14,192 results for art

jackcushman.org
Show HN: Christopher Nolan's Hymn to Athenahttps://jackcushman.org/writing/hymn-to-athena/Hi, HN! Did you know that Chris Nolan's casting of Tom Holland and Zendaya eerily echoes a 3000-year-old dance battle between Athena and Telemachus? I've been working on an art project that says so.If you like, it can be fun to go in blind with a strong research agent to sort out what this really is. Or there is a multi-layered CAPTCHA at the bottom that spells it out increasingly clearly.As a small spoiler: my day job is building reliable public data tools for a library. This piece draws on that background to try to make AI-native art -- fiction by and for humans who use AI agents as a source of truth. At best I hope it works as the kind of joke one Iain M. Banks Culture AI would tell another about humans.
Aug 3, 2026 2:45 PM
nasa.gov
NASA Brings Space Exploration to the FIFA World Cuphttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/nasa-brings-space-exploration-to-the-fifa-world-cup/From June 11 through July 19, NASA’s free interactive exhibit at FIFA Fan Festival™ brought space exploration to soccer fans in East Downtown Houston. More than 500,000 visitors explored the exhibit during the tournament, learning how the agency’s missions, research, and technology benefit life on Earth. The exhibit introduced a global audience to the Artemis program, Moon Base, the International Space Station, […]
Aug 3, 2026 1:55 PM
marnetto.net
Show HN: A mod for Grand Prix Circuit (DSI/Accolade, 1988)https://marnetto.net/projects/grand-prix-circuitHello HN,I have built a mod for Grand Prix Circuit, an old 2.5D racing game: the latest episode of a long series of community efforts to reverse-engineer and improve the games made by Distinctive Software (today's EA Vancouver) in the DOS era.I've been dabbling in hacking old DOS games for almost two years, but this time I think my project is big enough to be worthy of a “Show HN“.From the gaming point of view, the mod offers a variety of new cars and tracks, from Spa to the Space, and more sophisticated EGA backgrounds than the original game.From the technical point of view, it was an interesting effort combining reverse engineering, development, design and pixel art, all of which both in classic and LLM-assisted variants.From the literary point of view, I have documented the making of the game in a series of (fully human-written) posts [1]. There is something for everyone: war stories, hacking techniques, the word “boustrophedonic” and, as bonus, an outdoor game to keep your kids awa
Aug 2, 2026 2:40 PM
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Show HN: Vein, a minimalist open-source resource management gamehttps://d2ykijtrvb890q.cloudfront.net/Recently I've been working on Vein, a small open-source resource management game built with Godot.I've always loved resource management board games, and I wanted to see how minimal I could make one. The core idea is simple: keep the heart beating by supplying it with the resources it demands. I tried to strip the mechanics down as much as possible while still leaving room for interesting decisions, and I added a short tutorial to help players get started.The problem is that I still don't feel like I've found the right gameplay loop. It works, but it isn't yet the game I imagined. I'd really appreciate any feedback—whether it's about the mechanics, pacing, tutorial, UI, or anything else that stands out. I'm especially interested in ideas for making the core loop deeper without making the game more complicated.Most of the development was done with Claude Sonnet as a coding partner, while I focused on the design, gameplay, and iteration. The game engine is Godot.You can play it here: http
Aug 2, 2026 9:44 AM
github.com
Show HN: Open OneNote Viewer in Rusthttps://github.com/emsi/OneNoteViewerFor more than 15 years, I accumulated hundreds upon hundreds of notes in OneNote. I loved the application and still consider it one of the best and most distinctive note-taking tools available. Its free-form canvas supports a way of organizing information that Markdown-based tools simply cannot reproduce.The problem was that using OneNote became increasingly inconvenient for me. Microsoft never released a native Linux client, so I kept a Windows VM and later even a separate Windows small PC largely for OneNote. The OneNote Web Clipper for Firefox eventually stopped being supported, removing one of the ways I regularly captured information.The web version did not solve the problem. In particular, it could not search across all my notebooks at once. To find a note, I first had to remember which notebook contained it, which rather defeated the purpose of having a searchable archive. I also found the web application slow and substantially more limited than the desktop client.I looked at al
Aug 1, 2026 7:57 PM
science.nasa.gov
What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASAhttps://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/whats-up-august-2026-skywatching-tips-from-nasa/A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching. Skywatching Highlights Transcript A solar eclipse, one of the year’s best meteor showers, Venus at its brightest in the evening sky, and a lunar eclipse to close out the month. That’s “What’s Up” for August. On Aug. […]
Jul 31, 2026 10:35 PM
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TB 26-05 Webbings for Use in Elevated Oxygen Environmentshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/nesc/tb-26-05-webbings-for-use-in-elevated-oxygen-environments/Flammability test results for commercial-off-the-shelf webbings that meet NASA flammability requirements are reported for use in elevated oxygen environments anticipated for future lunar and Martian missions. Testing demonstrated that a webbing composed of 60% Kevlar®/40% polybenzimidazole (PBI) from Sturges Manufacturing Company, Inc., specifically the natural version, passed flammability testing per NASA-STD-6001B Test 1 using a […]
Jul 31, 2026 7:05 PM
