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Science in Spacehttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/science-in-space/Astronauts Chris Williams of NASA and Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency work together in the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox, processing genetic-material samples for the DNA Nano Therapeutics‑3 experiment. The investigation is exploring DNA‑inspired assembly techniques as a way to manufacture treatments—such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy—that can kill cancer cells and activate […]Apr 28, 2026 2:46 PM
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Instead of writing my manuscript, I built a toolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849297Hi my name is Jeff, and I am a chronic procrastinator when it comes to my writing…Tell me that doesn’t sound familiar, I’ve literally written two blogs about this instead of actually writing my manuscript, cause literally anything (even scrubbing the toilet) is more compelling than the grind of getting through chapter 6.I actually started writing a tool in early January 2025. At the time, I was trying to find a way to gamify my writing. I wasn’t really looking to launch a serious writing tool at the time, just find a way to hack my brain into doing the work (and find another excuse to not write).The result of that was a simple text box with a word counter (0/500 words) that used a little bit of JavaScript to count the words you dumped in the box, deduct any shorter than 3 letters and then let you know if you hit your writing goal for the day (and you even got some fireworks!)The tool worked, I found myself anticipating pasting my daily writing progress into the box for that dopamine reApr 21, 2026 2:25 PM
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Show HN: Helm Terminal – Free portfolio intelligence that tells you what to dohttps://helmterminal.devHi HN,I'm the solo founder of Helm Terminal (helmterminal.dev). It's a free portfolio analytics tool that connects to your accounts via Plaid and surfaces actionable insights and intelligence. Concentration risk, tax-loss harvesting, earnings exposure, idle cash, sector drift, etc. Automatically, every day.Every other portfolio tracker/brokerage I've tried showed me balances and pie charts but never informed me what to do or what was going on. I'd check my accounts, see things were generally "fine", and move on. Then I realized I'd been sitting on thousands of dollars in unharvested tax losses, 60%+ of my portfolio was exposed to tech, and I didn't know half of my positions were reporting earnings soon.Helm is the tool I built to fix all of these issues, and a tool I wish existed. It runs on a set of intelligence engines on top of your connected accounts and gives you a prioritized inbox of things worth doing, as well as news tailored to your holdings worth looking at. "AAPL down 12.3%Apr 9, 2026 12:44 PM
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4832–4837: Driving the (Contact) Line!https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4832-4837-driving-the-contact-line/Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, March 13, 2026 We are in our final phase of the boxwork campaign, investigating the contacts between the boxwork unit and the layered sulfate unit. As my colleague Bill reported here, last week we crossed […]Mar 18, 2026 7:16 PM
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4825-4831: Exploring the Borderlandshttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4825-4831-exploring-the-borderlands/Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, March 6, 2026 Curiosity is in the last stage of its exploration of the spiderweb-like boxwork unit. This stage consists of exploring the eastern and southern borders of this terrain. There were two multi-sol plans assembled this week. The previous plan […]Mar 11, 2026 5:24 AM
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Instance segmentation model that extracts 3D geometry from 2D floor planshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092547Hey HN,I am an ML Engineer and a full-stack software engineer. For the past few weekends, I have been working on a pipeline to solve a PropTech problem: turning messy, highly occluded 2D floor plans into clean, structured data for 3D extrusion. Originally demoed for a firm hiring for the role.The Problem: If you try to use standard object detection (bounding boxes) or basic OCR (tested Qwen, DeepSeek) on architectural plans, it fails instantly. Walls intersect, doors swings and dimension lines heavily occlude the actual structures.The Stack & Architecture: I built an instance segmentation pipeline that relies strictly on pixel-perfect masking to pull the geometry.The Backbone: Swin Transformer + Detectron2.Model trained on 1024X1024 images, with RTX 4090Inference: Inference on CPUFeb 20, 2026 7:17 PM
