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NASA Program Builds Bridge From Military to Civilian Careers for Johnson Team Membershttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/nasa-program-builds-bridge-from-military-to-civilian-careers-for-johnson-team-members/Of all the possible entry points to NASA, the agency’s SkillBridge Program has been instrumental in helping servicemembers transition from the military and into civilian careers. Offered in partnership with the Department of Defense (DoD), the program enables individuals to spend their final months of military service working with a NASA office or organization. SkillBridge […]Jul 17, 2025 10:00 AM
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Where to Shop in Chengdu, China's Original Creative Capitalhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiaEFVX3lxTE9LdFNsOFVzWlBhY2FvTEhQUDN1Vm85ZXVwR1VHZzlyelJCOThrU0d4R1I4MHZUd09XRnV2MFJ6N201VUpxNUZZLXFFWm9rM245bkJRZ2RjRE1pSzJsaGhJM25FRUUxYlY3?oc=5Where to Shop in Chengdu, China's Original Creative Capital Condé Nast TravelerJul 17, 2025 7:00 AM
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NASA Software Catalog Puts Agency Solutions at Innovators’ Fingertipshttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-software-catalog-puts-agency-solutions-at-innovators-fingertips/NASA’s latest open Software Catalog, released Wednesday, offers more than 1,200 downloadable codes developed by agency engineers that could enable faster solutions to energize the space economy and stimulate American ingenuity. The catalog is part of NASA’s effort to place advanced technologies, including agency software, into the hands of businesses, researchers, and entrepreneurs to foster […]Jul 16, 2025 4:36 PM
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NASA Glenn Announces 2025 Drop Tower Challenge Winnershttps://www.nasa.gov/newsletters/aerospace-frontiers/nasa-glenn-announces-2025-drop-tower-challenge-winners/Nineteen teams of students from across the nation in grades 8-12 worked for months in classrooms, labs, basements, and garages for the opportunity to test their projects at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This spring, the teams’ hard work was put to the test in the 2.2 Second Drop Tower facility at NASA Glenn. […]Jul 16, 2025 12:06 PM
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Show HN: I Recently Built a Projecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44580930I recently built a project called PIT (Phono In Terminal) — a terminal image viewer written in C that renders .png/.jpg images using actual RGB colors in your terminal (with optional 256-color fallback). What makes it different? Zero dependencies (just stb_image.h)Works even on very old or embedded systemsFully cross-platform (Linux, macOS, WSL, Windows Terminal, Termux, etc.)Compiles down to ~250 KBCLI options for zoom, flip, resize, offset, background fill, and moreDoesn’t require X11, SDL, or cursesHere's a screenshot from Termux showing Tux inside a text-mode terminal (demoed using ANSI blocks and real RGB shading): (HN doesn't support images, but you can try it yourself from the repo)Comparison with tiv: tiv is an excellent and mature tool (C++ + ImageMagick), optimized for Unicode and quality. PIT, on the other hand, is hyper-minimal — no dependencies, fully embeddable, and runs even in initramfs or micro distros.GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-imagJul 16, 2025 11:17 AM
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Ask HN: Time to Pivot Out of Engineering?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44575810I’m looking for a new job and I’m not sure if I should even keep applying to SWE roles or not. Looking back on the 6 years I’ve been working as a SWE, I’ve always ended up in a position where I was pretty miserable after a couple years no matter what company I was working for at the time. I’m annoyed at all the process, I’m annoyed with the people, I’m not interested in what the company is doing, and it just feels like such a grind.Earlier on, I thought that this was just a symptom of not liking the product, culture, or just getting bored of what I was working on at the time and could be fixed by going to a different company. But now after working at 3 different companies of slightly different sizes, I’m starting to think that maybe I just don’t enjoy this field as much as I thought I would.I’m definitely not a 10x engineer who is constantly cranking out code, and if I’m being honest with myself I am just a slightly above average engineer. I’m good enough to do the tasks that are needeJul 15, 2025 9:05 PM
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NASA Selects Companies for Architect-Engineer Services Contracthttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-companies-for-architect-engineer-services-contract/NASA has selected seven companies to assist the agency with architectural and engineering services at multiple agency centers and facilities. The Western Regional Architect-Engineer Services is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract has a total estimated value not to exceed $75 million. The contract was awarded on July 14 with a five-year period of performance with […]Jul 15, 2025 8:53 PM
