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Flight Dynamics Research Facility Characteristicshttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/aetc/fdrf-characteristics/HomeCharacteristics The Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF) is a large, subsonic wind tunnel with a vertical test section for conducting flight dynamics research for stability, controllability, free-fall and aircraft spin, and spin recovery testing of atmospheric vehicles. Characteristics Flight Dynamics Flight Research Aerosciences Evaluation and Test CapabilitiesJun 9, 2026 8:47 PM
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Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453224The same general situation has happened to me twice now and I am wondering if it’s something I can break free from or if it’s just the nature of the Startup beast - or what. There seems to be some kind of bubble that starts drying up investment in a startup where I am a technical lead. Both times, things seem to be going well and then 2 years in there are rounds of layoffs due to factors outside my/product’s control where the result is the same. I end up as the last tech generalist. It falls to me to write as much of the code as I can, manage (if any are left) engineers in my department, running support basically on my own, owning a large part of the product roadmap, working with the customers on support and implementations, working with integration partners, plus a slowly expanding list of responsibilities as new stuff falls on reduced teams. I pick up new domains pretty quick (finance, insurance, compliance), switch contexts well. I’ve always been the person who just figures it out -Jun 8, 2026 10:28 PM
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UK explores Vast space station mission for astronaut with physical disabilityhttps://spacenews.com/uk-explores-vast-space-station-mission-for-astronaut-with-physical-disability/The U.K. government is exploring sending British astronaut John McFall to Vast’s planned Haven-1 space station in a mission it says could make him the first person with a physical disability to live in orbit. The post UK explores Vast space station mission for astronaut with physical disability appeared first on SpaceNews.Jun 2, 2026 12:25 PM
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New Landsat Science Team Holds First In-Person Meetinghttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/landsat/new-landsat-science-team-holds-first-in-person-meeting/From May 5 to 7, the Landsat Science Team meeting convened at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, SD. Co-moderated by Landsat 8, 9, and 10 Project Scientist Chris Neigh, the three-day event officially introduced the new 2026–2030 Science Team members.May 28, 2026 9:03 PM
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Musk praises “epic” Super Heavy-Starship launchhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/23/musk-praises-epic-super-heavy-starship-launch/The Starship upper stage was equipped with six third-generation Raptor engines and one of three optimized for operating in vacuum shut down early during the climb to space. The flight computer kept the other five engines running longer than originally planned to make up for the shortfall, putting the craft on an acceptable sub-orbital trajectory.May 23, 2026 2:47 AM
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NASA Releases Technology Priorities to Energize Space Industryhttps://www.nasa.gov/technology/nasa-releases-technology-priorities-to-energize-space-industry/NASA released the 2026 Civil Space Shortfall Ranking list on Wednesday, which integrates more than 400 responses from stakeholders including industry organizations, government agencies, and academia. Shortfalls refer to technology areas requiring further development to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs. The goal of this document is to rank the space community’s most pervasive shortfalls to […]May 20, 2026 5:11 PM
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Australia’s “Red Centre” Turns Greenhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/australias-red-centre-turns-green/Abundant rainfall in February and March 2026 transformed the desert landscape of Central Australia.Mar 19, 2026 4:00 AM
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Show HN: Built a crosslister (in PHP!) that supports Vinted (which has no API)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427739FLUF Connect (fluf.io) lets resellers list a product once and push it to Depop, eBay, Vinted, Vestiaire Collective, Shopify, Facebook Marketplace, Temu, and Yaga with real-time inventory sync. Available as a web dashboard, Chrome extension, and mobile app (iOS + Android).The hard problem isn't the listing — it's the sync. When something sells on Depop at 2am, eBay and Vinted stock needs to update in seconds or the seller wakes up to overselling complaints and bad reviews.Some things I learned building this:- Marketplace APIs lie: Response formats change silently. Endpoints return 404 for reasons that have nothing to do with the item not existing. You can't trust the contract — you need fallbacks for everything.- Relisting matters more than listing: Resellers delete and re-post items to boost visibility in marketplace algorithms. The difference between random relisting and data-driven relisting is measurable in sales.- AI handles the heavy lifting: Take a photo, and AI generates the titMar 18, 2026 4:23 PM
