Evaluating technical architecture: 11 key criteria and how to apply themBuilding effective IT 101: Knowing what you have is a good first step. But knowing whether what you have is what you ought to have is a different matter. Technical architecture provides a way to ...
Evaluating People "by the Content of Their Character”Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character ...
Ask HN: evaluating project ideas, how do you do it?I've read some articles in the past days about idea verification before diving into it. I think that nails the problem I have when building stuff - it looks like it might be useful for someone to pay for it, but I don't really know. I've given up on "build it and they will come" model because there's simply no time to execute false ideas while maintaining a full time job.My last app is youtube -> mp3 converter, I've spent 3 weeks of midnight grinding building a python powered backend server on top of ffmpeg and another ~2 weeks building the frontend website. Launched in mid Jan it now has very few subscribers, adsense rev. was laughable so I took it off completely. Should I have known how hard it was to gain search engine rankings, how unwilling users are to pay for such service - doubt I'd do that again. But I did not verify it, I simply hoped there's still room in this space (well, maybe I'm just doing it wrong, who knows). How could have I verified it?My next idea is to build a self
IMAGEVeradermics Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Highlights Recent Corporate and Clinical ProgressPositive topline results from open-label Phase 2 Study ‘207’ evaluating VDPHL01 in female pattern hair loss demonstrated rapid onset and consistent hair growth Completion of patient enrollment for ...
Show HN: Vest.fyi – equity calculator shows range of outcomes and benchmarksHi everyone,Employees evaluating startup offers or working at startups face some unique challenges in terms of understanding and evaluating their equity. I’ve had to learn this the hard way.I’m building a platform to help employees evaluate their startup equity (offered or accepted). Two current features: 1. A probabilistic outcome model for your equity offer. Loosely based on real public data, the point is to treat it as a framework with which to visualize the possible range of outcomes, rather than a prediction 2. Benchmark your offer against other offers in the same role x company stageIt’s not necessary to submit an offer to use it, and no company or personal info is saved for saved offers - benchmarking is done by role x stage only.My long term vision is to build a community-based platform where user-submitted offers can build a dataset to help employees evaluate their offers.Another long term idea is to incorporate equity tracking over time for employees that are actively working
IMAGEShow HN: GlossaryPage – Turn customer questions into knowledge pagesHey HN, I built GlossaryPage after noticing companies have long-tail content opportunities that never get created because they fall between blog posts and documentation.The primary use case is marketing teams building glossaries and learning hubs around these topics. The same workflow also works for support teams creating help centers.GlossaryPage helps teams identify unanswered topics, generate drafts with AI, review content, and publish structured knowledge pages.Here is a demo site: https://glossary.glossarypage.comSome things I have been thinking about while building this:1. How to avoid creating more low-quality content?This is a challenge for anyone building AI content tools, and is something I'm working on. The product is focused on generating drafts, but users are responsible for reviewing and approving what gets published. My guess is that as AI systems improve at evaluating quality, there will be less value in publishing low-quality content.2. Why not just use an existing CMS
IMAGENASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural LimitsNASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural design, through a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found left them encouraged about the wing’s potential, even when they pushed it past its intended limits. The 15-foot Structural Wing Experiment Evaluating Truss-bracing (SWEET-15) […]
IMAGEThe optimism in the space economy with Alyssa GoesslerIn this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Alyssa Goessler on what’s driving the optimism in the space economy. They discuss the rigor needed in evaluating companies, the […] The post The optimism in the space economy with Alyssa Goessler appeared first on SpaceNews.
IMAGEFlammability Testing Configuration and Approach of Barrier MaterialAssemblies Designed for Space Flight ApplicationsThe NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) partnered with Materials and Processes and Flammability subject matter experts from the Johnson Space Center, White Sands Test Facility, and the Marshall Space Flight Center to design and develop a test for evaluating the effectiveness of material assemblies to serve as a barrier between a potential cabin ignition […]
IMAGETB 26-02 Effects of Large Grain Size in Composite Overwrapped Pressure VesselThe NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) performed an assessment to characterize the effects of abnormal grain growth (AGG) within a metallic liner of a composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV). This effort focused on evaluating the mechanical response of the liner material, including the strain amplification factor (SAF), using a series of custom-designed coupons that […]
IMAGENASA to Announce New Astronaut Class, Preview Artemis II Moon MissionNASA is opening media accreditation for multi-day events to introduce America’s newest astronaut class and provide briefings for the Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon. The activities will take place in September at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After evaluating more than 8,000 applications, […]
IMAGENASA, Boeing, Consider New Thin-Wing Aircraft Research FocusNASA and Boeing are currently evaluating an updated approach to the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project that would focus on demonstrating thin-wing technology with broad applications for multiple aircraft configurations. Boeing’s proposed focus centers on a ground-based testbed to demonstrate the potential for long, thin-wing technology. Work on the X-66 flight demonstrator – which currently […]
IMAGENASA examining options for another Starliner test flightNASA is evaluating options for another test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle before beginning regular ISS missions. The post NASA examining options for another Starliner test flight appeared first on SpaceNews.
IMAGEStation Science Top News: Dec. 20, 2024A method for evaluating thermophysical properties of metal alloys Simulation of the solidification of metal alloys, a key step in certain industrial processes, requires reliable data on their thermophysical properties such as surface tension and viscosity. Researchers propose comparing predictive models with experimental outcomes as a method to assess these data. Scientists use data on […]
IMAGE2024 SARP West Atmospheric Aerosols GroupFaculty Advisors: Dr. Andreas Beyersdorf, California State University, San Bernardino & Dr. Ann Marie Carlton, University of California Graduate Mentor: Madison Landi, University of California, Irvine Madison Landi, Graduate Mentor Maya Niyogi A Comparative Analysis of Tropospheric NO2: Evaluating TEMPO Satellite Data Against Airborne Measurements Maya Niyogi, Johns Hopkins University Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) plays a […]
IMAGEVirgin Galactic’s stock price drops following failed spaceflight attempt"As we do with every test flight, we are evaluating all the data."
Ask HN: What eval harness holds up in practice, and what is still missing?There’s no shortage of eval frameworks, but once you move past simple single-turn prompt checks into multi-step, tool-calling agents, most of them start to feel either too heavy or too brittle for CI. Testing intermediate trajectories, retries, and non-deterministic state often turns into flaky LLM judges, slow test runs, or snapshot diffs that become painful to maintain.For people evaluating production LLM apps or agents, what harness or setup has actually held up for you without creating more maintenance than it saves? Are you using a dedicated open-source/commercial framework, or did you eventually fall back to custom runners and curated golden sets? And what’s the biggest thing you still wish current eval tooling handled better?
NBA Draft: What Teams Will Suffer Most from New Lottery FormatEvaluating NBA teams that could be harmed by the newest draft lottery rule changes.