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Unexpected things that are people

https://bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/unexpected-things-that-are-people
225•lindowe•3h ago•93 comments

Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes

https://www.hypercubic.ai/
53•sai18•3h ago•27 comments

The (Lazy) Git UI You Didn't Know You Need

https://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/
30•linhns•2h ago•5 comments

Asus Ascent GX10

https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/desktop-ai-supercomputer/ultra-small-ai-supercomputer...
151•jimexp69•3h ago•138 comments

Benchmarking leading AI agents against Google reCAPTCHA v2

https://research.roundtable.ai/captcha-benchmarking/
50•mdahardy•3h ago•38 comments

Think Weirder: The Year's Best SciFi Ideas

https://thinkweirder.com
90•mooreds•1w ago•50 comments

Interesting SPI Routing with iCE40 FPGAs

https://danielmangum.com/posts/spi-routing-ice40-fpga/
77•hasheddan•6h ago•6 comments

LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger

https://bytesauna.com/post/dunning-kruger
168•gridentio•4h ago•137 comments

Pose Animator – An open source tool to bring SVG characters to life (2020)

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/05/pose-animator-open-source-tool-to-bring-svg-characters-to-lif...
103•jerlendds•6d ago•12 comments

European Commission plans “digital omnibus” package to simplify its tech laws

https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-knifes-privacy-to-feed-the-ai-boom-gdpr-digital-omnibus/
22•purpleKiwi•2h ago•7 comments

Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data
176•jamesgill•3h ago•41 comments

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Archive Matrix

https://ilovetypography.com/2025/11/07/steven-hellers-font-of-the-month-archive-matrix/
49•baruchel•6h ago•3 comments

Rewilding the Internet

https://www.protein.xyz/rewilding-the-internet/
10•thinkingemote•1w ago•6 comments

Time to start de-Appling

https://heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/time-to-start-de-appling/
191•msangi•4h ago•150 comments

Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-issues-reminder-to-passengers-ahead-of-move-to-100-dig...
78•teekert•4h ago•186 comments

ClickHouse acquires LibreChat, open-source AI chat platform

https://clickhouse.com/blog/librechat-open-source-agentic-data-stack
71•samaysharma•3h ago•23 comments

Beets: The music geek’s media organizer

https://beets.io/
215•hyperific•13h ago•87 comments

Installing and using HP-UX 9

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-11-08/
101•TMWNN•11h ago•43 comments

Using the expand and contract pattern for schema changes

https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/types/relational/expand-and-contract-pattern
81•tanelpoder•1w ago•33 comments

Games Preservation Is Hard and Sometimes Involves Private Detectives

https://kotaku.com/gog-preservation-program-private-detectives-drm-2000635611
72•PaulHoule•4h ago•17 comments

Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters

https://binaryigor.com/modular-monolith-and-microservices-modularity-is-what-truly-matters.html
117•BinaryIgor•6d ago•125 comments

Hacker News Headlines (game)

https://projects.peercy.net/projects/hn-oracle/index.html
20•greenwallnorway•2h ago•12 comments

Staying opinionated as you grow

https://hugo.writizzy.com/being-opinionated/57a0fa35-1afc-4824-8d42-3bce26e94ade
62•hlassiege•5d ago•35 comments

Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11941
27•PaulHoule•6h ago•6 comments

Multistable thin-shell metastructures for multiresponsive metabots

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx4359
12•PaulHoule•5h ago•2 comments

Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/redmond-turns-off-flock-safety-cameras-afte...
79•dredmorbius•1h ago•64 comments

DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat"

https://torrentfreak.com/dns-provider-quad9-sees-piracy-blocking-orders-as-existential-threat/
217•gslin•8h ago•93 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

350•david927•22h ago•1059 comments

Show HN: What Is Hacker News Working On?

https://waywo.eamag.me/
200•eamag•4d ago•41 comments

The 4.5T dollar elephant in the room

https://stevenadler.substack.com/p/the-45-trillion-dollar-elephant-in
4•DustinEchoes•2h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Think Weirder: The Year's Best SciFi Ideas