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Show HN: PingCRM – Open-source personal networking CRMhttps://github.com/sneg55/pingcrmHey HN,Robin Dunbar figured the human brain caps out at roughly 150 stable relationships. After that, people just fall off. Not because you stop caring, but because you can't track that many threads at once. I built PingCRM to push past that limit, not by making you remember more, but by handling the part you're bad at: noticing who's going cold and drafting something worth sending.CRMs exist, but they're built for sales teams. I wanted something for one person maintaining their own network. Specifically:(1) Pull in conversations I'm already having. Gmail threads, Telegram DMs, Twitter DMs, LinkedIn messages, no manual logging.(2) Tell me who's going cold. A relationship score (0–10) based on recency, frequency, reciprocity, and breadth of interaction.(3) Draft the message for me. Claude reads your conversation history, picks the right tone (formal vs. casual), and writes a follow-up that references why now is a good time, like a job change, a long silence, or a fundraising announcemenMar 18, 2026 10:33 AM
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Show HN: Trawl – LLM-powered web scraper that calls the AI once - runs pure Gohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47297522Every scraper I've written has the same failure mode: it works for three months, a site redesigns, and my CSS selectors silently return empty strings. The data is still right there on the page — a human can find it instantly — but the scraper is blind.Trawl fixes this by splitting the problem. You describe what you want: trawl "https://books.toscrape.com" --fields "title, price, rating, in_stock" The LLM (Claude) looks at one sample item and derives a full extraction strategy — CSS selectors, attribute mappings, type coercion, fallback selectors. That strategy gets cached. Every subsequent page with the same structure is extracted with pure Go + goquery. No API calls, no token cost, full concurrency.The key insight: LLMs are good at understanding HTML structure, but you don't need them to extract 10,000 rows. Use AI for intelligence, Go for throughput.When a site redesigns, the structural fingerprint changes, the cache misses, and trawl re-derives automatically.You can preview exactly Mar 8, 2026 2:18 PM
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Show HN: Trawl – Scrape any site with natural language fields, not CSS selectorshttps://github.com/akdavidsson/trawlEvery scraper I've written has the same failure mode: it works for three months, a site redesigns, and my CSS selectors silently return empty strings. The data is still right there on the page — a human can find it instantly — but the scraper is blind.Trawl fixes this by splitting the problem. You describe what you want: trawl "https://books.toscrape.com" --fields "title, price, rating, in_stock" The LLM (Claude) looks at one sample item and derives a full extraction strategy — CSS selectors, attribute mappings, type coercion, fallback selectors. That strategy gets cached. Every subsequent page with the same structure is extracted with pure Go + goquery. No API calls, no token cost, full concurrency.The key insight: LLMs are good at understanding HTML structure, but you don't need them to extract 10,000 rows. Use AI for intelligence, Go for throughput.When a site redesigns, the structural fingerprint changes, the cache misses, and trawl re-derives automatically.You can preview exactly Mar 8, 2026 12:55 PM
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ESA adjusts Cluster orbits for rare twin reentry campaignhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ESA_adjusts_Cluster_orbits_for_rare_twin_reentry_campaign_999.htmlParis, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 When satellites fall back to Earth, most of their structure burns up in the atmosphere, but engineers still lack detailed data on how real spacecraft actually break apart during reentry and which components survive the plunge. To close this gap, the European Space Agency has retargeted the final orbits of its remaining two Cluster satellites so that both can be observed from an aircraft during tFeb 4, 2026 1:04 PM
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Mutual Fund Fees: Expense Ratios, 12b-1 Fees and Morehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8903295907463bb1eba090fc29e496&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nerdwallet.com%2Finvesting%2Flearn%2Fmutual-fund-fees-what-investors-need-to-know&c=16506106567921000853&mkt=en-usMutual fund fees generally fall into two big buckets: Annual fund operating expenses and shareholder fees. NerdWallet is committed to editorial integrity. The investing information provided on this ...Jan 23, 2026 4:00 PM
