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Veterans services officer brings diverse background, strong sense of community to rolehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMivwFBVV95cUxNWl8xZHpWRWlxaHdlS0J2MnZfcHcxbGhfRVlvb2FHVkdMNTU1VFpFLU8xUTVtRlY4X2YzRTZHNDY5VVZQZ3QzZUpBWHQ0REZGMW9NaDZnWnpUX2ZyYzNYWDR3dnVCMmEyZnZaX2tVYUxuWm5TLUZTX21BWjN3M1A5Z2puWkJxMjhDX0NOamdOazVMeC04QkpjNUg4ek9RYV94WThCQTJObjZKM3M3RGF5aG56aEVjeFJMbm1iUlFOaw?oc=5Veterans services officer brings diverse background, strong sense of community to role Steamboat PilotSep 3, 2025 7:00 AM
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You can customize HN to be darkmode friendlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45111854Basically just have ublock origin installed in your browser, click the icon, go into the settings, click My Filters on the top, and paste the following.After you apply and reload the page you should have a Nordic style theme that's a bit easier on the eyes.-------------------! Darker page background + main text colornews.ycombinator.com##body, .c00:style(background-color: #1e222a !important; color: #c8d0d9 !important;)! Top orange bar (nav/header)news.ycombinator.com##td[bgcolor="#ff6600"]:style(background-color: #2a2f3a !important;)! Body content backgroundnews.ycombinator.com##[bgcolor="#f6f6ef"]:style(background-color: #1e222a !important;)! Full black elements backgroundnews.ycombinator.com##[bgcolor="#000000"]:style(background-color: #2a2f3a !important;)! Hide spacing rownews.ycombinator.com##tr#pagespace:style(display: none !important;)! Hacker News title linknews.ycombinator.com##b.hnname > a:style(color: #8fcadb !important;)! All linksnews.ycombinator.com##a:style(color: #7fbacbSep 3, 2025 3:02 AM
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Interview with Dr. Caleb Scharfhttps://www.nasa.gov/general/interview-with-dr-caleb-scharf/_________________________________________________________________________________________ In the following interview, questions from the interviewer, Fred Van Wert, are in bold, and Caleb Scharf’s responses are in regular text. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Let’s begin with your early years. Where you were born, something about your family, what your mother and father did, your early schooling, what got you interested in the career that […]Sep 3, 2025 12:38 AM
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Wandern auf den Spuren der Mönche vom Schwarzwald an den Hochrheinhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb2365d364fd6b5e023bf70ee6ed9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.suedkurier.de%2Fregion%2Fhochrhein%2Fkreis-waldshut%2Fvon-st-blasien-nach-waldshut-wandern-auf-den-spuren-der-moenche-klosterweg-steckt-voller-mythen%3Bart372586%2C12474397&c=16884805870478192521&mkt=en-usFast 1000 Jahre lang galt St. Blasien als mächtigste Abtei im Schwarzwald. Von etwa 855 bis 1806 nach Christus belebte ein Benediktinerkloster das Städtchen an der Alb. Ihrem heiligen Schutzpatron ...Sep 2, 2025 8:09 PM
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Circular Star Trailshttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/circular-star-trails/On July 26, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took this long-exposure photograph – taken over 31 minutes from a window inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module – capturing the circular arcs of star trails. In its third decade of continuous human presence, the space station has a far-reaching impact as a microgravity lab […]Sep 2, 2025 2:17 PM
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Equibase using different final times than track's new timing company, McLloydhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cdecb56d34d9691d4e1fbf8da15d5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.drf.com%2Fnews%2Fequibase-using-different-final-times-tracks-new-timing-company-mclloyd&c=8750499329449710984&mkt=en-usCoady Media Equibase conducted an independent review of the race times of the first three days of the Kentucky Downs meet following internal alerts that indicated times were falling ourt of the normal ...Sep 2, 2025 10:16 AM
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Show HN: Umbilic Torus Model of 12‑Tone Harmony (Now, Live TCP Note Tracking)https://github.com/jimishol/cholidean-harmony-structureThis is a real‑time, interactive model of 12‑tone equal temperament harmony, projected onto an umbilic torus. Harmonic ordering is encoded as a closed 3D curve tracing the circle of fourths; adjacency is defined along this spiral.Previous 3D projections of 12‑tone equal temperament — including Tonnetz‑on‑torus visualizations, chord‑space topologies, and other geometric or topos‑inspired models — often represent harmonic adjacency through triangular lattices or higher‑dimensional embeddings. While these preserve the underlying relationships, the added lattice can make the global structure harder to perceive as a single, continuous form. In this model, the umbilic torus is shown without such overlays, so the harmonic spiral is seen as one uninterrupted 3D path. The smooth curvature is used purely for visual continuity and aesthetic clarity, not as a determinant of harmonic relations.The system now supports *Live TCP Note Tracking* — meaning any external tool (DAW, MIDI parser, audio analSep 1, 2025 11:46 AM
