bing.com
Auburn football tight end Hollis Davidson III arrested on felony drug possession chargehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8dd22d7d584e3398e89fd8443f346d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Farticle%2Fauburn-football-tight-end-hollis-184134938.html&c=6695375115476433582&mkt=en-usAUBURN — A third Auburn football player is facing legal trouble this offseason, as freshman tight end Hollis Davidson III was arrested and charged with felony possession of a Schedule I controlled ...Aug 8, 2025 11:41 AM
github.com
Show HN: MBCompass – FOSS Android and Compass Apphttps://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompassHey HN,This is a follow-up to our original Show HN post, where I launched the first version of MBCompass.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44155741Since then, I've added several features based on user feedback and community input...I just released v1.1.9 of MBCompass - Minimal, FOSS compass and navigation app.New in this version:- Theme toggling (Dark/Light) controlled via settings - Fix current location arrow visibility - Compass accuracy alerts - Sensor status indicator - Explicit button for showing the GPS current location - Smooth transitions and many more..Still just [1.35MB] with no ads, no IAPs, and no trackersI’ve also:- Moved the project repo to a github organization for easier team collaboration and governance- Launched a dedicated website for MBCompass with feature overviews and the story behind the app:As always, feedback is welcome. Thanks for the continued support!https://compassmb.github.io/MBCompass-site/Aug 8, 2025 9:44 AM
nasa.gov
USBR Seal Team Fix Challengehttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/prizes-challenges-crowdsourcing-program/center-of-excellence-for-collaborative-innovation-coeci/usbr-seal-team-fix-challenge/When a reservoir conduit cannot be closed, thousands of cubic feet of water can roar through uncontrolled, threatening public safety, irreplaceable reservoir storage, and power generation. Seal Team Fix invites engineers, fabricators, and creative problem-solvers to stop that torrent in its tracks. Your mission: design a rapid-deploying, temporary seal that can be deployed to a submerged 3- […]Jul 23, 2025 1:39 PM
esa.int
Sea-level monitoring satellite Sentinel-6B sets sailhttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-6/Sea-level_monitoring_satellite_Sentinel-6B_sets_sailThe next sea-level monitoring satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-6B, has begun its journey from Europe to the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where it is scheduled to launch in November. Carefully packed into a climate-controlled container, the satellite is currently crossing the Atlantic Ocean aboard the cargo ship Industrial Dolphin.Jul 23, 2025 10:07 AM
grayarea.org
Show HN: Homemade robot playing piano concert in SF (7/26)https://grayarea.org/event/deru-we-will-live-on/Figured there are probably some folks on here that might be interested in coming to a robot piano concert at Gray Area in SF this Saturday night (7/26). More comprehensive technical write up to come (eventually) but the show is by LA composer Deru (https://deru.la) and features 3 robot/player pianos that sit over the top of traditional upright pianos and are controlled live over USB MIDI by way of an ESP32-S3.The story of how it all came about is kinda long but Ben (Deru) recorded an album (We Will Live On: https://deru.bandcamp.com/album/we-will-live-on), during covid on a Yamaha Disklavier (the album will be performed as part of the concert). To try and work out how we could actually tour the album we found a community of homebrew player piano folks that started with Brandon Switzer's work (https://github.com/bbswitzer/pianoproject) which led to a Discord group (https://discord.gg/vE9uPg2y) and then to Josh Phillips's work evolving it into an over the top player (https://github.com/jJul 22, 2025 6:17 PM
aigr.id
Show HN:[Opensource] AIgr.id–Polycentric Infrastructure for Open and Plural AIhttps://www.aigr.idHey HN! I'm Kanishka Nithin, founder of AIGr.id (https://www.aigr.id). We’re building AIGr.id — a polycentric network of independent, modular AI that can coordinate, exchange data, and compose into higher-level intelligence — all within a decentralized and plural ecosystem. Rings collective intelligence?In simpler terms: We’re trying to make it possible for people to produce, remix, operate, distribute and consume AI systems the way we use the internet— openly, collaboratively, and without needing to centralize everything into one mega-model owned by one mega-entity. Just like internet of intelligence.Today’s AI landscape is: Centralized, resource-heavy systems demand vast funding, compute, and talent—excluding much of the world. Controlled by a few powerful actors prioritizing profit over public good. Participation is limited, deepening inequality in AI benefits. Fragmented and siloed, with no open protocols for AI coordination We believe it's time to reimagine AI as collective intellApr 22, 2025 5:43 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Who Owns Your Data?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43324333Who Really Owns Your DataCloud computing is a fundamental part of modern business, but data ownership remains an overlooked issue. While cloud providers promise security and reliability, many retain control over infrastructure, encryption, and compliance, raising concerns about who actually owns the data stored on their platforms.Major Cloud Providers and Data ControlMost major providers operate in shared data centers, leasing space from third-party colocation facilities. This means customers rely on infrastructure that is not fully controlled by the provider itself, introducing potential risks regarding security, access, and compliance.Software control is another issue. Some cloud providers integrate third-party services, embed AI and machine learning tools, or depend on vendor-driven integrations. These external dependencies reduce user control and create potential security gaps.The Encryption DilemmaEncryption is a critical factor in data privacy, but many cloud providers manage encMar 10, 2025 6:50 PM
