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Ask HN: What are your favorite alternate history scenarios?

2•StartupsWala•1h ago
I’ve always been fascinated by alternate timelines.

I recently built a small tool that generates speculative timelines for “What if” questions.

Curious what scenarios people here would explore.

Comments

PaulHoule•1h ago
I love the theory that the church faked the calendar to skip over the dark ages even if astronomy makes it a complete non-starter.
gmuslera•1h ago
The reality that have the book The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, not this one that had The Man in the High Castle and whatever was written in the side where the Axis won the WWII.
oxfordreno•24m ago
For all mankind.
oxfordreno•22m ago
What if European explorers landing in North America had encountered a society equally or more technologically advanced than their own.

The Vibe to Production Pipeline

https://bandarra.me/posts/vibe-to-production
1•andreban•1m ago•0 comments

The evolution of Lego sorting (2001)

https://news.lugnet.com/storage/?n=707
1•fifilura•1m ago•0 comments

Rails Testing on Autopilot: Building an Agent That Writes What Developers Won't

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1•pember•1m ago•0 comments

Distributed Python dataframes and machine learning with Livebook and Elixir

https://dashbit.co/blog/distributed-python-livebook
1•tosh•2m ago•0 comments

I emailed 70 consulting partners. No replies. What it taught me

https://willem720055.substack.com/p/i-emailed-70-consulting-partners
2•anqer•2m ago•0 comments

Hotpatching goes default in Windows Autopatch whether you like it or not

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/microsoft_hotpatching/
1•Bender•3m ago•0 comments

ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/ico_fines_police_scotland_over/
3•Bender•4m ago•0 comments

Autopen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopen
1•thunderbong•5m ago•0 comments

Idempotent Slices with Applications to Code-Size Reduction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09726
1•matt_d•7m ago•0 comments

A Message to Our Customers

https://www.stryker.com/us/en/about/news/2026/a-message-to-our-customers-03-2026.html
2•LostMyLogin•8m ago•0 comments

Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov't probes into sanctioned crypto transfers

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3•xoa•8m ago•0 comments

Is launching a product on here a thing

3•charliewehan10•9m ago•2 comments

Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/combatants-mideast-war-trade-more-air-strikes-iran-clam...
4•geox•10m ago•1 comments

Apple Studio Displays have 128 GB of storage

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/11/studio-display-internal-storage-128gb/
2•dabinat•11m ago•0 comments

Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection

https://openai.com/index/designing-agents-to-resist-prompt-injection
1•surprisetalk•11m ago•0 comments

Code reviews do find bugs

https://entropicthoughts.com/code-reviews-do-find-bugs
1•fanf2•13m ago•0 comments

Anthropic GAAP revenue only $5B -not $19B

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1•GorbachevyChase•14m ago•0 comments

The Anthropocentric Blind Spot

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1•datanality•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hyper – A stupidly non-corporate voice AI app for IRL conversations

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7•shainvs•16m ago•1 comments

//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner

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2•commotionfever•16m ago•0 comments

Rust is slowly but surely eating PostgreSQL: Deep dive into Neon, and more

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3•amatheus•16m ago•0 comments

Industry reports point to potential farm waste energy boom amid federal scrutiny

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1•PaulHoule•16m ago•0 comments

Guess I was wrong about Kubernetes. Blame geopolitics

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2•donutshop•17m ago•0 comments

OpenRCA benchmark – Improving Claude's root cause analysis accuracy by 12 pp

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4•behat•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Social Media, Reset

3•novateg•18m ago•0 comments

'Black rain' in Tehran – what are the health effects?

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3•saikatsg•18m ago•0 comments

You Can't Waymo to Tahoe – Yet

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2•standardUser•18m ago•0 comments

PostTrainBench: How well can AI agents post-train language models?

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2•pr337h4m•19m ago•0 comments

Greek Govt: Time to open debate on abolishing online anonymity

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2•seydor•19m ago•0 comments

Impact of using AI as a second reader in breast screening including arbitration

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-026-01128-z
1•saikatsg•20m ago•0 comments