bing.com
Palantir And Forward Deployed Engineering: What Should We Believe?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a893a7079ad48e09504fd78dcfacea5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fstevebanker%2F2026%2F07%2F10%2Fpalantir-and-forward-deployed-engineering-what-should-we-believe%2F&c=18264539038853045957&mkt=en-usForbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is ...Jul 10, 2026 6:43 AM
michael480th.github.io
Show HN: Banana Battle – DOS Gorillas rebuilt as a web gamehttps://michael480th.github.io/Banana-Battle/As a kid, I loved to play the DOS Gorillas game where you would throw bananas at your opponent, smashing cities as you go.I wanted to play it, so I rebuilt the classic QBasic/DOS "Gorillas" game from scratch as a mobile web app. It is playable in the browser and installable to your iPhone home screen.It's all vanilla HTML/Canvas/JavaScript. No frameworks, no build step, no dependencies, no tracking. A single static page served from GitHub Pages.A few bits that were fun to build: - Destructible terrain: buildings are painted to an offscreen canvas and explosions erase pixels - Ballistic physics with wind, sub-stepped so a fast banana can't tunnel through a thin building between frames. - Native share sheet (Web Share API) so you can text a friend your result with a "beat my score" challenge linkIt's hot-seat two-player (pass the phone, or share a keyboard: arrows to aim, space to throw).No original Microsoft code or assets — the code and pixel art are all my own (with some help from ClaJul 10, 2026 6:14 AM
news.ycombinator.com
I got tired of every .NET HTML-to-PDF library so I built a free one from scratchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853670Hi all, I've just open-sourced NetPDF, a project I've been building to scratch an itch that's bugged the .NET community for as long as I can remember, there has never been a genuinely free, high-quality HTML-to-PDF library.Every existing route has a real tradeoff:Headless-browser wrappers (Puppeteer/Playwright/Chromium): huge footprint, a native browser to ship and secure, a process to spawn per render.wkhtmltopdf wrappers: built on an unmaintained engine.Commercial libraries: excellent, but licensed per seat/server."Free" libraries: AGPL (viral copyleft) or a revenue cap that becomes a license fee once you grow.After years of working around this, I decided to build the thing I wanted. NetPDF is a real HTML/CSS layout engine written from scratch in C# - the same category as Prince or WeasyPrint, not "automate a browser."What it isA pure C# / .NET 10 engine that parses HTML + CSS and lays it out itself: block, inline, flexbox, grid, and tables, fragmentation across pages, paged-media (@Jul 9, 2026 11:14 PM
letterspractice.com
Show HN: Learn to Read with SRS++https://letterspractice.com/showHNHey everyone. The short story here is that I've made an early literacy app that you are encouraged to try with your pre-literate or only-sorta-literate kids. It's intended to be minimalist, friendly, and efficient. Its preferred-usage pattern is parent-child co-use, and my hope is that it resonates values-wise with parents who are generally screen-time averse (I am such a parent).The main landing page is https://letterspractice.com. The submission link is an annotated view of a live study session, showing some of how the engine surfaces content, and how user-interactions feed back into the engine.The slightly longer story is that (like many around here) I've had a long interest in Anki and SRS generally, and been frustrated at the gap between its effectiveness (high) and its success with respect to penetration into the mainstream (low).So: many years ago I started playing with a web based framework ( https://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder ) for SRS based apps with a broader inJul 9, 2026 6:52 PM
nasa.gov
Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Closehttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/curiosity-sees-martian-sulfur-up-close/This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals — the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to take […]Jul 9, 2026 4:33 PM
spacepolicyonline.com
Japan’s ispace Expanding into Lunar Infrastructurehttps://spacepolicyonline.com/news/japans-ispace-expanding-into-lunar-infrastructure/Japan’s ispace robotic lunar landing company is expanding into the lunar infrastructure business through an agreement with SpaceX. Instead of just landing on the Moon, they are offering end-to-end services […]Jul 8, 2026 8:31 PM
esa.int
