frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Leatherman (Vagabond)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherman_(vagabond)
40•redbell•3d ago

Comments

keyle•1h ago
Sometimes you find the most random things on HN, you have to wonder how that came about.

Interesting character for sure, this leatherman.

protocolture•52m ago
Crazy to me that they exempted him from the vagrancy laws. Like "Oh we can have one mysterious and entertaining vagrant".
titanomachy•24m ago
Ten separate towns did so. And people left food for him, like Santa Claus. He must have meant something to them.
nclps•38m ago
There is a recent episode of The Daily about him - worth checking out!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/podcasts/the-daily/old-le...

ljf•35m ago
A very different man, but the book 'The Autobiography of a Super Tramp' is a fascinating read from the hayday of the tramp - about one manes tramping across the UK and USA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_a_Super...

cryptos•34m ago
Was the tool company named after this man?
triyambakam•23m ago
I thought this might be about a multi tool from the Leatherman brand
fhd2•11m ago
Me too, got excited for nothing. But then I wondered - maybe that's where their name comes from?

Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

https://phishyurl.com/
407•jordigh•8h ago•116 comments

Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)

https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5
82•coolcoder613•4h ago•10 comments

David Lynch LA House

https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/david-lynch-house-los-angeles-for-sale
138•ewf•6h ago•42 comments

Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces, from a developer

https://weberdominik.com/blog/rules-user-interfaces/
50•domysee•2d ago•15 comments

Leatherman (Vagabond)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherman_(vagabond)
40•redbell•3d ago•8 comments

Apple: SSH and FileVault

https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/apple_ssh_and_filevault.7.html
351•ingve•10h ago•105 comments

The Sagrada Família takes its final shape

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/22/is-the-sagrada-familia-a-masterpiece-or-kitsch
229•pseudolus•3d ago•98 comments

Gemini in Chrome

https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/
129•angst•4h ago•112 comments

Tracking trust with Rust in the kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1034603/
73•pykello•3d ago•7 comments

U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis

https://www.minesnewsroom.com/news/us-already-has-critical-minerals-it-needs-theyre-being-thrown-...
142•giuliomagnifico•11h ago•150 comments

This map is not upside down

https://www.maps.com/this-map-is-not-upside-down/
242•aagha•12h ago•327 comments

Llama-Factory: Unified, Efficient Fine-Tuning for 100 Open LLMs

https://github.com/hiyouga/LLaMA-Factory
63•jinqueeny•6h ago•12 comments

AI tools are making the world look weird

https://strat7.com/blogs/weird-in-weird-out/
95•gaaz•8h ago•59 comments

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us

https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/oh-fuck-youre-still-sad
347•LaurenSerino•16h ago•170 comments

Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

https://research.google/blog/learn-your-way-reimagining-textbooks-with-generative-ai/
294•FromTheArchives•13h ago•200 comments

The Rise and Fall of the British Detective Novel (2010)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/rise-and-fall-british-detective-novel
22•Caiero•3d ago•3 comments

Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack
2960•JustSkyfall•1d ago•1284 comments

Rupert's snub cube and other Math Holes

http://tom7.org/ruperts/
79•QuadmasterXLII•2d ago•4 comments

The Math of Catastrophe

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-climate-change-tipping-points-20250915/
29•pseudolus•5h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Asxiv.org – Ask ArXiv papers questions through chat

https://asxiv.org/
117•anonfunction•1w ago•7 comments

The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/17/the-health-benefits-of-sunlight-may-o...
32•petethomas•2h ago•16 comments

Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/nvidia-and-intel-announce-jointly-developed-intel...
883•stycznik•19h ago•532 comments

Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now

https://cari.institute/
46•tontonius•3d ago•9 comments

Flipper Zero Geiger Counter

https://kasiin.top/blog/2025-08-04-flipper_zero_geiger_counter_module/
238•wgx•17h ago•76 comments

Show HN: I created a small 2D game about an ant

https://aanthonymax.github.io/ant-and-apples/
64•aanthonymax•8h ago•18 comments

KDE is now my favorite desktop

https://kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-now-my-favorite-desktop/
759•todsacerdoti•18h ago•618 comments

TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem

https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/
220•rostayob•16h ago•88 comments

Launch HN: Cactus (YC S25) – AI inference on smartphones

https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus
98•HenryNdubuaku•15h ago•46 comments

OpenTelemetry collector: What it is, when you need it, and when you don't

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-09-18-what-is-opentelemetry-collector-and-why-use-one/view
93•ndhandala•13h ago•27 comments

Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

https://luau.org/
167•andsoitis•17h ago•75 comments