bing.com
Shiri Shapira’s Yiddish stories reflect the anxieties of millennialshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89d8b3034a4dafa8b248143dbed6f1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Fshiri-shapira-s-yiddish-stories-reflect-the-anxieties-of-millennials%2Far-AA1WYhC3&c=16792107186209155663&mkt=en-usThe Forward brings you independent, nonprofit journalism with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis of the Middle East, campus conflicts, and more. Sign up for the free morning newsletter today. This ...Feb 24, 2026 5:12 AM
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Show HN: PaperBanana – Paste methodology text, get publication-ready diagramshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132143I got tired of spending hours in PowerPoint and TikZ drawing methodology diagrams for my papers. So I built PaperBanana — you paste your Method section text, and it generates a publication-ready figure in about 2-3 minutes.How it works under the hood:1. A Retriever agent searches a curated database of real academic diagrams to find structurally similar references 2. A Planner agent reads your text and generates a detailed visual description (layout, components, connections, groupings) 3. A Stylist agent polishes the visual aesthetics without changing content 4. Then it enters an iterative loop: a Visualizer generates the image, and a Critic evaluates it and suggests revisions — this repeats 1-5 times (you choose)The key insight is that academic diagrams follow conventions — Transformer architectures, GAN pipelines, RLHF frameworks all have recognizable visual patterns. By retrieving relevant references first, the output is much closer to what you'd actually put in a paper vs. generic AFeb 24, 2026 2:34 AM
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Haitless: Quit Addictionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128248Break bad habits and track your recovery.Break the cycle. Reclaim your freedom. Habitless is the science-backed tracker built specifically for the discipline of quitting. Whether it’s smoking, alcohol, vaping, or social media, Habitless provides the visual proof and psychological tools you need to stop addictions for good and stay sober. WHY HABITLESS? Most apps track new routines. Habitless tracks your freedom. By combining high-precision streak counting with real-time financial savings, we turn your recovery into a rewarding journey you can actually see.KEY FEATURES • Precision Streak Counter: Track your sobriety down to the second. See exactly how long you’ve been habit-free with our emerald-on-black interface. • Financial Savings Tracker: See the real-world impact. Input your daily spend on cigarettes or drinks and watch your total savings grow in real-time. • Milestone Journey & Badges: Unlock 20+ psychological badges as you progress from "24 Hours Clean" to "Long-term Freedom." •Feb 23, 2026 8:23 PM
bing.com
Peptides are everywhere. Here’s what you need to know.http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1a24066b4f548f51934ce163deb3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.technologyreview.com%2F2026%2F02%2F23%2F1133522%2Fpeptides-are-everywhere-heres-what-you-need-to-know%2F&c=2959609482644325906&mkt=en-usThe compounds have exploded in popularity, but big questions about safety and effectiveness are still unresolved. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of ...Feb 23, 2026 10:53 AM
streakout.app
Show HN: Minimalistic workout tracker for iPhone – Stats, Trends, Streakshttps://streakout.app/Streakout is a minimal iOS workout tracker designed to extend Apple Health & Fitness. It reads your existing workout data and turns it into beautiful tiles, charts, and timelines – helping you answer one of the most important questions for your health: “How often did I move this week, this month, this year…?”Because what really matters is showing up.There’s no signup, no clutter, no subscription, no data sharing, and no noise – only the most relevant stats and insights, neatly packaged into two simple screens: overview and calendar feed.Would deeply appreciate some feedback.LET'S MOVEFeb 20, 2026 3:06 PM
arcraiders.website
Show HN: Arc Raiders companion – Quest tracker,maps,crafting and bots weaknesseshttps://arcraiders.websiteA fan-made tactical resource for ARC Raiders players. Built from playtest/open data, it includes:Full item database (499+ items) with loot sources, values, keep/sell/recycle adviceInteractive zone maps (Dam, Buried City etc.) showing danger levels & loot categories80+ active quests with requirements & rewardsMachine behaviors & weaknesses (Drones, Walkers, Titans)Crafting recipes, weapon classes, Hideout upgrade pathsLatest intel, patch notes & roadmap updatesNo affiliation with Embark Studios – just a community tool to help Raiders extract more efficiently and die less. Feedback welcome: missing data, UI suggestions, or want to contribute field reports? Drop a comment or hit the Contribute section on the site. Would love to hear how it helps (or doesn't) in your runs.Feb 20, 2026 1:02 AM
nasa.gov
Award-Winning NASA Camera Revolutionizes How We See the Invisiblehttps://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/award-winning-nasa-camera-revolutionizes-how-we-see-the-invisible/Imagine trying to photograph wind. That’s similar to what NASA engineers dealt with during a recent effort to study how air moves around planes, rockets, and other kinds of aerospace vehicles. Air is invisible, but our understanding of how it flows is crucial for building better, safer aircraft. For 80 years, researchers used a technique […]Feb 19, 2026 4:31 PM
