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Tell HN: Airbnb updated "necessary" cookies aren'thttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106346Just updated my app today and as usual there are a bunch of “strictly necessary” cookies from 3rd parties like Google Maps and Stripe. But a couple stood out to me.Rive. Seems to be a library for rendering vector animations. I don’t see how their cookies are necessary. This should all be a client-side dependency. Further, animations aren’t even necessary in the first place.Swift-avif-decode. Also a client side library for rendering images. I don’t see any reason they should be adding cookies.Jul 30, 2026 5:21 AM
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textureshttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-field-of-honeycomb-textures/As NASA’s Curiosity rover recently began climbing up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle Grande,” it sent back images that were a familiar sight to mission scientists: honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each one about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) across. The mission has spotted small patches of these geometric shapes several times […]Jul 29, 2026 3:30 PM
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Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training libraryhttps://usefeyn.com/blog/feynobg/Hey HN, I’m Shreyash from Feyn. We help companies build custom models from their data.Today, we’re releasing FeyNoBg, an automatic background removal model. Alongside it, we're open-sourcing NoBg, the Python library we built to train and run it.Try the model here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/feyninc/feynobg. Check out the library here: https://github.com/feyninc/nobgSome sample outputs:(1) Soccer Freekick: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZkAGLwbhNVOZ0Oi7XvpCfSEu9Q...(2) Hair in wind: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Odc2m0XMVH9uZtvI_KjaRbXzhLL...(3) Bicycle with visible spokes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h99ahjfrtS1MFQJJgiKE2fuM3HZ...(4) Live Demo video: https://youtu.be/b1heHPvY8BMBackground removal separates an image's subject from its surrounding. We've all tried it at some point. Often it is to reuse the subject in a different artifact. Nowadays, it is common to make chat stickers out of it. It is one of the most common but under-appreciated uses of AI. It is also surprisJul 27, 2026 4:59 PM
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Orbes unveils Exo-ORB and agreement with Symphony Spacehttps://spacenews.com/orbes-unveils-exo-orb-and-agreement-with-symphony-space/SAN FRANCISCO – Southern California startup Orbes announced an agreement July 27 to send Exo-ORB, a free-flying satellite, to gather imagery of an uncrewed Symphony Space station. Exo-ORB, which is […] The post Orbes unveils Exo-ORB and agreement with Symphony Space appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 27, 2026 1:00 PM
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Shared a Claude conversation? Google may have seen it.http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b21e3e53f4492b289a4d3dc6797d6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Ftech%2Fshared-claude-chats-found-in-google-search&c=7752914166943050590&mkt=en-usShared Claude chats were publicly accessible through Google Search. Credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images If you've used Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude, and shared any of your ...Jul 27, 2026 11:15 AM
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Show HN: Build native iOS widgets from any HTTPS endpointhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033628I built Dashlet since I often found myself building different web dashboards for all sorts of data (custom page views monitoring, app downloads, info from my home sensors) and I quickly got tired of always having to navigate to a page in Safari and reenter credentials to access them.I wanted to just simply be able to see it on my phone, when scrolling around it - in almost realtime.I've built bespoke apps (just for myself) in the past, that mapped a specific custom API for that purpose, but it was a hassle anytime I changed something in the response or added some new API for myself.So, Dashlet is an answer to that - it can handle any JSON (or XML, or even image) endpoints and has a nice interactive way of picking which values out of it should be displayed in which type of widget. So, if something has an API but no app (or no widget), Dashlet lets you point it at an HTTPS endpoint, visually map fields from JSON/XML/images, and create native Home Screen (also lock screen and Apple Watch)Jul 24, 2026 10:41 AM
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NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarcticahttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/nisars-l-band-radar-reveals-hummingbird-in-antarctica/Description Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja — a mountaintop in East Antarctica — poking out amid a stream of ice flowing northeast to the ocean. The obstruction causes stresses in the ice, heavily fracturing the surrounding surfaces with […]Jul 22, 2026 12:33 AM
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Mapping Alien Continents: Achieving Optical VLBI for Exoplanet Imaginghttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/mapping-alien-continents-achieving-optical-vlbi-for-exoplanet-imaging/Paul StankusBrookhaven Science Associates The scientific goal of the proposed work will be reconstructing the image, ie resolving surface features, of an Earth-like exoplanet around a nearby star as seen in visible light. The innovation is in two stages. First, the design of a new kind of nulling interferometer — “dynamic hierarchical nulling” — combining inputs […]Jul 21, 2026 3:23 PM
