
latimes.com
Trust, not tracking: Inside the L.A. company that got workers back to the officehttps://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-30/how-la-company-ditched-rigid-office-mandates-got-workers-backIn January, Riot Games revamped its morale-hurting return-to-office rules to allow more flexibility. The result? Attendance and productivity have risen.Jul 30, 2026 10:00 AM

europeanspaceflight.com
ArianeGroup Completes Themis Wet Dress Rehearsalhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/arianegroup-completes-themis-wet-dress-rehearsal/ArianeGroup has completed a wet dress rehearsal of the Themis reusable booster demonstrator at the Esrange Space Centre in Sweden, providing the first substantive update on the vehicle’s test campaign in more than ten months. The rehearsal was conducted on 23 July by teams from ArianeGroup and SSC Space, the commercial entity that manages the […] The post ArianeGroup Completes Themis Wet Dress Rehearsal appeared first on European Spaceflight.Jul 30, 2026 9:54 AM

esa.int
From drone flight to sounding rockethttps://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/From_drone_flight_to_sounding_rocketA drone carrying an unusual payload recently took to the skies above ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands, marking the first test flight of a student-developed radar retroreflector technology.Jul 30, 2026 9:00 AM
news.google.com
HD Hyundai Begins US Shipyard Export Pushhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidEFVX3lxTFBwNHJkVG5XbzVZdDFHQktFQnVvMV85Wjg3eElpaGpFV0VZQjY3TFktd2tYcThPMDRrYkM4NW9oaWtIYUJZWmtaNjdISWRyRkJJUE5SdndnZEdvbGtvN1hwOUM3Nkl1Q29INVd6ak9ycmxnaHlk?oc=5HD Hyundai Begins US Shipyard Export Push businesskorea.co.krJul 30, 2026 1:55 AM
github.com
Show HN: RunNburn – Run a 295B Moe from a 98GB GGUF on a 64GB RAM Desktophttps://github.com/coderredlab/runNburnrunNburn is an Apache-2.0 Rust inference engine for quantized GGUF models that are too big for your fast memory.The core idea: weights stay file-backed (mmap), host residency stays under an explicit byte budget (--ram-budget), and GPU caches are sized from detected free/total VRAM — never from device-name presets. There is no conversion step, no sidecar cache files, no silent requantization. The GGUF on disk is the single source of truth.The result that made me want to post this: Tencent's Hy3 (295B total / 21B active sparse MoE, a single 97.8 GiB Q2_K GGUF) runs on my desktop with 64 GB of RAM and one consumer NVIDIA GPU. The file is larger than RAM and VRAM combined; the selected experts for each token are pulled on demand (the newest path batches O_DIRECT reads through io_uring), while the pretrained routing is left untouched. On the same machine, same prompt, same decode length, a warm-run median gave ~5.5 tok/s decode vs ~2.0 tok/s for llama.cpp.To be upfront about scope: for modeJul 30, 2026 1:30 AM
thebigobook.com
Show HN: Data structures as containers – sample chapter from my Big O book [pdf]https://thebigobook.com/downloads/data-structures-sample-chapter.pdfI was a self taught software engineer that later went to grad school to get a masters in software engineering. What I learned along the way was that many of the intimidating subjects around algorithms and data structures were much simpler and less scary than I ever thought.My hope for this book is to try and help the self taught developers get on more equal footing with people who have a CS degree - at least the algorithms class - which I always thought was most important for interviews. Along the road, I realized Big O, logs, and algorithmic complexity weren't as confusing as I first thought. This book hopes to close the gap between self taught developers and formal CS knowledge - which often gave me imposter syndrome.The linked PDF is a complete chapter from the book about common data structures you'll encounter in javascript - and leaving out some of the data structures you may never see (like Linked Lists).Note - this is one chapter of the book that was published and is available oJul 29, 2026 9:47 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Looking for testers for my RAM-based Linux distributionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102865Hi,I have been working on a project called Invelinux for quite some time now, and now that I have released the release candidate versions, I thought about posting it on Hacker News for people to try it out.The thing that makes it stand out is its use of the Toybox userspace project, a BSD-licensed alternative to Busybox and musl C library instead of the GNU C library. It also features a very minimal framework called AMPS (Automatically Mounted Packaging System) which mounts an external drive that functions as the non-volatile storage part of the OS. System configurations, applications/scripts etc. are all stored inside the /storage/AMPS directory. Since the base system is running on RAM, when the system is rebooted, the whole system gets wiped clean. But the external storage and configurations stay intact, allowing you to load your configurations easily.To access and edit these configurations, several custom TUI tools were made so the user doesn't have to mess around in /storage/AMPS/eJul 29, 2026 8:47 PM
github.com
Show HN: MandoCode Desktop – Native Windows AI Coding Assistant on Ollama .NEThttps://github.com/DevMando/MandoCode.DesktopQuick backstory on how this version came to be: the original MandoCode is a CLI, and its UI is built with RazorConsole — Blazor components rendered into a terminal. Genuinely clever tech! I wanted tabs, though, and when I attended MS Build this year I got a good look at what WinUI apps could do and saw the potential to give the original agent some actual windows and tabs. Having up to 4 agents running in one window is pretty cool. Aside from that — tabs! I feel like everything is a chat these days, and for some reason my brain keeps screaming AGENTS, not chats, at me. I love the tabbed-browser experience a lot moreSome of the stuff I got to toy with once the plumbing worked:- Context snapshots — closing an agent archives the conversation instead of deleting it, and you can snapshot mid-conversation to get an AI-written recap you can hand to a different model or a fresh agent and have it pick up the thread. You pick the LLM from a dropdown right when you create the snapshot.- TranscriptJul 29, 2026 4:48 PM

