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‘I loved thinking about how to make science possible for America and for the world’https://spacenews.com/i-loved-thinking-about-how-to-make-science-possible-for-america-and-for-the-world/In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In total, more than 5,000 people who were part of the federal space workforce left their positions. […] The post ‘I loved thinking about how to make science possible for America and for the world’ appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 6, 2026 4:55 PM
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‘You need competent people in the government to direct and make decisions.’https://spacenews.com/you-need-competent-people-in-the-government-to-direct-and-make-decisions/In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In total, more than 5,000 people who were part of the federal space workforce left their positions. […] The post ‘You need competent people in the government to direct and make decisions.’ appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 6, 2026 4:55 PM
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‘Now it’s time to turn the baton over to others. I hope there’s somebody else to grab that baton.’https://spacenews.com/now-its-time-to-turn-the-baton-over-to-others-i-hope-theres-somebody-else-to-grab-that-baton/In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In total, more than 5,000 people who were part of the federal space workforce left their positions. […] The post ‘Now it’s time to turn the baton over to others. I hope there’s somebody else to grab that baton.’ appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 6, 2026 4:54 PM
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First-time U.S. Olympians at 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Gameshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiowFBVV95cUxQU3JGUmhfcEJ2Z3BReFhUSDZiZTVNbnNFZWoyN0VOLVlXNmMweVFFbXFuWWY2R3lrN0RkVUFzZlR2S3RHWU1VV2c1YjVVQ1dGWndoajE3LVVhUEZmcGN2RTI3Uk5PU21lT2VzNThsNnQ0anBWNFRCbEJyeHVwc1JZOW9jNExjaHExbVdXWGRDcHpoRlpqRXdWdl9oUGozRGFLLVBZ?oc=5First-time U.S. Olympians at 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games ESPNFeb 5, 2026 8:00 AM
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The Philosophy Shift Powering Illinois Basketball's Remarkable Risehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMirAFBVV95cUxOckg5bVBBYjAyVGxWZlJhODFaSW02NzMtQUNSb2JwLVl1TC1CLURWaWVOSkZMOWYtVmVsMTdUeFEtMHpiUGV4dDFybTVkLUJsYUZKTmIxamFJX1plVnZNOUU0S2pwZXNBVzRvcWh0TUthOWdweDVSSkh1VlFJbU1QcXd2em9NanVGQU9VcXcyaHpOSjNLdG1uN281Y19JTElZSWNCV1J6Skk1eDMx?oc=5The Philosophy Shift Powering Illinois Basketball's Remarkable Rise Sports IllustratedFeb 5, 2026 8:00 AM
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4788-4797: Welcome Back from Conjunctionhttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4788-4797-welcome-back-from-conjunction/Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University, Toronto Earth planning date: Friday, Jan. 30, 2026 Mars has emerged from its holiday behind the Sun, and we here on Earth have been able to reconnect with Curiosity and get back to work on Mars. Our first planning day last Friday gave Curiosity a full […]Feb 4, 2026 11:05 PM
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Evaluation of Adhesive and Solvent Alternatives for PolymericBonding Applicationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/nesc/evaluation-of-adhesive-and-solvent-alternatives-for-polymericbonding-applications/The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) conducted a technical assessment to evaluate alternatives to dichloromethane, traditionally used for bonding transparent polymeric materials. This effort was initiated in response to potential regulatory restrictions under the EPA Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which could impact critical bonding processes used in spaceflight hardware and experimental systems. Download […]Feb 4, 2026 6:09 PM
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DARPA taps Raytheon for new maritime defense systemhttps://www.spacewar.com/reports/DARPA_taps_Raytheon_for_new_maritime_defense_system_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2026 Raytheon, an RTX business, has been selected by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an advanced sensing and targeting system to protect commercial shipping and naval logistics vessels from emerging maritime threats such as unmanned surface vehicles. Under the Pulling Guard program, Raytheon s Advanced Technology team will design, build and demonstrate a system thatFeb 4, 2026 3:53 PM
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Rock microbes reveal hidden groundwater carbon enginehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rock_microbes_reveal_hidden_groundwater_carbon_engine_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2026 Deep underground, microbial communities living on rock surfaces are emerging as powerful but largely overlooked drivers of groundwater chemistry and carbon storage. A team from the Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse at Friedrich Schiller University Jena has now shown that these attached microbes follow fundamentally different strategies from free-floating cells in groundwater, withFeb 4, 2026 3:53 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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Breaking down the business of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympicshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxNQnpmdy01RVdwTTJFRUlaYXY0TUxjOUtqUkRiaDNfSVZxZnRKVmxvdDQ5bXh1N2hYdk5JTWlRdVpOb1FoZl9rZ0NVeFJPNFVlMGFiblV5UE1CRFhoT05YU2lnVWtRR004NFJvRTgzN01yYU8xd0VYeXJzamRKZVMtWjJkdlRSV0pldGc1Ti1mMFd1VW91dVJrN1ZZOURUTGJiZmNLbWhBQ1I3Y2NVWlJvRVp4X3pmbm5V?oc=5Breaking down the business of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics SportsProFeb 4, 2026 8:00 AM
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FDA issues most serious recall for certain glucose monitor sensorshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxQYXBLTUJ6Qko3a3lveXRqeFh3ME5BZUdKV3gzOVkxcUNMaDg2THBRNHQtTzRiYW4tWEplNFBEQjhuMXphd0tWWFpmc3I5SUFIQzI3dmpWVF9DVzdmOE5qNkt0Sk42QWNBdHZyQ2M2R0p5SXFEaDhIa1dNUzk2Q1FTc19VaTdvak1HVUYxZFdENUFjZ2JXMHdtOEFBMDl1andzQWxSQ2RGeFpuVUE?oc=5FDA issues most serious recall for certain glucose monitor sensors American Hospital AssociationFeb 4, 2026 8:00 AM
