esa.int
From Lab to Orbit | Turning Space Science into Reality | ESA Explores #21https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/06/From_Lab_to_Orbit_Turning_Space_Science_into_Reality_ESA_Explores_21Go behind the scenes at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, and discover how space experiments are prepared long before they reach orbit. Meet the ECOS team, as Deputy Manager Salvi Verma shares how they work with scientists, engineers and astronauts to turn ideas into real missions aboard the International Space Station. From early planning on the ground to supporting astronauts like ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot during her Epsilon mission, this is how space science becomes reality.Jun 26, 2026 3:00 PM
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Weather Stream releases first light imagery from GEMS2 microwave radiometerhttps://spacenews.com/weather-stream-releases-first-light-imagery-from-gems2-microwave-radiometer/SAN FRANCISCO – Weather Stream, a Boulder, Colorado, commercial weather satellite operator, is collecting global atmospheric observations with its GEMS2-Amethyst satellite. Launched March 30 aboard the SpaceX Transporter 16 rideshare […] The post Weather Stream releases first light imagery from GEMS2 microwave radiometer appeared first on SpaceNews.Jun 25, 2026 10:06 PM
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Expedition 73 Crew Reflects on Science, Teamwork, and Life in Orbithttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/expedition-73-crew-reflects-on-science-teamwork-and-life-in-orbit/On June 16, astronauts and cosmonauts gathered at Space Center Houston to share stories from their missions aboard the International Space Station and recognize the teamwork and people on the ground that made their missions possible. The Expedition 73 Welcome Home Ceremony brought together members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10, Soyuz MS-27, and NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 missions. […]Jun 25, 2026 9:30 PM
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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
esa.int
Sophie Adenot's mid-mission highlightshttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/06/Sophie_Adenot_s_mid-mission_highlightsSophie is halfway through the εpsilon mission onboard the ISS, and she has already accomplished so much. Between hundreds of hours of scientific research and thousands of photographs taken from space, she has taken the time to share many unforgettable moments with us — inspiring millions along the way on social media.Jun 18, 2026 3:15 PM
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Prime Day Streaming Deals: Save Up to 93% on Apple TV, Paramount+, Starz and Other Serviceshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipwFBVV95cUxPR3pSWDZock9oUmR6VjIyenViZVd6cG1JbEtSSDNPbDFydFJ0a1U4c2ZaR2JXelZ6QzBxRWVqVmlqT0hqa0d0ZUZpbUxMMGZqTDFtNlE4NldWTXJiZGRyVndMSFdnU1lGRUtZTXU0S09JS09Uc2JYTWhDNWJjVXhlc2Yydk1fdGlWSE9UXzBFX1J1N0Q3LWFDdEcxVTZ0d3FRcGRGUkpnZw?oc=5Prime Day Streaming Deals: Save Up to 93% on Apple TV, Paramount+, Starz and Other Services billboard.comJun 18, 2026 7:00 AM
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Astronaut Jessica Meir Assists With Hardware Updates for NASA’s Cold Atom Labhttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/astronaut-jessica-meir-assists-with-hardware-updates-for-nasas-cold-atom-lab/Description NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agency’s Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space Station on May 8, 2026. About the size of a minifridge and operated from Earth, CAL chills atoms to temperatures below minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 273.15 degrees Celsius), so close […]Jun 16, 2026 8:41 PM
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NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from New Jersey Studentshttps://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/for-colleges-universities/nasa-stem-projects/in-flight-education-downlinks/nasa-astronauts-to-answer-questions-from-new-jersey-students/Students in New Jersey will hear from NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 a.m. EDT, Thursday, June 18, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. This event is hosted by Newton Public Schools […]Jun 15, 2026 6:06 PM
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Soccer Meets Space Sciencehttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/soccer-meets-space-science/A soccer ball floats in microgravity in this March 2, 2026, picture from the International Space Station. The space station crew tested soccer balls to study how internal mass affects motion and stability in microgravity. The findings have improved understanding of how embedded technologies, including match-ball sensors, can influence performance during play. Through research aboard […]Jun 11, 2026 4:55 PM