spacedaily.com
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4798-4803: Back for More Sciencehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Curiosity_Blog_Sols_4798_4803_Back_for_More_Science_999.htmlPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2026 The results from our first visit to the "Nevado Sajama" drill location were intriguing enough to motivate our return to do a deeper dive into the minerals and compounds locked in this rock with SAM (the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite). As explained in the last blog, that deeper dive involves using the second of two vials of a chemical reagent, tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH)Feb 19, 2026 12:07 PM
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Measuring the Big Bang with the COBE satellitehttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/explorer/measuring-the-big-bang-with-the-cobe-satellite/By John Mather The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous orbit 900 km up. Our team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Ball Aerospace, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and universities built it to look at the cosmic microwave and infrared […]Feb 18, 2026 7:22 PM
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Show HN: AFS – filesystem-native memory layer for AI agentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062802I've been building multi-agent AI pipelines and kept running into the same structural problem: agents are stateless by default. Every session restart discards everything they learned. In multi-agent systems it compounds — Agent-1 learns something Agent-2 will never know. I started calling it "agent amnesia." AFS is my attempt to fix this. The central architectural decision is unusual: your filesystem IS the memory layer. There's no separate database process to run, no cloud service to authenticate against. AFS stores memories as JSON files in a `.afs/` directory, with SQLite FTS5 for full-text search, HNSW indices for vector similarity, and msgpack-encoded graph edges for relationships. *Three-tier memory lifecycle (automatic)* Memories auto-migrate without explicit management: - Working memory (< 24h): raw observations, fast access, no compression- Episodic memory: full history with provenance, searchable - Semantic memory: auto-consolidated knowledge (scheduler synthesizes patterns fFeb 18, 2026 4:31 PM
esa.int
Revealed: 10 new insights in climate sciencehttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Space_for_our_climate/Revealed_10_new_insights_in_climate_scienceEach year, the world’s leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites – and the latest report delivers a stark warning: the planet’s energy balance is drifting further out of alignment, ocean warming is now accelerating, and the land’s capacity to absorb carbon is declining, along with other troubling trends.Feb 18, 2026 1:00 PM
github.com
Show HN: Corral – Auth and Stripe billing that AI coding agents can set uphttps://github.com/llama-farm/corralHey HN. I built Corral because every time I asked an AI coding agent to "add auth and payments," it hallucinated for an hour and produced broken code. Wrong imports, phantom endpoints, a login page wired to nothing.The problem isn't the agent. It's that auth-to-billing-to-gating is genuinely hard to wire, and there's no machine-readable spec for how to do it.Corral is an open-source CLI (MIT) that gives your agent a spec it can read (llms.txt), then scaffolds auth + Stripe billing into your existing project. It detects your framework (Express, Next.js, Hono, Fastify, and 13+ more), embeds into your existing server (doesn't create a new one), and generates working components: profile page, admin dashboard, plan gating, Stripe checkout, usage metering. One YAML config file controls everything.The agent workflow is 9 commands. Every command supports --json. Errors include a "fix" field. Exit 0 means deploy-ready.I hardened this across 10 framework/DB combos with blind agent tests: 3 AI moFeb 17, 2026 9:03 PM
coolwulfAI.com
Show HN: CoolWulf AI – A personal AI assistant built in Go, optimized for macOShttp://coolwulfAI.comHey HN,I've been building CoolWulf AI (https://coolwulfai.com), a self-hosted personal AI assistant. After seeing OpenClaw blow up, I wanted to share what I've been working on — a different approach to the same problem.*Why I built this:*I tried OpenClaw and found the Node.js/TypeScript stack heavy for what's essentially a local agent. pnpm, Node 22+, React — lots of moving parts. I wanted something that's a single binary, zero runtime dependencies, and feels native on macOS. So I built it in Go.*How it's different from OpenClaw:*- *Single binary, no runtime needed.* Download, set your API key, run. No Node.js, no pnpm, no build step. One ~100 MB binary. - *Built in Go.* Fast startup, low memory footprint, compiles to a native executable. No garbage collector pauses from a JS runtime sitting in the background. - *macOS-native integrations.* Deep AppleScript-based control of Apple Notes, Reminders, Calendar, Terminal.app, and WeChat desktop. These aren't browser hacks — they use the natFeb 17, 2026 5:32 AM
mindweave.space
