michael480th.github.io
Show HN: Banana Battle – DOS Gorillas rebuilt as a web gamehttps://michael480th.github.io/Banana-Battle/As a kid, I loved to play the DOS Gorillas game where you would throw bananas at your opponent, smashing cities as you go.I wanted to play it, so I rebuilt the classic QBasic/DOS "Gorillas" game from scratch as a mobile web app. It is playable in the browser and installable to your iPhone home screen.It's all vanilla HTML/Canvas/JavaScript. No frameworks, no build step, no dependencies, no tracking. A single static page served from GitHub Pages.A few bits that were fun to build: - Destructible terrain: buildings are painted to an offscreen canvas and explosions erase pixels - Ballistic physics with wind, sub-stepped so a fast banana can't tunnel through a thin building between frames. - Native share sheet (Web Share API) so you can text a friend your result with a "beat my score" challenge linkIt's hot-seat two-player (pass the phone, or share a keyboard: arrows to aim, space to throw).No original Microsoft code or assets — the code and pixel art are all my own (with some help from ClaJul 10, 2026 6:14 AM
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I got tired of every .NET HTML-to-PDF library so I built a free one from scratchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853670Hi all, I've just open-sourced NetPDF, a project I've been building to scratch an itch that's bugged the .NET community for as long as I can remember, there has never been a genuinely free, high-quality HTML-to-PDF library.Every existing route has a real tradeoff:Headless-browser wrappers (Puppeteer/Playwright/Chromium): huge footprint, a native browser to ship and secure, a process to spawn per render.wkhtmltopdf wrappers: built on an unmaintained engine.Commercial libraries: excellent, but licensed per seat/server."Free" libraries: AGPL (viral copyleft) or a revenue cap that becomes a license fee once you grow.After years of working around this, I decided to build the thing I wanted. NetPDF is a real HTML/CSS layout engine written from scratch in C# - the same category as Prince or WeasyPrint, not "automate a browser."What it isA pure C# / .NET 10 engine that parses HTML + CSS and lays it out itself: block, inline, flexbox, grid, and tables, fragmentation across pages, paged-media (@Jul 9, 2026 11:14 PM
letterspractice.com
Show HN: Learn to Read with SRS++https://letterspractice.com/showHNHey everyone. The short story here is that I've made an early literacy app that you are encouraged to try with your pre-literate or only-sorta-literate kids. It's intended to be minimalist, friendly, and efficient. Its preferred-usage pattern is parent-child co-use, and my hope is that it resonates values-wise with parents who are generally screen-time averse (I am such a parent).The main landing page is https://letterspractice.com. The submission link is an annotated view of a live study session, showing some of how the engine surfaces content, and how user-interactions feed back into the engine.The slightly longer story is that (like many around here) I've had a long interest in Anki and SRS generally, and been frustrated at the gap between its effectiveness (high) and its success with respect to penetration into the mainstream (low).So: many years ago I started playing with a web based framework ( https://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder ) for SRS based apps with a broader inJul 9, 2026 6:52 PM
bing.com
Colonel’s secret recipe in new, safer vault at KFChttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a538406404e04a171b03dc38455c0&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftucson.com%2Fnews%2Farticle_43d32dbc-6ca9-5dfd-b8eb-42754767789e.html&c=4196756273185637749&mkt=en-usLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Col. Sanders’ handwritten recipe for fried chicken was back in its Kentucky home Tuesday after five months in hiding while KFC upgraded security around its top corporate secret.Jul 9, 2026 5:00 PM
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Colonel’s secret recipe in new, safer vault at KFChttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a539c126448f2b6aac6a83b7bba27&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftucson.com%2Fnews%2Farticle_43d32dbc-6ca9-5dfd-b8eb-42754767789e.html&c=4196756273185637749&mkt=en-usLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Col. Sanders’ handwritten recipe for fried chicken was back in its Kentucky home Tuesday after five months in hiding while KFC upgraded security around its top corporate secret.Jul 9, 2026 5:00 PM
nasa.gov
Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Closehttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/curiosity-sees-martian-sulfur-up-close/This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals — the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to take […]Jul 9, 2026 4:33 PM
spacenews.com
