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sports.yahoo.com
Vrancken on Williams deal, Rapid & Hearts' last chancehttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/vrancken-williams-deal-rapid-hearts-151635178.htmlWouter Vrancken has been speaking to the media before Hearts host Rapid Vienna in the Conference League play-off first leg on Thursday. The Tynecastle boss confirms a move for Rhode Island FC striker JJ Williams is "happening on the background" but Vrancken is keen to focus on the current squad amid a hectic run of games. Harry Milne and Laurent Mendy are doubts but the latter could be fit for n...
Aug 19, 2026 3:16 PM
github.com
Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron appshttps://github.com/biw/keychain-storeHey HN,I've been working on Hansel [1] (an encrypted personal data store you can query with agents), and there wasn't a good way to use the modern macOS Data Protection Keychain.Electron's safeStorage [2] uses the legacy file-based keychain, which allows other apps/agents to query it with the `security` CLI. Not great when you have a dozen agents running in the background! The Data Protection Keychain is nice because it limits access via code-signing access groups and lets you set access rules like Touch ID and/or password.1: https://hansel.so/2. https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/safe-storage
Aug 18, 2026 5:25 PM
sports.yahoo.com
NAHL Houston Bulls hire Ben Canvasser as team broadcasterhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nahl-houston-bulls-hire-ben-170434502.htmlBen Canvasser has been hired as the Houston Bulls’ team broadcaster and play-by-play analyst, bringing a unique energy to the call and a diverse hockey background.
Aug 17, 2026 5:04 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Lazio Submit an Offer for Leicester City’s Teenage Attackerhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/lazio-submit-offer-leicester-city-144000339.htmlLazio have reportedly approached Leicester City in the hopes of buying their young striker, Lorenz Hutchinson.The BackgroundThe Biancocelesti have been searching the market for a new centre-forward si...
Aug 17, 2026 2:40 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Why 'working-class' Pocognoli will 'click quickly' with Tartan Armyhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/why-working-class-pocognoli-click-075841334.htmlSebastien Pocognoli's working-class roots and charismatic personality will quickly endear him to the Tartan Army, predicts Belgian football expert Scott Coyne. The former Monaco and Union Saint-Gilloise head coach has been named just the second foreign boss of the Scotland men's national team, replacing Steve Clarke. "He comes from a working-class background just outside Liege, to an Italian fam...
Aug 17, 2026 7:58 AM
sports.yahoo.com
Nuno Tavares Deletes All Lazio Posts as Suitor Prepares Late-Summer Onslaughthttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nuno-tavares-deletes-lazio-posts-211000196.htmlLazio full-back Nuno Tavares stirred some controversy with his latest social media move, while Porto are obeserving his situation closely.The BackgroundThe 26-year-old has been playing his football in...
Aug 16, 2026 9:10 PM
news.google.com
For 72 seconds in August 1977, an Ohio radio telescope picked up a signal thirty times stronger than the background hum of space, sitting almost exactly on the frequency scientists had guessed an alien civilization would choose — and it has never beehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMixwJBVV95cUxOVkxGdS14Ymp3NnZCNTllal9jRkE0LUVhT3prZ1JPeDlFRThScTR6SUpaR2gtOEY2cVhyRkRFTUIyNzI2TUQ5QnQ3bGtVOWFFQTVyNEVGdU5LRlZuNVU2T1VYaVBoNDdtcWVRc2dlNVdEM0NBYklJWm5rX3JaZjVEaFQwOUV2SFVSekFaNVI4VGxsdGFaaFRSU0ZxUTdGRkZfWVVKYkVFOTJ4NVMzU0JyNWlUX2hnSE9XSEcwUUEwVEFicURkNVhBcFVKTW5UaTd2WE90LWNVR3dFMXhPX2ZJRmprbGp6VG9xX2dtOEJ5TnVaQWx4dkJqVzNfR05sTnhWR1BGTXdJZUZrN0tMXzk1NzNma29OOWI5Y0NkWnlFeWtSeG5qblQ2OFgxdlZvNFcwdDFTS1phSEtFZ050NnZFMWNDUzhjdG8?oc=5For 72 seconds in August 1977, an Ohio radio telescope picked up a signal thirty times stronger than the background hum of space, sitting almost exactly on the frequency scientists had guessed an alien civilization would choose — and it has never been hear Space Daily
Aug 12, 2026 7:00 AM
argmin.dev
Show HN: Argmin, challenges for optimizing hard problemshttps://argmin.devI want to share a project I've been working on called argmin.dev. It's a platform for hard optimization problems where a solution can be checked deterministically.For a bit of background, I've always found these types of problems interesting. The really difficult optimization problems where techniques like gradient decent don't work, or where even finding a feasible solution is difficult (e.g. square packing). I've worked on these independently for fun and have created this project as a way to share the problems I find interesting with the community. I am curious to see how far others can push these.Each challenge is defined by its verifier, a program that will enforce the constraints, and evaluate the objective function. The verifiers are open-source per challenge, so users can check their solutions against it before submitting. The platform keeps a record of submissions and will update the leaderboard each time someone finds a new record. Because the verifier is the spec, any loophol
