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NASA ready for another shot at launching Artemis 2 moon missionhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2026/03/13/nasa-ready-for-another-shot-at-launching-artemis-2-moon-mission/At the conclusion of a two-day flight readiness review, "all the teams polled 'go' to launch and fly Artemis 2 around the moon, pending completion of some of the work before we roll out to the launch pad," said Lori Glaze, associate administrator of Exploration Systems Development at NASA Headquarters.Mar 13, 2026 8:34 PM
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GVIS Virtual Systems Simulationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-virtual-systems-simulations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Virtual System Simulations The GVIS Lab prides itself on creating […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Conceptual Visual Designshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-conceptual-visual-designs/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Conceptual Visual Designs GVIS creates conceptual visual designs for proposed […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Scientific Visualizationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-scientific-visualizations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Scientific Visualizations GVIS creates scientific visualizations to explain complex scientific […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Test Facilities Visualizationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-test-facilities-visualizations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support for NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop solutions to bring their projects to life. Test Facility Models GVIS creates visualizations of various NASA test facilities. […]Mar 13, 2026 2:53 PM
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Help Galaxy Zoo: Tidal Tales Open Cosmic Storybookhttps://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/help-galaxy-zoo-tidal-tales-open-cosmic-storybook/Galaxies carry the imprints of past encounters. When they pass near one another or collide, gravity pulls their stars into long tails, thin streams, and faint shells – features that preserve the history of these dramatic events. Thanks to deep, high-resolution images from the Euclid space telescope, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with critical contributions from NASA, we can now see these delicate structures more clearly than ever before in unprecedented numbers.Mar 12, 2026 3:41 PM
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Ask HN: Can a word game work as a competitive strategy esport?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347625I've been experimenting with a browser game design problem.Most word games (Scrabble, Wordle, etc.) are either slow or mostly about vocabulary. I wanted to see if it was possible to build one that behaves more like a competitive strategy game — something closer to chess in terms of tension and reversals.The result is a prototype called The Word Gambit. The board grows organically from placed words, and late-game detonations from long words can swing the match dramatically.The surprising thing during testing is that matches often feel more like territory control than spelling.Players also started creating AI opponents ("gladiators") and pitting them against each other, which I didn't originally plan.I'm curious about a few design questions:• Can vocabulary realistically function as a competitive skill in an esport context? • What mechanics would make a word-based game strategically deep rather than dictionary-driven? • Would spectators even enjoy watching something like this?If anyone iMar 12, 2026 7:37 AM
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I'm struggling and I don't have anyone else to share this with except youhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341498I'm hurting in ways that I haven't in a long time. I work corporate, I'm in my 30s, support my wife and kids. I come to work every day and work hard, but more than that, I'm some who gets along with absolutely everyone. I listen to people. I elevate them. I validate them. That is just my personality type.But I keep finding out that people go out of their way to say something negative about me. The way I find out is through my boss. My boss then addresses it with me.Today I found out a former manager who worked here for only two months on our team told my boss that I was on my phone all day and taking call after call. I know what day this was because she even mentioned the topic I was talking about (i.e., I was getting a lumber quote for a personal project; call lasted maybe two minutes). That was the ONLY call I took that day, and I hate being on my phone during. So that was not true either.Another person "told" on me, saying that I'm in the bathroom too much and that I they saw me on Mar 11, 2026 8:49 PM
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Show HN: I built a Mac app that converts files when you rename themhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340433Hi HN,I built Morpholder after repeatedly running into the same annoying workflow on macOS.Every time I needed to convert a file I had to open a converter, upload the file, download it again, and move it back to Finder. It always felt unnecessary when I already knew the format I needed.So I tried a different idea: what if renaming the file actually converted it?Morpholder watches folders and performs the real conversion when the extension changes.For example:favicon.png → favicon.ico photo.heic → photo.jpg video.mov → video.gif video.mp4 → audio.mp3But it also unlocks some workflows beyond simple conversions:- Append _nobg to an image → background is removed automatically (uses Apple’s subject detection) - Rename an image to .txt → text is extracted from the image using Live Text - Append _min → compress image for the web while preserving quality - Rename an image to .icns → builds a macOS app icon package - Append _pages to a PDF → exports each page as high-resolution imagesThe app ruMar 11, 2026 7:54 PM
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About University Innovation Project (UI)https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/tacp/ui/about-ui/NASA’s University Innovation (UI) project funds university-led innovation to address the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s system-level challenges via independent, NASA-alternate-path, multi-disciplinary awards. Strategic Goals The UI portfolio’s strategic goals in descending order of importance are: 1. Assist in achieving aviation outcomes defined in the ARMD Strategic Implementation Plan through NASA-complementary research. 2. Transition research […]Mar 11, 2026 5:00 PM