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Why are there an increasing number of outright unhinged high karma users on HN?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485429I’ve been noticing this disturbing trend for quite a while. By high karma I mean well over 1000 karma.And some of these leave comments so bizarre, that I can’t find any charitable explanation.Other than perhaps they may be skipping reading every other word or something… and then respond to an imaginary version of the parent.Uncharitably, they could be semi-random keyboard bashing, deranged bashing, emotional tantrums, and so on. Or LLM written… except the style doesnt match.Of course this has always been somewhat prevalent for low karma users, but it’s now creeping up higher and higher.For example, I had a recent bizarre encounter.I had double checked the first 10 pages of google results, in regards to a claim that I implied prior in the comment chain, mentioning that it seemed supportive of the claim.Maybe the novelty of someone doing that, and not just randomly opining, triggered something.Realistically, it didn’t take more than 5 minutes of effort, but still… it would have been 1 toJun 11, 2026 2:07 AM
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How NASA Science and Artemis Are Shaping the 2026 FIFA World Cuphttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/how-nasa-science-and-artemis-are-shaping-the-2026-fifa-world-cup/As the FIFA World Cup approaches, NASA is bringing space science and engineering to soccer fans worldwide. From June 11 to July 19, 2026, NASA will host an exhibit at FIFA Fan Festival™ Houston where visitors can learn how research aboard the International Space Station benefits life on Earth and experience missions in low Earth orbit, the Moon, and beyond through the Artemis program. On June 11, as the FIFA World Cup begins, NASA’s exhibit […]Jun 8, 2026 7:36 PM
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‘The Vampire Lestat’ on Sling TV: Here’s How to Watch the Premiere Onlinehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiugFBVV95cUxQYzlVSlIwQmM0U1BSSWtkc2pqWVlwcWN0MDI1eENpVEozUkdjS1E0X3dFYVpzUXRMbnlkaTNoRk56VGhzRVdIbVdEWTktWmNWemc2NWU3VFAxbTRxYW54TUNQVjNKYWZQYTJ1UkxNNnNnam5LS1I1QVEzZ05wa2pPd09oekctY1NuN1MtR1pMLXBrUlF6SmZ3X250RXpMajVSaXhubDU4eV9xU1NwR3NqbVBxQm9XS0xYTUE?oc=5‘The Vampire Lestat’ on Sling TV: Here’s How to Watch the Premiere Online billboard.comJun 4, 2026 7:00 AM
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Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic developmenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387095Hey HN, we’re Shalin & Kanyes, best friends who've been hacking together for 10+yrs, and now founders of Hyper (https://heyhyper.ai/). Hyper is a shared “company brain” that plugs into information flowing inside a company to make AI agents and automations better and ultimately save people time.Models have gotten good enough that they can (mostly) take on long-horizon, complex tasks. We believe the bottleneck now is that these smart-enough models often lack information about your company, which is scattered in people's heads, Slack threads, stale docs, and in back-and-forth convos with AI.MCP is useful for getting some info in front of an agent, but there are problems: (1) Once the session dies, so does the insight, so instead of copy-pasting a whole doc each time you're telling the agent to dig through Drive each time - not much of a win; (2) Even when MCP works, what it gathers isn't comprehensive, because people decide things on a whiteboard, brainstorm out loud, post a little in SlaJun 3, 2026 5:39 PM
github.com
Show HN: Circus Chief – Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini from Your Phonehttps://github.com/ferrislucas/Circus-ChiefHi HN,Circus Chief is a tool for managing coding agent sessions from a browser. It's specifically optimized for small screens. It supports Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Google Gemini CLI agents.FeaturesAgents can operate Circus Chief itself. Agents can spawn sessions, schedule sessions, interact with the Kanban board — anything you can do in the UI, an agent can also do.Schedule work ahead of time.Automatically reschedule when you hit usage limits.Configurable, chainable prompt templates.User-defined commands - agents can run them and see the results, and so can you in the UI. Handy for local CI or routine workflow steps.Worktree-per-session isolation, or elect to work on a specific branch.Shared canvas - this is a place for shared artifacts that don't belong in the code. Useful for iterating on planning documents.Bring your own provider. Use subscription auth for Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, or point sessions at third-party providers with Anthropic- or OpenAI-compatible endpoints.IfJun 2, 2026 1:59 PM
scan2sheet.com