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Ask HN: Where does modern geometry survive contact with SGD?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882060Over the past year I worked through Frankel’s “The Geometry of Physics” cover to cover, not to relearn physics, but to rebuild a modern geometric toolbox as it is actually used there: manifolds, differential forms, connections and curvature, Lie groups and algebras, fiber bundles, gauge structure, and variational principles.The motivation was practical rather than theoretical:Which of these geometric structures, if any, actually survive discretization, noise, and SGD-style training in modern machine learning?In physics, global and coordinate-free formulations were not aesthetic choices; they were forced when local reasoning stopped working. A recurring structural pattern was:structure -> symmetry -> invariance -> dynamics -> observablesIn modern ML we increasingly see analogous issues:* parameter symmetries and large quotient spaces * non-Euclidean data (graphs, meshes, manifolds) * highly structured hypothesis classes * training dynamics that are not well-described by flat Euclidean oFeb 4, 2026 6:07 AM
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Final FY2026 Defense, FAA Bills Signed into Lawhttps://spacepolicyonline.com/news/final-fy2026-defense-faa-bills-signed-into-law/The FY2026 Defense and Transportation-HUD appropriations bills were signed into law today, ending a brief partial government shutdown that began Friday night. The Defense bill funds the U.S. Space Force, […]Feb 4, 2026 12:29 AM
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Even as a fast dev, I wasn't fast enough for my ideas. Then came Vibe Codinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877447The Speed Trap of Modern DevI’ve always been a fast developer. I know my stack, I know my shortcuts. But there was still a painful latency between my mental architecture and the screen. My ideas always outpaced my output. No matter how fast I typed, the "Implementation Friction" was a tax on my creativity.The 10x Shift: Moving at the Speed of ThoughtVibe Coding didn't just make me "better" — it removed the mechanical bottleneck. I’m no longer translating thoughts into code; I’m describing the vibe of the system and watching it manifest.The Result: I’m building things alone that previously required a dedicated team or a month-long sprint.The High: The dopamine hit isn't just about "it works." It’s the rush of zero latency. It's the feeling of your brain being directly plugged into the compiler.The "Dark Side" of Hyper-FlowBut here’s the rub: When you remove the friction, you remove the "sanity check."The Addiction: The feedback loop is so fast that it becomes a slot machine. Each promptFeb 3, 2026 9:19 PM
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Show HN: OpenSymbolicAI – Agents with typed variables, not just context stuffinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876687Hi HN,We've spent the last year building AI agents and kept hitting the same wall: prompt engineering doesn't feel like software engineering. It feels like guessing.We built OpenSymbolicAI to turn agent development into actual programming. It is an open-source framework (MIT) that lets you build agents using typed primitives, explicit decompositions, and unit tests.THE MAIN PROBLEM: CONTEXT WINDOW ABUSEMost agent frameworks (like ReAct) force you to dump tool outputs back into the LLM's context window to decide the next step.Agent searches DB.Agent gets back 50kb of JSON.You paste that 50kb back into the prompt just to ask "What do I do next?"This is slow, expensive, and confuses the model.THE SOLUTION: DATA AS VARIABLESIn OpenSymbolicAI, the LLM generates a plan (code) that manipulates variables. The actual heavy data (search results, PDF contents, API payloads) is stored in the Python/runtime variables and is never passed through the LLM context until a specific primitive actually neFeb 3, 2026 8:19 PM
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How to Find Mental Health Services Near Youhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8974bf41594bb1a71151f8ff266eaa&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthline.com%2Fhealth%2Fmental-health%2Fmental-health-services&c=862705018577152152&mkt=en-usMental health support is often closer than you think. Learn how to navigate your options and get the care you need. Finding mental health support can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re already ...Feb 3, 2026 10:51 AM
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The Perception War: How Artemis II Could Win the Race Without Landinghttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_Perception_War_How_Artemis_II_Could_Win_the_Race_Without_Landing_999.htmlNew York NY (SPX) Jan 31, 2026 As NASA counts down toward humanity's first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century, a question beyond engineering is taking shape: Can a flight that never touches the surface still define who "wins" the Second Moon Race? The answer lies not in propulsion equations or landing dynamics, but in the realm where space programs have always competed most fiercely-perception, prestige, and the stories nations tell about themselves.Feb 3, 2026 4:52 AM
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Flat dark matter sheet solves local galaxy motion puzzlehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Flat_dark_matter_sheet_solves_local_galaxy_motion_puzzle_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2026 Astronomers have used advanced computer simulations to show that the matter distribution just beyond the Local Group is organized in a vast, flattened structure of dark matter that extends tens of millions of light years. This large scale sheet surrounds the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy and is bordered above and below by enormous voids where galaxies are absent. For almost a century,Feb 3, 2026 4:52 AM
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Lockheed Martin delivers second lot Sentinel A4 radar to US Armyhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Lockheed_Martin_delivers_second_lot_Sentinel_A4_radar_to_US_Army_999.htmlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2026 Lockheed Martin has delivered the first Sentinel A4 radar from the second Low Rate Initial Production tranche to the US Army, marking a key step toward full rate production of the new air and missile defense sensor. The radar recently completed the first phase of Initial Operational Test and Evaluation, which is designed to assess performance in representative operational scenarios and redFeb 3, 2026 4:52 AM
