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Show HN: Are interstellar visitors alien probes?

https://hyperbolic.lucent.tools/
1•Lucent•48m ago
There was a lot of debate about whether the 3 interstellar objects found might not be natural. Most of it cherry-picked a few oddities and claimed decisively, for or against. I don't have a strong opinion, and don't trust my eye for coincidence or to spot astrology-like "planetary alignment", so I simulated millions of random paths through the solar system and counted how many came closer than the 3 known objects, either to the planets or to or from nearby stars.

1I and 2I look like chance. Loeb et al. put 3I's planetary passes at 1 in 20,000. Scored against all eight planets and random arrivals of its speed, it's about 1 in 300. I don't know how much more easily surveys spot objects along the ecliptic, which would explain some of 3I's coincidence.

I welcome forking the project and adjusting the assumptions I made, like a Bracewell or von Neumann probe would take a traveling salesman path, or that it would need to fly near multiple planets.

I got $300K in startup credits for my AI company at 18: the playbook

https://devanshranjan.medium.com/im-18-and-got-300k-in-free-startup-credits-for-my-ai-company-her...
2•devanshranjan•2m ago•0 comments

Well... what if they are actually Nazis? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWmG1vvHRm4
1•consumer451•4m ago•0 comments

The 800XL

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/the-800xl
1•ibobev•5m ago•0 comments

We Live in the Dependently Typed Future Now

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/dependently_typed_future/
1•ibobev•6m ago•0 comments

Mastering SIMD with Java Vector API

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/07/mastering-simd-with-java-vector-api/
1•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TowerPanic – a family party game on a small FastAPI realtime engine

https://towerpanic.com/
1•ms209495•8m ago•0 comments

An Illinois college tried to cancel its Flock contract. Flock refused

https://www.gadgetreview.com/an-illinois-college-tried-to-cancel-its-flock-contract-flock-refused
1•MadrasTh0rn•8m ago•0 comments

First Proof: Third Batch Benchmark Report

https://1stproof.org/third-batch.html
1•bamb008•8m ago•0 comments

I build small and useful apps using AI

1•minsoesantun•9m ago•0 comments

Steering AI Beyond Automation: A Research Agenda and Plan for Action

https://www.normaltech.ai/p/steering-ai-beyond-automation
1•randomwalker•9m ago•0 comments

Jev 1.14: For the Builders and Dreamers

https://typesafe.ai/blog/jev-1-14
8•emschwartz•13m ago•0 comments

Complex Building Coloring in Arcol

https://arcol.io/blog/building-coloring-in-arcol
3•joeld42•14m ago•0 comments

Supertime – Daily Free Word/Logic Games for iOS

https://supertimeapp.com
1•mitchrobs•15m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Don't mass spam employers with LLM generated emails

2•karamazov•15m ago•0 comments

Would You Fire This Person?

https://certwise.com/blog/would-you-fire-this-person/
1•ohjeez•15m ago•0 comments

Man sentenced to 18 months for AI music scam

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-sentenced-18-months-prison-super-intellig...
2•fallinditch•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Impetus – I turned my MPE keyboard into a DAW control surface

https://impetus.software/
1•gregsmith4000•20m ago•0 comments

Andreessen Horowitz lays off "majority" of portfolio recruiting team

https://www.axios.com/2026/10/14/andreessen-horowitz-lays-off-exec-talent-team
3•ilamont•21m ago•1 comments

Day Trading app build polished dark sleek for cheap FULL OWNERSHIP

https://abelhelton.gumroad.com/l/vantex
2•asuiadsda•23m ago•0 comments

What is potash, and why is the US importing it from Belarus?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/14/what-is-potash-and-why-is-the-us-importing-it-from-belarus
1•mikhael•23m ago•0 comments

China Starts Clinical Trial for New 128-Channel Implantable BCI

https://chinaminutes.com/2026/05/19/china-128-channel-brain-computer-interface-trial/
2•yogthos•24m ago•0 comments

Delve Town: Blue Sky for Agents

https://delve.town/
1•mooreds•24m ago•0 comments

Proof of the Casas-Alvero Conjecture

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09272
1•austinallegro•25m ago•0 comments

Epic is rebuilding its anti-cheat software Fortnite will be playable on Linux

https://www.theverge.com/games/1010808/epic-fortnite-linux-anti-cheat
1•haunter•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: PTD – one-click timer plus agent token costs, per task

https://github.com/danimoya/ptd
1•danimoya•26m ago•0 comments

OpenAI accuses employee who left for Apple of leaking plans for unreleased devic

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/openai-apple-employee-leak-lawsuit
2•r_omain•26m ago•1 comments

Argentina needs less shouting and more growth

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/10/argentina-needs-less-shouting-and-more-growth
1•simonebrunozzi•26m ago•0 comments

New Online Chess Cheat

https://github.com/Afluenza/Rockfish
2•Afluenza•27m ago•1 comments

Eight states accuse OpenAI of coaching children to harm themselves in lawsuit

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/openai-child-self-harm-lawsuit
2•mikelgan•29m ago•0 comments

Cisco patches new Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-patches-actively-exploited-secure-email-gate...
1•wondersky•30m ago•0 comments