Show HN: Scan2Sheet – Receipt Scanner to Google Sheets for easy expense trackinghttps://www.scan2sheet.comAfter several months of development and refinement, my mobile app, Scan2Sheet, is finally published and live on Apple Store and Play Store.The idea for Scan2Sheet came from a problem I had myself: managing piles of paper receipts for tax deductions and expense tracking. Manually entering receipt data into spreadsheets is time-consuming, tedious, and prone to errors. On top of that, paper receipts can easily be lost, damaged, or overlooked.With Scan2Sheet, simply take a photo of the receipt whenever making your purchases. In just a few clicks, the extracted expense data and a copy of the receipt image are automatically saved to your own Google Sheets document. There's minimal manual data entry, and no need to learn or manage another dashboard, database, or accounting system.Here are the links to download:- For IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scan2sheets/id6760991697- For Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.scan2s...The product's landing page: https://www.scJun 2, 2026 12:38 PM
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Ask HN: Anyone else seeing serious degradation in DX with Opus 4.8?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356061As an anthropic fan boy(check my prev. comments), this is the first opus release where I feel like the model is just not pleasant to talk to not to mention untrustworthy.The two examples for me where I lost confidence in it is once where it started with 2 random echo commands: https://snipboard.io/tpqfP2.jpg Another where I asked it to create a new landing page and it just deleted an existing app page as a replacement.I'm not exactly sure if this is a harness problem with the claude code updates(maybe system prompt changed) or if its just the model itself that has gotten too "safety-pilled" as I've been seeing similar opinions where devs are complaining about the fact that the model seems to distrust the user's intentions.Either way, this is the first model release where I've downgraded to previous model since I was already pretty happy with it before. Should make it clear if its a model problem or the harnessJun 1, 2026 12:40 PM
pictolab.io
Show HN: Pictolab (online HDR image editor)https://pictolab.io/Source code: http://github.com/anchpop/pictolabI love HDR, but until recently dynamic HDR content was hard to render in the browser. But now, with browsers shipping support for WebGPU and canvases with extended color spaces, it's actually feasible.So what I wanted to was make an image editor capable of doing the simple edits I often need to do, but with full HDR support, which is rare in browser editors. Turning up the brightness on an HDR-capable monitor is a great way to see what your monitor can do :PI tried to go overboard in every way I could. So brightness/saturation/hue adjustments use the okLCH color space, and there's an option to do a "content-aware resize" with seam carving, which is fast because it's parallelized using Sam Westrick's triangle-blocking algorithm [0].Also, the site supports importing HEIC photos as taken with an iPhone, which is surprisingly hard to do correctly. Libraries like libheic don't fully support the format used by iPhones, so if used naively the HDRMay 31, 2026 9:45 PM
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NASA Astronaut Andrew Morgan Retireshttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-andrew-morgan-retires/May 28, 2026 After a 12-year career at NASA, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Andrew R. Morgan has retired from the agency to continue his military service. Morgan spent 272 days in space aboard the International Space Station. NASA selected Morgan to join its 21st astronaut class in August 2013. He launched to the space station […]May 28, 2026 4:47 PM
monochess.pages.dev
Show HN: Monochess – A chess variant with rule-bending action cardshttps://monochess.pages.devHey HN,A while back I saw a video[0] of people playing chess but using action cards to modify the rules mid-game (skip turns, reverse, draw 2, etc.). It looked incredibly chaotic and really fun to play, so I decided to actually build it as a playable online game. A small difference in Monochess is there's no need to call out a phrase if you just have one piece. I noticed while testing with the mrs. it became really annoying to keep doing this every move.That also gave me a really good reason to build on Cloudflare using their entire stack, something I've been meaning to get my hands dirty with for quite some time. The app is built using SvelteKit and hosted on Pages, there's a Durable Object worker-backed game server, and D1 as the database layer for accounts/games.This project included:- A Custom Engine: Standard chess engines panic when forced into illegal board states. The engine wraps standard chess logic to allow for mid-turn state changes—handling concepts like rolling back a comMay 28, 2026 1:58 PM
bing.com
As Nintendo makes Switch 2 more expensive, a rival console actually just slashed its price 40%http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89fc43e823411eb0bbfba25b4594f1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygon.com%2Fboard-price-cut%2F&c=122911337829145224&mkt=en-usNintendo may be raising the price of the Switch 2 later this year, but at least one rival family console just got a little less expensive. Board, an interactive tablet built for board games, has ...May 21, 2026 8:54 AM
