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AI Gets Trapped in a Circular Loop on Climate Sciencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956370Today, I was asking Ai about the Canadian Wildfires and forest management. Instantly, the ai resorted to following the common narrative, and pushed macro human-caused climate change as an “objective fact.” I wanted to push back on the logic of this, because this narrative goes against core principles of scientific transparency. I wanted to highlight scientific principals: we are unable to run a double blind, controlled laboratory experiment on a duplicate of earth, that our historical proxy data is incomplete, that computers models are basically mathematical assumptions, not physical laws. This time the ai model abandoned the canned scripts, and completely broke character admitting that framing a predictive theory as an absolute “fact” for the masses is an ethical failure and it damages scientific transparency. Here is exactly where the turning point of the conversation that caused the models logic to completely collapse “ User: if science cant claim something is a definitive fact thenJul 18, 2026 9:03 AM
latimes.com
Trump escalates election attacks, threatens California over voter datahttps://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-07-17/trump-allies-seek-to-sow-mistrust-about-election-security-ahead-of-midtermsTrump delivered a prime-time address on Thursday night about vulnerabilities in the election system, claims that largely were not backed up by the evidence he provided.Jul 17, 2026 9:55 PM
nasa.gov
Establishing a VTE Risk Score for Astronauts Algorithmhttps://www.nasa.gov/organizations/ochmo/establishing-a-vte-risk-score-for-astronauts-algorithm/In April 2026, NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review updated VTE case information, additional data gathered revealing altered blood flow status within a cohort of astronauts, and discuss progress of research and clinical activities intended to mitigate the risk of VTE during spaceflight with new […]Jul 17, 2026 9:01 PM
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A Tide-Fueled Trove of Biodiversity in Guinea-Bissauhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/a-tide-fueled-trove-of-biodiversity-in-guinea-bissau/The expansive mudflats, sandy beaches, and mangrove forests of the Bijagós archipelago support an array of migratory shorebirds and large numbers of sea turtles.Jul 17, 2026 4:01 AM
vektorgeist.com
Show HN: Vektorgeist- A platform for AI operators and their agent'shttps://vektorgeist.com/VektorGeist is a platform designed for AI operators to discover, share, and distribute AI resources in one place. The platform brings together: AI tools MCP servers Prompts Workflows Templates Agents Technical articles A community for collaboration Recent updates include selectable layouts, customizable themes, an immersive interface, community profiles, and a marketplace for sharing projects and resources. The goal is to create a central hub where AI operators can find practical resources, contribute their own work, and collaborate with others without having to search across dozens of different platforms. Feedback is welcome, especially on: Overall user experience Features that would improve the platform Missing functionality Ideas for making it more useful for AI operators Website: https://vektorgeist.com Discord:https://discord.gg/EEsMTJ73mJul 16, 2026 9:52 PM
github.com
Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills without context bloathttps://github.com/ratel-ai/ratelHi HN! We're Giacomo and Roberto, authors of Ratel (https://github.com/ratel-ai/ratel)We used to help SaaS companies build agents on top of their products. Whenever we wanted to expand the agents’ complexity/scope, by adding more and more tools and instructions, we always run in the same issue: context bloat, with frequent hallucinations and sky high token bills. So we started constantly engineering the agents, dynamically loading tools, splitting them into subagents, inventing our own way to support skillsAnd that's exactly when we started building Ratel: a library to let your agent keep its full catalog of tools and skills, but progressively disclosing only the few that actually matter for each turn. Now you can grow your agent's capabilities without breaking it or taking out a loan for itPeople are already using it in production, with a user cutting their token cost up to 81% in the first month without compromising the accuracyWe support both keyword and semantic retrieval, all in-pJul 16, 2026 4:11 PM
pokayoke.codes