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Our First View of the Surface of Marshttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/our-first-view-of-the-surface-of-mars/“Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Forty minutes later, the lander’s first image began to appear on their monitors, slowly forming line by […]Jul 20, 2026 3:38 PM
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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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GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic, Wegovy May Help With Binge Eating Disorderhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b4a566a4d4da18096c7414ca40226&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthline.com%2Fhealth-news%2Fglp1-drugs-help-binge-eating-disorder&c=4909324735734862688&mkt=en-usShare on Pinterest GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy may help ease symptoms of binge eating disorder and related eating behaviors. Giselleflissak/Getty Images A new study found that GLP-1RAs ...Jul 17, 2026 3:32 AM
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NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comethttps://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/nasa-study-finds-near-earth-asteroid-is-actually-comet/New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its motion through space and using powerful observatories that image faint celestial objects. This object has a dual personality: Past images hadn’t revealed obvious cometlike activity, suggesting it might be […]Jul 16, 2026 6:40 PM
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Young Galaxy Clusterhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/young-galaxy-cluster/NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope takes us 4.4 billion years in the past with this July 3, 2026, image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342. The cluster is composed of two actively merging sub-clusters, roughly equal in mass. Each sub-cluster is anchored on an immensely bright and massive elliptical galaxy, easily identifiable as the […]Jul 16, 2026 2:35 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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Hubble Sees Crimson Cloud and Starshttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-sees-crimson-cloud-and-stars/Blue and white stars shine brilliantly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this July 3, 2026, image of stellar nursery LH 95 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. LH 95 is a region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. Low-mass infant stars live alongside massive blue giant stars in […]Jul 14, 2026 6:06 PM
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Waxing Gibbous Moonhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/waxing-gibbous-moon-6/The waxing gibbous moon is nestled in the darkness of space in this June 26, 2026, image from the International Space Station. The space station was 264 miles above the Indian Ocean southeast of Madagascar at the time. The waxing gibbous phase comes before the full moon phase. During this time, the Moon appears brighter […]Jul 10, 2026 3:08 PM
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Hubble Captures Star-Studded Clusterhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-captures-star-studded-cluster/This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up of ancient stars that formed at roughly the same time from the same cloud of gas, giving those stars similar ages. Around 150 known globular clusters are […]Jul 8, 2026 2:13 PM
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July 2026 Satellite Puzzlerhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/july-2026-satellite-puzzler/Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.Jul 7, 2026 3:48 PM
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Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)https://whimfiles.comMy Downloads folder had been left unkept for a really long time and cleaning it up using Finder was quite cumbersome. So I started creating a simple app to help me filter out and delete or move the files in the folder.It started out very basic and the filtering options genuinely helped me clean out the Downloads folder, then as I thought of more features I would like to see in a file manager I started to add them. Some of the features are:- Fuzzy go to folder/file where you only need to write a few letters of a full path, get suggestions and can jump to the correct path instantly - Hover over a file to preview an image or PDF without opening it - Dual-pane view and tabs that remember selected filters - Command palette to find actions fast - Batch rename (with regex support and presets for common operations), image conversion (HEIC/WebP/AVIF to JPG/PNG), zip creation - Bookmarks, Quick Look, single-click open, keyboard controlAnd many other small quality of life features.I used Claude CJul 7, 2026 8:12 AM
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Webb reveals millions of stars in nearby galaxyhttps://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_reveals_millions_of_stars_in_nearby_galaxyIn new images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to celebrate its fourth science anniversary, a familiar galaxy transforms into something far richer, and far more complex, than ever seen before. Webb’s unprecedented sensitivity across near- and mid-infrared wavelengths cuts through the thick lanes of dust that obscure Centaurus A’s centre in visible light, showing a densely packed tapestry of individual stars and an active, everchanging galaxy. These images mark four years of better-than-anticipated performance and successful science operations for the most powerful space telescope in history.Jul 6, 2026 4:00 PM