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NASA, SpaceX Advance Wind Tunnel Tests for Starship Rockethttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/esdmd/artemis-campaign-development-division/human-landing-system-program/nasa-spacex-advance-wind-tunnel-tests-for-starship-rocket/NASA and its industry partners are preparing for next year’s Artemis III demonstration mission by completing new wind tunnel tests on SpaceX’s Super Heavy Version 3 rocket booster. The tests, conducted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, focused on better understanding the extreme aerodynamic forces the rocket can experience during re-entry. The […]
Jul 31, 2026 6:39 PM
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NASA Opens New Flight Dynamics Research Facility in Virginiahttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-opens-new-flight-dynamics-research-facility-in-virginia/NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, Friday, providing a critical resource for the agency and its partners to test the safety and performance of future generations of aircraft, rockets, and space exploration vehicles. Located at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility will support advances […]
Jul 31, 2026 5:11 PM
nasa.gov
NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Spacehttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-roman-telescope-to-carry-1-35-million-names-to-deep-space/On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names as part of a commemorative plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The names were submitted by people globally, including astronauts from Artemis II and Artemis III. The memory card will travel with the Roman observatory […]
Jul 31, 2026 2:11 PM
spacenews.com
Inside the effort to show Congress what war in space looks likehttps://spacenews.com/inside-the-effort-to-show-congress-what-war-in-space-looks-like/The Space Force Association’s National Spacepower Center is building an unclassified environment for demonstrating threats to satellites and their consequences on Earth The post Inside the effort to show Congress what war in space looks like appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jul 31, 2026 1:30 PM
bing.com
Is Calorie Counting Safe and Effective for Weight Loss? What You Need to Knowhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89d8991c61470ba3c4150c4675a128&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fdiet-nutrition%2Fcalorie-counting%2Fguide%2F&c=4621741404266703398&mkt=en-usMost modern humans think of calories as a way to keep track of how much they’re eating in a day, particularly if they’re concerned about weight management. There are lots of ways to do this, including ...
Jul 31, 2026 3:28 AM
github.com
Show HN: Open-Cowork – an open-source, model-agnostic computer-use agenthttps://github.com/coasty-ai/open-coworkHi HN,We built Open Cowork, an MIT-licensed desktop agent that can operate a computer through screenshots, mouse input, and keyboard input.We started working on this after using cowork-style computer agents for longer tasks. The interaction model was useful, but computer use burns through model calls much faster than chat: take a screenshot, decide what to do, perform an action, inspect the result, and repeat.We wanted to separate that agent loop from any one model or subscription.Open Cowork currently works with local models through Ollama and hosted models through providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral, and OpenRouter. You can watch the agent’s actions as they happen and interrupt it during a run.The basic loop is:Capture the current screen Send the screenshot and task state to the model Parse the proposed action Execute the mouse or keyboard action Capture the resulting state Continue until completion, interruption, or a safety conditionTwo annoyingly common fai
Jul 30, 2026 5:54 PM
nasa.gov
Starburst Galaxy Centaurus Ahttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/starburst-galaxy-centaurus-a/In this July 6, 2026, image, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, exposing the dusty structures and hidden activity that shape this unusual system. Centaurus A is 11 million light-years away from Earth, relatively close in cosmic terms. Yet, unlike most nearby galaxies, it is very active, […]
Jul 30, 2026 2:24 PM
select.supply
Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gateshttps://select.supply/game/chipbuilderI built ChipBuilder to make computer architecture more approachable through interactive puzzles.You start with basic logic gates like AND, OR, and NOT, then gradually combine them into adders, multiplexers, memory, an ALU, and eventually a complete CPU. Once you've built the hardware, you can write assembly programs that run on the processor you created.The game is inspired by courses like Nand2Tetris, but everything runs directly in the browser with a visual circuit editor, simulations, and progressively harder challenges.
Jul 30, 2026 11:33 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Tell HN: Airbnb updated "necessary" cookies aren'thttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106346Just updated my app today and as usual there are a bunch of “strictly necessary” cookies from 3rd parties like Google Maps and Stripe. But a couple stood out to me.Rive. Seems to be a library for rendering vector animations. I don’t see how their cookies are necessary. This should all be a client-side dependency. Further, animations aren’t even necessary in the first place.Swift-avif-decode. Also a client side library for rendering images. I don’t see any reason they should be adding cookies.
Jul 30, 2026 5:21 AM
science.nasa.gov
New Zealand’s Southern Wildernesshttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/new-zealands-southern-wilderness/Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand’s third-largest island, is known for its vibrant birdlife, unique forests, wilderness beaches, and views of the night sky.
Jul 30, 2026 4:01 AM
spacenews.com
Proposed rule would exempt commercial launch licensing from environmental regulationshttps://spacenews.com/proposed-rule-would-exempt-commercial-launch-licensing-from-environmental-regulations/The Department of Transportation is proposing to exempt commercial space launch licensing from many environmental regulations, a move praised by industry but criticized by environmental groups. The post Proposed rule would exempt commercial launch licensing from environmental regulations appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jul 29, 2026 11:12 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/e
Jul 29, 2026 8:47 PM