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4649-4654: Ridges, Hollows and Nodules, Oh Myhttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4649-4654-ridges-hollows-and-nodules-oh-my/Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS Team Member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 Curiosity is in the midst of the boxwork campaign, trying to decipher why we see such pronounced ridges and hollows in this area of Mount Sharp. When this terrain was first identified from […]Sep 12, 2025 10:57 PM
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4604-4606: Taking a Deep Breath of Martian Airhttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4604-4606-taking-a-deep-breath-of-martian-air/Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 18, 2025 Curiosity has started to investigate the main exposure of the boxwork structures! What was once a distant target is now on our doorstep, and Curiosity is beginning to explore the ridges and hollows that make up this […]Jul 22, 2025 5:29 PM
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Chick-Fil-A LAN Partyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37476576Just saw the post about LAN parties from a few days ago and thought this story might be unique enough to share.I worked at Chick-Fil-A for a year or so in high school. One of the ones in a free standing building in the middle of a much larger shopping center parking lot- bordering the interstate. A group of 6-7 of us employees, INCLUDING the General Manager, were big gamers.At the time, Call of Duty releases were all the rage. The night of the Modern Warfare 2 release, we all closed up at 10pm, invited a few of our friends, and brought in our monitors (mostly 40inch TVs) and Xboxes. We set them all up on the Chick-Fil-A tables and booths and made several batches of Chick-fil-A nuggets and fries. We played 6v6 from about 11:00pm - 4:00am.I remember thinking how ridiculous it must have looked from the interstate to see a Chick-Fil-A lit up with 12 big screens inside through those translucent shades at 2:00 in the morning on a weekday.That is one of the greater memories of my childhood. ISep 12, 2023 3:03 AM
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Kingdom Two Crowns Expands to the Legendary Norse Landshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiiAFBVV95cUxOTTUtZHJDRWxlMFM4d1pvSlRuNGlobmk4SDNqbmwtMzJqanpDOFFRWndybDN6M2tGZmo4Vmh4MlUtNHpweVQ5WElIM0RKTzFFMWh2ZFU3aHdRbXRuaUMtTmh5M2R2TzdiOHJvd2N4Z3YzdXdLVjhMR0FBSGFBSUM5V1hJNHFYTDVM0gGOAUFVX3lxTE9TcXBDMS1LMDBYbjl3b08zUWJmUWRuNG1SNWJZbm5VQmpfSEQyRTlYblUyaDBIbEV2a24xZlRNbXVzTzNfcFQ4TTNudmVrY1NkR1hrQTZPM2hmN21WRzA4cVBucmdLYnEteFNoMnZ4Smw4cjZQYzliNTJnSkdVYnBQZFRiYUpXdE4xaE1FRUE?oc=5Kingdom Two Crowns Expands to the Legendary Norse Lands XBOX WireNov 16, 2021 8:00 AM
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TrackMaster: Free For All Motorsporthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813b43801146a68a083c1b7f4d3260&url=https%3a%2f%2fkotaku.com%2fgames%2ftrackmaster-free-for-all-motorsport&c=2850481671353752988&mkt=en-usAll the Latest Game Footage and Images from TrackMaster: Free For All Motorsport TrackMaster is an all-terrain, all-vehicles, physics based sandbox and racing game: play whatever way you want, in any ...Jul 12, 2021 4:10 PM
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TrackMaster: Free For All Motorsporthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a81329422d649a495f688c8ba365eb1&url=https%3a%2f%2fkotaku.com%2fgames%2ftrackmaster-free-for-all-motorsport&c=2850481671353752988&mkt=en-usAll the Latest Game Footage and Images from TrackMaster: Free For All Motorsport TrackMaster is an all-terrain, all-vehicles, physics based sandbox and racing game: play whatever way you want, in any ...Jul 12, 2021 4:10 PM
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TrackMaster: Free For All Motorsporthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813259b48f47999597eebf71ec3dae&url=https%3a%2f%2fkotaku.com%2fgames%2ftrackmaster-free-for-all-motorsport&c=2850481671353752988&mkt=en-usAll the Latest Game Footage and Images from TrackMaster: Free For All Motorsport TrackMaster is an all-terrain, all-vehicles, physics based sandbox and racing game: play whatever way you want, in any ...Jul 12, 2021 4:10 PM
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TrackMaster: Free For All Motorsporthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a8137dee95343f78d62a558b7294dba&url=https%3a%2f%2fkotaku.com%2fgames%2ftrackmaster-free-for-all-motorsport&c=2850481671353752988&mkt=en-usAll the Latest Game Footage and Images from TrackMaster: Free For All Motorsport TrackMaster is an all-terrain, all-vehicles, physics based sandbox and racing game: play whatever way you want, in any ...Jul 12, 2021 4:10 PM
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TrackMaster: Free For All Motorsporthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a81318f49ed498fbc53d3d4fc61746a&url=https%3a%2f%2fkotaku.com%2fgames%2ftrackmaster-free-for-all-motorsport&c=2850481671353752988&mkt=en-usAll the Latest Game Footage and Images from TrackMaster: Free For All Motorsport TrackMaster is an all-terrain, all-vehicles, physics based sandbox and racing game: play whatever way you want, in any ...Jul 12, 2021 4:10 PM