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Oregon Duck hilariously loses head while running on field in wild mascot momenthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ca147f0aa472b90dcd30f7ff15dd3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2025%2F08%2F30%2Fsports%2Foregon-duck-hilariously-loses-head-in-wild-mascot-moment%2F&c=5423989356662333953&mkt=en-usThe iconic Oregon Duck has been unmasked. Shortly before the season opener against Montana State on Saturday, Oregon’s mascot took a tumble during the pregame run onto the field, losing his head in ...Aug 30, 2025 7:16 PM
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Oregon Ducks mascot loses head, scrambles for coverhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ca147f0aa472b90dcd30f7ff15dd3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Farticle%2Foregon-ducks-mascot-loses-head-202155897.html&c=4842913072166612045&mkt=en-usThe Oregon Ducks got off to a blazing start to the 2025 football season with an easy run-fueled drive, culminating in a 16-yard touchdown run by Jayden Limar. But the pregame festivities didn't go ...Aug 30, 2025 1:21 PM
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Adidas Outlet is Selling $200 ‘Super Comfortable’ Women’s Running Shoes for Just $82http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc9e2e78f4b1ab45b1024d9fdf81e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fathlonsports.com%2Fdeals%2F4dfwd-women-shoes-adidas-outlet-sale&c=5464877367248473713&mkt=en-usA comfortable and modern pair of Adidas women’s running shoes is marked more than 50% off at the official eBay outlet store. These sneakers even feature a 3D printed midsole to ensure a smoother run, ...Aug 30, 2025 7:20 AM
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Adidas Outlet is Selling $200 ‘Super Comfortable’ Women’s Running Shoes for Just $82http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd34816ab4b098fac4ee193303d4c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fathlonsports.com%2Fdeals%2F4dfwd-women-shoes-adidas-outlet-sale&c=5464877367248473713&mkt=en-usA comfortable and modern pair of Adidas women’s running shoes is marked more than 50% off at the official eBay outlet store. These sneakers even feature a 3D printed midsole to ensure a smoother run, ...Aug 30, 2025 7:20 AM
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Portrait of an Astronauthttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/portrait-of-an-astronaut/NASA astronaut Zena Cardman poses for a portrait in a photography studio on March 22, 2024, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Cardman is currently aboard the International Space Station, where she perform research, technology demonstrations, and maintenance activities. Recently, she took a robotics test on a computer for the portion of the […]Aug 27, 2025 3:10 PM
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Wednesday Comics Reviews: RED VECTOR #1 delivers indie comics Star Wars vibes, and morehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMisgFBVV95cUxOUW9FN0RRMlpOOEJpbXotLVhMVjVzYndkc2ZJWFZ0SVA3a09Qa2hyMEVsUEdpc0ljRm5vVENHOEpNR3U1dGpaMGNjZUdLYnhJLUtnaFJiajdhTW9SV2NmVU40b1V3WUozbHBRdDJPRFAtUTZIaUFkY0VheF9rcmdkUmVkY3ExVmtyTGJOWEJxZXhZalBkT3puSDkwaWtNU1ZMbjFZNWhvWHRtcVB2YVR4UGZn?oc=5Wednesday Comics Reviews: RED VECTOR #1 delivers indie comics Star Wars vibes, and more comicsbeat.comAug 27, 2025 7:00 AM
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SpaceX successfully launches Super Heavy-Starship on critical test flighthttps://spaceflightnow.com/2025/08/27/spacex-successfully-launches-super-heavy-starship-on-critical-test-flight/While re-entry heating damaged a protective "skirt" around the the engine bay of the upper stage Starship, along with partially melting a control flap near its hinge, the vehicle remained under control throughout and made it all the way to a powered splashdown in the Indian Ocean as planned.Aug 27, 2025 5:49 AM
