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NASA Glenn Opens Applications for Free Summer Engineering Institutehttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-glenn-hosts-engineering-institute/NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is hosting the 2026 NASA Glenn High School Engineering Institute this July. The hands-on learning experience is designed to help high school students prepare for a future in the aerospace workforce. Rising high school juniors and seniors can submit applications for this summer program beginning Friday, March 20, through Friday, May 1. The institute will immerse students in NASA’s work while providing essential career readiness tools to help them in future science, […]Mar 20, 2026 1:00 PM
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Holistic space observation: the shift from SSA to SDAhttps://spacenews.com/holistic-space-observation-the-shift-from-ssa-to-sda/Recent reporting on SpaceX’s proposal to deploy up to one million satellites in low Earth orbit — paired with a vision of AI-enabled, autonomous orbital infrastructure — marks a decisive moment for the space community. Regardless of whether these numbers ultimately materialize, the direction is unmistakable: space is moving toward unprecedented scale, autonomy and strategic […] The post Holistic space observation: the shift from SSA to SDA appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 20, 2026 1:00 PM
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WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and morehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd4dbae2a4eb0a5666ecc2d28169e&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F03%2F20%2Fwordpress-com-now-lets-ai-agents-write-and-publish-posts-and-more%2F&c=5731148694039231726&mkt=en-usWeb hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web. The company announced Friday that it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and ...Mar 20, 2026 9:43 AM
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Show HN: Kagi alternative (simpler and EU-based) – Urukyhttps://uruky.com/kagi-alternative?il=enHi HN! My wife and I have been working on Uruky for a few months now, a simpler EU-based Kagi alternative.This week we finally got our production API Key for EUSP/STAAN (it was certainly the slowest and most complicated search provider to adopt, so far), and that brought us to 5 search providers you can choose from and sort as you prefer.We already have got over 20 paying customers (excluding family and friends, we’re guessing these paying customers came from some privacy listings and HN comments) and have exited beta earlier this month! Customers seem to really enjoy the simple UI (search can be used without JS) and search personalization (from choosing the providers to the domain boosting and exclusion). We also have hashbangs (like "!g", "!d", or “!e”) when something doesn’t quite give you what you’d expect, though.For the next 24h, new signups will have a free 24h trial (unlimited searches). Usually, because bots make things too hard and we don't want your personal data, there is nMar 20, 2026 9:07 AM
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When My Daughter Came Out As Trans, I Parented Her As I Always Have — Imperfectly, With Lovehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cef36705e4d8ca24e5958899033f3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sheknows.com%2Fparenting%2Farticles%2F1234980996%2Fmy-daughter-came-out-as-trans-parented-imperfectly%2F&c=4022902148825197339&mkt=en-usThere is so much in the media these days about families raising transgender kids. Much of it comes from a place of hate, discrimination, and misinformation. But even when the subject of raising ...Mar 20, 2026 8:59 AM
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ESA to Purchase SpaceX Crew Dragon Mission to ISShttps://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-to-purchase-spacex-crew-dragon-mission-to-iss/The European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher announced on 19 March that the agency intends to purchase a dedicated SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station (ISS) for its astronauts. In November 2022, ESA announced its newest class of five career astronauts. Under the current barter agreement with NASA, ESA has […] The post ESA to Purchase SpaceX Crew Dragon Mission to ISS appeared first on European Spaceflight.Mar 20, 2026 8:41 AM
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NVIDIA confirms DLSS 5 uses a 2D frame plus motion vectors as inputhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimwFBVV95cUxQVXN0ajJ5b0RKeFA1VzBSUnUtTWJBZ2lUT19hOTN6REhySGtwd1JBMEpMNXYzWDc4RlRqa0htdWMtU2xzWFN1Wk5MZGJSOWV5QUhRR0dQcVFtMUJZNEFKdGNaZ2YtRFY4S21DWThPY203Rm5xZG82OHdhZGplS3ZNaXVUVUdONGtRN0w4dmNxV2JJOUpuczBNa3lOZw?oc=5NVIDIA confirms DLSS 5 uses a 2D frame plus motion vectors as input VideoCardz.comMar 20, 2026 7:00 AM
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Ask HN: Best way to use Vim with AI for tab completion only (no agentic coding)?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444364I want to keep using Vim as my primary editor, but add AI in a minimal, controlled way:Inline/tab completion : ghost text that I accept with Tab, nothing autonomous. No file editing, no PR creation, no "agent" doing things on my behalf.A way to ask questions: something like a chat buffer or a command where I can ask about code, get explanations, etc. Again, I'm in control; it only acts when I explicitly ask.I've looked at copilot.vim + CopilotChat.nvim, Supermaven, and minuet-ai.nvim.Curious what others are actually running day-to-day. A few specific things I'm wondering:Is Supermaven the fastest option for ghost-text completion right now?Is there anything that gives Cursor-style Tab (next-edit prediction) without using the Cursor itself?Running Neovim on Linux.Not interested in Copilot Workspace, Codex CLI, or anything that touches my filesystem without my confirmation.Mar 19, 2026 7:10 PM
