sports.yahoo.com
The DNA of the 2026 Missouri Football Tigershttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dna-2026-missouri-football-tigers-140000940.htmlThe demographics of the 2026 team. Because I find that interesting.Aug 18, 2026 2:00 PM
cbsnews.com
What the emojis you use say about how old you arehttps://www.cbsnews.com/video/what-the-emojis-you-use-say-about-you/A new New York Times report has found that your choice in emojis could give some insight into your age and demographic. Eve Washington, the writer of the piece, joined "The Takeout" to discuss.Aug 17, 2026 11:13 PM
variety.com
‘Kitchen Confidential’ Returns to Bestseller Lists Following Anthony Bourdain Biopichttps://variety.com/2026/shopping/news/kitchen-confidential-bestseller-lists-anthony-bourdain-1236836464/More than 25 years after Anthony Bourdain first pulled back the curtain on restaurant kitchens, readers are going back for seconds. Bourdain’s seminal 2000 memoir, “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,” has returned to bestseller charts following the theatrical release of “Tony,” A24’s new biographical drama about his formative years. The book is also […]Aug 17, 2026 5:20 PM
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Design with a Soul: How to make your Vibe-coded site not look like AI Slophttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287430I have some tips on how to make your site / app feel real and human even if it's vibe coded.- I'm not a graphics designer but I've worked with many and deeply interested in it for 15 years. - I led a UX team in a 50K+ organisation - I've launched 6+ businesses and did countless websites.So here's how I do it -- I'm not saying THIS IS THE WAY to do it. This is HOW I DO IT.1) Whiteboard. Sit your ass down, put some music on you find inspirational and imagine what you want your users to feel. What type of an "ambiance" this site should have? Energetic, calming, playful, serious? Pick 1 or 2 as your primary emotional anchors.2) Principles. You need to have these engrained in your bones. Less is more. If you try to do everything you do nothing. Design is an exercise in ruthless elimination. Read on design to build your internal mental heuristics library.3) Mental Image. Once you have a feel and direction decided (can change, but clarity is important) (For example, while I was building my cuAug 13, 2026 3:25 PM
science.nasa.gov
Mapping Io’s Hidden Heat With NASA’s Junohttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/mapping-ios-hidden-heat-with-nasas-juno/Description This graphic illustrates the areas of Jupiter’s moon Io sampled by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during two close flybys. The black overlapping lines show the instrument’s footprints during Perijove 57 on Dec. 30, 2023, when the spacecraft primarily mapped the northern hemisphere. The blue lines represent Perijove 58 on […]Jul 22, 2026 3:00 PM
wanderinghorse.net
Show HN: Rules-free solo-only client for the Paperback tabletop gamehttps://wanderinghorse.net/gaming/paperback/solo.htmlMy past couple of weeks were spent writing an app with which to play the word-spelling tabletop game Paperback in the browser.Tim Fowers, creator and publisher of the game, has given me permission to post my homemade electronic copy of the game (initially built so that i could print-and-play a copy with "US-Mini" size cards), and recently sent me (much to my surprise) the publisher's official graphical assets and an invitation to use them in this little side-project(!!!).The version housed at that link has a known bug or two (there's one too many 7-cent W's, for one thing) but it's otherwise believed to be usable for its intended purpose: allowing an experienced Paperback player to sit and play solo mode without the app interfering rules- or dictionary-wise. (My only real fuss about their official app is the locked dictionary. It does not allow the word "pawn", nor a wide range of other perfectly viable words. Secondarily, i'd like to be able to customize the game more and remove all oJul 12, 2026 6:04 AM
mojavepaint.app
Show HN: Mojave Paint for macOS, edit images like it's 1999https://mojavepaint.app/We all need a swiss army knife for images. A tool for really getting in there and dealing with the pixels precisely. You might be combining images into a sprite sheet, you might be matting images to squares, cutting out solid backgrounds, re-tinting graphical elements. For a website, a video game, for an app.There's a million photo editors, there's a million design tools, and Mojave Paint can do those things in varying degrees but "graphical asset production" is its first and primary mission.It's cheap! $9.99 (one-time, sad I even have to say that) for the "Pro" version. It's Mac-only, and Apple Silicon Mac at that. Does it look a little like Photoshop 5.5 from the year 1999? Maybe a little but also it's got plenty of its own original ideas. (Blog post on that is forthcoming…)I've always been passionate about image editing tools for the technically-minded so I'm throwing my hat in the ring in that space. And sure GIMP is for the technically-minded but boy is it ugly on the Mac!Jul 10, 2026 12:29 PM
spacenews.com
ESA to seek lunar mapping capability for Argonaut landerhttps://spacenews.com/esa-to-seek-lunar-mapping-capability-for-argonaut-lander/MILAN — The European Space Agency will rely on external lunar topographic data during the design phase of its Argonaut lunar lander, and possibly for its first mission, while working […] The post ESA to seek lunar mapping capability for Argonaut lander appeared first on SpaceNews.Jun 29, 2026 3:24 PM
sipp.sh
Show HN: Sipp – Run small local LLMs in browser 3x fasterhttps://www.sipp.shHi HN! Sipp is an open-source AI inference library for running local models in browsers with up to 3x faster decode speeds than alternative libraries.My background is in HCI (human-computer interaction) and graphics programming. Me along with my co-founder have been experimenting and thinking a lot about what the next user experience will look like when tokens are commodified to the point of being essentially “free.” A motivation for us was to try to move beyond the chat app and information retrieval use cases that are dominant now, and figure out how AI could instead act as a continuous and silent hand that helps the user indirectly, subtly monitoring their intent and dynamically generating or shifting the UI to meet their needs.In our explorations, we ran into two pain points: 1) when running AI in the browser, performance wasn’t good enough for real-time applications, and model loading and caching were issues; 2) when trying to run locally on desktop, there weren’t any good solutionJun 24, 2026 2:52 PM
