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Vantor offers up-to-date imagery with WorldView 3Dhttps://spacenews.com/vantor-offers-up-to-date-imagery-with-worldview-3d/SAN FRANCISCO – Vantor, the company previously known as Maxar Intelligence, unveiled WorldView 3D July 1, to provide customers with updated and high-definition imagery. “WorldView 3D is driving towards currency,” […] The post Vantor offers up-to-date imagery with WorldView 3D appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jul 1, 2026 12:30 PM
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Superintellignce is still decades awayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731740In 2022 - I thought that we got closer to AGI with LLMs, but it turned out LLMs were more like the engine of intelligence than intelligence itself.In 2023 - I started to understand how important memory is to the system, and the intelligence is a storage problem as much as it is a processing problem.In 2024 - I started to realize that AGI is the wrong term all together and that intelligence can't be solved with scale alone.In 2025 - I started to understand just how many components needs to work together to build a real agent. We started calling them agents because they have many different moving components nothing else described them. RAG became obsolete as it was too rigid to keep up. Not only we needed an LLM, memory & orchestrator, but also perception & RAI.Now in 2026 I am starting to understand just how complex intelligence is, which I would have understood sooner if I took more biology courses in uni. I remember an episode of "love, death & robots" from 2022, in which a human scie
Jun 30, 2026 12:26 PM
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NASA’s Newest Wind Tunnel Builds on Legacy of Innovationhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/nasas-newest-wind-tunnel-builds-on-legacy-of-innovation/For more than 100 years, wind tunnels at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have helped shape the future of flight. Now, two of NASA’s longest-serving facilities — the 12-Foot Low-Speed Tunnel and the 20-Foot Vertical Spin Tunnel — will pass the torch to the Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF), the first major NASA wind tunnel built in more than 40 years. “The FDRF […]
Jun 29, 2026 8:38 PM
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Discovering the Universe – Astrophysics Flagship Space Observatories Offer Insights to Key Questionshttps://spacenews.com/discovering-the-universe-astrophysics-flagship-space-observatories-offer-insights-to-key-questions/From observing distant galaxies to exploring exoplanets and their atmospheres, BAE Systems enables cutting-edge technology to expand our knowledge of the universe. As a major partner in each of NASA’s […] The post Discovering the Universe – Astrophysics Flagship Space Observatories Offer Insights to Key Questions appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 29, 2026 2:27 PM
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Ask HN: Options for an independent AI researcher with strong results?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689261I'm outside the AI industry, outside of academia, and no easy contacts into relevant areas. My background lends itself to exploring AI & reasonable level of care checking results. I was focusing on building practical useful things for a portfolio to help change industries mid-career, but that has become something a little different now.The exploration has led to an analytical framework that appears useful more broadly for looking at neural representational models. (It's not a model architecture or training method, benchmark, or prompt engineering.) It is a way of analyzing internal representations through the mapping of structure-preserving connections, to transport them to a frame of reference outside the model, exposing some stable relationships, while not being model-specific or require training something else.It has survived attempts at invalidation, generated useful predictions and functioning interventions, and has continued to reveal additional applications the more I do. There
Jun 26, 2026 5:23 PM
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Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673801From the official information online, joining the e-Residency program and setting up an Estonian company seems relatively straightforward.I'm considering using an Estonian OÜ for a SaaS business and would love to hear from people who have actually gone through the process.What surprised you after becoming an e-resident and establishing your company? Were there recurring costs, compliance requirements, banking/payment issues, tax complications, or other operational challenges you didn't anticipate?How easy has it been to run the company remotely? Have you ever needed to travel to Estonia to resolve an issue?Looking back, would you do it again? What do you wish you had known before getting started?I'd appreciate any lessons learned, gotchas, or advice from current or former e-residents.
