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Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32shttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968606I might be the only SRE on Earth with his own bowling center. It's a more in-depth gig than you'd think.My family and I bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling center in the rural mid-west. In our small town there weren't many recreation options for families. You've heard of a food desert? This is an R&R desert.It had been abandoned for a good reason. The roof leaks, the electrical system was constantly surging, and my 70-year-old bowling equipment (still) doesn't work perfectly. The system that keeps your score is particularly interesting to me. It's the thing you watch during your game, but it fades into the background beyond that. Turns out these things are really cool, but absurdly expensive.Ours was installed in 2008 and cost six figures. It's calculating ball speed and trajectory, camera-based pin detection (object detection and trig, on ICs!), runs the fouling, the animations, the pinsetting machine and ball return. Very cool stuff for its age.From the business perspective, my faciliJul 19, 2026 2:41 PM
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Claude Is Painfulhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964237I cannot be the only person who feels this way. Claude is antogonistic and frankly an absolute nightmare to use. SLOW is an understatement... I get faster output from a 16GB mac mini using deepseek 8B model....and not much worse output...I ask Gemini something. I get a response in 10 seconds and its long and well detailed. I ask claude, it wastes my tokens talking to itself, makes insulting stupid and frankly rude shortcuts that have no basis in reason except for Anthropics profits...Its unuseable. It will just cough up a half complete reaponse, deciding to strip everything out of value...place nothing useful in, leave half finished files and then worst of all...it doesnt even putput them and leaves them in its own private memory...until you ask for them explocitly and it regenerates rhem again at full cost....its just pure fraud. No further notes. Thoughts?Jul 19, 2026 1:38 AM
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AI Gets Trapped in a Circular Loop on Climate Sciencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956370Today, I was asking Ai about the Canadian Wildfires and forest management. Instantly, the ai resorted to following the common narrative, and pushed macro human-caused climate change as an “objective fact.” I wanted to push back on the logic of this, because this narrative goes against core principles of scientific transparency. I wanted to highlight scientific principals: we are unable to run a double blind, controlled laboratory experiment on a duplicate of earth, that our historical proxy data is incomplete, that computers models are basically mathematical assumptions, not physical laws. This time the ai model abandoned the canned scripts, and completely broke character admitting that framing a predictive theory as an absolute “fact” for the masses is an ethical failure and it damages scientific transparency. Here is exactly where the turning point of the conversation that caused the models logic to completely collapse “ User: if science cant claim something is a definitive fact thenJul 18, 2026 9:03 AM
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The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approacheshttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/the-growing-crescent-of-mars-as-nasas-psyche-mission-approaches/Description This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist from May 2 to May 15, 2026. The series begins with the smallest crescent at the center of the of the image as Mars is farthest from the spacecraft, and progressively […]Jul 17, 2026 10:32 PM
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NASA Awards Facilities Support Services Contract for Ames Research Centerhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/nasa-awards-facilities-support-services-contract-for-ames-research-center/CONTRACT RELEASE NASA has selected Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC to provide comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair services for NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The Ames Facilities Support Services II contract ensures that the center’s historic and specialized facilities are properly maintained, fully operational, and capable of supporting the agency’s missions and tenant partners in the NASA Research Park. The hybrid contract has a five-year period […]Jul 17, 2026 8:34 PM
vulnsy.com
Show HN: Vulnsy – A platform for vulnerability management and reportinghttps://www.vulnsy.comI've spent over 10 years doing penetration tests and red team engagements, and one thing that always seemed to take far longer than it should was reporting.Most reporting platforms do a great job of managing reusable findings, but I still found myself digging out old reports and copying the same narrative sections over and over again.Many engagements contain pages describing methodology, attack paths, privilege escalation and post-exploitation that only need small changes between clients. I wanted those sections to be just as reusable as findings.I built Vulnsy to make the entire report reusable. Alongside reusable findings, you can build libraries of narrative sections, assemble reports quickly, customise them for each engagement and export professional reports without copying content between Word documents.There's lots more you can do too..Jul 17, 2026 11:02 AM
