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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
news.google.com
New MAXXIS Minion DHX tire on test: In search of the ultimate griphttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiXkFVX3lxTFAzMXFMTUhNaDJHNlF1RHRUa2Rnb0tCNkNuSG8yQzhrMHk0LWY3V3g3TFB0R0wzTk40dnIwanpiOEtWS0M0OTVsTk5fa2hEOU1jb0FyempvSEoxNEhQY2c?oc=5New MAXXIS Minion DHX tire on test: In search of the ultimate grip  ENDURO Mountainbike Magazine
Jul 29, 2026 12:11 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. Thi
Jul 29, 2026 11:52 AM
bing.com
The Best Removable Wallpapershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a56ca63f14238a427448722cb0cc0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fwirecutter%2Freviews%2Fbest-removable-wallpapers%2F&c=11543860908216809529&mkt=en-usWe independently review everything we recommend. We may make money from the links on our site. Learn more› By Katie Okamoto Katie Okamoto is an editor focusing on sustainability. She’s covered the ...
Jul 29, 2026 9:02 AM
purple-hammer.com
Show HN: Purple Hammer – construction takeoff and estimating in Tauri/Rust/WASMhttps://purple-hammer.com/Purple Hammer does construction takeoff. You measure quantities off PDF drawings and a built-in spreadsheet lets you read from databases, formulas, assemblies etc to price the job. This matters because most takeoff software (Bluebeam, Planswift) do not have the spreadsheet side of things built in.Stack is Tauri 2, Rust, SolidJS. The render and spreadsheet engines are both custom, compiled to WASM with modified PDFium for parsing. One codebase builds native Mac and Windows.Performance is most of the work. A 500-sheet set opens in about a second. Million+ vector drawings hold 120 FPS on mid hardware. It feels somewhat faster that any other construction viewer I’ve tested. Compare the live demo (on the homepage, or download free trial) vs an industry standard pdf tool at showcase.apryse.com/cad-viewer. The solver runs 11-15M dependency steps/sec on an adversarial test.Perhaps most important engineering achievement is that RAM & Performance scale strictly with active attention rather than
Jul 28, 2026 2:27 PM
chromewebstore.google.com
Show HN: Shoebox Plus Organizer – search, sort, and filter your Ancestry Shoeboxhttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/shoebox-plus-organizer/ncmfpkikgbnacbiipnbnfdohjpbgjjkhAs a genealogist for nearly two decades, including a stint as a Research Manager for Ancestry's research arm, AncestryProGenealogists, I have heard colleagues and clients alike complain about the "Shoebox," an Ancestry record bookmarking tool, lacking a mechanism to search, sort, and filter content. Once you've saved a few hundred documents, you must endure an endless paginated scroll, 25 records at a time.My solution: Shoebox Plus Organizer — a Manifest V3 Chrome extension that loads every page of your Shoebox in the background, then provides live full-text search, date sorting, and record-type filtering, all client-side over the DOM that's already rendered on the page.Everything runs on-device. No servers, no external API calls, no analytics. There's nowhere for the data to go. It doesn't scrape or automate faster than a human clicking through pages. Shoebox Plus Organizer reformats what's already loaded. Works across all 11 international Ancestry sites (.com, .co.uk, .ca, .com.au, .