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What if a Decentral World is a Dystopia?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070947The city stretches out in all directions, but it is no longer a city—more a lattice of fortified enclaves, sovereign digital republics that coexist in tension, bristling with automated defenses. The skyline is shimmering with the telltale flickers of drone patrols. AI-controlled turrets track anything that doesn’t broadcast the right cryptographic key. The old world has been overgrown with sensor grids, anti-personnel auto-guns, and the territorial heat maps of invisible digital perimeters. No one enters anywhere they do not belong. Wealth flickes in and out of existence at the speed of smart contracts, governance is a matter of pure computation. Law is an executable script. Each neighborhood is its own micro-nation, its own economy, its own military, its own culture—linked not by government, but by encrypted trust networks that route trade and negotiation through layers of zero-knowledge proofs. Only the most necessary transactions occur in physical reality: a courier crosses an abandFeb 16, 2025 7:38 PM
github.com
Show HN: OpenInt (YC W23) Open-Source iPaaS to Ship Product Integrations Quicklyhttps://github.com/openintegrations/openintHi HN, we’re the team behind OpenInt (https://openint.dev). We started building a unified API for crypto payments at Map3 (YC W23), but scaling dozens of custom integrations for each customer was painful and repetitive. We learned how valuable it would be to have a platform that lets any team quickly stand up private and fully controlled integrations without reinventing the wheel each time.OpenInt is an open-source integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that helps you ship product integrations in hours, not weeks. We just participated Mega Launch Week (Dec 2–6 https://launchweek.dev/lw/MEGA) and introduced (https://openint.dev/launch-week):- Dec 2: OpenInt – Open-source iPaaS platform.- Dec 3: @OpenInt/Connect – Fully featured integrations page for your app.- Dec 4: OpenInt Sync – Automated data syncs straight into your database.- Dec 5: OpenSDKs – Typesafe SDKs with an auth proxy for any API.- Dec 6: Orchestrate & Our Partner Program – Unified aggregator orchestration plus our partDec 6, 2024 4:00 PM
genapi.co
Show HN: Genapi.co – from idea to production API in minuteshttps://genapi.co/Hello HN,I worked as a Software Engineer, DevOps, and SRE for 8+ years and I saw three things in every company:- backend development takes weeks/months- cloud spend is uncontrolled- on-call is the pain for devopsI made a tool to help engineers like myself to avoid these issues and allow them to focus on new products, new features, monolith breakdown, and other tasksGenAPI creates production-grade API in minutes from text input-KlimApr 25, 2024 2:21 PM
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Towards a "Free AI Manifesto"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39335272I am curious to hear any thoughts on the following ideas:Free AI manifestoArtificial intelligence is fast emerging as a powerful technology in our lives. Now is the time to ask ourselves, do we want it to be controlled by corporations or by the people that use it? The risks of central control are undeniable — surveillance, dependency, manipulation. It is less clear how to achieve a future of open and free AI, but the ideas and experiences of the open source and cypherpunk movements show us the way.At the core, the answer to the problem seems obvious: AI models must be owned by the people that use them, and nobody else (Mustafa Suleyman’s insight). This is how privacy and the alignment of interests between models and users can be guaranteed by the foundational design of the system, creating a strong bulwark against the overreach of centralized powers.It is hard to imagine this to work for the massive, compute hungry frontier models. Where it could work really well however is in the one Feb 11, 2024 2:41 PM
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TV's are becoming intrusive and abusive; what to do about it?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37302578I have, over the years, watched as our TV has become more intrusive and abusive. Every software update takes it up a notch.As I say in a Reddit post [0], I didn't go to the store to buy a remotely controlled ever-changing remotely-controlled digital advertising platform to hang in our family room.I didn't go to the store to buy a data gathering device to plant into my home.I didn't go to the store to provide a TV manufacturer with, as they say in their newest terms of service:"grant and agree to grant to VIZIO and its affiliates and licensees, a non-exclusive, transferable, revocable, royalty-free right and license (with right to sublicense) to use, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, adapt, collect, modify, delete from, distribute, transmit, promote and make derivative works of the VIZIOgram Content, in any form"This device, which cost well over $2,000 is the source of stress and consternation.When family and friends come over for a visit, it is impossible to control what tAug 29, 2023 1:51 AM
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Being a Jerk – Fear the Semantic Third Deriviativehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113258As Hinton discovered, we can make systems learn by controlling the first derivative, adding or subtracting weights to exhibit behavior.As OpenAI discovered, we can modulate systems behavior by controlling the second derivative, keeping the behavior within limits using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). This puts boundaries on the learned behavior of the first derivative.It seems to me that we fear the uncontrolled third derivative, known at the "jerk" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics) ). We have not yet spent time putting boundaries on the modulated second derivative.That is, we fear the AI system being a "Jerk".May 29, 2023 12:24 PM
