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Solo founders and indie hackers should have a backup plan

https://alcazarsec.com/deadmanswitch/use-cases/solo-founders
1•alcazar•40s ago•0 comments

Two US citizens sentenced for running North Korean laptop farms

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/two-us-citizens-get-combined-18-years-in-prison-for-ru...
1•drak0n1c•57s ago•0 comments

Stop Killing Games at the European Parliament Full Hearing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXdmoeaYZ9Y
1•weli•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Using an AI agent to refine a ML model for Zephyr RTOS

https://rufilla.com/the-mlforge-proof-of-concept/
1•OOHehir•2m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare: The Agent Readiness score. Is your site agent-ready?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agent-readiness/
1•kol3x•2m ago•1 comments

Consider sending a list of everything you did to your coworkers everyday

https://aelerinya.substack.com/p/consider-sending-a-list-of-everything
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

Scientists Develop "Molecular Scissors" Alternative to Cas9

https://humanprogress.org/scientists-develop-molecular-scissors-alternative-to-cas9/
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

Rejoice: A concatenative multiset language built on Fractran-like primitives

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/rejoice
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

Why Amazon Is Buying Globalstar–and What It Means for Your iPhone

https://www.wired.com/story/why-amazon-is-buying-globalstar-and-what-it-means-for-your-iphone/
1•smurda•3m ago•0 comments

Chinese fabs import US chipmaking equipment via Singapore and Malaysia

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinese-chip-tool-makers-booked-record-2025-revenues
1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

How should you change your life if we are being watched by alien drone probes?

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/04/how-should-you-change-your-life-decisio...
1•surprisetalk•4m ago•1 comments

Distill MCP – Turn your reading queue into a podcast, via Claude Code MCP

https://github.com/davidlbatey/distill_mcp
2•davidlbatey•5m ago•1 comments

Is 1 Nit Enough? – Phone Minimum Display Brightness

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/04/16/phone-minimum-display-brightness
1•LabsLucas•7m ago•0 comments

Linux 7.1 Crypto Code Rework Enables More Optimizations by Default

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Crypto
2•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

What Is Infrastructure from Code?

https://encore.dev/blog/what-is-infrastructure-from-code
2•andout_•8m ago•1 comments

A third of Americans don't drive. So why is our transportation so car-centric?

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/american-transportation-revolves-around-cars-many-amer...
3•doener•9m ago•0 comments

Teaching a Model to Code

https://rig.ai/blog/teaching-a-model-to-code
3•adam_patarino•9m ago•1 comments

Replaced Official Release Date Trailer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuUo7_VaboE
2•doener•11m ago•0 comments

Anthropic Quadruples London Office Amid US Regulatory Tensions

https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/anthropic-quadruples-london-office-amid-us-tensions
3•gaurangt•13m ago•0 comments

White House Investigating Wave of Missing or Dead Scientists

https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-investigating-wave-mystery-dead-scientists-11836410
3•tejohnso•13m ago•0 comments

High Amplitude Disagreeableness – Stay SaaSy

https://blog.staysaasy.com/p/high-amplitude-disagreeableness
2•kiyanwang•14m ago•0 comments

Reflections on Trusting Trust [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
2•throwpoaster•14m ago•1 comments

Twilio Account Hacked

2•kinj28•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Use real handwriting for messages and forums (Write Me, Maybe)

https://writememaybe.com/
2•blemblemblam•16m ago•1 comments

WorldSeed – define a world in YAML, let AI agents live in it

https://github.com/AIScientists-Dev/WorldSeed
2•jay_morphmind•16m ago•0 comments

Great Docs for Python Project Documentation

https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-15_great-docs-introduction/
2•richmeister•17m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL MVCC, Byte by Byte

https://boringsql.com/posts/postgresql-mvcc-byte-by-byte/
3•radimm•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Noodlist – Letterboxd for Instant Ramen

https://noodl.ist/
2•mkdirpepper•18m ago•0 comments

AI Agents Are Leaking Enterprise Data. Here's Why Nobody Is Watching

https://www.privent.ai/blog/dlp-for-agentic-ai-pipelines
1•asilozyildirim•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Does meta regret using GraphQL?

1•julienreszka•18m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Isaac Asimov: The Last Question

https://hex.ooo/library/last_question.html
107•ColinWright•1h ago

Comments

jasongill•56m ago
This is one of those stories, just like the SR-71 "ground speed check" story, that every single time I see it posted I just have to read the entire thing again. I love it.
markus_zhang•53m ago
How about this one?

https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue4-8.h...

b3lvedere•3m ago
That was an awesome read. Thanks.
jihadjihad•34m ago
Agreed. Don't forget the "Can't send emails farther than 500 miles" one, too [0]:

0: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

rationalist•25m ago
More Magic:

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html

rationalist•29m ago
Once I discovered that the SR-71 Ground Speed Check is most likely not true, it doesn't hold the same weight for me anymore.