Aug 11, 2026 4:51 PM
github.com
Show HN: OptiQra – Open-source AI website optimization and intelligence platformhttps://github.com/armin5872/OptiQraHi HN,I've been building OptiQra for quite a while, and I finally finished the desktop version.OptiQra is an open-source website intelligence and optimization platform. It can crawl and analyze websites or local projects, identify SEO/AEO/GEO, accessibility, performance and technical issues, explain them with AI, and automatically fix them.The desktop version is where the project gets particularly interesting. It can run locally, work with local projects, operate offline for analysis that doesn't require cloud services, and run scheduled scans in the background.The workflow is roughly:URL/project → crawl → analyze → understand the issues → inspect them on the actual site → fix them → verify the result.It also has a fairly visual crawler, including live 2D and 3D crawl trees, and the AI interface is customizable rather than being limited to a single assistant personality.I built the UI and CSS myself rather than using Tailwind/shadcn, and the project has grown considerably beyond a simp
Aug 10, 2026 9:13 AM
tape-music-hub.gordo.design
Show HN: Tape Music Hub, local music library manager with a P2P phone companionhttps://tape-music-hub.gordo.design/Hi HN,This is a personal project I have been building for the last three years. I had the technical and product background, but never quite enough uninterrupted time to take it all the way. AI coding tools finally gave me enough leverage to finish the version I had been carrying around in my head.I have spent years accumulating a proper local music library. I DJ from time to time, and I always have music locally that is not distributed on any “public” platform such as Spotify or Apple Music, so I only hear that music on my computer.The core idea was to use the same archive from my phone without moving it into a cloud catalog or rebuilding it in another app, while keeping it in the same place and making it easy to connect to other DJ apps. This means you can build your playlists on the go and add many more interesting features, and, easy to use and setup.Is desktop/NAS app stays as the source of truth. You add the folders you already use for your music library, and the phone becomes a c
Aug 7, 2026 8:34 PM
intergalacticrobots.app
Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialismhttps://intergalacticrobots.app/skyline-coop/I've been rebuilding old games with Claude. While creating a modern take on SimTower and having election news on TV in the background, I had the idea to build the economy of the game around democratic socialism instead of capitalism.Instead of a real estate tycoon, you are an elected steward of the building, held responsible by the Assembly. Homes are allocated off a waitlist, dues are set on a sliding scale, and you face outside pressures from neighboring capitalist landlords.The crown jewel is attracting a large grant to establish an observatory at the top of your tower, attracting scientists. To get there, you must make sure the people are fed, housed, healthy, and entertained. If the Assembly doesn't have confidence in your abilities, you get voted out.It kinda works, and the potential failures in the game are pretty unique. I'd be interested to hear HN's take. An entire SimCity clone based on a different economy like this could be fun.
Aug 6, 2026 11:37 AM
withoutbg.com
Show HN: An open-weight background removal model for difficult imageshttps://withoutbg.com/open-modelFor many everyday images, background removal works well. The remaining challenge is images with fine hair, fur, glass, transparent objects, motion blur, low-contrast subjects, or cluttered backgrounds. Improving results on those difficult cases has been the focus of this project.This is the third iteration of the model, built through many rounds of training and evaluation. I've focused on improving performance on the kinds of images that are still difficult for many background removal tools.I recently released the third iteration of my open-weight background removal model (Apache-2.0 for my contributions; see repository for third-party licensing). My goal is to make high-quality background removal easy to run locally or on your own infrastructure.Example resultsOpen model: https://withoutbg.com/open-model/resultsComparison with remove.bg: https://withoutbg.com/compare/withoutbg-open-model-vs-remove...The comparison intentionally focuses on challenging images, since many tools produce s
Aug 5, 2026 10:21 AM
jackcushman.org
Show HN: Christopher Nolan's Hymn to Athenahttps://jackcushman.org/writing/hymn-to-athena/Hi, HN! Did you know that Chris Nolan's casting of Tom Holland and Zendaya eerily echoes a 3000-year-old dance battle between Athena and Telemachus? I've been working on an art project that says so.If you like, it can be fun to go in blind with a strong research agent to sort out what this really is. Or there is a multi-layered CAPTCHA at the bottom that spells it out increasingly clearly.As a small spoiler: my day job is building reliable public data tools for a library. This piece draws on that background to try to make AI-native art -- fiction by and for humans who use AI agents as a source of truth. At best I hope it works as the kind of joke one Iain M. Banks Culture AI would tell another about humans.