Blue Origin seeks to raise $10 billion in outside capitalhttps://spacenews.com/blue-origin-seeks-to-raise-10-billion-in-outside-capital/Blue Origin is planning to raise $10 billion in the company’s first outside investment to support its ambitions in launch services and satellite constellations. The post Blue Origin seeks to raise $10 billion in outside capital appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 9, 2026 11:57 AM
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New Singapore space agency seeks to build up the country’s space industryhttps://spacenews.com/new-singapore-space-agency-seeks-to-build-up-the-countrys-space-industry/Singapore’s new space agency signed a cooperation agreement with its Japanese counterpart as part of its efforts to build up the country’s space industry. The post New Singapore space agency seeks to build up the country’s space industry appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 9, 2026 3:31 AM
figment.computer
Show HN: Figment – An AI that I made my friends talk to for 2 weekshttps://figment.computer/For the past 3 weeks, I've been hacking on a personal AI that you can text.It's curious about you & proactively figures out ways to help you, while still feeling like a friend.Its personality & proactivity is probably what I've spent the most time working on for this project, testing out a bunch of different models and prompts etc. It has more work to be done for sure, but I kinda like how it's come to be so far!It has its own 24/7 computer and browser (still working on improving its use of them!), with its own curiosities & proactivity.For ex, it might decide to surf the web on its own every once in a while, and if it comes across anything that it feels might be interesting to you, it'll text you it.In the past 2 weeks of my friends using it, I've noticed this particular personal ai setup/harness produce a ton of emergent magical moments that I thought were pretty cool.For ex, my roommate @aadilpickle signed up 2 weeks ago, told it about sfpursuit.org and his sfalexandria.com project Jul 9, 2026 3:31 AM
github.com
Show HN: envapt, typed env config for decoupled TS codebases (Node to edge)https://github.com/materwelonDhruv/envaptHi HN. I'm Dhruv and I've been working on envapt for about a year now and I've FINALLY completed the roadmap I scope creeped and QA'd over the past few months. It reads environment config in TypeScript and returns the typed value instead of string | undefined, from whatever source you bind. It runs on Node, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, the browser, and well, anywhere.Most typed-env libraries have you declare every variable in one central schema and read the result from one object. That works well for a single application. Mostly. That didn't work for me because in a framework or a monorepo, decoupled packages each read their own config values, and sharing one config object across every package just doesn't make sense to me, plus some other nits.envapt does the opposite. You bind a source once at startup, and on Node/Deno/Bun it binds your .env files and process.env for you, with cascading profiles per environment. After that, ANY typed read in ANY file uses that source, and each valuJul 8, 2026 4:14 PM
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Show HN: Cruxible – Open-source governed truth layer for AI agentshttps://github.com/cruxible-ai/cruxibleMemory as text for LLMs works well enough when the truth can be plainly stated and doesn't change, but I kept running into the same problem with LLM wikis, markdown, vector stores - I just didn't trust them, and I didn't trust my agent to properly state its evidence for a claim, its reason for changing something, or rebuild its semantic connections the same way between sessions from a text corpus. I found myself constantly asking my agents to re-verify what was already in my wikis, so what was really the point of the wiki in the first place?I built Cruxible to fix that. It's a governed state layer that human/agent teams operate and iterate on together: you model what's true for your domain in an explicit, typed ontology, and the runtime enforces how state may change. It's designed to be unobtrusive: the state compounds as the exhaust of normal agent work, not as an ontology someone has to manually comb through.Repo is here: https://github.com/cruxible-ai/cruxible- All state that can beJul 8, 2026 3:39 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
Loft Orbital Books Multiple Launches Aboard MaiaSpace Rocketshttps://europeanspaceflight.com/loft-orbital-books-multiple-launches-aboard-maiaspace-rockets/US-based satellite operator Loft Orbital has signed a multi-launch agreement with ArianeGroup subsidiary MaiaSpace. Although the announcement provided few details, it did share that the first flight was expected in 2028. In an 8 July press release, MaiaSpace explained that the multi-launch agreement “consolidates its launch manifest,” adding that the company has now sold more […] The post Loft Orbital Books Multiple Launches Aboard MaiaSpace Rockets appeared first on European Spaceflight.Jul 8, 2026 3:03 PM
