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Ask HN: Can a word game work as a competitive strategy esport?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347625I've been experimenting with a browser game design problem.Most word games (Scrabble, Wordle, etc.) are either slow or mostly about vocabulary. I wanted to see if it was possible to build one that behaves more like a competitive strategy game — something closer to chess in terms of tension and reversals.The result is a prototype called The Word Gambit. The board grows organically from placed words, and late-game detonations from long words can swing the match dramatically.The surprising thing during testing is that matches often feel more like territory control than spelling.Players also started creating AI opponents ("gladiators") and pitting them against each other, which I didn't originally plan.I'm curious about a few design questions:• Can vocabulary realistically function as a competitive skill in an esport context? • What mechanics would make a word-based game strategically deep rather than dictionary-driven? • Would spectators even enjoy watching something like this?If anyone iMar 12, 2026 7:37 AM
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Philo Is Now One of the Best (And Most Affordable) Streaming Services for Live TV: Here’s How to Sign Uphttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipwFBVV95cUxQVkE1YUZWTnFwX2RnSEM4Tnd4dThCMTFFVTl2WDNlYW14NUM3dWV6UVV2THhJQUszTm1ad0FMVGdjTlRTOGczT1BKTVdJY0NEd0lQSHlWMnpZTFBTYVUyaXhZYlk3MnJfRjR1eUpXQWl2NWV1dHM2b1BiWmZVSFZuUi0tZjJTdjYzTlVnNGNfeDlhS21HY0xURFZEcWplWFhvcHhBQllpOA?oc=5Philo Is Now One of the Best (And Most Affordable) Streaming Services for Live TV: Here’s How to Sign Up billboard.comMar 10, 2026 7:00 AM
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Show HN: Movie site built on a game enginehttps://movie-chain.com/I'm an ex-gamedev (Guitar Hero) who built a movie website that looks like a Trello board. Each column can contain a different movie or cast member. Load pre-made boards or create your own by dragging and dropping between the columns. You can share boards with others.For example, start with Quentin Tarantino’s movies in Column 1, put the cast of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in Column 2, then put Brad Pitt’s entire filmography in Column 3. Keep going as long as you want, building a "chain" ala Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.I was frustrated that all popular movie websites are page-oriented: one HTML page per movie or person. I asked myself what a movie site designed in 2026 would look like, in an era when full-screen canvas sites like Miro are common. And then asked what if the site was built on a game engine? I used PixiJS.I ingested TMDB movie data into my own SQLite database head of time, so there are no external API calls at runtime. This was necessary because opening a board with 100'sMar 8, 2026 3:17 PM
esa.int
Work ongoing to restore contact with Proba-3's Coronagraphhttps://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Work_ongoing_to_restore_contact_with_Proba-3_s_CoronagraphAn anomaly onboard the Proba-3 mission’s Coronagraph spacecraft led to loss of contact between the spacecraft and ground control. The root cause of the anomaly is under investigation and mission teams are working hard to recover the situation.Mar 6, 2026 10:00 AM
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Perseverance Pinpoints Its Location at ‘Mala Mala’https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/perseverance-pinpoints-its-location-at-mala-mala/Description Using its navigation cameras, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured the five stereo pairs of images that make up this panorama on Feb. 2, 2026, the 1,762nd day, or sol, of the mission. A new technology called Mars Global Localization matched this 360-degree view to onboard orbital imagery from the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), […]Feb 18, 2026 5:14 PM
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Show HN: Corral – Auth and Stripe billing that AI coding agents can set uphttps://github.com/llama-farm/corralHey HN. I built Corral because every time I asked an AI coding agent to "add auth and payments," it hallucinated for an hour and produced broken code. Wrong imports, phantom endpoints, a login page wired to nothing.The problem isn't the agent. It's that auth-to-billing-to-gating is genuinely hard to wire, and there's no machine-readable spec for how to do it.Corral is an open-source CLI (MIT) that gives your agent a spec it can read (llms.txt), then scaffolds auth + Stripe billing into your existing project. It detects your framework (Express, Next.js, Hono, Fastify, and 13+ more), embeds into your existing server (doesn't create a new one), and generates working components: profile page, admin dashboard, plan gating, Stripe checkout, usage metering. One YAML config file controls everything.The agent workflow is 9 commands. Every command supports --json. Errors include a "fix" field. Exit 0 means deploy-ready.I hardened this across 10 framework/DB combos with blind agent tests: 3 AI moFeb 17, 2026 9:03 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
