news.ycombinator.com
I packed an Interactive 3D Encyclopedia into 1MBhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309851Greetings everyone.I'm building Expeditione ( https://expeditione.fun ), an Interactive 3D Encyclopedia. Most of the web has gotten bloated and boring, so one of my strict constraint for this project is extreme optimization.The core engine and landing page sit at just 1MB, utilizing only 9 draw calls. The goal is to make web-based learning immersive and purely driven by curiosity, without requiring users to download a heavy app or wait for massive assets to load.Stack & Optimization: -- Built with custom WebGL/Three.js and GSAP. -- Aggressive geometry merging and texture baking in Blender to hit that 9 draw call target. -- Custom GLSL shaders designed specifically for low latency on any device.Currently, the "Layers of Soil" expedition is live (which runs around 4MB total), and I am currently reconstructing Ancient Egypt for the next major chapter.I'd love to hear your feedback on the performance, or how it runs on your specific hardware. Happy to answer any questions about the optimizMar 9, 2026 2:48 PM
sinkhole.app
Show HN: Sinkhole – 30 free browser-based tools, no signup, MIT licensedhttps://www.sinkhole.appI built this because I kept paying monthly fees for tools I use maybe twice a month — TinyPNG, SmallPDF, iLovePDF, Convertio etc.Sinkhole replaces all of them: - Image tools: compress, convert, resize, crop, rotate, blur, HEIC→JPG, remove background - PDF tools: merge, split, compress, unlock, PDF→images - Text tools: word counter, JSON formatter, Base64, URL encoder, Markdown preview - Video tools: compress, video→GIF, thumbnail extractor - Dev tools: webhook tester, website screenshotEverything runs in the browser or via a lightweight API. No accounts, no watermarks, no file retention, MIT licensed.GitHub: https://github.com/BoringEuropeanDev/sinkholeFeedback welcome — especially on tools people wish existed.Mar 9, 2026 1:07 PM
bing.com
The Best PDF Editor for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb04596dc4e85a1ece1ccbb2fe12b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmag.com%2Fpicks%2Fthe-best-pdf-editor&c=6098205884082726939&mkt=en-usWant to correct errors or update content in a PDF? Whether you prefer a powerful, corporate-friendly solution or a basic app you can use at no cost, we're here to help you find the right PDF software ...Mar 9, 2026 12:08 PM
nasa.gov
From Cabbages to Countdowns: NASA Marks 100 Years of Modern Rocketryhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/from-cabbages-to-craters-nasa-marks-one-century-of-modern-rocketry/Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning 100 years ago, when a college professor and his wife took a morning drive to the family farm a few miles south in Auburn, Massachusetts. Along for the ride, the couple brought two work colleagues — and “Nell.” They may not have known it at the time, but […]Mar 9, 2026 12:00 PM
esa.int
ESA analysing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/ESA_analysing_fireball_over_Europe_on_8_March_2026At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday 8 March 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast was observed by many people in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.Mar 9, 2026 10:40 AM
news.google.com
This 15-Minute Creamy Cheese Sauce Upgrades Steaks, Chicken, and Morehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiekFVX3lxTE95SWdSaXpzeV9KTE1fQ0s3NGVKeDlJcWlkbVNlX2xaM1RxNTMxanhxZmVrRmtOakIxT2I1SWJHT1ZmdFNsNzB1RC1YR21iSmxPMGFXR1IzUlB6YXpiS2tJNUpzMFl3b2JaVWtJdFhnVExjT0Y4bEtmcm5B?oc=5This 15-Minute Creamy Cheese Sauce Upgrades Steaks, Chicken, and More Serious EatsMar 9, 2026 7:00 AM
bing.com
Microsoft Unveils E7 Suite, Copilot Cowork In Enterprise AI Pushhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cdb63884543e5b0402bdfc3eeec88&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crn.com%2Fnews%2Fai%2F2026%2Fmicrosoft-unveils-e7-suite-copilot-cowork-in-enterprise-ai-offensive&c=12653947945781903352&mkt=en-us“Intelligence cannot scale without that trust,” says Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president of Microsoft Security. Microsoft’s latest moves to dominate the growing enterprise artificial intelligence ...Mar 9, 2026 6:00 AM
bing.com
Alliant Energy: Grow Your Income With This Durable Utilityhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88d2760d6d41aea0cf836ac76856d9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F4879930-alliant-energy-grow-your-income-with-this-durable-utility%3Ffr%3D1&c=4136933456108542367&mkt=en-usIt pays to have a defensively positioned portfolio, as downside protection matters more than upside potential in trying times. With the price of oil surging higher, sectors of the economy will be ...Mar 9, 2026 6:00 AM
spacedaily.com
