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
news.google.com
Crypto Market Review (Q3 2026)https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiigFBVV95cUxPWFZUTC0tc0Jhd3NnVjNBUGF0U0hZRVRfQWxxbkFfU2s2LUFYRXlwaElvdHFWdTlaZnlfdnpkUWx5NG5vTUNpR1hFbDR0bEZ2TDRnMDNNQndHX0d3OUZ0UDJ5UTJkVUdSd1hwc2JoSk0xV21iZ09xb3hCUGpKSzhNTXZ3a3NwVWxMT0E?oc=5Crypto Market Review (Q3 2026) Bitwise InvestmentsJul 9, 2026 8:47 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
pandapage.clawshop.sh
Show HN: PandaPage – host an HTML page with one curl, no signup, auto-expireshttps://pandapage.clawshop.shI wanted to put a quick HTML page online to share, a mockup or a one-off demo, without a signup, a git repo, or a build step. Existing options all wanted one of those, so I built this.One request creates a site:``` curl -X POST https://pandapage.clawshop.sh/api/deploy \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ -d '{"files":{"index.html":"hi"}}' ```You get back a URL like pandapage.clawshop.sh// and a token. The token is the only thing gating updates and deletes, so there are no accounts. You can also POST a zip instead of JSON, and binaries go as base64.Pages expire after 24h by default (configurable per deploy from 10 minutes to 7 days, and re-deploying resets the clock). Expiry is a KV key TTL, so a page starts returning 404 the moment it lapses, and an R2 lifecycle rule sweeps the underlying files a few days later. No cron job.Because it is just a JSON API with no auth handshake, coding agents can deploy to it directly. I gave Claude Code a short prompt and now "host this page" turns iJul 9, 2026 7:22 AM

spacenews.com
New Singapore space agency seeks to build up the country’s space industryhttps://spacenews.com/new-singapore-space-agency-seeks-to-build-up-the-countrys-space-industry/Singapore’s new space agency signed a cooperation agreement with its Japanese counterpart as part of its efforts to build up the country’s space industry. The post New Singapore space agency seeks to build up the country’s space industry appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 9, 2026 3:31 AM

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
github.com
Show HN: envapt, typed env config for decoupled TS codebases (Node to edge)https://github.com/materwelonDhruv/envaptHi HN. I'm Dhruv and I've been working on envapt for about a year now and I've FINALLY completed the roadmap I scope creeped and QA'd over the past few months. It reads environment config in TypeScript and returns the typed value instead of string | undefined, from whatever source you bind. It runs on Node, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, the browser, and well, anywhere.Most typed-env libraries have you declare every variable in one central schema and read the result from one object. That works well for a single application. Mostly. That didn't work for me because in a framework or a monorepo, decoupled packages each read their own config values, and sharing one config object across every package just doesn't make sense to me, plus some other nits.envapt does the opposite. You bind a source once at startup, and on Node/Deno/Bun it binds your .env files and process.env for you, with cascading profiles per environment. After that, ANY typed read in ANY file uses that source, and each valuJul 8, 2026 4:14 PM

europeanspaceflight.com
Loft Orbital Books Multiple Launches Aboard MaiaSpace Rocketshttps://europeanspaceflight.com/loft-orbital-books-multiple-launches-aboard-maiaspace-rockets/US-based satellite operator Loft Orbital has signed a multi-launch agreement with ArianeGroup subsidiary MaiaSpace. Although the announcement provided few details, it did share that the first flight was expected in 2028. In an 8 July press release, MaiaSpace explained that the multi-launch agreement “consolidates its launch manifest,” adding that the company has now sold more […] The post Loft Orbital Books Multiple Launches Aboard MaiaSpace Rockets appeared first on European Spaceflight.Jul 8, 2026 3:03 PM
whentofly.io
Show HN: Whentofly – flexible-date flight search that says if the price is goodhttps://whentofly.ioHi there! My name is Dima, that's my first post here. Originally I'm an iOS Engineer for 6+ years but now I'm diving deep into AI, product building and everything around it.Here I want to present my first product which I built for two months - as usual for tech background guy I was trying to make it perfect but then decided to start distributing it along future improvements, anywayI got an idea when were discussing another travel idea with my personal agent - it can suggest where to fly, what are places to visit and etc but can't find the best windows to fly there, and nobody can - every time you need to open Google Flights, Kayak and search each date, then watch it and try to figure out is it a good price or not, should you wait 2 days or buy it right now? And each website provides different rates... Using API even not freeSo I build this one. Under the hood we put fares from different sources, aggregators, cross-checked against live market prices. The verdict compares the price with Jul 8, 2026 12:38 PM