Jul 28, 2026 2:00 PM
github.com
Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hostedhttps://github.com/letsseal/letssealTLDR, Let's Seal gives the finger to Adobe and every doc signing tool (docusign, google, etc) who pay to play with the Adobe Approved Trust List and then charge you for something that should be free.Currently even the person checking if a document/contract is sealed or code is authentic has to also be inside the same Adobe walled garden too. Verification, the part that should be free is the part everyone charges for. Thats the shape Let's Encrypt fixed for TLS, and I wanted the same thing for documents and files.The core idea therefore needed to go a bit beyond e signatures and i created an open standard (SEAL), plus free tools that implement it.When you seal a file, three independent things happen.1. it gets a signature from a certificate authority, chaining to a public root. 2. its record is appended to an RFC 6962 transparency log. and 3. its SHA256 is timestamped on a public blockchain (Bitcoin) via OpenTimestamps. Those three give you integrity, transparency and a timestamped proo
Jul 27, 2026 3:52 PM
spacenews.com
Orbes unveils Exo-ORB and agreement with Symphony Spacehttps://spacenews.com/orbes-unveils-exo-orb-and-agreement-with-symphony-space/SAN FRANCISCO – Southern California startup Orbes announced an agreement July 27 to send Exo-ORB, a free-flying satellite, to gather imagery of an uncrewed Symphony Space station. Exo-ORB, which is […] The post Orbes unveils Exo-ORB and agreement with Symphony Space appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jul 27, 2026 1:00 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: 1950's Chip industry undermined unions how is AI not doing the same?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064165In the 1950s the Chip industry undermined minorities, immigrants, women and killed unions.In the 1960-70s it targeted black civil rights groups.Along the way, white men were pushed into management, while anything outside of business was split into smaller tasked jobs. This in return gave companies leverage to cut salaries.I don't care what altman says chatgpt did in a blackbox. I judge the world by what I see. Reality is, chat, claude, etc etc are about as useful as smart as the stupidest, slowest engineer on the team.On the other hand, introducing them has made the job appear more "streamline" more production line like. Work increased, and salaries flattened.Now that companies are not getting returns off of AI, they are cutting AI spending, but make no mistake. Salaries will not recover.What am I missing? How am I wrong?Would love opinions on this
Jul 27, 2026 1:26 AM
kypaku.github.io
Show HN: Scanner for cellular automata rule spacehttps://kypaku.github.io/pages/ca2026/Many years ago I was interested in cellular automata, inspired by Stephen Wolfram's work. I dug into elementary CA and totalistic 3-state rules. But when I went to more states it was getting boring. Almost all of them are dead or chaotic or something that everybody has already seen. But somewhere inside there could be another 110, and nobody looked.Now that we have AI coding, I decided I can build something in that area, and an app for scanning rules was the obvious thing. I implemented an explorer with a bunch of filters: gliders, chaos, large structures, and custom search. The last one works backwards — you draw a pattern and a rule passes only if this pattern never occurs. I could not define "interesting", but it was easy to say what disqualifies a rule. It also renders diagrams as big PNG.Demo: https://kypaku.github.io/pages/ca2026/ Source: https://github.com/Kypaku/ca2026
Jul 26, 2026 4:39 PM
news.ycombinator.com
ASK HN: Why has technology become so unreliable?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056900Even though I'm a software engineer with long experience with serious projects, I'm become so disillusioned with the whole thing nowadays.Forget the ridiculous AI hype, forget about the lack of ethics and a moral compass; What's getting to me right now is the unreliability of it all. It seems like everything is held together with duct tape, and the tape is falling off.Just in the last few months, all these have happened:- My Macbook Air M1 has been acting up, refusing to charge in a stable manner. The audio jack is dead because apparently it is linked to the charging circuit. The screen sometimes shows a tint on a whim. Now it is dead and not charging at all. Granted, it has otherwise been a fine machine so far, and I've knocked it over a few times, but still. Even my old trusty 2014 Macbook Pro is still going strong, and I've abused that one much more.- I also can't use my old Macbook Pro well, because the replacement Transcend 256GB SSD I put in it around 2020 is now failing, causing
Jul 26, 2026 11:13 AM
bing.com
Comic-Con 2026: All The Biggest Announcements And Major Revealshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88cdb5b1f54a53af3eaa0345d2d5d5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Flaurasirikul%2F2026%2F07%2F26%2Fcomic-con-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-major-reveals%2F&c=6758560104929030933&mkt=en-usForbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Laura Sirikul is a L.A.-based reporter covering film/TV and music. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Jul 26, 2026 8:35 AM
news.ycombinator.com
The Cost of Seamlessnesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048352The Hidden Cost of Frictionless Technology Taotuner — 2026I recently asked an AI assistant for restaurant recommendations. It listed five places, complete with ratings, distance, and popular dishes. I picked one, went, had a fine meal. Later, when a friend asked what I'd eaten, I couldn't remember the name of the restaurant.The experience wasn't bad. It was frictionless. And it left almost no trace.We've built tools that eliminate the gap between want and satisfaction, question and answer, curiosity and resolution. We call it seamlessness. We've assumed it's progress. But the gap wasn't inefficiency — it was where memory, judgment, and understanding used to form.What if removing it is making us less capable?The Pattern This isn't just about restaurant recommendations. The same dynamic shows up across AI, therapy, cities, and education.Take AI assistants. The industry evaluates them on speed, accuracy, and satisfaction. Those metrics capture whether the tool works. They don't capture wh
Jul 25, 2026 3:24 PM
bing.com
When Middle Age Actually Startshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d10e725840d1bb64161ac392abc1&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.theatlantic.com%2ffamily%2f2026%2f07%2fmiddle-age-start-end%2f688021%2f&c=9560917919935116580&mkt=en-usThe only thing anyone can reliably tell you about middle age is that it’s in the middle of life. What’s the middle? Well, it’s after the beginning, and before the end. Okay, we can do a little better ...