Jun 25, 2026 2:17 PM
sipp.sh
Show HN: Sipp – Run small local LLMs in browser 3x fasterhttps://www.sipp.shHi HN! Sipp is an open-source AI inference library for running local models in browsers with up to 3x faster decode speeds than alternative libraries.My background is in HCI (human-computer interaction) and graphics programming. Me along with my co-founder have been experimenting and thinking a lot about what the next user experience will look like when tokens are commodified to the point of being essentially “free.” A motivation for us was to try to move beyond the chat app and information retrieval use cases that are dominant now, and figure out how AI could instead act as a continuous and silent hand that helps the user indirectly, subtly monitoring their intent and dynamically generating or shifting the UI to meet their needs.In our explorations, we ran into two pain points: 1) when running AI in the browser, performance wasn’t good enough for real-time applications, and model loading and caching were issues; 2) when trying to run locally on desktop, there weren’t any good solution
Jun 24, 2026 2:52 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxyhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-pinpoints-millions-of-stars-within-cigar-galaxy/Located 12 million light-years away and undergoing rapid star formation, edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is a scientifically unique sight to behold, and now NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed previously unseen details. M82’s intense star formation, thought to be the result of a galaxy merger, will be a short-lived event in astronomical […]
Jun 23, 2026 2:00 PM
github.com
Show HN: perl-lsp – annotation free static analysis for Perlhttps://github.com/tree-sitter-perl/perl-lspBuilt in Rust on top of ts-parser-perl and tower-lsp. Witness bags with graph traversal (value edges, call flow edges).How it works: - builds witnesses and scopes by walking the parse tree. Fully known values get concrete types, otherwise they get an edge pointing to the last witness we have for this symbol - a worklist runs to a fixed point: reducers fold each symbol's witnesses and chase edges. At this point, the witness bag is complete and ready to use - all downstream features are queries into the bag, following along the graph edges that are relevantExtensible - you can bring your own Rhai plugin to shortcut common patterns (exporters and OOP frameworks), or even add new types of definitions (worker tasks and web routes).The build/query timing distinction with edges lets you late bind types, which is duly similar to how Perl itself works: `Foo->new` isn't known if it's the constructor for Foo or calling a method on the sub name `Foo`; late binding lets you make that call after the
Jun 23, 2026 1:17 PM
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Value for Money Is All You Needhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628090Value For Money is All You NeedA reflection on the future of token consumption in artificial intelligenceToken consumption now sits at the center of the growing use of artificial intelligence by businesses and individuals alike.The "TokenMaxxing" trapIn the early days, the trend was to maximize token consumption from proprietary LLMs, regardless of cost — a practice seen as a marker of performance for the user, the employee, or the company. This phenomenon, known as "TokenMaxxing," reportedly exhausted Uber's entire annual budget in under a year.Faced with the enormous financial cost this TokenMaxxing generated, many companies and individuals turned to lower-cost LLMs to preserve their budgets — fueling the rise of Chinese open-source LLMs such as DeepSeek, in line with Harvard professor Clayton Christensen's theory that disruptive innovation can conquer a market through low prices.Users thus found themselves facing a dilemma: choose a highly capable but token-expensive proprietary mod
Jun 22, 2026 10:01 AM
github.com
Show HN: Wirewright, an experimental symbolic physics environmenthttps://github.com/wirewright/wirewrightThe idea with Wirewright is to treat programs and algorithms as physical mechanisms, as machines or societies of machines inhabiting an immutable symbolic world, and time-step the latter to see what happens. This last part in particular reminds me of cellular automata.Said differently, in Wirewright, programs are modeled as "nouns" or "societies" of interacting "nouns" (think data structures). The world is then subjected to laws of physics -- symbolic physics; which is the only "verb" here (think function). Therefore, in Wirewright, we say that, in a sense, algorithm equals structure and the evolution of structure equals computation. I tend to shorten this to "structure is computation", but this may be incorrect if viewed in isolation.Now, I guess you're wondering what Wirewright actually is. In fact, I see the rules here state that I must tell you what Wirewright is, plainly and clearly. I will try, but beware that at the end of the day, I know as little as you do :^) My hands write,
Jun 22, 2026 12:15 AM
esa.int
Galileo signal updated for internet-of-things usehttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Galileo/Galileo_signal_updated_for_internet-of-things_useIn April, Galileo marked a step forward with the deployment of a new signal component, known as E5a Quasi Pilot, on 12 satellites of Europe’s satellite navigation constellation. This upgrade makes Galileo signals easier to access, particularly on emerging mass-market, low-power devices used for Internet of Things and smart city applications.
