Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth

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Nasa's Artemis II crew took high-resolution images of the Earth as they headed to the Moon. The images show the Atlantic Ocean, atmosphere, and auroras, with the Earth appearing upside down.

iNaturalist

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iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router

We can turn a Linux system into a router or switch by making 7 changes to the system, including enabling packet forwarding, defining a bridge, and configuring netfilter rules to filter traffic. These changes allow us to create a complete forwarding system, including enabling IP forwarding, defining a bridge, configuring netfilter rules, deploying a DHCP and DNS server, and vending WiFi ...

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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The frontpage of the indie web. Discover the latest posts from independent blogs across the web.

Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs

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Oracle filed 3,126 H-1B visa requests despite laying off thousands of American workers. The company's actions raise concerns about replacing US workers with cheaper foreign labor through the H-1B program.

Show HN: TinyOS – A minimalist RTOS for Cortex-M written in C

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An ultra-lightweight real-time operating system for resource-constrained IoT and embedded devices. Kernel footprint under 10 KB, 2 KB minimum RAM, preemptive priority-based scheduling. Preemptive priority-based scheduling (256 levels), round-robin within same priority, O(1) priority lookup via bitmap, priority inheritance VT100 interactive shell — 19 built-in commands, command history (↑↓), ...

Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly

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TinyGo brings Go to embedded systems and the web with a new LLVM-based compiler. It supports over 100 microcontrollers and produces WebAssembly code for web and edge computing.

Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers

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Charge Robotics Jobs

We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant

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The team created a virtual filesystem called ChromaFs to power their documentation assistant, allowing it to explore documentation like a codebase without the need for real sandboxes. ChromaFs uses a Chroma database to provide instant session creation, zero marginal compute cost, and built-in role-based access control, replacing the need for expensive sandboxes.

How to Make a Sliding, Self-Locking, and Predator-Proof Chicken Coop Door (2020)

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A secure coop door design uses a vertical sliding door with a self-locking mechanism, eliminating the need for external locking. The door is designed to be easy to build using a jigsaw, drill, and table saw, with a counterweight or spring hinge for smooth operation.

Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall

The user had trouble removing Samsung Magician, a disk utility software, from their Mac due to its poor uninstallation process. They had to use multiple commands and even disable and re-enable System Integrity Protection to delete the remaining files.

Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic

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To make async Python workflows deterministic, we need to understand the event loop's single-threaded execution model and how tasks are scheduled in FIFO order. By incrementing step IDs before the first await in each step, we can deterministically order steps and ensure consistent execution order during recovery.

F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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A US F-15E Strike Eagle fighter was shot down over Iran, prompting a US search and rescue effort for its two crew members. One crew member was reportedly rescued in a high-risk operation, with the fate of the second crew member still unclear.

Automatic Textbook Formalization

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RepoProver is a multi-agent scaffold for formalizing math textbooks in Lean, using LLM agents for translation, proof, and review. It uses a shared git repository and lightweight issue tracker for coordination.

Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones "Hard Down" in Bahrain and Dubai

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Amazon's AWS availability zones in Dubai and Bahrain are down due to Iranian strikes and will be unavailable for an extended period. Amazon is advising employees to deprioritize the regions and is helping customers migrate to other locations.

Show HN: Ismcpdead.com – Live dashboard tracking MCP adoption and sentiment

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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) released its 2026 roadmap focusing on scalability, governance, and enterprise readiness. MCP faces security concerns and usability improvements are being made through simplified integrations and documentation.

Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi

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The user set up a local dial-up ISP using a Raspberry Pi and an old modem to emulate a dial-up connection on an iBook G3 from 1999. They used a phone line simulator and a USB modem to establish a connection and browsed the internet using Macproxy Classic.

April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini

DCJ11Hack+ – DEC PDP/11 based homebrew computer

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I've decided to share my DCJ11 based board. It's based heavily on the word done by Beent Hilpert http://madrona.ca/e/pdp11hack/ but I wanted to able to add and remove functionality via a back plane. I've long admired this chip for no other reason than it looks so freekin' cool, I mean just look at it, it's gorgeous. So far There is the main CPU board and also the RAM, ROM ...

Show HN: TurboQuant for vector search – 2-4 bit compression

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TurboQuant compresses high-dimensional vectors to 2-4 bits per coordinate with near-optimal distortion. It's online, zero-training, and faster than FAISS IndexPQFastScan on ARM and within 18-25% on x86.

SSH certificates: the better SSH experience

SSH certificates provide a better and more seamless SSH experience by eliminating the need for Trust on First Use (TOFU) and allowing for short-lived keys, forced-commands, and automated key management. An SSH CA can be used to sign host keys and user keys, making it easier to manage SSH connections and eliminating the need for manual key deployment and TOFU.

Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M

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Via LA restructured H.264 streaming license fees in a tiered system topping at $4.5 million per year for large platforms. The change applies to new license seekers in 2026 or later, not affecting existing license holders.

A Recipe for Steganogravy

A Python CLI uses neural linguistic steganography to hide data in recipe blog introductions. It encodes data as natural language using arithmetic coding steganography, requiring the same model and prompt for decoding.

Update on the eBay Scam

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You initially suspected eBay scammer but received an automated email stating their account was suspended. Now you plan to re-list the watch at a discounted price.

What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames

The author analyzes the structure of dataframes and identifies three fundamental operations: Delta (restructuring), Sigma (merging), and Pi (pairing), which can be used to build a dataframe algebra. Category theory provides a framework for understanding these operations and their relationships, allowing for a more principled design of dataframe libraries.

ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI

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Espressif Systems announces ESP32-S31, a high-performance SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Ethernet for IoT applications. It features a dual-core RISC-V microcontroller, robust security, and comprehensive connectivity for smart appliances and industrial automation.

Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

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apfel is a CLI tool that exposes Apple's built-in LLM on Macs with Apple Silicon. It provides a way to access the LLM through a terminal, code, or chat, without network calls or API keys.

You can now run a full Linux operating system inside a 6mb PDF

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PIGuard: Prompt Injection Guardrail via Mitigating Overdefense for Free

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Trigger Words Indentification. To identify potential trigger words, was first conduct a word frequency analysis across both benign and injection datasets. The words are then ranked according to their frequency within each dataset, sorted separately for benign and injection datasets. By calculating the differences in word rankings between the two datasets, we highlight words that are ...

Category Theory Illustrated – Types

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Type theory is a mathematical theory that is an alternative to set theory and category theory, and it is used to define collections of objects that are interesting without accidentally defining collections that lead to paradoxes. Type theory is based on the idea that the interesting collections are the source and target of functions, and it is used to define types and functions in a way that ...