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Optical Earth – Earth as the human eye would see it

https://www.opticalearth.com/
3•afterglowreader•43m ago

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afterglowreader•43m ago
I love Google Earth and SpaceEngine, but I’ve always wanted an Earth viewer that looked more like what you’d actually see with your own eyes. That’s what I’m trying to do with Optical Earth.

It has full HDR support, so the Earth can actually look bright against the black of space instead of everything being flattened to the same brightness. I’m still working on some things like auroras, but it’s far enough along that I wanted to share!

Eliminate GPU Waste by Cutting the Retry Tax

https://rahmipruitt.me/content/gpu-retry-tax/
1•rjpruitt16•50s ago•0 comments

There continue to be reasons for software to be slow

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/performance-issues.html
1•birdculture•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MacAIApps – a directory of AI-powered Mac apps

https://www.macaiapps.com/
1•sujee•3m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/
1•websiteapi•4m ago•0 comments

Trix: Embeddable stack-based scripting VM with cooperative concurrency

https://github.com/mcguidarelli/trix
1•oxryly1•5m ago•1 comments

iPhone 18 Pro Could Get a Signature New Color – Here's What the Latest Leaks Sug

https://moztako.me/iphone-18-pro-colors-dark-cherry/
1•cecyev•11m ago•0 comments

Will farm animals always suffer?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/will-farm-animals-always-suffer/
1•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death [audio]

https://www.econtalk.org/ben-sasse-on-faith-family-and-facing-death/
1•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

Tiny drones are powered by sound

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/these-tiny-drones-are-powered-by-sound-2/
1•simonebrunozzi•16m ago•0 comments

Jane Street took $15B hit in July tied to Situational Awareness

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/jane-street-took-15-billion-hit-july-tied-situational-aw...
1•paulpauper•17m ago•0 comments

A mother has spent years caring for her special-needs child

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/08/16/she-spent-years-caring-her-child-with-disabiliti...
1•paulpauper•18m ago•0 comments

Worse Is Better Considered Harmful

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Main_Page....
4•so-cal-schemer•18m ago•1 comments

Stock Market Bargains Are Hiding in This Overlooked Place

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/stock-market-bargains-are-hiding-in-this-overlooked-place-6239...
2•paulpauper•19m ago•0 comments

ASCII City Update: Interiors, Elevation and Skyscrapers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCKEDWowc0o
1•galleywest200•21m ago•1 comments

Companies that buy and sell your data are not following CA’s strict privacy laws

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/companies-that-buy-and-sell-your-data-are-not-following-californias...
1•hhs•22m ago•0 comments

Free Brain-Computer Interface in Udemy

https://www.reddit.com/r/PiEEG_club/comments/1vvq6j7/5_free_eegbci_courses_join_the_new_1020_acad...
1•Christiangmer•24m ago•0 comments

Digital amnesia: Taking screenshots makes you more likely to forget information

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/6397/digital-amnesia-taking-screenshots-makes-you-more-like...
1•hhs•27m ago•1 comments

Quiet on set. How AI transformed China's microdrama scene

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/style/short-drama-ai-china-intl-hnk
1•T-A•29m ago•0 comments

Stelm – A BYOC canvas for AWS infra

https://stelm.dev/
1•tredex•29m ago•0 comments

Europe Is Building an Impossible Fusion Reactor [Ben Miles] [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPUAKW1Dyek
2•mdp2021•30m ago•0 comments

Netscape's Rise and Fall: A Browser Wars History

https://medium.com/@gp2030/netscapes-rise-and-fall-a-browser-wars-history-8546e3b52092
1•Bluestein•32m ago•1 comments

How much is crawling your content worth to an AI bot?

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/how-much-is-crawling-your-content-worth-to-an-ai-bot
1•hhs•33m ago•0 comments

MiniMax M3 Medium hits 73.17% F1 on DeepSearchQA, near GPT-5 High

https://huggingface.co/datasets/youdotcom/minimax-m3-deepsearchqa-skill-eval
1•EdwardIrby•33m ago•0 comments

People vs. the AI Overlords

https://anarc.at/blog/2026-08-18-people-vs-ai-overlords/
1•edward•36m ago•0 comments

From Mega-Machines to Mega-Algorithms (2015)

https://thenewinquiry.com/from-mega-machines-to-mega-algorithms/
1•measurablefunc•36m ago•0 comments

Mysterious Astroturf Group Popped Up to Defend the Paramount Merger

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/21/paramount-merger-warner-discovery-david-ellison-antitrust/
3•mukmuk•38m ago•0 comments

The Biblical myth of the CREATION of EVE, the first woman

https://medium.com/freedomofthought/the-biblical-myth-of-the-creation-of-eve-the-first-woman-0f2d...
1•raynchad•39m ago•0 comments

Follow live the open training of a 535B (23B activated) LLM

https://twitter.com/percyliang/status/2090918065634684997
1•ggcr•41m ago•1 comments

436× faster exact state updates with a disk-backed incremental Merkle tree

https://github.com/yangofzeal/Hkd_merkle
1•msyang2004_82•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Structo – Claude Code for short form writing

https://structo.redbeardlab.com/
2•siscia•42m ago•0 comments