https://thinkweirder.com
90•mooreds•1w ago

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pelagicAustral•2h ago
Sadly, no PDF version available... meh...
mojoe•2h ago
email me at joe@thinkweirder.com and I'll get you a PDF!
pelagicAustral•2h ago
done! =)
shinymarmot•2h ago
Bought a copy - unfortunately that site only has a link to an Amazon DRM version. Link to purchase a DRM free epub is available here: https://compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/think-weirder-is-...
shinymarmot•2h ago
Ha - immediately taken down. It's fine to not want folks to use the discount anymore, but please provide an option besides renting from Amazon.
mojoe•2h ago
Publisher here, this link still works for a discounted DRM-free epub: https://thinkweirder.kit.com/products/think-weirder-volume-1...
shinymarmot•2h ago
Ah sorry, I checked the second time from Firefox with tracking protection on, which just returns a blank page. Works fine on Chrome/Safari.
atlasunshrugged•1h ago
Just ordered, thanks for sharing!
hn_acc1•1h ago
Cool. In for one.
Loughla•48m ago
Perfect. Thanks!
criddell•22m ago
Why include DRM in your Amazon ebook? I know Tor's books are DRM-free on Amazon and it would be nice to see more publishers do the same.
mojoe•8m ago
I did not. It should be DRM-free on Amazon as well!
Semaphor•2h ago
Included in kindle unlimited, I think that's the most expensive KU book I've seen at 8.68€ normal price
Animats•2h ago
Never heard of any of those authors. Is this the year's best ideas, or just the ones for which an unknown aggregator could get republication rights?
gsf_emergency_4•2h ago
Greg Egan?

I've heard of Lance, another scientist-writer of the same mold

https://www.bayviewmagazine.com/article/2024/06/write-what-y...

mojoe•1h ago
Hi, I'm the editor, I chose the stories. I read 391 short science fiction stories published last year (all the stories in the big science fiction magazines and a few smaller ones), and selected these sixteen.

None of the authors I reached out to refused to sell me reprint rights, so there was no bottleneck there.

I'm a software engineer who enjoys near-future concept-driven science fiction, so if that's not your thing then you might not agree with my choices. The stories I look for are the ones where I think "wow, this contains ideas that reflect something interesting about reality".

micheles•1h ago
I like far-future concept-driven science fiction, is there something for me too?
adaml_623•1h ago
That would be in, "The Year 3000's Best SciFi Ideas"
mojoe•1h ago
There are only two stories in the collection that feel a little further out:

"Best Practices for Safe Asteroid Handling" by David W. Goodman feels like a smart, polished successor to golden age space opera, it's set in a future where the solar system is colonized, but not thousands of years out.

Grant Collier's "The Best Version of Yourself" is also not set very far into the future, but it's a kind of post-human future so it might have far-future vibes for you. This specific story is actually available free online, so you don't have to purchase the anthology to read it: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/collier_07_24/

babelfish•1h ago
Out of curiosity, how do reprint rights work? I assume you give each author some percentage of the proceeds of the book?

I purchased the DRM-free epub :-)

mojoe•1h ago
Thanks!

I pay a fixed rate up-front for reprint rights, which is a one-time deal. This is mostly because pro rata royalties on an anthology are a pain (I've done this before, it involves sending out lots of tiny single-digit-dollar checks), but also because it's unlikely for me to make back the money I spend on anthology creation (science fiction short stories are a tiny market).

This is a hobby project for me, I'm obsessed with trying to get more people to read science fiction short stories. I spent about $6k creating the anthology (to pay for cover art, reprint rights, proof prints, etc), and I'll probably recoup about half of what I spent? We'll see, I'm currently testing various marketing strategies.

atlasunshrugged•1h ago
This is really amazing, thank you for taking the time and spending the resources to share these stories!
KingFelix•59m ago
This is really amazing, I was daydreaming recently and thought how cool it would be to create something like that. I am glad that you've taken the initiative to get it going. Looks awesome will check it out, love Greg Bear too, just recommended Blood Music to a good friend.
robocat•28m ago
Do you have a link to how we can donate to you or a project you are part of?

I likely won't get the book (space issues).

crooked-v•21m ago
I don't meant to be insulting about it, but I'm a little surprised you would pay for new cover art, but not for a more professional design for the cover in general. The current design seems very obviously 'amateur' to me in a way that I automatically associate with vanity press or other low-quality works, and I think it would have been more beneficial to pay more attention to the layout and typography even if that meant just using stock art.
IvyMike•1h ago
I'm so happy that you get to discover Greg Egan. If you can find a copy of Axiomatic, start there.
howdyhowdy123•1h ago
Not even Greg Egan? He's pretty popular.
jgon•41m ago
One of the short stories in this collection "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" by Isabel J. Kim, won the BSFA award for short fiction, the Locus award for Best Short Story, the Nebula award for Best Short Story, and was nominated for a Hugo for Best Short Story. So I think that should pretty firmly answer your question on the relative quality of the works included.
Scarblac•35m ago
Greg Egan at least is well known in hard science fiction and frequently mentioned on HN.
dylan604•1h ago
What's up with the ? after the author's name in the little blurbs about each story? Is the author of something being published really in question?
mojoe•1h ago
Are you referring to this?