Show HN: Pokayoke – turn code conventions into checks for agentshttps://pokayoke.codesHey HN,Something I've been tinkering with in the background is a system to manage the "messy-middle" of TypeScript toolchains. Quite often, when I'm using Biome or any of the other linter / formatters, there will be repo conventions that I want to enforce (especially with AI agents), but which aren't supported by them, such as:- Enforcing lines-of-code limits in modules - Never using custom TailWind colors - Only using lowercase underscores in filenamesLike, this is quite "random" but also bread-and-butter stuff that it's easy to think or talk about when you're working by yourself or with a few other human teammates, but I've found that agents consistently miss these conventions if I put them in an AGENTS.md file for example.I wanted to make my esoteric repo conventions less stochastic, and more deterministic. I realised that agents are adept at writing the kind of code needed to run arbitrary checks on the TypeScript AST or workspace environment -- the kind of code that is cumbersome Jul 16, 2026 9:40 AM
spacenews.com
Swissto12 raises $70 million to accelerate small GEO satellite productionhttps://spacenews.com/swissto12-raises-70-million-to-accelerate-small-geo-satellite-production/Swissto12 said it has raised $70 million in fresh funding to keep up with growing demand for its small geostationary satellite manufacturing business. The post Swissto12 raises $70 million to accelerate small GEO satellite production appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 16, 2026 7:00 AM
nasa.gov
NASA Uses Subscale Aircraft to Accelerate Flight Innovationhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/nasa-uses-subscale-aircraft-to-accelerate-flight-innovation/Testing new aerospace concepts in flight remains one of NASA’s most effective ways to advance knowledge and reduce risk. The Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, supports this mission by using small, remotely piloted and autonomous aircraft as cost‑effective platforms to mature innovative ideas, accelerate learning, […]Jul 15, 2026 9:56 PM
github.com
Show HN: OtoDock, run Claude Code and Codex as a team of agents on your serverhttps://github.com/OtoDock/oto-dock/Hi HN, i am Dimitris,I have been using Claude Code and Codex agents, for some time now from the beggining i had been using them from inside my terminal mainly for coding.For the past 3 years i kept building so i have a homelab and a business server, which already has a lot of vms, so a lot of things to manage.So i decided to start building my own ideal version of using claude code, and codex flexibly and connect them easily with all my vms and infra but at the same time keep using them for coding, and as a personal assistant for daily use.So for the past months I built OtoDock. Its a self hosted platform, that runs real CLaude code and Codex as the engine. On top of them i build a live dashboard with websockets and integrated in depth the clis, so its even nicer to work with the cli through the dashboard instead of working on the terminal. I even ended up integrating interactive terminals as well (due to the subscription change Anthropic was trying to do for harnesses) so you can also Jul 15, 2026 4:11 PM
c100k.eu
Show HN: Running server scripts from smartphone via SSHhttps://c100k.eu/p/rebootx/updates/20260714-remote-runbooksI've added Remote Runbooks to RebootX, a mobile app for managing cloud and on-prem infrastructure, available on iOS and Android (freemium).The idea is simple: when PagerDuty wakes you up, many incidents boil down to executing the same sequence of SSH commands or operational steps. Instead of opening a laptop, you can execute a predefined runbook directly from your phone.Very usefyl when you're on the go.The scripts are retrieved from the server at `/usr/local/sbin/rebootx/runbooks`, also via SSH. If a script is prefixed with `__` (2 underscores), it's considered dangerous and the app warns you about it and ask for confirmation before executing it.Some will argue that with the perfect infra, you don't have to do all of this. By experience, none of us have the perfect infra so SSH-ing into the server (e.g VPS) is often required.Happy to hear about your feedback or ideas of improvement.Jul 15, 2026 1:30 PM
bing.com
ETF vs. Index Fund: The Difference and Which to Usehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f5bd745f4303940361b5255cf5db&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoney.usnews.com%2Finvesting%2Farticles%2Fetf-vs-index-fund&c=2243204077678661571&mkt=en-usUnderstanding the difference between an exchange-traded fund, or ETF, and an index fund becomes much easier once the two concepts are separated. Sign up for stock news with our Invested newsletter. An ...Jul 15, 2026 6:53 AM
github.com
