19,322 results for all

esa.int
Tracking urban expansion in hazard-prone areashttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Tracking_urban_expansion_in_hazard-prone_areasThe World Settlement Footprint (WSF) Tracker, and its dedicated online platform, have been officially released at an event at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC.
Jun 11, 2026 7:15 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Why are there an increasing number of outright unhinged high karma users on HN?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485429I’ve been noticing this disturbing trend for quite a while. By high karma I mean well over 1000 karma.And some of these leave comments so bizarre, that I can’t find any charitable explanation.Other than perhaps they may be skipping reading every other word or something… and then respond to an imaginary version of the parent.Uncharitably, they could be semi-random keyboard bashing, deranged bashing, emotional tantrums, and so on. Or LLM written… except the style doesnt match.Of course this has always been somewhat prevalent for low karma users, but it’s now creeping up higher and higher.For example, I had a recent bizarre encounter.I had double checked the first 10 pages of google results, in regards to a claim that I implied prior in the comment chain, mentioning that it seemed supportive of the claim.Maybe the novelty of someone doing that, and not just randomly opining, triggered something.Realistically, it didn’t take more than 5 minutes of effort, but still… it would have been 1 to
Jun 11, 2026 2:07 AM
nasa.gov
NASA Awards Contract for Construction Services in Californiahttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-contract-for-construction-services-in-california/NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility enhancement, modernization, and sustainment work at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, and other federal agencies in the region. The contract provides general construction, […]
Jun 10, 2026 8:32 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: Papermill Press – An AI-friendly markup language for PDF generationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477708If you’ve generated PDFs from HTML, you’ll know the pain: headless Chrome in Docker, CSS hacks, content that flows over pages or table boundaries and other quality issues.The fundamental problem is that HTML was designed for screens, not print.We built Press, a markup-based document language where pages, content flows, and assets are first-class concepts. Content can flow across frames, columns, and pages without manual pagination. Pages are created dynamically based on the available content.Press templates separate layout from content. You can send markdown, Press markup, or a mixture of both to the API. Data can be sent in JSON, CSV, XML.Because Press is XML-based it can easily be generated by agents - some of our users are generating complete documents in a single shot, although the language is designed for repeatable automation.You can also use our MCP server, which enables models to design templates.A simple API call sends a markdown payload, which is injected into a … element in
Jun 10, 2026 3:21 PM
spacenews.com
Spire to pursue space-based missile warning in partnership with German defense firmhttps://spacenews.com/spire-to-pursue-space-based-missile-warning-in-partnership-with-german-defense-firm/Diehl Defence will explore using Spire’s constellation for detection of ballistic and hypersonic missile threats The post Spire to pursue space-based missile warning in partnership with German defense firm appeared first on SpaceNews.
Jun 10, 2026 3:00 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Are we going to see a portable S3 Tables alternative outside AWS?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475779AWS announced S3 Tables earlier this year, and the integration with Iceberg is clearly the direction for AI/analytics data stacks. But the native S3 Tables implementation is locked inside AWS.For those of us running self-hosted or multi-cloud, what are the current options?Using regular S3 + separate catalog (Hive/Glue/Polaris) – metadata overhead and extra opsApache Ozone / Ceph + Iceberg – seems heavy for smaller teamsSomething else I'm missing?I've seen rumors about open-source projects adding native Iceberg table support directly in the storage layer (basically S3 Tables but portable). Would that actually help? What's the #1 pain point you'd want solved?Curious to hear from people who tried to run Iceberg workloads outside AWS.
Jun 10, 2026 1:10 PM
science.nasa.gov
NASA’s CloudCube Pioneers Miniaturized Radar to Study Clouds, Precipitationhttps://science.nasa.gov/science-research/science-enabling-technology/nasas-cloudcube-pioneers-miniaturizedradar-to-study-clouds-precipitation/A compact, multifrequency radar built by a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will make it easier to collect information about dynamic cloud systems. Called CloudCube, this new instrument simultaneously probes the atmosphere with three radar signals, spanning 36 to 240 GHz, for optimized sensitivity to a wide range of water droplet and ice particle sizes.
Jun 10, 2026 12:00 PM
bitemap.food
Show HN: Bitemap – See where everyone would bite a sandwichhttps://www.bitemap.food/sandwich/mcdonalds-cheeseburger-3862dc92I know the internet likes to celebrate perfect bites and debate where to take the next bite of half-finished sandwiches. So I built Bitemap. You see a photo of a sandwich, you tap where you'd take your next bite, and it shows a heatmap of where everyone else bit.It's early. Most of the sandwiches are ones I uploaded to seed it and the maps are still filling in, so some are thin. You can add your own too.No signup, nothing to install. Curious what you think, and where you'd bite. Happy to answer anything about how it's built.