science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Curiosity Views a Sand-Capped Buttehttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/nasas-curiosity-views-a-sand-capped-butte/Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this sand-capped butte, nicknamed “Miraflores,” estimated to be about 20 feet (6 meters) tall, with its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on June 11, 2026, the 4,923rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The butte was left behind as surrounding rock eroded away over time, deepening the broad valley […]Jul 29, 2026 4:08 PM
news.google.com
Hudl: Sports Analytics to Boost Performancehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiS0FVX3lxTFAyQ3lRRHY1Y2pDRnJNblkzMm4tSEU1V2NlQ2NuUC0td25mc2dlNThqRC1haWNoQXg3UG9aVktOOVhaSHptUlZLUkM3QQ?oc=5Hudl: Sports Analytics to Boost Performance cioreview.comJul 29, 2026 3:45 PM
flipcloc.com
Show HN: FlipCloc for Mac out now. A gorgeous flip clock and screensaverhttps://flipcloc.comAfter months of work FlipCloc for Mac is finally here. I’ve always wanted to make an app and seeing it on the App Store is something I’m extremely excited about! App Store link - https://apps.apple.com/app/id6786569507One app, two ways to use FlipCloc. On first launch, choose either App or Screensaver. If you want both, you can unlock the other option with a one time in app purchase. No subscriptions, no ads. FlipCloc costs $9.99 and the in app purchase another $9.99FlipCloc is the prettiest and most customizable flip clock availalbe. Personalize every single aspect of the clock, fonts, colors, flap design, sounds, backgrounds, and more. Customize it to match your aesthetic, style, or your moodFlipCloc is gorgeous, aesthetic, and a great productivity tool. Use it to stay focused while working, track your sessions, run Pomodoro timers, or just watch the time pass byRefinement, smooth animations, and optimizations are all things I take very seriously. FlipCloc is highly optimized so you’Jul 29, 2026 2:36 PM

nasa.gov
Contractor to Civil Servant: NASA Welcomes Ray Williamshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/stennis/contractor-to-civil-servant-ray-williams/Ray Williams’ progression at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, has uniquely prepared him for his new role. As part of NASA’s plan to restore core competencies by converting contractors to civil service, the New Orleans native and Grambling State University graduate now works as a supervisor for test operations support at […]Jul 29, 2026 1:32 PM

