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- 1New tool shows every satellite that passed overhead this weekโShow HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos
A developer has launched Watched.earth, a site that lets anyone see which satellites passed over any location in the past week, along with the images those satellites captured. Early reaction on Hacker News has been enthusiastic, with users interested in tracking overhead passes and browsing satellite imagery of places they care about.
- 2Overhead: an e-ink frame that paints the planes flying aboveโShow HN: Overhead โ the planes overhead, painted on an e-ink frame
A developer has released Overhead, an open-source widget that tracks the aircraft flying overhead and renders them as minimalist artwork on an e-ink display frame. The project, shared under the Tesserae widget collection on GitHub, is drawing interest for combining live flight data with a low-power, paper-like screen, giving hobbyists a quiet ambient display of local air traffic.
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People in the Kanto region, including Tokyo, had good conditions to spot the International Space Station passing overhead in the early morning. Japanese news outlets highlighted the viewing opportunity, drawing attention from skywatchers. Separately, international coverage noted drug research is preparing for a post-ISS era, as the lab's future operations draw discussion.
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BBC News is among the most searched news sources in the UK, with readers following stories including a lorry driver electrocuted after his vehicle struck an overhead power line, Downing Street insisting RAF Fairford is safe after the US withdrew its bombers, and a calmer UK weather forecast with dense fog still expected to cause disruption. The stories are also drawing attention in the US, Sweden, the Netherlands and Japan.
- 5Shrinking NixOS RAM footprint to the bare minimumโShrinking NixOS RAM footprint and resource requirements to the bare minimum
Discussions are under way on how to reduce NixOS's memory footprint and resource requirements to an absolute minimum, with enthusiasts sharing configuration techniques to make the Linux distribution viable on low-spec hardware. The topic has drawn notable engagement from the low-end computing community, where squeezing usable performance out of minimal RAM allocations is a persistent challenge.
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Greg Isenberg has published a full course laying out how a solo founder can build a business earning over $1 million using Grok-powered bots. The material walks through creating AI chatbot products without a team, and the launch has drawn strong attention from the startup and indie-hacker community, with viewers debating how realistic one-person million-dollar AI businesses really are.
- 7Octomind open-source AI harness released in RustโOctomind โ open-source AI harness that saves your tokens, static rust
Octomind, a new open-source AI harness written in Rust, has been published on GitHub by developer Muvon. The project positions itself as a tool that reduces token consumption when working with large language models, using a statically compiled Rust codebase for efficiency. Developer communities are discussing it as a lightweight alternative for building AI agent workflows without expensive API overhead.
Repos
- shikokuchuo/pymizu Thread-speed async and parallel Python over shared memory
- 4yk5/Ghostman A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client & webhook inspector. No cloud, no Electron, 100% local-first.
- dmellok/tesserae-widget-overhead The planes flying over your house, each painted from a photograph of that exact aircraft, on an e-paper frame. Four widg
- aicodeking/leanrea One 8 KB skill that replaces REA (Reverse Engineer Anything): plain CLI tools, no MCP. Benchmarked: 38% faster, 35% chea