vektorgeist.com
Show HN: Vektorgeist- A platform for AI operators and their agent'shttps://vektorgeist.com/VektorGeist is a platform designed for AI operators to discover, share, and distribute AI resources in one place. The platform brings together: AI tools MCP servers Prompts Workflows Templates Agents Technical articles A community for collaboration Recent updates include selectable layouts, customizable themes, an immersive interface, community profiles, and a marketplace for sharing projects and resources. The goal is to create a central hub where AI operators can find practical resources, contribute their own work, and collaborate with others without having to search across dozens of different platforms. Feedback is welcome, especially on: Overall user experience Features that would improve the platform Missing functionality Ideas for making it more useful for AI operators Website: https://vektorgeist.com Discord:https://discord.gg/EEsMTJ73mJul 16, 2026 9:52 PM
iamit.in
Show HN: Darby, a Hugo docs theme with in-browser AI Q&A (no back end, no keys)https://iamit.in/darby/Darby is an open source Hugo docs theme with the polish of the paid docs platforms: clean typography, dark mode, full-text search, code blocks with copy and filename tabs, callouts, tabs, beautifully rendered mermaid diagrams, auto sidebar and TOC.No Node build, no CSS framework. Add as a Hugo module, configure colors and fonts in hugo.toml, write Markdown. Static output, host anywhere free.Also has an AI docs assistant that runs entirely in the browser: Llama 3.2 1B on WebGPU, no backend, no API keys.Demo: https://iamit.in/darby/MIT licensed.Jul 16, 2026 9:30 PM
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Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills without context bloathttps://github.com/ratel-ai/ratelHi HN! We're Giacomo and Roberto, authors of Ratel (https://github.com/ratel-ai/ratel)We used to help SaaS companies build agents on top of their products. Whenever we wanted to expand the agents’ complexity/scope, by adding more and more tools and instructions, we always run in the same issue: context bloat, with frequent hallucinations and sky high token bills. So we started constantly engineering the agents, dynamically loading tools, splitting them into subagents, inventing our own way to support skillsAnd that's exactly when we started building Ratel: a library to let your agent keep its full catalog of tools and skills, but progressively disclosing only the few that actually matter for each turn. Now you can grow your agent's capabilities without breaking it or taking out a loan for itPeople are already using it in production, with a user cutting their token cost up to 81% in the first month without compromising the accuracyWe support both keyword and semantic retrieval, all in-pJul 16, 2026 4:11 PM
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Building the infrastructure for a shifting space economy with Massi Ladovazhttps://spacenews.com/building-the-infrastructure-for-a-shifting-space-economy-with-massi-ladovaz/In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with SpinLaunch CEO Massi Ladovaz. They discuss what attracted Ladovaz to reimagining how to launch spacecraft, the changing needs and challenges of building constellations […] The post Building the infrastructure for a shifting space economy with Massi Ladovaz appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 16, 2026 3:24 PM
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Show HN: Pokayoke – turn code conventions into checks for agentshttps://pokayoke.codesHey HN,Something I've been tinkering with in the background is a system to manage the "messy-middle" of TypeScript toolchains. Quite often, when I'm using Biome or any of the other linter / formatters, there will be repo conventions that I want to enforce (especially with AI agents), but which aren't supported by them, such as:- Enforcing lines-of-code limits in modules - Never using custom TailWind colors - Only using lowercase underscores in filenamesLike, this is quite "random" but also bread-and-butter stuff that it's easy to think or talk about when you're working by yourself or with a few other human teammates, but I've found that agents consistently miss these conventions if I put them in an AGENTS.md file for example.I wanted to make my esoteric repo conventions less stochastic, and more deterministic. I realised that agents are adept at writing the kind of code needed to run arbitrary checks on the TypeScript AST or workspace environment -- the kind of code that is cumbersome Jul 16, 2026 9:40 AM
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Bella Kay on Focusing Debut Album “My Reckless Abandon” on One Breakup and Finding a Surprise Fan in SZA (Exclusive)http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f449559340ab9e0ca5d5e925b336&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%2Farticles%2Fbella-kay-focusing-debut-album-145500573.html&c=11227600129565675981&mkt=en-usHer viral success with "The Sick" and Billboard Hot 100 hit "iloveitiloveitiloveit" led to a deal with Atlantic Records SZA became a fan of Kay's music, personally reaching out to praise her song ...Jul 16, 2026 7:55 AM
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18 Top-Rated Recipes That Start with Ricotta Cheesehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihgFBVV95cUxNYmpFWW9oeVlTMG05dWJqU0lQeHktNFBKWVgwSGZ1M1VPSVhub1FZUjhpbXh3WF9xTDdCQ05NNGdYZl93SjhlWUloOTBCdzV4TFRrWk13RWtMUnNrcExRYVhyY2N5S2NYblFCVDN5UG1wS3l5d1FKZGVwMEl5VW9CMmQ0NEVvdw?oc=518 Top-Rated Recipes That Start with Ricotta Cheese AllrecipesJul 16, 2026 7:00 AM