New European exercise device begins testing with first rope-pulling workout in spacehttps://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/New_European_exercise_device_begins_testing_with_first_rope-pulling_workout_in_spaceESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has begun testing the European Enhanced Exploration Exercise Device (E4D) on the International Space Station. Installed inside ESA's Columbus laboratory, the new exercise system will spend the next two years helping researchers evaluate innovative ways to keep astronauts healthy during long-duration space missions.Jul 8, 2026 8:36 AM
github.com
Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktophttps://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboatClaude’s desktop app is brilliant, but for our own daily work we kept wanting it to be less like a chat app and more like a full-fledged work app. Rowboat is our attempt at that, including the ability to build your own work surfaces inside Rowboat (more below).Our repo is https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat, and there’s a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et5yQABJ3xIIn a previous startup, we built a deep-learning product for enterprise support reps, including teams supporting P&G brands. Models took live notes, suggested replies, and recommended actions while support reps were on calls or handling emails. One lesson stuck with us: it's not enough for the AI to be right, the help has to show up where the work is happening.So we added what we came to call “work surfaces”: dedicated areas for email, meetings, notes, browser, and parallel coding, where the assistant can help inside the workflow itself rather than only through chat:- Email client: Rowboat has a simple emaiJul 7, 2026 4:10 PM
esa.int
Unpacking Europe’s new weather imagershttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Unpacking_Europe_s_new_weather_imagersThe second Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2) has begun its launch campaign, during which it will go through final inspections before being fitted inside the fairing of the Ariane 6 rocket that will launch it into space towards the end of the summer. So how will this 3800 kg satellite help improve weather forecasts for Europe and North Africa?Jul 7, 2026 8:00 AM
news.google.com
Hunting for Frutiger Aero in Japan: 6 Aesthetic Places To Visithttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijAFBVV95cUxPaVBGTndYQ0pMSV9GQjhxTS1RTms0eWY2TjFwckZpSUZOeXF5a2J0bXgwems1NVJSZlZLUUNzU21USUVWQzZrU3gwVHFhbjY5aTJYVkhqNGNxM1F3MXVTZmhqdzFrU2tucGhsRkFrcDBqRUxnSmM3cUtXUHN0NHN1Q096clZzV3VIX3pTbA?oc=5Hunting for Frutiger Aero in Japan: 6 Aesthetic Places To Visit Tokyo WeekenderJul 6, 2026 7:00 AM
cooked.house
Show HN: I hated how much my 12-year-old played Roblox, so we built our own FPShttps://cooked.houseI'm a father of two, 7 and 12. They are obsessed with Roblox, especially Rivals.Like a lot of parents, we did not love it. We tried the usual things: block it, limit it, set timers." It became a daily battle, a lose-lose situation.So I flipped the problem.Instead of fighting what they loved, I decided to lean into it, but with a twist.Why just play an FPS when you could build one together?My kids became the PMs. Claude and I became their engineer.I was shocked by how fast we moved. We picked a name, Cooked and started building.Get in. Lock in. Get cooked!In the first 3 hours, we had an actual FPS we could play together in the browser.Next day I invited my friend's two kids over. Suddenly, I had four PMs.We had 3 laptops, 1 iPad and 1 iPhone.So in 30mins we added mobile support and could play all 5 together.The kids would ask for features:"Can we have a rocket launcher that knocks people off the map?""The knife should stab faster when you hold it."I know almost nothing about FPS design,Jul 5, 2026 5:14 PM
spacescout.info
Need a Lift? NASA Launches Swift Rescue Missionhttps://www.spacescout.info/2026/07/need-a-lift-nasa-launches-swift-rescue-mission/The LINK spacecraft aims to rendezvous, capture, and reboost NASA’s 21 year old Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.Jul 4, 2026 3:46 PM
news.ycombinator.com