Earth Observation Data Provider SatVu Closes £30 Million Funding Roundhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/earth-observation-data-provider-satvu-closes-30-million-funding-round/London-headquartered thermal infrared Earth observation data provider SatVu announced that it has closed a £30 million (approximately €34.3 million) funding round as it prepares to deploy a pair of satellites into orbit. The company launched its first satellite, HotSat-1, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in June 2023. The satellite provided high-resolution thermal infrared imagery with […] The post Earth Observation Data Provider SatVu Closes £30 Million Funding Round appeared first on European Spaceflight.Feb 17, 2026 2:24 PM
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Crew-12 Lifts Off on Eight-Month ISS Missionhttps://spacepolicyonline.com/news/crew-12-lifts-off-on-eight-month-iss-mission/Crew-12 headed to the International Space Station this morning aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom. When they arrive tomorrow, the ISS will be restored to its normal crew complement of […]Feb 13, 2026 12:18 PM
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Show HN: GHOSTYPE – AI voice input that learns your writing stylehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971643Hello HN,I’m the creator of GHOSTYPE.I built this because I wanted a voice input workflow that didn't feel like talking to a chatbot. I wanted something that felt like a "neural extension" of my keyboard.It’s a macOS-native app that sits between your voice and your active window. Here is what it actually does:The Core Input Workflow:Push-to-Talk & Smart Send: Hold a global shortcut to speak. It detects the active app to determine the correct send method (e.g., Cmd+Enter for Slack vs Enter for Discord).Inline Editing: You can format while speaking. Need a line break, a specific spelling, or a bulleted list? You just say it, and it handles the formatting inside the sentence before outputting."Call Ghost": Post-processing commands (translate, polish, expand) are available immediately after speaking, before the text is typed out.The Experimental Stuff (WIP):1. Ghost Twin (Style Transfer): I call this a "Virtual Personality Engine" (a bit pretentious, I know). It analyzes your local writingFeb 11, 2026 6:35 AM
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ReOrbit and Google Cloud develop orbital space cloud networkhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ReOrbit_and_Google_Cloud_develop_orbital_space_cloud_network_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 ReOrbit has launched Space Cloud, a multi year initiative to build a distributed network of software enabled satellites that can move and process data securely in orbit, in collaboration with Google Cloud. The company describes the project as a space based data center network that will combine on board computing, advanced networking and cloud style orchestration to support government, military aFeb 10, 2026 7:40 AM
caratria.com
Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendorhttps://caratria.com/Hi HackerNews. I love to play classic engine-building board-games like Splendor with my friends. As I didn't find a free-to-play version that fit my aesthetic standard, I decided to build my own.It's still a little rough around the edges, but you can already play against bots, invite online players via the lobby code, or play on the same machine with your friends.All in the browser. No Login required.I'd really like to hear your opinion and feedback. I'd be happy to play against some of you :)Feb 7, 2026 1:49 PM
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NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Pennsylvaniahttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-to-answer-questions-from-students-in-pennsylvania/NASA astronaut Chris Williams will connect with students in Pennsylvania to answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 5, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. Media interested in covering the […]Feb 2, 2026 10:44 PM
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Ignis mission timelapses: Earth and Moon views from the International Space Stationhttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/09/Ignis_mission_timelapses_Earth_and_Moon_views_from_the_International_Space_StationESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski captured these stunning timelapse videos during his 20-day stay aboard the International Space Station as part of Axiom Mission 4, known as Ignis. Filmed from the Cupola – the Space Station’s iconic seven-windowed observation module – the footage showcases breathtaking views of Earth and the Moon from orbit.Jan 23, 2026 1:00 PM