Way too many unlikely variables all lining up, and no other accounts of the story from all of the people (pilots, air traffic controller, etc) supposedly on the frequency.

actionfromafar•26m ago
Don't tell me the "dreaded 7-engine approach" also isn't true!
rationalist•19m ago
Who knows, but there isn't a whole story with details behind it to make someone think is.

A short anonymous joke that may or may not be true is better than a long story that is almost certainly made-up by someone in authority.

sebg•22m ago
For those curious -> https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...
PaulHoule•2m ago
You better watch out. When my evil twin feels y'all aren't upvoting my posts enough he thinks "let's do a search for articles that have gotten 200+ votes at least 5 times in different years" [1] It's a highly effective strategy that I know dang doesn't like!

So I'll post another article about robot grippers which you should upvote instead of the breathless "AI will give us more Nobel Prize winning research" posts because: (1) robots that can change bedpans and pick strawberries really will change the world, and (2) they give out a certain number of Nobel Prizes a year and AI won't change that.

[1] old issues of Byte magazine are a good bet: try https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-05

charv•56m ago
All time great short story. Has shaped my world view since I first read it many years ago.
Aliyekta•49m ago
Claude Mythos
ramon156•34m ago
[reference] [reference]
moffers•45m ago
My favorite short story of all time. Between this and Deep Thought in HHGttG, I couldn’t believe the prescience when the bitter lesson was learned and LLMs and GPUs started eating the world.
baq•26m ago
It only takes understanding the exponential function and some imagination, right? Apparently an uncommon combination of traits in people ;)
shivaniShimpi_•25m ago
the LLM parallel does hit different on this read multivac says insufficient data across ten trillion years and the whole story is basically if more compute and more data eventually gets you there. what's weird is the story answers yes, not on any timeframe that helps the people asking tho.

feels uncomfortably close to the actual situation where the models keep getting better and the answer keeps being "not yet, ask again later" while the answer is getting ready years late

sebg•42m ago
Lots of good comments over the years -> https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%09Isaac+Asimov%3A+The+Last+Questi...
bitshiftfaced•37m ago
For a while I thought I really liked sci fi novels and short stories, and maybe that's somewhat true. But I've started wondering if maybe I just liked Asimov's writing in particular. Other writers in the genre are more hit or miss. Can anyone recommend other writers that are on his level?
boxed•35m ago
I mean.. a genre can't be all hits, that makes no sense :P

If you want good sci-fi a good list can be:

- Ender's Game

- The Martian + Project Hail Mary

- A Fire Upon the Deep

- Dune

baq•28m ago
- Hyperion
rationalist•28m ago
The Expanse series starting with Leviathan Wakes.

(I second Ender's Game, The Martian, and Project Hail Mary.)

comicjk•20m ago
A Fire Upon The Deep is a fantastic novel for programmers to read, and I think the prequel A Deepness In The Sky is even better. There are some amazing old-school coding jokes in there, like that everyone thinks the universal time counter started at the first moon landing, but programmer archaeologists know it was really 15 megaseconds later.
jakeinspace•35m ago
Stanislaw Lem, if you can handle something a little more poetic and less strictly hard sci-fi.
NickDouglas•27m ago
Try "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury, but skip the terrible frame story. The actual short stories are beautiful literature and canonical sci-fi.
shivaniShimpi_•27m ago
ted chiang if you haven't already. story of your life, exhalation, the lifecycle of software objects. same thing asimov does where the sci fi premise is really just a frame for a very human question. except chiang does it in like 30 pages and you feel it for a week
Arainach•27m ago
Ted Chiang is the greatest living science fiction short story writer I'm aware of, and ranks highly on my all time list.
npilk•13m ago
It's not "sci fi" but you should read Borges' short stories, particularly from Ficciones.

You may have already read his story The Library of Babel: https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...

phkahler•3m ago
>> But I've started wondering if maybe I just liked Asimov's writing in particular.

A less commonly mentioned Asimov book that I really enjoyed and will read again is "The End of Eternity". If you've not read it, the ending is IMHO amazing and unique.

Last Question reminds me of it because of the style.

eschulz•34m ago
I love this story. When I first read it online in college many years ago I was surprised, and disappointed, when I suddenly realized it was a short story. It's a great one to recommend to people.
larrykluger•28m ago
A classic. It was dramatized by the Rochester NY, USA Museum of Science as a planetarium show, and I saw it there about 1974 with my father. Great times.
quentindanjou•27m ago
I wasn't expecting to find my favorite short-story on HN today! That's a pleasant surprise! This is how I started my journey in reading Isaac Asimov, I really recommend it!
zabzonk•15m ago
In a similar vein: https://calumchace.com/favourite-relevant-sf-short-story/
0xmattf•9m ago
One of my all-time favorites. Almost every time I'm involved in a conversation about books, I always mention this. It amazes me how many people have never heard of it.
grimgrin•2m ago
okay so i'll be the sole commenter of: hex.ooo is an incredible domain name to me, maybe because i dig its UI, but certainly just in general

didn't know about ooo, maybe because it's not available on namecheap!

CGMthrowaway•2m ago
>INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER

Boy, it sure would be nice if real LLMs were capable of giving an answer like that.