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Launch HN: Laminar (YC F24) – We trained a model to catch silent agent failures

1•skull8888888•10s ago•0 comments

Is Entry Level Dead?

https://seeglassbox.com/market/entry-level-software/is-entry-level-dead

1•muturii•1m ago•0 comments

Tinycast

https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast

1•chrkl•3m ago•1 comments

Aesthetic Compass: mapping an art portfolio on two aesthetic axes

https://teia.cafe/dashboard/sample/

1•ryangtanaka_tei•3m ago•0 comments

Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World [pdf]

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Demographics.pdf

1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

Lives Wasted and Well-Lived: David Wolpe on the Death of Ivan Ilyich [audio]

https://www.econtalk.org/lives-wasted-and-well-lived-david-wolpe-on-the-death-of-ivan-ilyich/

1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

New method makes acrylic glass recycling economically viable

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/10/new-method-makes-acrylic-glass-recycling...

2•khalidkhair•6m ago•0 comments

A $10M prize for whoever builds 1M working AI agents

https://agenticmarket.exchange/challenge/

2•kashifiqbaldili•6m ago•0 comments

Another day another GitHub incident

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8tzbpcnl75jp

4•gateauxd•8m ago•1 comments

Wrapper for Free Open Router Models

https://wfform.com/

1•metaph6•8m ago•0 comments

I Can See Everything

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/i-can-see-everything

1•laurex•9m ago•0 comments

Plain Text Journaling

https://oppi.li/posts/plain_text_journaling/

1•birdculture•9m ago•0 comments

Notes from the Frontier Reading List

https://app.notion.com/p/Notes-from-the-Frontier-3ed3da1e76558070ba0bd1c3125aae43?source=copy_lin...

1•io84•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Play DOS Wing Commander co-op in browser (11 years of reversing)

https://fireflyk64.github.io/wcmulti/

1•daniel_rh•12m ago•1 comments

Making a Better Simulated Evolution Port for the Apple IIgs

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/making-a-better-simulated-evolution-port-for-the...

1•ibobev•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Forgot – see who's out before you promise a release data

https://forgot.dev

1•petarjs•13m ago•0 comments

Many VICmodems Commodore Sold

https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-many-vicmodems-commodore-sold/

2•ibobev•13m ago•0 comments

El Niño Brings Exotic Sea Life to the California Coast

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/california-el-nino-exotic-species

2•speckx•13m ago•0 comments

Intel 386 released October 17, 1985

https://dfarq.homeip.net/intel-386-released-october-17-1985/

3•ibobev•13m ago•0 comments

TeamUpdraft security incident: customer database was accessed

https://teamupdraft.com/blog/security-incident-october-2026/

1•RebelMonk•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kompressor – deterministic prompt compression for coding agents

https://github.com/hystax/optscale-kompressor

1•XeniaLavrova•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenTokenMini: Monitor and Fix Your AI Spending (FOSS)

https://opentokenmini.org/

1•FranciscoCarlos•16m ago•1 comments

Vector Databases in 2026: Why Vector Search Is Becoming a Feature, Not a Product

https://lucasaguiar.xyz/posts/vector-databases-2026-guide/

1•isfttr•17m ago•0 comments

Economic Landscape of IP in Brazil: The INPI Report and Projections Until 2030

https://lucasaguiar.xyz/posts/cenario-economico-pi-inpi-projecoes-2026-2030-guia/

1•isfttr•17m ago•0 comments

How to Turn an Old Screen into a Home Dashboard or Digital Sign (2026)

https://lucasaguiar.xyz/posts/how-to-turn-old-screen-into-home-dashboard-2026/

1•isfttr•17m ago•0 comments

Blitz 3D Pro: A 2D/3D cool BASIC based on BlitzBasic

https://blackcreepycat.itch.io/blitz-3d-pro

2•seyhajin•17m ago•0 comments

Deslopify: Analyze a project to find out when it turned into AI slop

https://github.com/orsinium-labs/deslopify

1•orsinium•19m ago•0 comments

iOS-sweet: iOS 16 running on a Redmi Note 10 Pro

https://github.com/dipa-studio/ios-sweet

3•jgbuddy•20m ago•0 comments

Jamverse: Extended Universe Fiction

https://jamverse.protocolized.io/

1•surprisetalk•20m ago•0 comments

MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Redefining Agent Performance and Cost

4•minimaxir•21m ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

Everything Is a Leaky Abstraction

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/everything-is-a-leaky-abstraction

2•chilipepperhott•1h ago

Comments

swiftcoder•23m ago

> There are some things that are sealed abstractions (that is, they are not leaky)... Some examples include: Lossless compression algorithms, TCP/IP, TLS PostgreSQL

Man oh man do I disagree about every one of those being a "non-leaky" abstraction. If I had a dime for every time I've had to dig under the hood in one of those... I'd have about 20 dimes