Jul 25, 2026 6:00 AM
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Ask HN: Multi dimensional sort (beyond Hilbert curve)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042861My point is about structuring and indexing an arbitrary dataset, for preprocessing before eg segmentation/clustering, neighbor querys...In 1D, sorting is trivial because scalar values have a total, unambiguous order. In 2D and higher dimensions, there is no single way to order points, and points can't all be compared >=/=_k v if u_k >= v_k (comparing along the k-th coordinate axis only).In 1D, a sorted array satisfies x[i+1] >= x[i]. Extending this naturally to a multi-indexed d-dimensional array x[i, j, k, ...], we can define a dataset as "cartesian sorted" if:- x[i+1, j, k, ...] >=_1 x[i, j, k, ...] - x[i, j+1, k, ...] >=_2 x[i, j, k, ...] - ...and so on.In other words, the array of multi indexes is sorted along every row, column, and slice under its corresponding coordinate projection.What makes this definition interesting is that their exist a very simple algorithm to perform Nd sort in the "cartesian" sense. Just iterate: 1. Perform 1D sorts along every row (apply the permutation
Jul 24, 2026 11:27 PM
bing.com
How a Crypto Transaction Actually Happenshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a898d3e9ec244188d67580b03a7cd01&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Fhow-a-crypto-transaction-actually-happens-12003083&c=16628310075709967947&mkt=en-usUnderstand what happens behind the scenes when you send cryptocurrency, from wallet authorization to blockchain confirmation.
Jul 24, 2026 12:12 AM
github.com
Show HN: Chrome Plugin to Scan HN Page Quickly. (Categorize with Local Model)https://github.com/prabhic/hn-quick-scanRecently I started spending more time reading HN posts, and engaging. Wanted to scan HN pages faster ,that rosonates to me.For me it is easy to grasp if they are in the order of software stack (Hardware, System, Infrastructure, apps, and so on ).Built this chrome plugin that uses Gemini model, to classify. It works but, classification still not great. It is built using claude code cli.on my Mac book pro, Gemini nano model loading takes around 11 seconds, and classification it self takes around 5 seconds. (if sub classification enabled it adds 6 more seconds approx). Model loaded in background thread. And unloads, if not used after 30 seconds. I would say still not pretty usable, without optimized classification time, but it works, to experiment with.
Jul 23, 2026 3:20 PM
spacenews.com
Will Bruey on rethinking the role of pharmaceuticals in low Earth orbithttps://spacenews.com/will-bruey-on-rethinking-the-role-of-pharmaceuticals-in-low-earth-orbit/In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with Varda CEO Will Bruey at the Ascend conference. They discuss how Varda hopes to play a role bridging medicine and low Earth orbit […] The post Will Bruey on rethinking the role of pharmaceuticals in low Earth orbit appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jul 23, 2026 3:13 PM
nasa.gov
NASA to Showcase Agency’s Newest Wind Tunnel in Virginiahttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-showcase-agencys-newest-wind-tunnel-in-virginia/Media are invited to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, July 31, to attend a media tour and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, the agency’s first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years. The event will include a brief media availability with: This event is in person only […]
Jul 22, 2026 6:47 PM