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Ask HN: Is writing code by hand still a necessary skill for developers?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034901TLDR - My question is: For experienced developers, is writing code from scratch still a core skill worth learning?Is the future of development just using AI agents to orchestrate everything and just reviewing, debugging, giving specs, verifying, etc...?Rest of the information:I’m a full-stack "developer" trying to understand my career in the age of AI.I didn’t study CS, so I have a non-traditional background. I've also never worked with other developers until recently. I came from graphic design/web dev work (Wordpress, CSS, some JS, some PHP), did HTML email development for a bit (awful black magic), scripting/automations to help a content migration for a year, and now I have a full-stack role at a small company.I now work with everything. Backend, frontend, infrastructure, CI/CD, integrations. Mostly "Hey this is broken" - my job is to fix it. I understand some of the fundamentals well enough to be productive. I can read code, improve it (usually), and mostly explain what needs to haMay 6, 2026 11:15 AM
science.nasa.gov
The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signalhttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/the-deep-space-network-acquires-artemis-ii-signal-2/Description A graphical representation of the Deep Space Network’s radio frequency antennas indicate signal acquisition from NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon on April 1, 2026, inside the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Two antennas at the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex, Deep Space Station 54 and […]Apr 9, 2026 7:28 PM
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Supporting Artemis II From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facilityhttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/supporting-artemis-ii-from-jpls-space-flight-operations-facility/Description The Artemis II mission patch appears in the center screen of the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on April 1, 2026, shortly before the mission launched to the Moon. A graphical representation of the antennas of the agency’s Deep Space Network (DSN), left, indicates which antennas are […]Apr 9, 2026 6:57 PM
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GVIS Virtual Systems Simulationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-virtual-systems-simulations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Virtual System Simulations The GVIS Lab prides itself on creating […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Conceptual Visual Designshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-conceptual-visual-designs/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Conceptual Visual Designs GVIS creates conceptual visual designs for proposed […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Scientific Visualizationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-scientific-visualizations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Scientific Visualizations GVIS creates scientific visualizations to explain complex scientific […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Test Facilities Visualizationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-test-facilities-visualizations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support for NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop solutions to bring their projects to life. Test Facility Models GVIS creates visualizations of various NASA test facilities. […]Mar 13, 2026 2:53 PM
github.com
Show HN: Aurion OS – A 32-bit GUI operating system written from scratch in Chttps://github.com/Luka12-dev/AurionOSHi HN! I'm 13 and I built Aurion OS as a solo learning project over 14 days (~12 hours/day).It's a 32-bit x86 operating system written entirely in C and x86 Assembly with no external libraries.What it has: Custom bootloader and kernel VESA framebuffer graphics (1920x1080, double-buffered) Window manager with draggable, overlapping windows macOS-inspired dock with transparency PS/2 keyboard and mouse drivers ATA hard drive driver with filesystem PCI bus enumeration RTL8139 network driver (WIP) Real-time clock Runs on just 16MB RAM (up to 10 windows simultaneously)Built-in apps: Terminal (with DOS mode), Notepad (save/load), Calculator, Paint (multiple colors and brush sizes), Snake game, Settings (theme switching), and System Info.Currently works best on QEMU, VirtualBox, and VMware. Real hardware support is still a work in progress.Next goal: TCP/IP networking stack.I'd love any feedback, suggestions, or criticism. This is my first OS project and I learned mass amounts while building iMar 12, 2026 6:33 PM
apps.apple.com
Show HN: Touch Trigonometry – interactive way to understand the trig functionshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/touch-trigonometry/id6758712159I started to teach myself to code around 15 years ago. At the time I was working service industry jobs (restaurant kitchens, coffee shops) and desperate to change my career and life.Around that time there was a new thing called available in HTML5 that you could use to render graphics in web pages without plugins; despite my limited knowledge of tech and lack of coding skills, I knew I wanted to be a part of that.Around that same time, I had also enrolled at the community college for night classes in math. I wanted to "work in tech" after all, so a mathematics brush-up seemed wise. I had always struggled with math. But now that I was both incentivized to learn it, I found myself facing a familiar terror: trigonometry.The other students, just out of high school, seemed to know this stuff. I was simply confused. The same frustration I had felt in high school returned: No one could clearly answer why this stuff worked. Why did we need a "sine" function?So I decided to combine my struggles Feb 23, 2026 8:56 PM
spacedaily.com
Quantum transport method reads open quantum stateshttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Quantum_transport_method_reads_open_quantum_states_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 What is the state of a quantum system? Answering this question is essential for exploiting quantum properties in emerging devices and for developing new quantum technologies across computing, sensing and secure communications. Quantum technologies, whether computers, sensors or cryptographic systems, all rely on one essential step: the characterisation of quantum states. This process, knowJan 27, 2026 1:25 PM
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Instead of Kilimanjaro, hike Mount Meru and these 4 other peakshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimwFBVV95cUxOcHFtMExHVGRENWJydUhBbDZkS2ZCWVV4a2ZUYm4xSXRIX085MXhhTkNxXzN1SXUyeVdrQmZMQWFwN1lnc3gyNFNwZ05Cc0lxX1dHeVk3R1Nvb2NzMHpWOU9Tc0pReG5PNGJaSzJQMXdibjNuNDZZaDliQzlOclFQNmkybTVnQUFQdDFGbUNPNHhCbHB0N282dFItSQ?oc=5Instead of Kilimanjaro, hike Mount Meru and these 4 other peaks National GeographicJan 26, 2026 8:00 AM