"How will it use these memories, while simultaneously protecting its young charge, in THE LARK ASCENDING by ELEANNA CASTROIANNI?"

This is just a rhetorical device, I think it's called a 'hook question'. It's probably unclear due to the distracting colors and capitalization.

davnicwil•1h ago
I bought a copy on launch and working my way through. There's some really excellent stuff in here, fiction is a great way to analyse and get thinking about how the near-ish future could look, and that's what the theme of this collection is.
dylan604•1h ago
That's what makes Black Mirror so compelling. It's not flights of fancy with things like FTL traveling through space. It's taking slight twists to the darker side of where our tech leaders are taking us. At least someone is thinking these things through to the end even if our teach leaders are only thinking through to the $$$$. Too bad these stories are never enough to slow things down and used as "oooh, let's not let our tech come to that".
asacrowflies•1h ago
Yeah a lot like older sci Fi works I think we won't take the warnings. Glad we aren't completely blind to it tho. Remind me of the "1984 was not a manual" memes
jandrese•1h ago
The meme about the Torment Nexus continues to be worryingly relevant in the modern world.
fragmede•1h ago
OH that's the fantasy that people like watching that show under! I hate that show's premise because reality is depressing enough, my mind easily conjures up shit going wrong, and (as an adult) I don't need a TV show giving me more nightmare fuel. Plus, that one episode where we all wear glasses that let you delete people by not seeing them seems like a instruction manual to tech giants working on AR glasses. Apple airpod noise cancellation already does this for audio, Apple Vision or Meta glasses doing that for visual pollution seems not that far behind. It would be nice to walk around the neighborhood and not see any billboards. Not seeing people that wrote wrong things on Twitter seems like it's just a GitHub repo away.
pbhjpbhj•43m ago
Maybe one could hack it to block out adverts? There would be a sudden impulse towards "moral conscience" meaning the feature had to be removed.

Creating a World without adverts might be a route to utopia.

dylan604•5m ago
Meta would never block ads. If anything, they would detect things like billboards and have the AR system replace them with ads bought through Meta's ad system. But blocking them completely so the user has an ad free life experience? Never.
everyone•1h ago
cool
throwanem•1h ago
Good to see a couple stories here I first read in Clarkesworld! If you're a fan of the old-school SF magazine as form, there's no better place to go lately, in my view, and Neil's editorial taste is excellent - if you like this anthology, you'll enjoy the magazine, also. Take a look!

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/

mojoe•58m ago
Thank you for posting a link to Neil's magazine! I think he's the best short-form editor working in SFF today.
astroflection•1h ago
A few non-Amazon links for you:

https://www.alibris.com/Think-Weirder-Volume-1-The-Years-Bes...

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/think-weirde...

ortusdux•54m ago
Reminds me of The Best American Nonrequired Reading series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_American_Nonrequired_...

Ironically, the 5th ed was required reading in my ENG 101 course. It included a collection of Onion headlines. I will never forget "CIA realizes they have been using black highlighters all these years."

robocat•42m ago
A shame the front image is so irrationally greebled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble

SciFi art continues its strange stylistic journey.

Makes me want to look through my old SciFi art books.

Edit: The Greeble article refers to the art term diapering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diapering

octaane•40m ago
I agree, but just a heads up: the front images for most scifi novels these days (and for the past few decades) have largely been out of the hands of the writer. The publishing house pretty much unilaterally decides on the cover for marketing reasons.
robocat•21m ago
Author said they paid for the cover art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45879213 (of course that doesn't mean they chose it).

I actually like the art - but I'm somewhat eclectic.

delichon•22m ago
I can't break myself of caring about the covers when picking a book. Anything cartoonish is nigh invisible, but the greebles draw me in as a signal of, what, detailed world building? It's an odd bias, but I wouldn't be tempted if the book seller offered an option to hide them.
crooked-v•31m ago
I'm a bit sad they only have an ebook on, and only link to, Amazon, and not somewhere more ethical, like Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/p/books/think-weirder-volume-1-the-year...).
raincole•13m ago
I know this site is full of ads, but isn't this a little bit too much? It's just a link to buy a book on Amazon. At least pretend to have hacker spirit, wrap it as "how I use {insert open source book layout software} to make a book" and sell DRM-free epub or something. Where is the usual HN hatred towards DRM, Amazon and copyright...
root_axis•35s ago
The HN crowd is a target audience for what is being sold here, so they don't react as harshly since they like the product.