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Ask HN: How to attract top engineers as an early-stage startup?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44574896Finding great engineers is a known challenge for every early-stage startup as you need to find missionaries willing to trade cash for risk and upside.What we try: - We try to leverage personal networks, which seems like the best source (10x better than other methods)- We're willing to poach talent (when timing aligns)- We're generous with equity (can’t match FAANG cash)Public job boards didn't work at all. About 98 % of applicants are spray-and-pray. We even added a product-specific question at the end of the ad and only few noticed it (but good filter!).I also know that experience ≠ talent and that some people are terrible at selling themselves, I try to spot these.What helped you find top engineers?Jul 15, 2025 7:26 PM
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Φsat-2 begins science phase for AI Earth imageshttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Phsat-2/Phsat-2_begins_science_phase_for_AI_Earth_imagesΦsat-2, a miniature satellite, has completed its commissioning and has begun delivery of science data, using algorithms to efficiently process and compress Earth observation images, as well as detect wildfires, ships, marine pollution and more.Jul 15, 2025 2:31 PM
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Melissa Harris: Shaping NASA’s Vision for a Future in Low Earth Orbithttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/melissa-harris-shaping-nasas-vision-for-a-future-in-low-earth-orbit/With over 25 years of experience in human spaceflight programs, Melissa Harris has contributed to numerous programs and projects during key moments in NASA’s history. As the life cycle lead and Independent Review Team review manager for the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program, she guides the agency through development initiatives leading to a new […]Jul 15, 2025 10:00 AM
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How to Inspire Creativity in the Classroomhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc9450d2f4f05879488c513df8d54&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrexel.edu%2Fsoe%2Fresources%2Fteacher-resources%2Finspire-creativity-in-the-classroom%2F&c=8108293011611027591&mkt=en-usHaving the opportunity to create a learning environment that encourages creative thinking, teachers are in a unique position to help students develop one of their most important life skills. Although ...Jul 15, 2025 9:30 AM
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Sun directly over Kaaba today: What it means and how to see ithttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd0a6472b4784b95428b373a801c4&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesofindia.indiatimes.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle-east%2Fsun-directly-over-kaaba-today-what-it-means-and-how-to-see-it%2Farticleshow%2F122484309.cms&c=17369828902561948075&mkt=en-usToday at 12:27 PM Mecca time, the sun will be directly above the Kaaba, causing no shadows to appear. This rare event happens twice a year due to Earth’s tilt and Mecca’s latitude. It offers Muslims ...Jul 15, 2025 3:31 AM
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One Piece's Rocks D. Xebec Finally Makes an Appearance — & It’s Even More Hype Than Fans Expectedhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b3a3f62004bc9bb867ca0235cb6c6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fentertainment%2Fcomics%2Fone-piece-s-rocks-d-xebec-finally-makes-an-appearance-it-s-even-more-hype-than-fans-expected%2Far-AA1IEMuV&c=1222719933263897808&mkt=en-usThe following contains spoilers for One Piece Chapter 1154, now available in English from Viz Media. Blackbeard is the primary antagonist of One Piece, but despite being one of the main antagonists, ...Jul 14, 2025 8:49 PM
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Linking Satellite Data and Community Knowledge to Advance Alaskan Snow Sciencehttps://science.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/linking-satellite-data-and-community-knowledge-to-advance-alaskan-snow-science/Seasonal snow plays a significant role in global water and energy cycles, and billions of people worldwide rely on snowmelt for water resources needs, including water supply, hydropower, agriculture, and more. Monitoring snow water equivalent (SWE) is critical for supporting these applications and for mitigating damages caused by snowmelt flooding, avalanches, and other snow-related disasters. […]Jul 14, 2025 4:55 PM
