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From building client websites to launching my own SaaShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893115I didn’t start with SaaS. I started by building websites WordPress for survival.My first real projects were simple sites — landing pages, directories, small tools. One of them grew into Around md — a platform that helps people discover restaurants, parks, and interesting places in their city.No VC. No team.Just real users searching for where to go and what to explore around them. Later, I officially opened my company — dricomm.comSounds fancy. Reality was not. Analytics… It was: • clients asking “why numbers don’t match” • analytics dashboards nobody trusted • GDPR emails every few months • cookie banners everywhere • and GA4… always GA4Every site I launched had the same issue: analytics data never felt real. Pageviews were lower than expected. Funnels didn’t make sense. Marketing decisions were based on “best guesses”.And the moment you add a cookie banner — boom: 30–50% of users disappear from your data.At some point I realized something uncomfortable: I don’t actually know what’s haFeb 4, 2026 10:59 PM
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Show HN: Cohesix 0.4.0-alpha, a no-std control-plane OShttps://github.com/lukeb-aidev/cohesixI became increasingly frustrated with control planes that were easy to assemble but hard to audit. The convenience of open-source stacks doesn’t compose with compliance - because every extra daemon and API becomes another surface to explain, version, and defend.I built Cohesix 0.4.0-alpha to treat compliance and security as a systems problem. It is a control-plane OS for edge GPU nodes, running as an seL4 VM, and it exposes a Secure9P namespace instead of a traditional filesystem or RPC layer.The heresy is deliberate. The VM userspace is no_std, no POSIX, no traditional filesystem, no in‑VM RPC, and no background daemons. The interface is a small, explicit grammar: file‑shaped control surfaces under a Secure9P namespace.This is not minimalism for its own sake. It is about determinism, auditability, revocation, bounded behavior, and making failure modes legible. Tickets and leases expire; budgets return ELIMIT instead of mystery latency; /proc exposes queue and lease state.A deployment Feb 4, 2026 10:27 PM
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NASA, University of Texas Expand Research and Workforce Developmenthttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/nasa-university-of-texas-expand-research-and-workforce-development/NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and the University of Texas System (UT System) announced the signing of a collaborative Space Act Agreement on Jan. 9, 2026. The agreement expands research and workforce development partnership opportunities across NASA centers and UT System facilities. The agreement builds upon decades of collaboration between NASA and the UT […]Feb 4, 2026 10:10 PM
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Show HN: Small "AI slop" classifier running in a browser extensionhttps://github.com/distil-labs/distil-ai-slop-detectorWe used our distillation platform & a Kaggle dataset to produce a tiny (270M Gemma base) model to classify text into "AI slop"/not classes.It's fun to play with and was fun to build, too.Annoyingly formal, human-written text (e.g. an ML paper I wrote back in 2015) tends to get misclassified (try "Manipulated images lose believability if the user's edits fail to account for shadows. We propose a method that makes removal and editing of soft shadows easy. Soft shadows are ubiquitous, but remain notoriously difficult to extract and manipulate. We posit that soft shadows can be segmented, and therefore edited, by learning a mapping function for image patches that generates shadow mattes. We validate this premise by removing soft shadows from photographs with only a small amount of user input").Feb 4, 2026 4:57 PM
8of8.xyz
Show HN: 8of8 – A trend radar for developers (17 sources, scored 0-100)https://8of8.xyzI built 8of8 because I was tired of finding out about tools and frameworks after everyone else had already written about them.It scans 17+ data sources every 2 hours — Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Reddit, ProductHunt, npm, hiring boards, funding filings, Wikipedia, StackOverflow, VC blogs, DOE research, and more. Every signal gets scored 0-100 across 8 validation dimensions.The idea: if something is trending on GitHub AND companies are hiring for it AND funding is flowing into that sector AND npm downloads are growing — that's not noise, that's signal.Right now there are ~120 qualified signals on the board. The scoring engine cross-validates everything — a signal needs to show up in multiple independent data sources before it scores high.Stack: Python scoring engine, Flask frontend, single Vultr VPS. Data pipeline runs every 2h via cron.Free tier shows all signals with scores. Pro ($29/mo) unlocks per-signal breakdowns, intelligence reports, and email alerts.Would love feedback on theFeb 4, 2026 4:37 PM
spacewar.com