spacenews.com
Skyroot prepares for first orbital launch attempthttps://spacenews.com/skyroot-prepares-for-first-orbital-launch-attempt/Indian launch startup Skyroot Aerospace is preparing for its first orbital launch attempt as soon as July 12, with plans to quickly scale up to monthly launches. The post Skyroot prepares for first orbital launch attempt appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 8, 2026 2:10 AM
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Apolink makes contact with first relay satellitehttps://spacenews.com/apolink-makes-contact-with-first-relay-satellite/Apolink has made contact with its first satellite after launching on SpaceX’s July 7 rideshare mission, clearing the way for a data relay demonstration using a novel experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission. The post Apolink makes contact with first relay satellite appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 7, 2026 6:11 PM
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NASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refugehttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasa-transfers-hundred-acre-wood-to-patuxent-research-refuge/NASA ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of wooded land at its Goddard Space Flight Center’s Greenbelt, Maryland, campus Tuesday to the adjoining Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The property, formerly known as NASA Goddard’s Area 400, is now part of the largest block of unfragmented forest between […]Jul 7, 2026 6:00 PM
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Best Senior Phone Plans of 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a898036ac45417da0fc6ab3329e8338&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnet.com%2Ftech%2Fmobile%2Fbest-senior-phone-plans%2F&c=13084011678332738678&mkt=en-usThere are plenty of ways to get mobile service from a carrier, but if you’re 55 or older, you can get it for less. The best phone plans for older adults include wireless data, travel benefits and ...Jul 7, 2026 5:58 PM
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Arianespace opens door to GEO rideshare opportunities from 2029https://spacenews.com/arianespace-opens-door-to-geo-rideshare-opportunities-from-2029/MILAN — Arianespace has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with French in-orbit servicing company Infinite Orbits to explore future collaboration on multiple direct-to-GEO rideshare launch services, the companies announced July […] The post Arianespace opens door to GEO rideshare opportunities from 2029 appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 7, 2026 5:52 PM
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Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktophttps://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboatClaude’s desktop app is brilliant, but for our own daily work we kept wanting it to be less like a chat app and more like a full-fledged work app. Rowboat is our attempt at that, including the ability to build your own work surfaces inside Rowboat (more below).Our repo is https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat, and there’s a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et5yQABJ3xIIn a previous startup, we built a deep-learning product for enterprise support reps, including teams supporting P&G brands. Models took live notes, suggested replies, and recommended actions while support reps were on calls or handling emails. One lesson stuck with us: it's not enough for the AI to be right, the help has to show up where the work is happening.So we added what we came to call “work surfaces”: dedicated areas for email, meetings, notes, browser, and parallel coding, where the assistant can help inside the workflow itself rather than only through chat:- Email client: Rowboat has a simple emaiJul 7, 2026 4:10 PM
spacenews.com
SpaceX launches Transporter-17 amid concerns about rideshare program’s futurehttps://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-transporter-17-amid-concerns-about-rideshare-programs-future/SpaceX launched the latest in its Transporter series of rideshare missions July 7 as industry concerns about the program’s future reach what one rival company executive called a panic. The post SpaceX launches Transporter-17 amid concerns about rideshare program’s future appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 7, 2026 3:31 PM
esa.int
Unpacking Europe’s new weather imagershttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Unpacking_Europe_s_new_weather_imagersThe second Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2) has begun its launch campaign, during which it will go through final inspections before being fitted inside the fairing of the Ariane 6 rocket that will launch it into space towards the end of the summer. So how will this 3800 kg satellite help improve weather forecasts for Europe and North Africa?Jul 7, 2026 8:00 AM