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Show HN: Vy, a cross platform AI agent that automates apps without APIshttps://vercept.com/Hi HN, I am Kiana, I was an AI researcher for 10 years, and since last November I have been working on Vy. Vy is a desktop app for Mac and Windows. It sees your screen and controls mouse and keyboard to automate workflows across apps, including ones without APIs. I know there is a lot of skepticism about AI agents, and I share some of it. A lot of things in this space look impressive in demos and then fall apart on real, boring work. So here are a few concrete things that Vy does today that we and early users actually rely on: Where it works best Tasks that you could explain in a paragraph and that take a human a few minutes, not hours.Workflows that mostly involve clicking, typing, scrolling, and copying between a few known tools.Where it does not work well Very long, unsupervised runs. It is better to keep tasks bounded and keep an eye on it.Pixel precise work like detailed design or brush based editing.Some custom web editors or highly dynamic UIs still confuse it.How it is differenJan 7, 2026 2:32 AM
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Scientists trace ancient mega watersheds on Marshttps://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Scientists_trace_ancient_mega_watersheds_on_Mars_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 Billions of years ago, rainfall on Mars fed rivers that cut valleys, overtopped crater rims and carved canyons, with some flows likely reaching a northern ocean basin on the planet. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have now organized these fluvial features into large drainage systems, producing the first global inventory of major Martian river basins and identifying 16 largDec 3, 2025 9:03 AM
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Antike war nicht nur am Mittelmeer: Raimund Schulz erzählt die Geschichte der alten Welt als Globalgeschichtehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89288ee244439392aafebbeb330f7f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzz.ch%2Ffeuilleton%2Fmehr-als-griechenland-und-rom-raimund-schulz-erzaehlt-antike-globalgeschichte-ld.1897391&c=11555187920638566266&mkt=en-usHeute muss sich ein solches Geschichtsbild den Vorwurf des Eurozentrismus gefallen lassen. Lässt sich römische Geschichte auf die Geschichte Roms reduzieren? Bestand die Antike nur aus den Reichen ...Aug 12, 2025 10:30 PM
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Ask HN: Any recommended classes/trainings for an already-talented junior SWE?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44701167At work, I'm mentoring a junior colleague who was awarded a little less than $10k to spend on job-related training/certifications of his choice. The money expires in a year, and is a rare windfall in our organization.If the kid was brand new and just starting out with fundamentals, I'd find a reputable programming generalist/web-tech boot camp and advise him to attend that.Problem is, he's beyond that point. He's 2 years into self-taught work in the backend/security/cloud/DevOps space, and he is a natural. Fast learner, good at self-teaching, knows to avoid the superficial/shiny, cares about understanding "why".As a result, he's already pretty productive and deep into a lot of what our specific job needs. But that means that "here's what a for-loop is, here's AWS/Terraform basics, here's a simple Kubernetes build-out"-type courses would waste of his time.So, my question: what organized training do you buy to support or speed up an already-started, fast-learning person's career? Most trJul 27, 2025 1:24 PM
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Show HN: I Recently Built a Projecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44580930I recently built a project called PIT (Phono In Terminal) — a terminal image viewer written in C that renders .png/.jpg images using actual RGB colors in your terminal (with optional 256-color fallback). What makes it different? Zero dependencies (just stb_image.h)Works even on very old or embedded systemsFully cross-platform (Linux, macOS, WSL, Windows Terminal, Termux, etc.)Compiles down to ~250 KBCLI options for zoom, flip, resize, offset, background fill, and moreDoesn’t require X11, SDL, or cursesHere's a screenshot from Termux showing Tux inside a text-mode terminal (demoed using ANSI blocks and real RGB shading): (HN doesn't support images, but you can try it yourself from the repo)Comparison with tiv: tiv is an excellent and mature tool (C++ + ImageMagick), optimized for Unicode and quality. PIT, on the other hand, is hyper-minimal — no dependencies, fully embeddable, and runs even in initramfs or micro distros.GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-imagJul 16, 2025 11:17 AM
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‘Everyone is doing AI’: Space sector urged to catch uphttps://spacenews.com/everyone-is-doing-ai-space-sector-urged-to-catch-up/COLORADO SPRINGS — The space industry must speed up adoption of artificial intelligence or risk falling behind, government and industry experts warned March 27. During a symposium organized by the […] The post ‘Everyone is doing AI’: Space sector urged to catch up appeared first on SpaceNews.Apr 9, 2025 9:44 PM
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Avowed: Best backgrounds and how they link to starting classhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1d4de3f444b6b5888305ea6d4476&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Favowed-best-starting-class-background-first-ability&c=6477933347685381254&mkt=en-usEveryone on all of my social feeds is going wild for Avowed, the new open-world RPG from Obsidian, the folks behind Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds. A lot of people playing a fairly hardcore ...Feb 19, 2025 9:25 AM