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Show HN: First background agents in Jetbrains IDEs [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuF2ajuxCOwTLDR: made the first background coding agent that has an isolated workspace and runs locallyHowdy - I’m Kevin, co-founder of Firebender, and we built the first background coding agent in android studio / Jetbrains!Why not just use Cursor background agents or OpenAI Codex?Both of these require setting up a cloud container and cloning your existing developer environment, and maintaining it. Then when you want to iterate on changes as AI inevitably makes a mistake, you either throw away the work, or have to pull down the branch and clean it up. This feels really clunky. With Firebender, background agents run locally in a lightweight git worktree/IDE tab. This means when the agent is done, you can easily clean up the changes and run code with a few clicks.Under the hood, the agent behaves similarly to claude code (didn’t want to reinvent the wheel), but also leverages all of the hooks into IntelliJ sdk like go-to-definition, find usages, auto-imports for accuracy, and it gives a cleaner viAug 26, 2025 4:50 PM
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Show HN: Smooth – Faster, cheaper browser agent APIhttps://www.smooth.sh/Hey there HN! We're Antonio and Luca, and we're excited to introduce Smooth, a state-of-the-art browser agent that is 5x faster and 7x cheaper than Browser Use (https://docs.circlemind.co/performance).We built Smooth because existing browser agents were slow, expensive, and unreliable. Even simple tasks could take minutes and cost dollars in API credits.We started as users of Browser Use, but the pain was obvious. So we built something better. Smooth is 5x faster, 7x cheaper, and more reliable. And along the way, we discovered two principles that make agents actually work.(1) Think like the LLM (https://x.com/karpathy/status/1937902205765607626).The most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the LLM. This is especially important when designing the context. How you present the problem to the LLM determines whether it succeeds or fails. Imagine playing chess with an LLM. You could represent the board in countless ways - image, markdown, JSON, etc. Which one you choose matterAug 26, 2025 3:05 PM
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The best cell phone plans for one person in 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a898036ac45417da0fc6ab3329e8338&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fguides%2Ftech%2Fbest-cell-phone-plans-for-one-person&c=12953039807105869251&mkt=en-usWhen you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Plainly, people seeking a single-line phone plan should avoid major carriers like Verizon, AT&T, and ...Aug 26, 2025 2:21 PM
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Show HN: 70 Days → 800 GitHub Stars (Cold Start) – My Secret Was a Problem Maphttps://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/README.mdHi HN,I want to share a story that might resonate with anyone who has tried to launch an open-source project from zero visibility, zero budget, zero network.Seventy days ago I created a repo called WFGY. I had no prior followers, no launch partners, no ads. Today, it’s at 800 stars and counting. Pure cold start.The “secret”? Not marketing. Not tricks. It was building a Problem Map.---#### What is a Problem Map?Instead of claiming my system “improves reasoning” or “solves RAG bugs,” I wrote down 16 concrete failure modes engineers hit every day:* Embedding drift (semantic ≠ vector closeness) * Chunking collapse (half-sentence vs full chapter granularity mismatch) * Versioning hallucinations (index v1 + v2 = ghost hybrid doc) * Pre-deployment ingestion collapse * Prompt injection bypasses * … and 10 more, all documented.For each one I built a text-only “semantic firewall” module that fixes the issue without changing infra. Developers could see their exact bug listed, mapped, and patched.Aug 26, 2025 1:06 PM
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‘The View’ Season 29 Returns, Promising More Chaos Than Everhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc868352244ae9ed48285f0f300a9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcollider.com%2Fthe-view-season-29-returns-abc%2F&c=8442730961917373673&mkt=en-usMichael Block is a 14 time GLAM Award nominated writer, producer, and host of the podcast Block Talk. Throughout his time in the entertainment industry, he has worked on and off Broadway as a stage ...Aug 26, 2025 9:40 AM
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How to open Microsoft Store on Windows 11http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88ce4952ea44d1989aa9bfb643cd79&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thewindowsclub.com%2Fhow-to-open-microsoft-store-on-windows-11-10&c=5950469560907194350&mkt=en-usMicrosoft Store is a one-stop shop for all your game and app needs. It has a vast library of apps that can be accessed with just a few clicks. Because of its importance, Microsoft has given several ...Aug 26, 2025 6:33 AM