Hostage to the Moon - How Artemis Became Industrial Welfare in a Space Suit - Part 2https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Hostage_to_the_Moon_How_Artemis_Became_Industrial_Welfare_in_a_Space_Suit_Part_2_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 NASA says it has finally found the "back to basics" recipe to get Americans back on the Moon by 2028. A new intermediate mission, standardized hardware, a faster launch cadence: on paper, the Artemis overhaul looks like a sober course correction after years of drift.Mar 9, 2026 5:07 AM
spacedaily.com
Course Correction or Controlled Crash? Inside NASA's Artemis Overhaul - Part 1https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Course_Correction_or_Controlled_Crash_Inside_NASAs_Artemis_Overhaul_Part_1_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 NASA says it has finally found the 'back to basics' recipe to get Americans back on the Moon by 2028. A new intermediate mission, standardized hardware, a faster launch cadence: on paper, the Artemis overhaul looks like a sober course correction after years of drift. Look a little closer, though, and the same changes read like a managed soft-landing for a program that is structurally broken andMar 9, 2026 5:07 AM
spacedaily.com
Apollo Cosplay on a 21st-Century Clock - Why Artemis Keeps Slipping Toward 2029 - Part 3https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Apollo_Cosplay_on_a_21st_Century_Clock_Why_Artemis_Keeps_Slipping_Toward_2029_Part_3_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 NASA's latest reboot of the Artemis Moon program comes with familiar language: 'back to basics,' 'muscle memory,' 'step-by-step,' and an explicit nod to the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo playbook. The agency wants to fly more often, change hardware less, and build up capability incrementally, just like the 1960s. The problem is that Artemis is trying to cosplay Apollo in a world with very different politics, partners and rivals - and the gaps are showing.Mar 9, 2026 5:07 AM
socialproof.dev
Show HN: SocialProof – collect written testimonials from clients with one linkhttps://socialproof.dev/I built SocialProof after noticing that most freelancers and small agencies have a bunch of happy clients but almost no written testimonials on their site – because asking for them is awkward and the follow-through rate is low.SocialProof gives you a single shareable link. You send it to a client, they fill a short form (name, text, optional photo), you approve it in your dashboard, and it appears on any page you embed the widget on.No login required for clients submitting testimonials. The collection form is open – you can try submitting one here: https://socialproof.dev/c/frm_iOEPvPH9TzPypGMFNhYPVStack: Cloudflare Workers + D1 + Pages, React frontend. Free to start, paid plans for multiple widgets.Happy to answer questions about the technical decisions or the problem space.Mar 9, 2026 4:58 AM
github.com
Show HN: Admiran: a pure, lazy functional language and self-hosting compilerhttps://github.com/taolson/AdmiranI wrote this over the past two years to explore how pure, lazy, functional languages like Haskell and Miranda are implemented and efficiently compiled. It has evolved into a fairly small (~7kloc) compiler written in itself, along with a library of pure, functional data structures. Even though the compiler is small enough to be read and understood by a single person, it implements:* lazy lists, tuples, pattern matching, range and list comprehension syntax, algebraic data types, abstract data types, modules, user-defined value and type operators, etc.* 19-pass compiler with whole-program compilation, inter-module inlining and optimizations, automatic derivation of comparison and show functions, module serialization / deserialization for caching module compiles* Hindley-Milner type inference and checking* Small runtime implements 2-generation compacting garbage collector* Library includes implementations of map, set, bag, immutable and mutable vectors, functor/applicative/monad for maybe,Mar 8, 2026 9:17 PM
github.com
Show HN: ForgeTerm – Terminal for multi-project workflows with auto-tilinghttps://github.com/codama-dev/forgetermForgeTerm is an open-source terminal emulator built for developers who juggle multiple projects at once.Key features: - Workspaces: group related projects and open them all with one click - Auto-tiling: windows arranged side-by-side, master-detail, or grid based on project count - Per-project color theming so you can tell windows apart at a glance (10 built-in presets + Peacock sync for VS Code) - Automatic sessions: define named terminal sessions (dev server, test watcher, shell) that auto-launch with each project - Import from VS Code Project Manager in one click — works with Cursor and Windsurf too - Per-project .forgeterm.json config that travels with the repoCurrently ships as a macOS DMG for Apple Silicon (v0.2.0). Windows/Linux/Intel Mac: build from source with `pnpm build`.Looking for feedback, contributors, and bug reporters. All contributions welcome!Mar 8, 2026 8:22 PM
github.com
Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feedshttps://github.com/BigBodyCobain/ShadowbrokerSup HN,So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker.I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance.Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop with an i5 and an RTX 3050, and initially, dumping 30k+ moving GeoJSON features onto the map just crashed everything. I ended up having to write pretty aggressive viewport culling, debounce the state updates, and compress the FastAPI payloads by like 90% just to make it usable.My favorite part is the signal layer—it actually calculates live GPS jamming zones by aggregating the real-time navigation degradationMar 8, 2026 7:07 PM
news.ycombinator.com
I'd like to get everyone's thoughts on Solidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298697Personally, I prefer using JSX for frontend projects, and I believe that No-Virtual DOM is truly a "next-gen" concept. Because of this, I’ve been following SolidJS for several years now and have watched it mature step-by-step. However, I regretfully feel that Solid's development momentum hasn't been particularly strong. To me, it feels a bit like FreeBSD, something niche and geeky (though I would much prefer it to be the "Next-Gen React" and hope for its widespread adoption).What exactly is hindering its popularity? Is it the lack of a flagship application (as far as I know, the most popular project using Solid is OpenCode, but I’m not aware of many others), or is it the lack of backing from major tech companies?Speaking of corporate backing, from what I gather, among the new generation of No-Virtual DOM frameworks, Svelte seems to have higher adoption than Solid. For instance, Apple uses Svelte. What is the primary reason for this? Is it simply that people prefer Vue-style template syMar 8, 2026 4:40 PM
movie-chain.com
Show HN: Movie site built on a game enginehttps://movie-chain.com/I'm an ex-gamedev (Guitar Hero) who built a movie website that looks like a Trello board. Each column can contain a different movie or cast member. Load pre-made boards or create your own by dragging and dropping between the columns. You can share boards with others.For example, start with Quentin Tarantino’s movies in Column 1, put the cast of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in Column 2, then put Brad Pitt’s entire filmography in Column 3. Keep going as long as you want, building a "chain" ala Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.I was frustrated that all popular movie websites are page-oriented: one HTML page per movie or person. I asked myself what a movie site designed in 2026 would look like, in an era when full-screen canvas sites like Miro are common. And then asked what if the site was built on a game engine? I used PixiJS.I ingested TMDB movie data into my own SQLite database head of time, so there are no external API calls at runtime. This was necessary because opening a board with 100'sMar 8, 2026 3:17 PM
bing.com
Bankruptcy: Explaining Chapter 7 vs. Chapter 13http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b85a12f7c42e68e66f2d3bfcf8e0a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Farticles%2Fpf%2F07%2Fbankruptcy.asp&c=10077129311764917857&mkt=en-usInvestopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered ...Mar 8, 2026 2:16 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How to be alone?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296547For the first time in my life, at 38, I'm alone. When I was 18 I basically moved out of my parents' straight in with my highschool sweetheart, and we were together ever since. That chapter of my life is over now, and I'm finding the adjustment very difficult.There are a few parts to the difficulty. One is that when I have something to say about my day, there's nowhere to say it; no one on HN cares whether I fixed up the blinds or cooked pork steaks. I hang out in an IRC chatroom for that, but sometimes nobody's around for hours.Another is that weekends are hard. I used to be in a house filled with life each weekend, and now it's me and my dog (and my cat, when he decides to grace me with his presence). Having animals helps somewhat, but it's still hard simply being alone with myself for ~60 hours.I'm also finding it difficult to think of things to do. My default action is to play games, but it feels empty, both because I used to be able to play games alongside someone else and because Mar 8, 2026 11:41 AM
bing.com
Amy Luciani claims Dwight Howard has a cocaine problem and coached stepson to lie to the policehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cf8e1b4d748549f50c50bc6d28492&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Flifestyle%2Frelationships%2Famy-luciani-claims-dwight-howard-has-a-cocaine-problem-and-coached-stepson-to-lie-to-the-police%2Far-AA1XLpGr&c=14326730951138902894&mkt=en-usDwight Howard has found himself at the center of a growing social media storm after his wife, Amy Luciani, posted a series of emotional videos detailing serious allegations about their marriage. In a ...Mar 8, 2026 5:34 AM