Jun 9, 2026 1:29 PM
welter.fuglede.dk
Show HN: Welter's game, a little Nim-like combinatorial gamehttps://welter.fuglede.dkHi HN! Here's a little game I (and my buddy Claude, cf. the obvious CSS gradient tell) set up to explain to my kids some of things we were working on at work.So in the game you're taking turns moving coins down a line until no moves are possible. If you've taken a course on combinatorial game theory, you'll have come across the game of nim and you can think of this one as a variant of nim where there can only be a single coin in every square. The theory of how to play it isn't quite as well-established as for nim though; play with enough coins and I certainly find it quite tricky to mentally reason about whether a position is good or not.One fun fact about Welter's game is that its winning positions form the codewords of a particular error-correcting code called the constant weight binary lexicode (Conway and Sloane, 1986). What that means is that being good at the game is the same as being good at decoding messages in that code. Probably more fun to just play the game though.
Jun 9, 2026 11:58 AM
news.ycombinator.com
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
bing.com
When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ea6de41343d0b1deaa40a42dd054&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fculture%2fthe-weekend-essay%2fwhen-should-you-say-goodbye-to-a-pet&c=17953211815763698533&mkt=en-usWhen Jessamyn Kennedy began veterinary school, about twenty years ago, hardly anyone put their pets in day care or called them fur babies. Nobody brought dogs to brunch. Veterinary visits were for ...
Jun 6, 2026 2:59 AM
bing.com
When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dfc7971f458cbfd2e6a6257721c7&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fculture%2fthe-weekend-essay%2fwhen-should-you-say-goodbye-to-a-pet&c=17953211815763698533&mkt=en-usWhen Jessamyn Kennedy began veterinary school, about twenty years ago, hardly anyone put their pets in day care or called them fur babies. Nobody brought dogs to brunch. Veterinary visits were for ...
Jun 6, 2026 2:59 AM
bing.com
When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e40959ae467887da1a09788acb83&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fculture%2fthe-weekend-essay%2fwhen-should-you-say-goodbye-to-a-pet&c=17953211815763698533&mkt=en-usWhen Jessamyn Kennedy began veterinary school, about twenty years ago, hardly anyone put their pets in day care or called them fur babies. Nobody brought dogs to brunch. Veterinary visits were for ...
Jun 6, 2026 2:59 AM
bing.com
When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e62dd6bc4bb38c46ebe4cb46a320&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fculture%2fthe-weekend-essay%2fwhen-should-you-say-goodbye-to-a-pet&c=17953211815763698533&mkt=en-usWhen Jessamyn Kennedy began veterinary school, about twenty years ago, hardly anyone put their pets in day care or called them fur babies. Nobody brought dogs to brunch. Veterinary visits were for ...
Jun 6, 2026 2:59 AM
bing.com
When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a857c2c2dca4ae2939205c359f8aa5d&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fculture%2fthe-weekend-essay%2fwhen-should-you-say-goodbye-to-a-pet&c=17953211815763698533&mkt=en-usWhen Jessamyn Kennedy began veterinary school, about twenty years ago, hardly anyone put their pets in day care or called them fur babies. Nobody brought dogs to brunch. Veterinary visits were for ...
Jun 6, 2026 2:59 AM
bing.com
When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e29650fc47cb8f1cf8259d298d30&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fculture%2fthe-weekend-essay%2fwhen-should-you-say-goodbye-to-a-pet&c=17953211815763698533&mkt=en-usWhen Jessamyn Kennedy began veterinary school, about twenty years ago, hardly anyone put their pets in day care or called them fur babies. Nobody brought dogs to brunch. Veterinary visits were for ...
Jun 6, 2026 2:59 AM
bing.com
When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85eb14555942788cb54e9c9dc543db&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fculture%2fthe-weekend-essay%2fwhen-should-you-say-goodbye-to-a-pet&c=17953211815763698533&mkt=en-usWhen Jessamyn Kennedy began veterinary school, about twenty years ago, hardly anyone put their pets in day care or called them fur babies. Nobody brought dogs to brunch. Veterinary visits were for ...
Jun 6, 2026 2:59 AM
bing.com
When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e4ac18b34d7387cf82b03d2ac198&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fculture%2fthe-weekend-essay%2fwhen-should-you-say-goodbye-to-a-pet&c=17953211815763698533&mkt=en-usWhen Jessamyn Kennedy began veterinary school, about twenty years ago, hardly anyone put their pets in day care or called them fur babies. Nobody brought dogs to brunch. Veterinary visits were for ...
Jun 6, 2026 2:59 AM
bing.com
When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e1ea79fe4bc5a6072b689d34f2d0&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fculture%2fthe-weekend-essay%2fwhen-should-you-say-goodbye-to-a-pet&c=17953211815763698533&mkt=en-usWhen Jessamyn Kennedy began veterinary school, about twenty years ago, hardly anyone put their pets in day care or called them fur babies. Nobody brought dogs to brunch. Veterinary visits were for ...
Jun 6, 2026 2:59 AM