nasaspaceflight.com
VSS Unity conducts first powered flight since Branson’s trip in 2021https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/05/unity-25-flight/After a nearly two-year pause in flights, starting after a deviation from controlled airspace during Sir Richard Branson’s flight in July 2021, the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity made its first powered flight since the eventful Unity 22 mission.May 25, 2023 1:44 PM
spacenews.com
China wants to ramp up the launch rate of its Long March 5B rockethttps://spacenews.com/china-wants-to-ramp-up-the-launch-rate-of-its-long-march-5b-rocket/China is planning to greatly increase the number of launches of its Long March 5B rocket which has created a number of high-profile uncontrolled reentries of its large first stage.Nov 11, 2022 12:46 PM
growthbook.io
Launch HN: GrowthBook (YC W22) – Open-source feature flagging and A/B testinghttps://www.growthbook.io/Hi HN, Graham and Jeremy here - we are building GrowthBook, an open-source platform for feature flagging and A/B testing. The repo is here: https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook and our home page is https://www.growthbook.io. We did a Show HN 6 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28088882, which helped us get into YC) and have since added feature flagging.Developers often launch a feature without understanding the impact it has on their users and business. This is a big deal, because only 1/3 of product launches actually improve the desired metrics. Of the rest, 1/3 have no effect, and the last 1/3 actually hurt [1]. The best way to measure this is to use feature flags and controlled experiments (A/B tests).Jeremy and I worked together for 10 years at an ed-tech startup as CTO and software architect. We spent far too long just building and launching features without really knowing how they impacted our users and if they were adding value to the company. We had product aMar 1, 2022 4:12 PM
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Launch HN: Hyperbeam API (YC W22) – Multiplayer embeds of any websitehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30433104Hi HN, we’re Philip, Amby, and Declan from Hyperbeam (https://www.hyperbeam.dev). Hyperbeam is an API that makes it easy for developers to embed real-time multiplayer capabilities into their web apps—including any other web app that you want to provide multiplayer access to.Building software to connect people in real time is hard. We experienced this in college when we built a “watch party” site for people to watch movies together (https://hyperbeam.com). Other watch party solutions were unreliable, so we spent two years building tech to allow friends to watch stuff together with ease.The key piece was a “multiplayer web browser”. By that we mean a Chromium instance that you embed inside your own web app (i.e. web browser inception) which is actually hosted on a server and streamed via WebRTC, and so can be shared and controlled by multiple people at the same time.For example, say you have an online tutoring platform. An instructor can open any application in the embedded web browser aFeb 22, 2022 8:16 PM
bing.com
Eric Kay trial updates: Former Angels employee found guilty of playing a role in Tyler Skaggs’ deathhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f449559340ab9e0ca5d5e925b336&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fathletic%2Flive-blogs%2Feric-kay-trial-updates-former-angels-employee-found-guilty-of-playing-a-role-in-tyler-skaggs-death%2F7b8f3x78pR2i%2F&c=13248425591155806628&mkt=en-usEric Kay, the former Angels employee accused of supplying the controlled substance that contributed to the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019, was found guilty on charges of distributing ...Feb 17, 2022 7:19 PM
youtube.com
Show HN: A full AR helicopter action game built as a Snap lenshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_1dJ_x7vXwI built a complete game using Snap's AR platform in about 6 weeks. I'd been intrigued by Snap's AR ambitions and wanted to kick the tires on their platform.The YouTube video description contains a link to the Lens: https://lens.snapchat.com/d04efc6953fd498c87e25c92fef727e7?s...How to play:- Joypad y axis moves the helicopter along the ray pointing from the camera. You can therefore tilt the phone up to fly "up".- Altitude is also controlled by aiming the phone. The helicopter tries to match the altitude of a point that is fixed in front of the camera. So you can move up by aiming up or by actually lifting the phone higher.- Joypad x axis strafes.- If you lose track of the helicopter, a blue arrow will appear after about 5 seconds.- Blow up enemies and try to stay alive :)How it works under the hood:- Loads of JavaScript. Lenses are surprisingly programmer-friendly. As a non-artist, this is great. Almost everything can be driven completely by code, although most creators opt to use pre-Jan 25, 2022 7:27 PM
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Ask HN: Are quantum-ready co’s peddling snake oil?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620086The premise of quantum-ready companies is to prepare their customers for the moment quantum computing breaks current cryptography. For example, RSA is dependent on factorization being computationally hard, but Shor’s Algorithm would provide fast factorization on sufficiently powerful quantum computers.OK. But consider that some theorists make a direct link between quantum computing and non-locality ([1], [2]) while others ([3], [4]) question whether non-locality exists, despite years of confirmation of violations of Bell’s Inequality.If - and it is a big IF - non-locality isn’t a thing, then quantum computing may be an illusion.If quantum computing is illusory, then companies offering the “quantum-ready” are peddling FUD, snake-oil, no?Thoughts?[1] https://phys.org/news/2016-04-quantum-involves-nonlocality.html [2] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-centres-and-groups/controlled-quantum-dynamics/public/people/Matt_Pusey_MRes_new.pdf [3] http://backreaction.blogsDec 20, 2021 12:14 AM