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Register now: The energy imperative driving the push toward orbital data centershttps://spacenews.com/the-energy-imperative-orbital-data-centers-virtual-event/Join us on March 31 for a virtual event, sponsored by Star Catcher and in partnership with the Commercial Space Federation The post Register now: The energy imperative driving the push toward orbital data centers appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 19, 2026 6:37 PM
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Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilitieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442452Hey HN! We’re Hayden, Ronan, Avi, and Warren of Voltair (https://voltairlabs.com/). We’re making weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones deployed for power utility inspections.Here’s some footage: https://vimeo.com/1173862237/ac28095cc6?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=... and a photo of our latest prototype: https://imgur.com/a/bYHnqZ4.The U.S. has 7M miles of power lines (enough to go to the moon and back 14 times), and they're aging. Over 50% of all power flows through transformers that are at least 30 years old, which is about when they start to fail.Power line conductors are just bare metal with 4,000-765,000 volts sitting on ceramic insulators, usually held up by pieces of wood. It’s a cost effective and relatively reliable way to move power. But when the wood starts to rot, or the cotter pin falls out, and a live conductor is dropped on a dead tree on a windy day, you get devastating wildfires like the Palisades Fire in LA last year.Most utilities solve this problem with foot patrols. Linemen driveMar 19, 2026 4:57 PM
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How NASA is Collecting Explosion Data for Next Generation Rocketshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/stennis/collecting-explosion-data-for-next-generation-rockets/Commercial launch providers continue to advance propulsion technology with a renewed focus on liquid oxygen and methane propelled rockets and spacecraft. As systems grow in scale, carrying millions of pounds of propellant, so too does the responsibility to fully understand the safety profile. Engineers at NASA, with decades of cryogenic and test operations expertise, are […]Mar 19, 2026 3:13 PM
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NASA to Cover Progress 94 Spacecraft Launch, Space Station Dockinghttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-cover-progress-94-spacecraft-launch-space-station-docking/NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 94 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 7:59 a.m. EDT (4:59 p.m. Baikonur time) Sunday, March 22, on […]Mar 19, 2026 2:15 PM
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Show HN: Swik – catalog of asset-specific sentiment inversions for financial NLPhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436845tried to do financial sentiment analysis but kept hitting the same wall with FinBERT: "OPEC cuts production" scores negative. For crude oil it should be bullish — less supply means higher prices. Generic models don't know what phrases mean for a specific asset.No existing dataset captured this systematically. Every financial sentiment project I found was either abandoned or producing generic polarity that was actively wrong for commodities and FX.So I built swik — at first for myself, then I kept finding zero alternatives and thought this could interest other people. Many sentiment analysis projects out there are abandoned for this very reason: failure to produce meaningful, correct and reliable sentiment for a given asset-specific headline.Then I thought: "build it and they will come." Now there it is — an open, community-maintained catalog of phrase inversions for 35+ assets (commodities, FX, indices, crypto). Each entry has the phrase, naive polarity, actual direction for that assetMar 19, 2026 9:34 AM
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Australia’s “Red Centre” Turns Greenhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/australias-red-centre-turns-green/Abundant rainfall in February and March 2026 transformed the desert landscape of Central Australia.Mar 19, 2026 4:00 AM
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Show HN: A Genetic algorithm that red-teams your copy with 100 LLM personashttps://crashtestcopy.com/Hey everyone,I know a product like this will get banned on HN, but I think the technical part is interesting, so I’m taking my shot here.problem: You try to get ChatGPT to write your landing page copy or email and it comes back... cringe. It's generic. It's as if every output is written by the same person. You try adjusting the prompt and running it through the AI again, and it's just a different version of the same boring output.There's no real creative exploration going on here. It's one model, one shot, one voice.solution: Rather than relying on a single AI to compose your content, I created a system with over 100 different AI personas, each with their own area of expertise, personality, and aesthetic (based on real-world data), to rate and score your content in a variety of ways. And then, took some inspiration from AlphaEvolve (Google DeepMind's evolutionary coding agent) [1], we take these personas as a fitness function and apply an evolutionary algorithm to your content in a varMar 18, 2026 11:09 PM