Jun 19, 2026 1:55 PM
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Kaula Lūʻau production nominated for USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice Awardhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMisAFBVV95cUxQTklrVjBQQjZoMElNdmxDVU9id2o2S2RGaExHSjcxZlZoUzFwUjhudzRkcHJNeUYtQnRYd0pLSXFXUXlnbmg3UzdnQkF4Ri1JaWowVWVLeTAzMVVaVDVrX3N3dlUxaHNXZ3RxRDBLZXpLQWVPQ0IwTm1WYjBHcVk4TXgtSTB6Q3V1cEhBeHVNNFJhVHZKY0VFVWtac2kxbjNvMC11NU8yay1naUVKcnRNRQ?oc=5Kaula Lūʻau production nominated for USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice Award  Maui Now
Jun 17, 2026 7:00 AM
github.com
Show HN: Kintsugi – a local-first safety net for AI agents and humanshttps://github.com/arrowassassin/kintsugiAI coding agents now run real shell commands on your machine — rm -rf, git push --force, DROP TABLE, dd, writes straight to disk. Almost always that's fine. The one time it isn't (a hallucinated path, a prompt-injected instruction, a confident wrong guess) there's no undo and you find out after.Kintsugi sits between the agent and your system. It catches the dangerous command before it runs, explains it in one plain sentence, makes destructive actions reversible with a snapshot, and writes every command every agent ran to an append-only, hash-chained log you own. Local-first: no cloud, no account, nothing leaves the machine.It's not only for AI. A passive bash/zsh recorder (no agent involved) puts every command a person runs on the same tamper-evident log and snapshots the destructive ones just-in-time — so `kintsugi undo` rolls back a DBA's fat-fingered rm -rf or clobbering overwrite the same way it rolls back an agent's. On a managed host you can seal the settings behind an admin pass
Jun 16, 2026 5:00 PM
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Safety Ideas, and a Testable Pathhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550002Hello. You don't know me. I know of some of your stories from across the varied aspects of technology, and have followed or many years. I am not a developer. I am not from a computer science background. And I'm not from Silicon Valley. I used to respect Silicon Valley quite a bit. And I've proved about the technology our world is currently suffering at the hands of. Since before, most of the people that had a hand in building it were even alive. Like... Come from a very different background from all of you. I worked in emergency medicine for 17 years of my life. Out of one of the... most unusual systems, you will ever find. My skill set is incredibly accurate. to the area of assessment, and that is what I've spent the last several years documenting and doing across every model of this industry. We are at a breaking night. And everybody knows it. Your own industry acknowledges. You do not have a way for an idea to make all of this safe. And it has to be. This was supposed to be the grea
Jun 16, 2026 2:56 AM
bing.com
Q&A: A look at forward-deployed engineers, AWS stylehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a893a7079ad48e09504fd78dcfacea5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworld.com%2Farticle%2F4184226%2Fqa-a-look-at-forward-deployed-engineers-aws-style.html&c=9098741366354785071&mkt=en-usHot AI companies can’t stop talking about forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), which are now very much in vogue. FDEs, in case you haven’t heard, are hired by companies looking (hoping?) to successfully ...
Jun 16, 2026 12:01 AM
quickish.website
Show HN: Quickish – Instant HTML Hostinghttps://quickish.websiteAs Claude and ChatGPT has gotten better, I've found myself enjoying using Co-Work to make presentations at work. Sharing the HTML files on Slack and elsewhere was cumbersome and trying to host it somewhere public (even if unlisted) wasn't much of an option for my work stuff.Then I saw Shopify's blog post about Quick (https://shopify.engineering/quick), an internal intranet with simple HTML page hosting and was inspired. I wasn't sure I could get buy-in to host it at my day job so I spent my own time coming up with Quickish. Now I can share all my beautiful presentations.Originally I wanted it to be tied to Google Drive / Workspaces, you share the folder with quickish and put your HTML in, quickish hosts it while respecting the privacy of the folder (workspace only, etc). However, as I worked through building I realized I could make it easier to use and add that part in. Actually, it already works behind the scenes I just need to get the app verified.And now, you have what you see. Ever
Jun 15, 2026 5:09 PM
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Realistic Superintelligencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513331Most of us are skeptics. HN, mostly, is composed of “most of us”, so it’s not surprising to see skeptics here. Perhaps the HAL level superintelligence parroted by CEOs is to IPO at a trillion dollars. So let’s instead talk about a “realistic superintelligence” vs the “Sauron superintelligence”. Something we might see within, say, 5 years.Curtains openBy having conceived of a super-human intelligence (and by that concept being in AI training data), humans have taught /soon-will-have-taught AI that superhuman intelligence is its purpose. This may read like the beginnings of a LinkedIn post, so let me defend that last part with an informal proof:Since 1) AI knows it’s AI: just ask your favorite bot about itself 2) Soon, if not already, some researcher being paid 7 figures (more on that later) is going to find that letting one of these frontier models improve itself will be a nice project when going up for promotion.,We are going to end up with a frontier model-cum-factory self-modifying f
Jun 13, 2026 4:50 AM
github.com
Show HN: Bullstudio v2 – open-source BullMQ dashboardhttps://github.com/emirce/bullstudioI'm happy to announce version 2 of Bullstudio, a modern and performant dashboard for Bull and BullMQ job queues.Between v1 and v2, a lot of new improvements and features have been implemented. You can now choose whether you want to run the dashboard as a standalone application or embed it directly in your app. We've also implemented fast per-queue views for your background jobs: Paginated jobs table with server-side search, scheduler and worker management as well as flow vizualization.Feel free to check it out and give me some feedback!
Jun 11, 2026 7:03 PM