DARPA taps Raytheon for new maritime defense systemhttps://www.spacewar.com/reports/DARPA_taps_Raytheon_for_new_maritime_defense_system_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2026 Raytheon, an RTX business, has been selected by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an advanced sensing and targeting system to protect commercial shipping and naval logistics vessels from emerging maritime threats such as unmanned surface vehicles. Under the Pulling Guard program, Raytheon s Advanced Technology team will design, build and demonstrate a system thatFeb 4, 2026 3:53 PM
spacedaily.com
Antarctic ice feedback limits Southern Ocean carbon sinkhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Antarctic_ice_feedback_limits_Southern_Ocean_carbon_sink_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2026 A sediment core from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean has provided a research team led by geochemist Dr Torben Struve from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, with evidence of an unexpected climate feedback in Antarctica. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, links changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to variations in marine algae growth over several glacial cycles, but in a waFeb 4, 2026 3:53 PM
spacewar.com
Space Force stands up SPACEFOR-NORTH for homeland missionhttps://www.spacewar.com/reports/Space_Force_stands_up_SPACEFOR_NORTH_for_homeland_mission_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2026 The U.S. Space Force has activated U.S. Space Forces Northern as its newest component field command, positioning space capabilities more directly in support of the homeland defense mission at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, on Jan 30, 2026. The command, known as SPACEFOR-NORTH, serves as the U.S. Space Force service component to U.S. Northern Command, becoming the seventh Space ForceFeb 4, 2026 3:53 PM
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NASA Moon mission launch srubbed to March after testhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Moon_mission_launch_delayed_to_March_after_test_999.htmlWashington, United States (AFP) Feb 3, 2026 NASA said Tuesday it's delaying until March the launch of its first crewed flyby mission to the Moon in more than 50 years, after encountering leaks during final tests. The mishaps during a run-through that the US space agency calls a "wet dress rehearsal" dashed hopes that the mission around the Moon could launch as soon as Sunday. The next possible launch window now opens March 6. TheFeb 4, 2026 3:53 PM
humetrical.com
Show HN: Humetrical – An Improvement on Team Wellnesshttps://humetrical.comLate last year, my day job had an end-year leadership retreat. The one thing that really stood out to me, a line manager, was our speaker. She talked about the $50B wellness industry and how it was doing it wrong. How they give you $75 yoga stipends for the month, but don't actually address the critical people problems the company is blind to. How we're paid to ignore the problem and just accept that everything is ok.Imagine this: You are a manager, under a director, trying to explain why things are grim. Your director tells their upper management things are fine. Your team is on absolute fire, because no one listens to them, and everyone above their manager thinks things are fine. Things are not fine. The director never does skip 1:1s. Or at best, they ask good questions when they are available, but don't touch on the heart of what the team is suffering from. This was my last year, literally - it sucked.I've worked this industry for 26 years now. As of today, 10 years as an EM. Maybe Feb 4, 2026 3:49 PM
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Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to let my OpenClaw Bot remote inhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886176Sharing a build-in-public update.I’ve been working with my assistant “Gideon” (running inside OpenClaw) to solve a very specific problem:I want the agent to control my real browser (logged-in sites, my normal cookies, my actual tabs) - not a sandboxed headless browser - while still keeping the control surface simple and auditable. This means my OpenClaw won't break the moment a site gets "clever".So... We built it! I say we but it was mostly Gideon and I was along for the ride as QA.Why did we bother?Well, because the real world is messy.Headless is fine until you need:• a session that already exists in your day-to-day browser• sites like X/Gmail/anything modern that behaves differently under automation• human-in-the-loop flows where the agent drives, then hands off, then resumesThis connector is basically: agent → my laptop Chrome → real work.How it works (high level)There are 3 pieces:Chrome extension (MV3)• You pair it to a relay URL once• You explicitly choose what the agent can toFeb 4, 2026 2:25 PM
nasaspaceflight.com
Artemis II: WDR resolutions in work ahead of March targethttps://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/02/artemis-ii-wdr-resolutions-march-target/Engineers are working through a data review of the Wet Dress Rehearsal for Artemis II,… The post Artemis II: WDR resolutions in work ahead of March target appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.Feb 4, 2026 1:18 PM
spacedaily.com