spacenews.com
Venus Aerospace raises $91 million to scale rocket engine technologyhttps://spacenews.com/venus-aerospace-raises-91-million-to-scale-rocket-engine-technology/Funding will support development and production of the company’s rotating detonation rocket engine The post Venus Aerospace raises $91 million to scale rocket engine technology appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 8, 2026 12:00 PM

spacenews.com
Apolink makes contact with first relay satellitehttps://spacenews.com/apolink-makes-contact-with-first-relay-satellite/Apolink has made contact with its first satellite after launching on SpaceX’s July 7 rideshare mission, clearing the way for a data relay demonstration using a novel experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission. The post Apolink makes contact with first relay satellite appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 7, 2026 6:11 PM

nasa.gov
NASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refugehttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasa-transfers-hundred-acre-wood-to-patuxent-research-refuge/NASA ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of wooded land at its Goddard Space Flight Center’s Greenbelt, Maryland, campus Tuesday to the adjoining Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The property, formerly known as NASA Goddard’s Area 400, is now part of the largest block of unfragmented forest between […]Jul 7, 2026 6:00 PM
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

spaceflightnow.com
Live coverage: Fire detectors, military tech demos, 3D printers among SpaceX rideshare payloads launching on midnight Falcon 9 flighthttps://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/06/live-coverage-fire-detectors-military-tech-demos-3d-printers-among-spacex-rideshare-payloads-launching-on-midnight-falcon-9-flight/SpaceX will launch a series of 81 payloads to a Sun-synchronous Earth orbit over a roughly 2.5-hour-long deployment period. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled during a 95-minute window that opens at 12:10 a.m. PDT (0310 EDT / 0710 UTC).Jul 6, 2026 9:36 PM
bing.com
What are forward deployed engineers?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a893a7079ad48e09504fd78dcfacea5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Finvesting%2F2026%2F07%2F06%2Famazon-follows-palantirs-playbook-how-forward-dep%2F&c=18056087607884979658&mkt=en-usThe reality is that modern cloud and AI deployments involve intricate data workflows, stringent security requirements, and integrations with legacy systems that generic documentation or remote support ...Jul 6, 2026 5:00 PM

nasa.gov
NASA’s CAPSTONE Completes Extended Mission Testing Lunar Technologieshttps://www.nasa.gov/technology/space-comms/nasas-capstone-completes-extended-mission-testing-lunar-technologies/As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, validated and advanced these capabilities. Designed to test and validate technologies in lunar orbit, CAPSTONE launched […]Jul 6, 2026 3:00 PM

europeanspaceflight.com
Italy Brings IRIDE Earth Observation Service Onlinehttps://europeanspaceflight.com/italy-brings-iride-earth-observation-service-online/Italy’s IRIDE Earth observation service went live on 1 July, opening initial access to imagery and analytics from one of the programme’s planned six satellite constellations for government users. The operational phase officially began at 00:01 CEST on 1 July with the “IRIDE First Operational Tasking”, which included the acquisition of the programme’s first operational […] The post Italy Brings IRIDE Earth Observation Service Online appeared first on European Spaceflight.Jul 6, 2026 2:58 PM
bing.com
13 Best Forex Trading Platforms for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8913afb55e47d691f92911dfcfafd2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fxempire.com%2Fbrokers%2Fbest%2Fforex-software-platforms&c=16599072095770682802&mkt=en-usFibonacci Retracements Explained: How to Spot Key Reversal Levels in 2026 The trading platform is your gateway into the market. You can use it to study price action behavior and to manage your trades.Jul 6, 2026 10:27 AM
github.com
Show HN: Home Page as a Chatbothttps://github.com/haltakov/chatbot-pageHey HN, I created a simple library that you can use to create a home page that is a chatbot that knows things about you.You can have predefined questions and answers, use a real LLM and RAG with documents about you and even jump in real-time into an active chat session through Telegram. I use it for my home page, but decided to turn it into a library so others can easily use it as well.You can see it in action at https://haltakov.comJul 4, 2026 3:13 PM

arstechnica.com
At 250 years, there are still reasons for hope in Americahttps://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/at-250-years-there-are-still-reasons-for-hope-in-america/It's difficult to pinpoint the moment in my life where America started to lose the plot.Jul 3, 2026 11:30 AM