frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Re-examining Leon Trostsky's assassination

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/03/19/re-examining-one-of-the-worlds-most-notorious-assass...
1•petethomas•1m ago•0 comments

Monkey Island as baseline for GenAI capability benchmarking

https://monkeyaisland.com/
1•jamieskella•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mnesis – Lossless context management Python library

https://github.com/Lucenor/mnesis
1•damatar•9m ago•0 comments

Learn – Typer

https://typer.tiangolo.com/tutorial/
1•kamaraju•13m ago•0 comments

Introducting useSyncedState() - Firebase for React

https://rwsdk.com/realtime
2•pistoriusp•19m ago•0 comments

Vesuvius Challenge

https://scrollprize.org/
1•ofrzeta•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AWB – Benchmark that tests your AI coding workflow, not just the model

https://github.com/xmpuspus/ai-workflow-benchmark
1•xmpuspus•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Skill Lab – CLI tool for testing and optimizing agent skills

https://github.com/8ddieHu0314/Skill-Lab
1•qu4rk5314•22m ago•0 comments

Sashiko: An agentic Linux kernel code review system

https://sashiko.dev/
1•Lwrless•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Clinical Trial Finder and Ranker

https://clifton-topaz.vercel.app/
1•notwopr•26m ago•0 comments

Mexico’s monarch butterfly population is up more than 60% over last year

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-monarch-butterfly-populations-up-2026/
1•WaitWaitWha•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cultivation > Accumulation (For AI Agentic Memory)

https://wibomd.substack.com/p/cultivation-accumulation
1•manunamz•34m ago•0 comments

China and the Future of Science

https://scholarstage.substack.com/p/china-and-the-future-of-science
4•barry-cotter•39m ago•0 comments

Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants?

2•megamike•39m ago•0 comments

The Sphinx: a Soviet-era, retrofuture smart home dream

https://theoutline.com/post/5678/the-sphinx-a-soviet-era-retrofuture-smart-home-dream
2•thunderbong•40m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/archive.today
7•winkelmann•40m ago•1 comments

Alpha Micro AM-1000E and AM-1200

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/03/refurb-weekend-double-header-alpha.html
2•goldenskye•46m ago•0 comments

Babel.nvim

https://github.com/canaanmckenzie/babel.nvim
3•prince_nez•46m ago•1 comments

Production Is Where the Rigor Goes

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/production-is-where-the-rigor-goes
1•rcy•49m ago•0 comments

The Gallery of Babbel

https://babel.alfaoz.dev/
1•Cider9986•49m ago•0 comments

Punk Rock Osint: Bipartite Projection

https://100daysofnetworks.substack.com/p/day-83-of-100daysofnetworks
1•ojoffe•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Void Text – a fast, native macOS writing app (~15MB, keyboard-first)

https://github.com/leeseomin/voidtext-releases/releases/tag/v0.54.0
2•smlee•52m ago•0 comments

What does the future of software engineering look like?

https://www.thoughtworks.com/about-us/events/the-future-of-software-development
5•rcy•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN : Query on-prem databases and DynamoDB in plain English

https://github.com/Clever-Boy/IntelliHybrid
1•sshaileshk•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Connect a Discord channel with Claude Code agents running in tmux

1•potomak•59m ago•0 comments

White House unveils AI policy wishlist for Congress

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5793105-ai-regulation-framework/?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3a...
2•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Terafab: The next step to becoming a galactic civilization

https://twitter.com/tesla/status/2035535642676044066
2•jbuild•1h ago•0 comments

The Case for an Ultralight Mac

https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/03/the-case-for-an-ultralight-mac/
1•geerlingguy•1h ago•0 comments

Scientists grow functional Esophagus using regenerative tissue

https://www.techexplorist.com/grow-functional-esophagus-regenerative-tissue/102393/
5•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

A Tool For Real-time annotation and getting context without leaving

https://www.mosadiq.com/projects/lightup
1•mos2128•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Looking for a link to a short story I read in a comment here

1•kqcso•1h ago
I recently enjoyed a short story that (I think) was linked in a comment to a post here, but I can't find it now. All of my searches are resulting in the wrong stories, and even AI is flummoxed. I'm probably misremembering the details, but does anyone recall a highly satirical story about a future where:

- The main character starts as a beggar, but was one of the richest people in the world last night...they will win (and lose) their fortune again tonight, assumingly this will be a common pattern for the forseeable future

- Similarly, the main character will marry the most desirable woman in the world when his fortune is regained, only to divorce a short while later when it is lost again

- (this memory sketchy) Humans have had a part of their brain removed that effectively speed limited them - they are now "overclocked" for lack of a better term.

- (this memory is sketchy too) Humans are divided into 2 or 3 categories that are active during 8-12 hour windows of the day? The main character does all their invention/investment money making/losing over night?

- Because search and AI can't find it, I don't think it is a famous work by a famous author. Maybe even a recent-ish blog post/work of fiction? The writing felt older though, with a bit of a Vonnegut vibe (but not Vonnegut).

Would love to find the story as I want to pass it on to some friends, so any help is much appreciated.

Comments

ahazred8ta•1h ago
The classic Slow Tuesday Night (1965) by R. A. Lafferty. Sort of post-singularity. I liked the part where they use an AI-assisted ghostwriting machine to spit out a scholarly text in seconds. (People who buy it just read the quick summary.)

https://www.ralafferty.org/works/stories/slow-tuesday-night/

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Slow+Tuesday+Night

Vaguely similar but slower: Vernor Vinge's Fast Times At Fairmont High and Rainbows End. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5393037-fast-times-at-fa...

kqcso•1h ago
THANK YOU! That was it.
ahazred8ta•1h ago
The hive mind never sleeps. ;-)