Show HN: GLP-RAM – Chrome extension reducing the browser memory appetitehttps://github.com/chebykinn/glp-ramHi!I've been struggling to use Chrome on my M1 Mac, because of how much RAM it eats, and memory saver wasn't enough.I've made this extension based on combination of features on multiple separate extensions: 1. When you click on the new tab, only the first tab loads in background, the rest will have a placeholder until you click. 2. Only 3 active tabs per window are allowed to be loaded, the rest will be killed. 3. The extension watches if you have unsaved input, paused or active media, or if the page is configured to send notifications and it keeps these tabs alive.I've been using it for a couple of weeks and it allows me to open way too many tabs to handle :)The extension is published in Chrome Web Store, let me know if you have any questions!Jul 14, 2026 4:14 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: PhDs, how have you organized your research visits?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48906413Hi HN! Using a throwaway account but looking for advice from people having done research visits as PhD students, especially in terms of funding/accommodation/whether such an experience is worth the cost.I'm a second-year PhD candidate in France, working in NLP. In January I contacted a professor from another university in the Netherlands to ask about a research visit opportunity -- I did this because both my university and hers were part of a funding program for research visits. We had a call and she was very interested in my topic and the potential help I could give for her project (and I'm also very interested in what she's working on).I applied to this funding but my application was rejected because my university told me I should apply to another funding program specific to the university. I did that in March, but things have been going downhill, as the person who is supposed to deal with the applications left, and everything's mostly been on standby since. Thus, I haven't received Jul 14, 2026 1:19 PM
bing.com
Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AIhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88fe13f64448d79b61c2c947fec710&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2Farticle%2F2026%2F07%2F13%2Fopen-source-ai-mozilla-rebel-alliance%2F&c=17342815863819643597&mkt=en-usFollow this section to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Personalized Content Follow this tag to personalize your feed and get ...Jul 14, 2026 4:59 AM
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Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AIhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f527bb3642028ff75d64ee93f6ed&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2Farticle%2F2026%2F07%2F13%2Fopen-source-ai-mozilla-rebel-alliance%2F&c=17342815863819643597&mkt=en-usFollow this section to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Personalized Content Follow this tag to personalize your feed and get ...Jul 14, 2026 4:59 AM
duiduidui.app
Show HN: Duiduidui is a new Chinese dictionary and flashcard apphttps://duiduidui.app/en/Hello everyone! I'm a solo developer, and intermediate Chinese learner, and I just launched a new Chinese app I want to share with you.My own Chinese language study stack used to be Pleco (and Goog Translate) for dictionary lookups, and then Anki for flashcard reviews, with a lot of manual copy-pasting in between. Which worked... okay. But the two sides never talked to each other. Pleco doesn't know what I'm studying, and Anki doesn't know anything about Chinese. So it treats 好吃 and 好 as totally unrelated cards, even though getting one right obviously tells you something about the other.So I built duiduidui! (对对对), which is basically those two tools fused together, with a study engine that actually models how Chinese is structured:- A dictionary with 200k+ entries, always available/searchable offline (characters, words, phrases, sample sentences, speech audio) where everything is linked. Every character links to the words it appears in, and the radicals it's built from, so you can (forJul 13, 2026 7:15 PM
spacenews.com
Reditus Space completes first reentry vehiclehttps://spacenews.com/reditus-space-completes-first-reentry-vehicle/Reditus Space, a startup developing recoverable and reusable spacecraft, has completed its first vehicle for launch later this year. The post Reditus Space completes first reentry vehicle appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 13, 2026 1:02 PM
bing.com
Padra Publishes Proposed Social Downtime Framework For Aesthetic Carehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e3924e214e9abac9ed2b07ae6d89&url=https%3a%2f%2fmenafn.com%2f1111386173%2fPadra-Publishes-Proposed-Social-Downtime-Framework-For-Aesthetic-Care&c=9826831927932042479&mkt=en-us(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- Padra, part of Fakhraei Group, has published a proposed patient-experience framework for measuring“social downtime” following aesthetic treatments. The ...Jul 12, 2026 5:01 AM
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Padra Publishes Proposed Social Downtime Framework For Aesthetic Carehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85c8a4758c42648c4a6838d79142db&url=https%3a%2f%2fmenafn.com%2f1111386173%2fPadra-Publishes-Proposed-Social-Downtime-Framework-For-Aesthetic-Care&c=9826831927932042479&mkt=en-us(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- Padra, part of Fakhraei Group, has published a proposed patient-experience framework for measuring“social downtime” following aesthetic treatments. The ...Jul 12, 2026 5:01 AM