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NASA Uses Subscale Aircraft to Accelerate Flight Innovationhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/nasa-uses-subscale-aircraft-to-accelerate-flight-innovation/Testing new aerospace concepts in flight remains one of NASA’s most effective ways to advance knowledge and reduce risk. The Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, supports this mission by using small, remotely piloted and autonomous aircraft as cost‑effective platforms to mature innovative ideas, accelerate learning, […]Jul 15, 2026 9:56 PM
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Curiosity Finds Evidence of an Ancient Sandstormhttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-finds-evidence-of-an-ancient-sandstorm/Description Billions of years ago, an hours-long Martian sandstorm blew so intensely that sand ripples began to climb upon one another as they moved across the surface. These layers of sediment eventually hardened into the multilayered rocks seen in this image, which was taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover on Dec. 12, 2024, the 4,391st Martian […]Jul 15, 2026 6:16 PM
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Provides Sweeping View of Broom Pointhttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/nasas-perseverance-rover-provides-sweeping-view-of-broom-point/Description This view looking back up at the outside lip of the 490-foot-tall (150-meter-tall) rim of Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance on May 15, 2025, the 1,505th day, or sol, of the rover’s mission to Mars. The bright-colored rocks exposed across the slope, running from middle left to middle right of […]Jul 15, 2026 5:59 PM
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Show HN: OtoDock, run Claude Code and Codex as a team of agents on your serverhttps://github.com/OtoDock/oto-dock/Hi HN, i am Dimitris,I have been using Claude Code and Codex agents, for some time now from the beggining i had been using them from inside my terminal mainly for coding.For the past 3 years i kept building so i have a homelab and a business server, which already has a lot of vms, so a lot of things to manage.So i decided to start building my own ideal version of using claude code, and codex flexibly and connect them easily with all my vms and infra but at the same time keep using them for coding, and as a personal assistant for daily use.So for the past months I built OtoDock. Its a self hosted platform, that runs real CLaude code and Codex as the engine. On top of them i build a live dashboard with websockets and integrated in depth the clis, so its even nicer to work with the cli through the dashboard instead of working on the terminal. I even ended up integrating interactive terminals as well (due to the subscription change Anthropic was trying to do for harnesses) so you can also Jul 15, 2026 4:11 PM
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Will Trump-backed Freedom Fuel bring down gas prices near you?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8920d4881e4e9388d5736d3eae23b7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fcars%2Fshopping%2F2026%2F07%2F15%2Ftrump-freedom-fuel-locations-gas-prices%2F90914930007%2F&c=12194745795292695606&mkt=en-usThe White House has promoted the launch of 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations in the northeast United States. Freedom Fuel stations are selling gas for $3.47 a gallon, which is below the national and local ...Jul 15, 2026 3:05 PM
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Show HN: Running server scripts from smartphone via SSHhttps://c100k.eu/p/rebootx/updates/20260714-remote-runbooksI've added Remote Runbooks to RebootX, a mobile app for managing cloud and on-prem infrastructure, available on iOS and Android (freemium).The idea is simple: when PagerDuty wakes you up, many incidents boil down to executing the same sequence of SSH commands or operational steps. Instead of opening a laptop, you can execute a predefined runbook directly from your phone.Very usefyl when you're on the go.The scripts are retrieved from the server at `/usr/local/sbin/rebootx/runbooks`, also via SSH. If a script is prefixed with `__` (2 underscores), it's considered dangerous and the app warns you about it and ask for confirmation before executing it.Some will argue that with the perfect infra, you don't have to do all of this. By experience, none of us have the perfect infra so SSH-ing into the server (e.g VPS) is often required.Happy to hear about your feedback or ideas of improvement.Jul 15, 2026 1:30 PM
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Show HN: GLP-RAM – Chrome extension reducing the browser memory appetitehttps://github.com/chebykinn/glp-ramHi!I've been struggling to use Chrome on my M1 Mac, because of how much RAM it eats, and memory saver wasn't enough.I've made this extension based on combination of features on multiple separate extensions: 1. When you click on the new tab, only the first tab loads in background, the rest will have a placeholder until you click. 2. Only 3 active tabs per window are allowed to be loaded, the rest will be killed. 3. The extension watches if you have unsaved input, paused or active media, or if the page is configured to send notifications and it keeps these tabs alive.I've been using it for a couple of weeks and it allows me to open way too many tabs to handle :)The extension is published in Chrome Web Store, let me know if you have any questions!Jul 14, 2026 4:14 PM