spacenews.com
Fortastra and Hadrian join forces to streamline satellite productionhttps://spacenews.com/fortastra-and-hadrian-join-forces-to-streamline-satellite-production/SAN FRANCISCO – Fortastra, a Los Angeles startup focused on defending on-orbit infrastructure, is working with manufacturing specialist Hadrian to explore ways to apply precision machining and additive manufacturing to […] The post Fortastra and Hadrian join forces to streamline satellite production appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 29, 2026 1:00 PM
strataweather.com
Show HN: Experiments with Weather Datahttps://strataweather.com/mapI had been wanting to try experimenting with nowcasting since the death of Dark Sky and finally got around to it. This application essentially became a playground for me to experiment with various weather datasets and geospatial visualizations.Some interesting concepts that came from it:The nowcast is using pySTEPS optical flow under the hood: https://pysteps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/auto_examples/plot_.... This library is super cool. It bugged me that every radar visualization just gave you choppy snapshots in time, so I spent some time working on building a smooth interpolation. The backend passes keyframes along with motion data from the optical flow analysis and then has a custom WebGL shader to do the interpolation which lets you scrub the timeline and have a smooth interpolation.The other forecast tiles and the main weather page are using the average of many different weather models. You can see every model that factors in on the models page: https://strataweather.com/models. ThiJul 29, 2026 11:52 AM
github.com
Show HN: Lean4 Datalog DSL Based on Google Zanzibar for AI Projectshttps://github.com/jagg-ix/zil-leanGoogle Zanzibar datalog lang lets you describe concepts and express how they are related. I generalize it to DSL you can use on Lean4 (and other languages) this lets you represent a knowledge base you can construct, store and evaluate, have it under git and improve without big engines or relaying on external infrastructure.Google's Zanzibar paper: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-research2023-media/pubto...Jul 29, 2026 2:22 AM

spacenews.com
Chinese startup raises funds for space situational awareness constellation, joining commercial SSA rushhttps://spacenews.com/chinese-startup-raises-funds-for-space-situational-awareness-constellation-joining-commercial-ssa-rush/SINGAPORE — A Beijing-based startup has secured around $14 million to build a satellite constellation for tracking orbital objects, adding to China’s growing SSA sector. Xingchen Daohe, also known as […] The post Chinese startup raises funds for space situational awareness constellation, joining commercial SSA rush appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 29, 2026 1:18 AM
bing.com
40 Pasta Recipes for Every Kind of Pasta Nighthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8960be088e485289bec3d53fac8a74&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foodandwine.com%2Fpasta-noodles%2Fpasta&c=6156538225482754723&mkt=en-usNo matter what's in season or what's in your pantry, there's a pasta here for it. Jodie Kautzmann is an editor, baker, and confectioner with more than 15 years of experience in content creation, ...Jul 28, 2026 8:06 PM
openotp.app
Show HN: My First OSS as a Teenhttps://openotp.appHey! I'm Jenin, a 14 year old in Toronto, Canada! This is my first proper Open Source software I made, called OpenOTP! I have 6 emails :sob: and grabbing OTP's from them can be hard, even with a good email client. So I built this tool to make it easier for me! I made it in native Swift :)I did this for Hack Club Horizons, which is an event where they're flying teens to 7 countries around the world for hackathons! You can find out more about Hack Club at https://hackclub.com and horizons at https://horizons.hackclub.com.I'd love if you guys could check out my software and let me know what you think :)Jul 28, 2026 4:57 AM

latimes.com
New federal rule sends asylum cases to immigration courts, pushing migrants toward deportationhttps://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-07-27/new-federal-rule-sends-hundreds-of-thousands-of-asylum-cases-to-immigration-courtsU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services estimates that up to 444,000 of the more than 1.4 million asylum cases in its backlog could be affected by the rule.Jul 27, 2026 7:42 PM

science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Starhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/swift/nasas-swift-sees-wandering-mega-black-hole-shredding-star/NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy. These phenomena are rare to begin with, and none had ever before been seen so far outside of a galaxy’s core. “We were looking for these star-shredding events as a way […]Jul 27, 2026 4:06 PM