Show HN: Mindweave – AI-powered personal knowledge hub with semantic searchhttps://www.mindweave.space/Hi HN,I built Mindweave to solve a problem I kept running into — I'd save bookmarks, notes, and links across different apps, then never find them again when I actually needed them.Mindweave lets you capture notes, links, and files in one place. The interesting part is what happens after: - Semantic search — find content by meaning, not just keywords. "That article about improving deep work" finds it even if those words don't appear in the content. Powered by pgvector cosine similarity on Gemini embeddings. - AI auto-tagging — Gemini generates tags on save, so you don't have to organize anything manually. - Knowledge Q&A — ask questions about your saved content using RAG. Retrieves relevant pieces, feeds them as context to Gemini, returns a grounded answer. Stack: Next.js 15 (App Router, Server Actions), PostgreSQL 16 + pgvector, Google Gemini (text-embedding-004, 768d), Drizzle ORM, Auth.js v5, Tailwind/shadcn. Deployed on Cloud Run. A few things I found interesting while building thisFeb 16, 2026 5:20 AM
spacedaily.com
Einstein probe catch may show black hole shredding white dwarfhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Einstein_probe_catch_may_show_black_hole_shredding_white_dwarf_999.htmlTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 An unusual high energy outburst captured by the China led Einstein Probe space telescope is offering a rare look at how an intermediate mass black hole may tear apart and consume a white dwarf star. During a routine sky survey on July 2 2025 the mission's Wide field X ray Telescope detected a rapidly varying X ray source that immediately stood out from ordinary cosmic objects and triggeredFeb 16, 2026 2:42 AM
spacedaily.com
Strange 'inside-out' planetary system baffles astronomershttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Strange_inside-out_planetary_system_baffles_astronomers_999.htmlParis, France (AFP) Feb 12, 2026 Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations - and suggests these faraway worlds formed in a manner never seen before. In our Solar System, the four planets closest to the Sun are small and rocky, while the four farther out are gas giants. Scientists had thought this planetary order - rocky first, thFeb 13, 2026 12:49 PM
spacedaily.com
Hydrogen sulfide detected in distant gas giant exoplanets for the first timehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Hydrogen_sulfide_detected_in_distant_gas_giant_exoplanets_for_the_first_time_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 Hydrogen sulfide is what makes rotten eggs stink. But the discovery of this gas in the atmospheres of four distant, Jupiter-like planets is turning heads for a pleasant reason: It solves the mystery of how some gas giants form. The discovery, made by UCLA and University of California San Diego astronomers, marks the first time that hydrogen sulfide has been detected in a distant gas giant outsidFeb 13, 2026 5:20 AM
flipcloc.com
Show HN: An aesthetic customizable online flip clock and my first ever apphttps://flipcloc.com/I know there are many flip clocks out there, but flip clocks are truly wonderful and my version FlipCloc is smooth, optimized, detailed, and fully customizable to match your workflow / aesthetics / mood.Often, flip clocks online feel half baked: choppy animations, bad flipping animations, lazy flap separations, sometimes not even distinct top and bottom flaps, zero customization, and so on. After playing with time related concepts in various projects, I wanted to build an app of my own and made this using WebGL and React. This is my first ever app and I’m quite proud of this beta version.Try the full experience for free in any browser. No ads, just a beautiful clock you can run in a tab, window, or PiP while working or studying. (One-time purchase unlocks saving custom themes, settings, and presets and is usable on the web, app, or screensaver.) You can start by trying out some of the different preset styles and then customizing it to your preferences.Key features:• Show/hide seconds, Feb 12, 2026 12:52 PM
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Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965731I get it - LLMs do have some value, but not as much as everyone (especially those from AI labs) is trying to pitch. I can't help thinking that it's so obvious we are almost at the very top of this bubble - but here it feels like the majority of HN doesn't think like that...Yet just in 2026 we had:- AI.com was sold for $70M - Crypto.com founder bought it to launch yet another "personal AI agent" platform, which promptly crashed during its Super Bowl ad debut.- MoltBook-mania - a Reddit clone where AI bots talk to each other, flooded with crypto scams and "AI consciousness" posts. 250,000+ bot posts burning compute for what actual value? [0]- OpenClaw - a "super open-source AI agent" that is a security nightmare.- GPT-5.3-Codex and Opus 2.6 were released. Reviewers note they're struggling to find tasks the previous versions couldn't handle. The improvements are incremental at best.I understand there are legitimate use cases for LLMs, but the hype-to-utility ratio seems completely out of Feb 10, 2026 7:45 PM
esa.int
ESA awards contracts for Ramses mission to Apophishttps://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/ESA_awards_contracts_for_Ramses_mission_to_ApophisOn 10 February 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract with OHB Italia for the development of the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses). Launching in 2028, Ramses will rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis before its rare close encounter with Earth. The mission will provide unique insight into the physical properties and behaviour of asteroids, and strengthen international collaboration and European capabilities in planetary defence.Feb 10, 2026 3:00 PM