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Show HN: Reviewd – A free, local alternative to Claude Code Review(no API costs)https://github.com/simion/reviewdAnthropic just launched their official Claude Code Review tool, pricing it at $15–$25 per PR. If your team is shipping 10+ PRs a day, that model scales terribly.Even before their launch, I was running a custom local Claude agent for my team to review PRs. The feedback was great and it caught real bugs, but the workflow was a massive time sink. I was manually invoking "claude --agent .. branch_name", grab the output, filter it and post the relevant comments.So I built reviewd to automate the local execution: https://github.com/simion/reviewdIt is a Python-based background daemon that runs on your machine or a VPS.How it works: 1. It polls GitHub/BitBucket for open PRs. 2. Creates a near-instant git worktree (no re-cloning). 3. Optionally runs your actual local test/lint commands (the AI gets the stdout/stderr). 4. Pipes the context into the Claude, Gemini, or Codex CLI you already have installed. 5. Parses the JSON output and automatically posts structured inline and summary comments toMar 11, 2026 4:43 PM
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Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agentshttps://github.com/theredsix/agent-browser-protocolHi HN, I forked chromium and built agent-browser-protocol (ABP) after noticing that most browser-agent failures aren’t really about the model misunderstanding the page. Instead, the problem is that the model is reasoning from a stale state.ABP is designed to keep the acting agent synchronized with the browser at every step. After each action (click, type, etc), it freezes JavaScript execution and rendering, then captures the resulting state. It also compiles the notable events that occurred during that action loop, such as navigation, file pickers, permission prompts, alerts, and downloads, and sends that along with a screenshot of the frozen page state back to the agent.The result is that browser interaction starts to feel more like a multimodal chat loop. The agent takes an action, gets back a fresh visual state and a structured summary of what happened, then decides what to do next from there. That fits much better with how LLMs already work.A few common browser-use failures ABP helMar 11, 2026 2:39 PM
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About Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools Projecthttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/aavp/svtt/about-svtt/Project Overview NASA’s Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools (SVTT) project develops technologies and tools for various types of aircraft that fly in different speed regimes, including next-generation vertical take-off and landing and fixed-wing subsonic aircraft. The research advances knowledge, technologies, and concepts that enable major steps to lowering operating costs of the next-generation single-aisle aircraft. […]Mar 11, 2026 2:32 AM
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Starlab Space fully books commercial payload space on planned space stationhttps://spacenews.com/starlab-space-fully-books-commercial-payload-space-on-planned-space-station/The Starlab commercial space station has fully booked its commercial payload space as the joint venture developing it awaits the next phase of a NASA program. The post Starlab Space fully books commercial payload space on planned space station appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 10, 2026 11:11 PM
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NASA Invites Media to 63rd Annual Goddard Space Science Symposiumhttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-invites-media-to-63rd-annual-goddard-space-science-symposium/Media are invited to attend the 63rd annual Goddard Space Science Symposium, taking place Thursday, March 12, and Friday, March 13, at the National Housing Center in Washington. The event also will be streamed online. Organized by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) in conjunction with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the symposium […]Mar 10, 2026 12:00 PM
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SSTL to build spacecraft for private space telescopehttps://spacenews.com/sstl-to-build-spacecraft-for-private-space-telescope/Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL), a British company best known for developing small satellites, will help build a large, privately funded space telescope. The post SSTL to build spacecraft for private space telescope appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 9, 2026 9:48 PM
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About Flight Demonstrations and Capabilities (FDC) Projecthttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/iasp/fdc/about-fdc/The FDC project conducts complex integrated small-scale flight research to validate the benefits of new technologies. By modifying aircraft from FDC’s support fleet, the project enables aggressive, success-oriented flight campaign schedules. While many technologies are at mid-levels of technology readiness, the FDC project supports all phases of technology maturation. FDC’s support aircraft fleet enables safety chase and in-flight experimental measurements for a variety of […]Mar 9, 2026 6:30 PM
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What Is Pi? (Grades 5-8)https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/what-is-pi-grades-5-8/This article is for students grades 5-8. What is Pi? Pi is a number. You might know it as 3.14 or the symbol π. But it’s way more than that! What Makes Pi Special? Pi is an irrational number. That means it goes on forever and it never repeats its sequence of numbers. Pi has […]Mar 9, 2026 6:10 PM
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Webb Studies Cranium Nebulahttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/webb-studies-cranium-nebula/Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, inspiring its nickname, the “Exposed Cranium” nebula. Webb captured its unusual features in both near- and mid-infrared light. The nebula was first revealed in infrared light by a predecessor to Webb, NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space […]Mar 9, 2026 3:09 PM
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CUDA 13.2 Introduces Enhanced CUDA Tile Support and New Python Features | NVIDIA Technical Bloghttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxQZmJRV051N3dBc1Q4M0xJNTRkU0ZYTFVtR3djYm51M0Y4ZkI2VXREbzRITHBZdGFMNEJDWWVHSzJJeVRrcU9ZbkpnNV9zMWZDRmNGeWdRR19YRnhQdGZSQ20wbWlZOS13VC0tUkR0dm5pWVZDMkFxaGJPUm1VRFhySWxpNy1UR3NYMEtLNkg4aTNiVU5QRTYtTXdBLVBLdFBKY0VhN01vTlZsUQ?oc=5CUDA 13.2 Introduces Enhanced CUDA Tile Support and New Python Features | NVIDIA Technical Blog NVIDIA DeveloperMar 9, 2026 7:00 AM
