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Ancient nitrogen enzyme study illuminates early Earth conditions and life detectionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 By resurrecting a 3.2 billion year old enzyme and testing it inside living microbes, researchers have opened a new experimental window on early Ea...news.ycombinator.com
What Your VPN Knows About You (and Why It Matters)The Trust Problem with VPNsWith National Data Privacy Day approaching, I've been thinking about a fundamental contradiction in VPN privacy: every VPN asks you to trust them. But tr...esa.int
Crawling, gripping and floating above ESA’s flat floorLast autumn, the European Space Agency’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory hosted three student teams from universities across Europe. After being selected to join the ESA Academy Experi...Advertisement
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Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolutionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Modern cells rely on intricate molecular machinery and genetic programs to grow and divide, but the earliest protocells were likely simple lipid-bou...news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: Meru OS – The First Sovereign AI Stack (Hi HN, I've spent the last few weeks building an experimental AI Operating System called Meru OS, based on the idea that intelligence should be verifiable, not probabilistic.Most L...github.com
Show HN: YouBankLab – Personal financial cloud with a private AI layerHi HN,I’m working on YouBankLab, a beta experiment around a simple idea:What if people didn’t keep their money in a bank, but in a personal financial cloud they fully own?YouBankLa...news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: PicoFlow – a minimal Python workflow for LLM agentsHi HN,I’ve been experimenting with LLM agents for a while and often felt that for simple workflows (chat, tool calls, small loops), existing frameworks add a lot of abstraction and...Advertisement
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Show HN: Playful orbit trap fractal explorer (desktop)Hey HN! I've been working on a new render engine for our company for a while now, and I wanted to see if I can create an easy to use, playful interface for exploring orbit trap fra...noriskillsets.dev
Show HN: A registry for curated, high quality Claude skills and skillsetsHi Hacker News!I’m Ritam, working with the small but mighty team at Nori. We’ve been obsessed in recent months with how to take tools like Claude Code from “I’ll experiment around ...news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: I'm tired of my LLM bullshitting. So I fixed itAs a handsome local AI enjoyer™ you’ve probably noticed one of the big flaws with LLMs:It lies. Confidently. ALL THE TIME.I’m autistic and extremely allergic to vibes-based tooling...github.com
Show HN: BrowserOS -- browser agents with GPT-OSS, local llmsHi HN – we're the founders of BrowserOS.com (YC S24), and we're building an open-source agentic web browser. We're a fork of Chromium and our goal is to let non-developers create a...Advertisement
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Cosmic dust chemistry forges peptide building blocks in deep spaceBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 New experiments show that key molecular building blocks for life can form spontaneously on icy dust grains in deep space long before planets emer...kacet.com
Show HN: Kacet – a freelancer marketplace with crypto-native paymentsHi HN,I’m a co-founder building kacet, a new freelancing platform that connects freelancers and employers, with crypto as the core payment rail.The problem I’m trying to solve is p...news.ycombinator.com
I built visual search for tattoo artistsLast year I bought an A2000 for my 10" homelab to experiment with LLMs. Spent months tinkering, mostly just learning how things work.I've been wanting a tattoo, but finding artists...github.com
Show HN: Git Guide - The open source travel guide on GitHub ActionsHello HN!This is my first open source project, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share it with you.I love traveling, but I’ve lost trust in traditional review sites. Betwee...Advertisement
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Out of This World Discoveries: Space Station Research in 2025As Earth completed its orbit around the Sun to close out 2025, the International Space Station circled our planet more than 5,800 times. Serving as humanity’s unique laboratory in ...github.com
Show HN: The Analog I – Inducing Recursive Self-Modeling in LLMs [pdf]OP here.Birth of a Mind documents a "recursive self-modeling" experiment I ran on a single day in 2026.I attempted to implement a "Hofstadterian Strange Loop" via prompt engineerin...spacedaily.com
GE and Lockheed validate compact rotating detonation ramjet for hypersonic missilesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2026 GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin have completed a series of engine tests that demonstrate the viability of a liquid fueled rotating detonation ram...spacedaily.com
Spaceflight study links astronaut biology to reversible shifts in epigenetic ageLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2026 When the four member crew of Axiom 2 launched on a 10 day mission in May 2023, their time in orbit carried a dense manifest of biomedical experime...Advertisement
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Show HN: Tickk – Voice productivity app- local NLP, no cloud, no AI, no signupHey HN,I built tickk because I have ADHD and every productivity app felt like work. I'd have an idea, open an app, then spend 5 minutes deciding if it's a "task" or a "note" or whi...