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Ask HN: How are you protecting yourself from skill atrophy?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430736I’m interested in how people working in tech are avoiding skill atrophy in this LLM age?We’ve all seen both sides of the argument spectrum, with “Let them atrophy, LLMs are the future, just look at the abacus!” to “I don’t use LLMs, they make mistakes and get in the way”. But the reality for many is that LLMs give a real performance boost and take on many tasks, even if they do make mistakes and need babysitting.I fall on the side of caution in letting skills fall behind, there are too many unknowns in how much LLMs will drive workplaces in the medium to long term and what skills will be used, so I’m wondering how you keep your existing skills from atrophying when tempted with the “make it so” button?Mar 18, 2026 8:03 PM
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TransAstra aims to move 100-ton asteroid to stable orbit for processinghttps://spacenews.com/transastra-aims-to-move-100-ton-asteroid-to-stable-orbit-for-processing/SAN FRANCISCO — TransAstra is performing a study, funded by investors and customers, to explore the technical feasibility of moving a 100-metric-ton asteroid to a stable near-Earth orbit. “We want to bring an asteroid to the Earth-moon system and turn it into a robotic research outpost for materials processing and manufacturing in space,” Joel Sercel, […] The post TransAstra aims to move 100-ton asteroid to stable orbit for processing appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 18, 2026 7:00 PM
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MCP servers mass-forked and republished – supply-chain attack vectorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428217I'm the developer of an MCP server (AiDex — code indexing with Tree-sitter, github.com/CSCSoftware/AiDex). I recently discovered that an organization called iflow-mcp is systematically forking hundreds of MCP servers on GitHub, republishing them under their own npm scope (@iflow-mcp/) and on PyPI, and distributing them through their own "marketplace" — without ever contacting the original authors.But the real problem isn't the fork itself. The real problem is security.---*What's happening*The forks are published under the pattern @iflow-mcp/originalauthor-projectname. The familiar name of the original creates trust — but the code the user actually gets is entirely under a third party's control. Nothing prevents that third party from modifying the code before publishing.*Why MCP servers are particularly dangerous*An MCP server is not a harmless plugin. By design, it has deep access:- It reads your source code, navigates your filesystem, receives file contents - It can see .env files, APMar 18, 2026 4:58 PM
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Show HN: Built a crosslister (in PHP!) that supports Vinted (which has no API)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427739FLUF Connect (fluf.io) lets resellers list a product once and push it to Depop, eBay, Vinted, Vestiaire Collective, Shopify, Facebook Marketplace, Temu, and Yaga with real-time inventory sync. Available as a web dashboard, Chrome extension, and mobile app (iOS + Android).The hard problem isn't the listing — it's the sync. When something sells on Depop at 2am, eBay and Vinted stock needs to update in seconds or the seller wakes up to overselling complaints and bad reviews.Some things I learned building this:- Marketplace APIs lie: Response formats change silently. Endpoints return 404 for reasons that have nothing to do with the item not existing. You can't trust the contract — you need fallbacks for everything.- Relisting matters more than listing: Resellers delete and re-post items to boost visibility in marketplace algorithms. The difference between random relisting and data-driven relisting is measurable in sales.- AI handles the heavy lifting: Take a photo, and AI generates the titMar 18, 2026 4:23 PM
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Show HN: unTamper – cryptographically verifiable audit logs for app eventshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427580https://untamper.comBuilt this after hitting the same gap on multiple projects: teams log critical events (admin actions, permission changes, PII access) but have no structural way to prove those records weren't altered after the fact.Immutable storage (S3 Object Lock, WORM) are common, but it only covers tampering after the write lands. It doesn't protect against someone with DB write access, and it doesn't give a third party, e.g. an auditor, a way to verify integrity without touching your infrastructure.My approach: hash chaining. Each event is SHA-256 hashed against its canonical payload + the hash of the previous event. Any insertion, deletion, or modification breaks all subsequent hashes. Anyone with the public API can re-verify the chain independently.A few decisions I'm happy to discuss:- Canonicalization before hashing: JSON isn't canonical by default. Ended up writing a strict sorted-key schema rather than fighting recursive serialization. - Per-actor chains vs. one global chMar 18, 2026 4:13 PM