A fleshed-out IPv5 proposalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781622Over 30 years after its introduction, IPv6 has still not replaced IPv4. I've seen those "just add more bits to ipv4, call it ipv5" proposals before. They tend to skip the important details and talk past others, but they have a point. After filling in the details over time, I think this actually works, it'd make a serious difference, and it's doable with the current IPv6 header.Background...Let's assume the IPv6 packet format is already sufficiently supported on routers, hosts, etc. That's not the blocker anymore, rather plenty of ISPs, web services like Github, and corporate networks have chosen not to adopt IPv6. Home routers just enable it, but it's nontrivial for services because it's a separate network from v4 in every way, requiring extensive config changes. End result, almost everyone needs a v4, while many use v6 but don't depend on it.IPv6 absolutely needed a new packet format to support >32-bit addrs. But it made more choices beyond that, largest of which was starting with a fJul 4, 2026 12:43 AM
news.google.com
‘Minions & Monsters’ Review: For the Fools Who Dreamhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiekFVX3lxTE8tNlhvOU5DNG1TWHJIWUp0aWVuMlpqWENpX2FpeFN3UEE4aW5kRDVseHFwMG9lMWdnaDlyNEp4Mnhoa1R2VnY4ZkxobGtldUR5dnJ0QnhvVlFhX1JxZk1XU3Fmc0toQlR1NnRraFVmLUxwZFBHcHRKNWVn?oc=5‘Minions & Monsters’ Review: For the Fools Who Dream Rendy ReviewsJul 2, 2026 7:00 AM
rileywrites.ai
Show HN: Riley – Content That Sounds Like You, Not Like AIhttps://rileywrites.aiWorking for a US company with several, very different, lines of business taught me how difficult it is to post on social media consistently and keeping the essence of each brand in all posts. Standard AI tools helped me get the first draft, but that was it. I would spend hours editing the output to make it sound a bit more like me, but in the end this was more time-consuming than starting from a blank page. Tired of choosing between consistency and maintaining the brand’s essence and my voice, I built Riley. My goal was to teach AI how I sound and the essence of each brand to remove endless prompts and constant tweaking, keep creative momentum, and make content creation a smooth and enjoyable process. Riley learns from previous content you’ve written to generate pieces that sounds like you, not like AI. You can import examples (LinkedIn posts, website copy, social media, etc.), define context with @context-pills for background, audience, and style, and refine with feedback and commentsJul 1, 2026 1:20 PM
spacenews.com
Latitude plans to conduct first launch from Omanhttps://spacenews.com/latitude-plans-to-conduct-first-launch-from-oman/French startup Latitude intends to perform the first launch of its small launch vehicle from a spaceport in Oman in late 2027. The post Latitude plans to conduct first launch from Oman appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 1, 2026 12:03 PM
bing.com
The Best Portable Document Scannerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f10c67824d85a853333e4e707e51&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fwirecutter%2Freviews%2Fbest-portable-document-scanner%2F&c=11566060066551438473&mkt=en-usWe independently review everything we recommend. We may make money from the links on our site. Learn more› By Phil Ryan Phil Ryan is a writer primarily covering photography gear, printers, and ...Jul 1, 2026 9:21 AM
nasa.gov
NextSTEP-3 B: Moon Base Demonstrationshttps://www.nasa.gov/general/nextstep-3-b-moon-base-demonstrations/Notice ID: Coming Soon NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate is seeking innovative ideas from industry partners through a new solicitation appendix under the NextSTEP-3 Omnibus Broad Agency Announcement. Appendix B: Moon Base Demonstrations calls for industry-led demonstrations, risk reduction, and special topic activities that enable an enduring human presence on the lunar surface. NASA’s Moon […]Jun 30, 2026 6:48 PM
esa.int
Time to say goodbye to Sentinel-1Ahttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Time_to_say_goodbye_to_Sentinel-1AAfter 12 years of exceptional service, the pioneering Copernicus Sentinel-1A radar satellite has reached the end of its mission. Originally designed for a seven-year life in orbit, the satellite has exceeded expectations, not only by its longevity, but through the extraordinary impact of its data, which have deepened our understanding of our changing planet and supported a wide range of operational services and laid the foundation for scientific discoveries.Jun 30, 2026 12:30 PM
bing.com
10 Best Online Brokerages For 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85c90678984b24a2a4cd44052ceb2d&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.forbes.com%2ffinancial-services%2fbest-online-brokers-2%2f&c=6462953768451884496&mkt=en-usAs a former staff editor for the banking and investing verticals at Forbes Advisor, Maisha translated complex financial and investment topics into reader-friendly content. She wrote numerous pieces on ...Jun 30, 2026 11:59 AM