Aug 3, 2026 2:45 PM
marnetto.net
Show HN: A mod for Grand Prix Circuit (DSI/Accolade, 1988)https://marnetto.net/projects/grand-prix-circuitHello HN,I have built a mod for Grand Prix Circuit, an old 2.5D racing game: the latest episode of a long series of community efforts to reverse-engineer and improve the games made by Distinctive Software (today's EA Vancouver) in the DOS era.I've been dabbling in hacking old DOS games for almost two years, but this time I think my project is big enough to be worthy of a “Show HN“.From the gaming point of view, the mod offers a variety of new cars and tracks, from Spa to the Space, and more sophisticated EGA backgrounds than the original game.From the technical point of view, it was an interesting effort combining reverse engineering, development, design and pixel art, all of which both in classic and LLM-assisted variants.From the literary point of view, I have documented the making of the game in a series of (fully human-written) posts [1]. There is something for everyone: war stories, hacking techniques, the word “boustrophedonic” and, as bonus, an outdoor game to keep your kids awa
Aug 2, 2026 2:40 PM
zenodo.org
Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clustershttps://zenodo.org/records/21359923Author here.Background, for anyone who hasn't followed this fight: IBM's iron–sulfur SQD results (Sci. Adv. 2025) are one of the flagship "quantum computers are useful for chemistry now" claims, and a published critique (arXiv:2501.07231) argues the quantum samples never beat classical selected-CI at matched cost. That argument is still live.Both sides have been arguing about energies. Neither measured which electronic state these calculations actually converge to.So I measured it. ⟨S²⟩ comes out between 4.7 and 7.0 depending on the system and the subspace size, where the target these papers name is a singlet at ⟨S²⟩ = 0. Every starting guess I tried lands in the same place, and the error at convergence is about the size of the spin-state ladder itself, which is the physics under dispute.IBM ships a mitigation for this. Run exactly as shipped, using their driver, their recovery loop and their own spin_square() diagnostic, it moves the ground energy by under a nanohartree while making t
Jul 29, 2026 1:13 PM
github.com
Show HN: Otlet – Local LLM inference "inside" Postgreshttps://github.com/joshmeek/otletI’ve been working on Otlet, a Postgres extension for running local LLM inference “inside” Postgres (inference runs in a background worker, while Postgres stores the jobs, inputs, outputs, and receipts)I started it while working on an entity resolution problem (determining which rows in a table refer to the same entity). The data was already in Postgres, but using a model meant pulling rows into another process and then writing the results back. I wanted to see whether I could keep more of that workflow in the database right next to where the data livesRight now Otlet lets you start model work from SQL, require structured output, keep a record of each run, review proposed writes before they touch source data, etc. The example in the repo uses a small model for the first pass and a stronger model for uncertain casesThis is just something I've been hacking on, not something I would recommend attempting to use in production yet. There’s a Docker demo if anyone wants to try it. I’m mostly p
Jul 27, 2026 2:56 PM
github.com
Show HN: Rendi, an agent harness on Trigger.dev without spinning up a VMhttps://github.com/mcheemaa/rendiHi all,Rendi is a full agent harness that runs background jobs, schedules, a real browser, and email without you needing to spin up a virtual machine. I built it for the ClickHouse and Trigger.dev hackathon but honestly super excited on how it came out.If you look at my github I have been working on deploying agents for a decent time now but mainly by spinning up VMs on Hetzner or AWS. The one thing I still wasn't able to crack was how to make these agents per tenant yourself without buying a huge bare metal machine to create micro VMs or use third party VM providers, but I think with Trigger.dev and this work on Rendi I can easily provision these agents per tenant without having to deal with all things VMs and also cost is so low.I also spent a lot of time on the UI and the component library. I literally came up with a brand for my project before starting it up hehe. I have also been thinking a lot more towards accessible UIs specially since it makes an agents life a lot easier when b
Jul 23, 2026 1:44 PM
kalvir.life
Show HN: Kalvir Clockhttps://kalvir.life/clockI've been working on new mind psychology visualizations of time and have created a unique clock to work in the background of my iterm2 transparent vim that has been really helping me focus my mind on complex code, notes, thinking. So have published it for free, it's a one page app, so you can easily copy the HTML code and host it yourself. It's your unique clock for your minds eye.
Jul 22, 2026 8:17 PM
github.com
Show HN: PMG, open source package firewallhttps://github.com/safedep/pmgHi HNI am the founder of SafeDep. We have been detecting malicious packages for a while. Coming from DevSecOps background, I always considered malicious package detection & protection to be a build stage problem. But I was wrong since the S1ngularity and early Shai-Hulud days.In 2026, we pretty much started worrying more about our own dev machines than CI/CD environment. Depending only on threat intelligence data (OSV / SafeDep / Socket / any other source) to protect our own dev machines did not feel right. We wanted to build a multi-layered protection that can get 100% visibility of OSS packages coming in, and can protect against known and “hopefully” unknown threats. That’s how Package Manager Guard (PMG) started. Core idea was simple:- Start a local proxy (localhost)- Make sure supported package managers like npm, pnpm, pip etc. goes through it- Use threat intelligence data to fail fast on known malicious packages- Apply policies like dependency cooldown as additional guardrails- Ad
Jul 21, 2026 4:58 PM
nasa.gov
Establishing Crew Exposure Limits of Martian Dusthttps://www.nasa.gov/general/establishing-crew-exposure-limits-of-martian-dust/Background Human exploration of Mars will expose crews to a persistent, fine particulate environment whose physicochemical properties and health implications remain only partly understood. Because no samples of authentic Martian airborne dust have been returned to Earth, NASA must rely on lunar dust toxicology, Martian regolith simulants, and extensive rover/lander geochemical and mineralogical datasets to […]
Jul 21, 2026 2:03 PM