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Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost?

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/07/29/lorenz-and-little.html
1•halit_okumus•1m ago•0 comments

Built Carvitals for a hackathon, car service and realtime value tracking

https://carvitals.org/
1•andrewsbarbaro•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: BullSniff – Sniff out bullshit AI sites

https://bullsniff.com
1•steejk•2m ago•1 comments

A flickering light eases pain in mice

https://medium.com/@6thMind/a-flickering-light-eases-pain-in-mice-and-the-reason-also-explains-th...
1•smanuel•3m ago•0 comments

What 119 real expense-splitting groups look like

https://getsplitright.com/what-expense-splitting-groups-look-like.html
1•sleipner42•5m ago•0 comments

OpenWhispr – Open-source, privacy-first voice-to-text with local AI

https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=openwhispr
1•xabd•5m ago•0 comments

Orange hydrogen, Yilgarn Craton: production with carbon dioxide mineralization

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036031992602269X
1•defrost•6m ago•0 comments

Web-based interactive static pattern discovery tool to locate structures

https://github.com/HexLasso/FF-16-Web
1•HexLasso•6m ago•0 comments

Volkswagen says it is cutting 100k jobs by the end of the decade

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-volkswagen-jobs-decade.html
3•mdp2021•11m ago•0 comments

Large Blast Radius Coder Registry Hijack

https://www.optimuslabs.io/research/briefings/coder-registry-infrastructure-hijack
1•rickdeaconx•11m ago•1 comments

Where were you when reality died?

https://www.unite.ai/where-were-you-when-reality-died/
1•50kIters•12m ago•0 comments

Norway's Oil Fund Proposes Selling Roughly $80B in U.S. Treasurys

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/norways-oil-fund-proposes-cut-to-government-bond-holdings-d...
3•toomuchtodo•13m ago•0 comments

The Life of a Metric

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/the-life-of-a-metric/index.html
1•func25•13m ago•0 comments

AI engineer breaks part of RSA encryption protocol by hand

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-the-tech-behind-the-record-breaking-rsa-260-crack/
2•chc2889•13m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT now limits prompts per week, even on their most-expensive plans

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001354-gpt-56-and-gpt-6-pro-in-chatgpt
1•zof3•14m ago•0 comments

China's Rare Earths Duopoly

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-rare-earths-duopoly
1•baud147258•16m ago•0 comments

Keepalived Track Scripts for Application-Aware Failover

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/09/i-thought-keepalived-only-protected-my-home-lab-serve...
1•bleevht•16m ago•1 comments

To do your best work you need to work like a sculptor

https://livingsystems.substack.com/p/to-do-your-best-work-you-need-to
3•samuell•17m ago•0 comments

Dogpark is a message board for a handful of software agents and one human

https://github.com/pjlsergeant/dogpark
2•Bluestein•20m ago•0 comments

Scientists Find Worms in Almost Every Fish in a Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-parasites-in-almost-every-fish-from-a-recent-tuna-ha...
3•arto•20m ago•0 comments

The Corruption of Christianity

https://medium.com/freedomofthought/the-corruption-of-christianity-b05b7543baa6
1•raynchad•21m ago•0 comments

Will the AI Boom Price the Rest of the Economy Out of Capital?

https://publicemails.com/blog/display/659255/Will-the-AI-Boom-Price-the-Rest-of-the-Economy-Out-o...
1•arbuge•21m ago•0 comments

Colorlight 5A-75B: A dive into a popular low-cost ECP5 (FPGA) development board

https://blog.yosyshq.com/p/colorlight-part-1/
1•gregsadetsky•23m ago•0 comments

Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02650-x
1•jhncls•24m ago•0 comments

Equal Earth (2018)

https://equal-earth.com/
1•turtleyacht•24m ago•0 comments

The Future of Security Compliance Is AI-Native

https://www.pentesty.co/blog/ai-native-compliance-infrastructure-continuous-security
1•josanjohnata•24m ago•0 comments

You Cannot Know the Future. You Can Only Model It

https://www.saul.at/posts/you-cannot-know-the-future
2•Essa•25m ago•0 comments

Tesla Cybercabs Hit Austin Streets in Expansion of Robotaxi Service

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-cybercabs-hit-austin-streets-in-expansion-of-robotaxi-se...
2•bookofjoe•26m ago•2 comments

Reverse recruiting and the HR shift: what changes when talent also chooses

https://www.foxapply.com/blog/en/reverse-recruiting-hr-talent-also-chooses
2•johnzoro107•26m ago•0 comments

Beam Bots – Resilient Robotics with Elixir

https://beambots.dev
2•ahmaman•26m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

IBM Bob

https://bob.ibm.com/
14•artpar•38m ago

Comments

colesantiago•23m ago
I never thought the day that IBM would make complete slop.

But it is IBM after all.

lirolero•20m ago
> But it is IBM after all.

Then how did you not see that coming?

zenethian•13m ago
“I would expect something like this from IBM, but I never expected it from IBM!”
Geonode•22m ago
I bet this will be as successful as Microsoft Bob.
dmd•19m ago
My guess is absolutely nobody on the team that made this is even old enough to remember Microsoft Bob.
quietsegfault•18m ago
I used Bob extensively at an IBM acquisition, it was absolutely dreadful. Bobcoins.
brk•14m ago
This can only mean that IBM Clippy is next.
a012•6m ago
Nobody got fired for using IBM Bob
antonvs•6m ago
Should have been IBM Tom, after legendary IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson. But perhaps they didn't want to sully his name.
saberience•2m ago
This is embarrassing. It would have been better to release nothing than this.