Experts warn of urgent need to address human reproduction risks in spacehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Experts_warn_of_urgent_need_to_address_human_reproduction_risks_in_space_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 As commercial spaceflight moves closer to routine operations and missions extend in duration, a new expert report argues that reproductive health in space has shifted from a theoretical concern to an urgently practical issue. The authors warn that space is an environment fundamentally hostile to human biology, yet human activity beyond Earth is rapidly expanding without matching standards for maFeb 4, 2026 1:04 PM
spacedaily.com
Lunar soil test chamber paves way for future moon constructionhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Lunar_soil_test_chamber_paves_way_for_future_moon_construction_999.htmlParis, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 Before any building rises on the Moon, engineers will need to understand the soil beneath their structures just as they do on Earth. To address this challenge, a recent ESA Discovery project led by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has produced a design for a specialised calibration chamber that will allow cone penetration instruments to be tested under lunar conditions, providing the gFeb 4, 2026 1:04 PM
spacedaily.com
ESA adjusts Cluster orbits for rare twin reentry campaignhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ESA_adjusts_Cluster_orbits_for_rare_twin_reentry_campaign_999.htmlParis, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 When satellites fall back to Earth, most of their structure burns up in the atmosphere, but engineers still lack detailed data on how real spacecraft actually break apart during reentry and which components survive the plunge. To close this gap, the European Space Agency has retargeted the final orbits of its remaining two Cluster satellites so that both can be observed from an aircraft during tFeb 4, 2026 1:04 PM
bing.com
Have World of Warcraft’s class designers lost their mojo?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a2b4c4b804ebe8e2001a916312999&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygon.com%2Fworld-of-warcraft-wow-demon-hunter-devourer-class-design%2F&c=6561024898376199184&mkt=en-usThe next World of Warcraft expansion, Midnight, due on March 2, does not include a new character class, but it does include the next best thing — in theory. The Demon Hunter, a class that was ...Feb 4, 2026 9:01 AM
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FDA issues most serious recall for certain glucose monitor sensorshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxQYXBLTUJ6Qko3a3lveXRqeFh3ME5BZUdKV3gzOVkxcUNMaDg2THBRNHQtTzRiYW4tWEplNFBEQjhuMXphd0tWWFpmc3I5SUFIQzI3dmpWVF9DVzdmOE5qNkt0Sk42QWNBdHZyQ2M2R0p5SXFEaDhIa1dNUzk2Q1FTc19VaTdvak1HVUYxZFdENUFjZ2JXMHdtOEFBMDl1andzQWxSQ2RGeFpuVUE?oc=5FDA issues most serious recall for certain glucose monitor sensors American Hospital AssociationFeb 4, 2026 8:00 AM
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Ask HN: Where does modern geometry survive contact with SGD?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882060Over the past year I worked through Frankel’s “The Geometry of Physics” cover to cover, not to relearn physics, but to rebuild a modern geometric toolbox as it is actually used there: manifolds, differential forms, connections and curvature, Lie groups and algebras, fiber bundles, gauge structure, and variational principles.The motivation was practical rather than theoretical:Which of these geometric structures, if any, actually survive discretization, noise, and SGD-style training in modern machine learning?In physics, global and coordinate-free formulations were not aesthetic choices; they were forced when local reasoning stopped working. A recurring structural pattern was:structure -> symmetry -> invariance -> dynamics -> observablesIn modern ML we increasingly see analogous issues:* parameter symmetries and large quotient spaces * non-Euclidean data (graphs, meshes, manifolds) * highly structured hypothesis classes * training dynamics that are not well-described by flat Euclidean oFeb 4, 2026 6:07 AM
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Chilled New York Cityhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/chilled-new-york-city/Ice in the Hudson River hugged the shore of Manhattan amid a deep freeze.Feb 4, 2026 5:01 AM
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Show HN: WarpParse – Rust ETL engine 1.5–8x faster than Vectorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46880903Hey HN, We’ve been working on WarpParse, an open-source (Apache 2.0) ETL engine built in Rust, and we’re excited to share it with you today. We built it because we found that existing tools often struggled with resource efficiency or configuration complexity when handling massive log volumes. WarpParse aims to solve this with: Performance: 1.5x to 8x higher throughput than Vector in our benchmarks. Efficiency: Uses ~1/3 the CPU and ~37% of the memory of Vector under similar loads. DSLs: We created WPL (Warp Parse Language) for strong-typed parsing and OML (Object Modeling Language) for declarative data enrichment with native SQL integration. We’ve also built a visual editor (WpEditor) to make rule-writing less of a headache. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the architecture, the DSL approach, or any feedback you have after checking out the repo. GitHub: https://github.com/wp-labs Editor: https://editor.warpparse.ai As a fledgling open-source project, we deeply recognize the power of Feb 4, 2026 2:59 AM
