52 PM
nasa.gov
Career Spotlight: Electrician (Ages 14-18)https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/career-spotlight-electrician-ages-14-18/What does an electrician do? Electricity powers the world, and electricians are the ones who get it where it needs to go. An electrician is an expert who is trained to make sure electrical systems and equipment are installed safely and working correctly. Electricians are involved in a variety of systems, including power, lighting, communications, […]Jun 24, 2026 1:37 PM
science.nasa.gov
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4927–4933: Let’s Drive to That Smooth Areahttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4927-4933-lets-drive-to-that-smooth-area/By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Thursday, June 18, 2026 In the area Curiosity is currently exploring, the science team has mapped several areas with different-looking surface texture on the orbital images. If you wanted to have a look yourself at what there is to […]Jun 24, 2026 4:34 AM
nasa.gov
Hanging in the Balancehttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hanging-in-the-balance/The Moon appears half-illuminated in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew on flight day 6. The terminator – the difference between light and darkness – provides a stark contrast and even greater perspective of the Moon’s rocky, uneven, and otherworldly surface features. The near side, which is what we can see from Earth, […]Jun 23, 2026 3:43 PM
github.com
Show HN: Wirewright, an experimental symbolic physics environmenthttps://github.com/wirewright/wirewrightThe idea with Wirewright is to treat programs and algorithms as physical mechanisms, as machines or societies of machines inhabiting an immutable symbolic world, and time-step the latter to see what happens. This last part in particular reminds me of cellular automata.Said differently, in Wirewright, programs are modeled as "nouns" or "societies" of interacting "nouns" (think data structures). The world is then subjected to laws of physics -- symbolic physics; which is the only "verb" here (think function). Therefore, in Wirewright, we say that, in a sense, algorithm equals structure and the evolution of structure equals computation. I tend to shorten this to "structure is computation", but this may be incorrect if viewed in isolation.Now, I guess you're wondering what Wirewright actually is. In fact, I see the rules here state that I must tell you what Wirewright is, plainly and clearly. I will try, but beware that at the end of the day, I know as little as you do :^) My hands write, Jun 22, 2026 12:15 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: Video on the map marketplace 1 year – still bad tractionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610459After 8 months of development we launched MVP three months ago.The idea of "Now & Here" came from my own pain: I arrived at hotel after long journey, exhausted - it looks old with noisy renovations on the back side. At that moment I thought: I would pay $20 to someone in each of the 5 nearest hotels to film the real view.We solve trust problem: people need to know what a place looks like, but most internet information is outdated, curated, or fake. For example: 1. Hotel and travel websites show polished marketing photos. 2. Google Street View is static and often years old. 3. AI-generated content is making it harder to trust locations online.We are made app where people can request closed to real-time video from any location and nearby people can earn money by recording video fot those requests.We built android app with all necessary mvp features: - map with tasks and videos - tasks creation and execution flow - video viewing and recording payed and free - wallet with USDT (crypto justJun 20, 2026 4:22 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How do you find new books to read?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590844I'm looking to update my reading list of 2026 to include anything interesting that was recently, or about to be, published.The internet is of course full of lists about the "most anticipated" or "the hottest" books of the year/summer/etc. But these are not what I'm after.My reading habits are a bit out of sync with the mainstream and rarely feature in lists of most popular books. (If it helps, some of my favorites include Apple in China, The Chip War, Spec Ops [by McRaven], and Chokepoints.)I thought Goodreads would be the place to find stuff like that but was shockingly lacking.How do you guys find (good) books to read?Jun 18, 2026 8:10 PM
nasa.gov
Hubble Sees Swarm of Galaxieshttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-sees-swarm-of-galaxies/Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on June 12, 2026, features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211. Galaxy clusters like MACS0329-0211 are important signposts in the story of how the structure of the universe evolved, and are the ultimate telescopic lenses, placing gravitationally lensed galaxies from the […]Jun 17, 2026 2:56 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Safety Ideas, and a Testable Pathhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550002Hello. You don't know me. I know of some of your stories from across the varied aspects of technology, and have followed or many years. I am not a developer. I am not from a computer science background. And I'm not from Silicon Valley. I used to respect Silicon Valley quite a bit. And I've proved about the technology our world is currently suffering at the hands of. Since before, most of the people that had a hand in building it were even alive. Like... Come from a very different background from all of you. I worked in emergency medicine for 17 years of my life. Out of one of the... most unusual systems, you will ever find. My skill set is incredibly accurate. to the area of assessment, and that is what I've spent the last several years documenting and doing across every model of this industry. We are at a breaking night. And everybody knows it. Your own industry acknowledges. You do not have a way for an idea to make all of this safe. And it has to be. This was supposed to be the greaJun 16, 2026 2:56 AM
quickish.website
Show HN: Quickish – Instant HTML Hostinghttps://quickish.websiteAs Claude and ChatGPT has gotten better, I've found myself enjoying using Co-Work to make presentations at work. Sharing the HTML files on Slack and elsewhere was cumbersome and trying to host it somewhere public (even if unlisted) wasn't much of an option for my work stuff.Then I saw Shopify's blog post about Quick (https://shopify.engineering/quick), an internal intranet with simple HTML page hosting and was inspired. I wasn't sure I could get buy-in to host it at my day job so I spent my own time coming up with Quickish. Now I can share all my beautiful presentations.Originally I wanted it to be tied to Google Drive / Workspaces, you share the folder with quickish and put your HTML in, quickish hosts it while respecting the privacy of the folder (workspace only, etc). However, as I worked through building I realized I could make it easier to use and add that part in. Actually, it already works behind the scenes I just need to get the app verified.And now, you have what you see. EverJun 15, 2026 5:09 PM