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You can’t judge a star by its protoplanetary dischttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/05/You_can_t_judge_a_star_by_its_protoplanetary_discThis image tells the story of redemption for one lonely star. The young star MP Mus (PDS 66) was thought to be all alone in the Universe, surrounded by nothing but a featureless band of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disc. In most cases, the material inside a protoplanetary disc condenses to form new planets around the star, leaving large gaps where the gas and dust used to be. These features are seen in almost every disc – but not in MP Mus’s.Jul 14, 2025 9:00 AM
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Show HN: FluidAudio – Swift Speaker Diarization on CoreMLhttps://github.com/FluidInference/FluidAudioWe needed a speaker diarization solution that could run every few seconds alongside transcription on iOS and macOS. But native Swift support was either limited or locked behind paid licenses. Since diarization is a common need in speech-to-text workflows, we decided to open source our work and give back to the community.We initially tried sherpa-onnx, which works, but running both diarization and transcription models slowed down older devices. CPU-only inference just isn’t ideal for near real-time workloads, so we wanted the option to offload segmentation and speaker embedding to the GPU or ANE. Supporting M1 Macs in particular meant pushing more of the workload to the ANE.Instead of shoehorning the ONNX model into CoreML with C++, we converted the original PyTorch models directly to CoreML. This approach required some monkey-patching in the PyTorch and pyannote code, but the initial benchmarks look promising.We’d love feedback! We're currently working on adding VAD and integrating ParJul 13, 2025 1:58 AM
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ML researchers, let's solve hardware engineeringhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541074Hello HN, I'm talking to ML researchers here, There is a pretty challenging yet unexplored problem in ML yet - hardware engineering.So far, everything goes against us solving this problem - pretrain data is basically inexistent (no abundance like in NLP/computer vision), there are fundamental gaps in research in the area - e.g. there is no way to encode engineering-level physics information into neural nets (no specialty VAEs/transformers oriented for it), simulating engineering solutions was very expensive up until recently (there are 2024 GPU-run simulators which run 100-1000x faster than anything before them), and on top of it it’s a domain-knowledge heavy ML task.I’ve fell in love with the problem a few months ago, and I do believe that now is the time to solve this problem. The data scarcity problem is solvable via RL - there were recent advancements in RL that make it stable on smaller training data (see SimbaV2/BROnet), engineering-level simulation can be done via PINOs (PhysicsJul 12, 2025 10:52 AM
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Volaris: Strong Buy While It's On Discounthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8c3abd884d4e979732569857f16fd1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F4800780-volaris-strong-buy-while-its-on-discount&c=18360066029466687900&mkt=en-usDespite a 50% share price drop, I maintain Volaris as a Strong Buy due to its deep undervaluation and long-term growth prospects. Short-term headwinds include GTF engine issues extending to 2027, ...Jul 12, 2025 1:40 AM
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Putting the X-59 to the Testhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/putting-the-x-59-to-the-test/Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel located in Chofu, Japan, to assess the noise audible underneath the aircraft. The model can be seen in the wind tunnel in this image released on July 11, 2025. The test […]Jul 11, 2025 5:45 PM
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Show HN: Downalytics – Track OSS binary downloads via custom domainshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521995Hi HN,I’ve been working on Downalytics (https://www.downalytics.dev), a lightweight tool that helps open-source maintainers and small projects track binary downloads from GitHub releases. You route downloads through a generated or custom domain (via CNAME), and I log metadata like version, arch, OS, and country (where available). Think of it like a minimal redirector with analytics.It’s aimed at projects that publish binaries (e.g., via CLI tools), and want to understand which versions are being used, and where adoption is happening, without needing to host their own infra.Current features: GitHub OAuth to connect repos Tracked download URLs via CNAME or generated subdomain Basic dashboard with counts by version, platform, etc. Free OSS tier, small paid tier for custom domains/more projects A few things I’d love feedback on: Is this something you (or your project) would use? Would you be comfortable routing downloads through a third-party like this? Any blockers that would make you hesJul 10, 2025 3:17 PM