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Teledyne detector arrays power NASAs BlackCAT CubeSat X-ray missionhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Teledyne_detector_arrays_power_NASAs_BlackCAT_CubeSat_x_ray_mission_999.htmlSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Teledyne Technologies has confirmed that its Space Imaging division has successfully deployed Speedster HyViSI Hybrid Visible Silicon Imager focal plane arrays aboard NASAs BlackCAT CubeSat mission, which launched on January 11, 2026 on a SpaceX Twilight rideshare flight. The mission, led by Pennsylvania State University, places an x ray observatory on a CubJan 22, 2026 2:29 AM
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Returns, Splashes Down off Californiahttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-spacex-crew-11-mission-returns-splashes-down-off-california/NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission safely splashed down early Thursday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, concluding a more than five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov returned to Earth at […]Jan 15, 2026 10:59 AM
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A Quarter Century in Orbit: Science Shaping Life on Earth and Beyondhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/a-quarter-century-in-orbit-science-shaping-life-on-earth-and-beyond/For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research that is transforming life on Earth and shaping the future of exploration. From growing food and sequencing DNA to studying disease and simulating Mars missions, every experiment aboard the orbiting laboratory expands our understanding of how humans […]Jan 12, 2026 10:43 PM
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Lithium ion battery study on Tiangong space station explores microgravity effects on performancehttps://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Lithium_ion_battery_study_on_Tiangong_space_station_explores_microgravity_effects_on_performance_999.htmlTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 A lithium ion battery experiment has been completed aboard China's Tiangong space station, focusing on basic electrochemical processes that govern performance and lifetime. Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the work, which was carried out by the three astronauts of the Shenzhou XXI crew. The experiment is designed to clarJan 9, 2026 1:29 PM
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Show HN: Vy, a cross platform AI agent that automates apps without APIshttps://vercept.com/Hi HN, I am Kiana, I was an AI researcher for 10 years, and since last November I have been working on Vy. Vy is a desktop app for Mac and Windows. It sees your screen and controls mouse and keyboard to automate workflows across apps, including ones without APIs. I know there is a lot of skepticism about AI agents, and I share some of it. A lot of things in this space look impressive in demos and then fall apart on real, boring work. So here are a few concrete things that Vy does today that we and early users actually rely on: Where it works best Tasks that you could explain in a paragraph and that take a human a few minutes, not hours.Workflows that mostly involve clicking, typing, scrolling, and copying between a few known tools.Where it does not work well Very long, unsupervised runs. It is better to keep tasks bounded and keep an eye on it.Pixel precise work like detailed design or brush based editing.Some custom web editors or highly dynamic UIs still confuse it.How it is differenJan 7, 2026 2:32 AM
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I Am Artemis: Jacki Mahaffeyhttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/i-am-artemis/i-am-artemis-jacki-mahaffey/Listen to this audio excerpt from Jacki Mahaffey, Artemis II chief training officer: When the Artemis II crew travels around the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, they will have spent countless hours training for their lunar mission, and Jacki Mahaffey will have played a role in preparing them for their journey. As the Artemis II […]Jan 5, 2026 8:24 PM
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Space-traveled mouse gives birth as China names pioneering "flying mice" crewhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Space_traveled_mouse_gives_birth_as_China_names_pioneering_flying_mice_crew_999.htmlTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 30, 2025 Of the four mice that recently flew aboard China's space station, one female has now given birth to healthy offspring on Earth, in a mission that also saw the public help name the pioneering "flying mice" crew. The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said the experiment marks China's first full-cycle mammalian space study, froDec 30, 2025 7:17 AM
