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Bob Mackie dressed stars–if they were brave enough

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/09/24/bob-mackie-dressed-stars-if-they-were-brave-enough
7•andsoitis•1d ago

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PaulCarrack•17h ago
Although he was known for being a fashion icon, he was also an actor. Most people probably recognize him as playing the antagonist "Walter Donovan" from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He was the guy that "choose poorly".

OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News

https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/
32•papergirl•2h ago•4 comments

Does Georgism work? Five years later

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
311•silveraxe93•1d ago•219 comments

Go Concurrency Distilled

https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
202•chmaynard•17h ago•62 comments

Flip Fluid on Flip Dots

https://mitxela.com/projects/flipflip
46•blutack•1d ago•6 comments

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
403•Qision•1d ago•219 comments

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-...
35•torutofu•19h ago•17 comments

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
237•shenli3514•14h ago•79 comments

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
288•jpwalsh234•15h ago•81 comments

C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake

https://pikuma.com/blog/c-integer-sizes-not-a-mistake
10•ibobev•1d ago•1 comments

Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview

https://mgrebler.substack.com/p/real-time-feedback-my-closing-move
41•fagnerbrack•7h ago•27 comments

What is the size of Yemen? (2024)

https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen
148•kspacewalk2•5h ago•30 comments

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/
162•momentmaker•2d ago•26 comments

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike

https://www.quantamagazine.org/biology-might-not-be-quantum-but-its-math-is-quantumlike-20260923/
63•pseudolus•2d ago•23 comments

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-...
261•MC995•1d ago•597 comments

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
392•ksec•23h ago•100 comments

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent
143•parasitid•16h ago•41 comments

An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot

https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/
86•apsec112•1d ago•91 comments

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC

https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html
74•pwg•15h ago•10 comments

Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model

https://www.privatemode.ai/blog/system-one-from-glm-flash
85•flxflx•16h ago•32 comments

Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue

https://francisbach.com/spectral_log_density_estimation/
27•matt_d•1d ago•0 comments

Bob Mackie dressed stars–if they were brave enough

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/09/24/bob-mackie-dressed-stars-if-they-were-brave-enough
7•andsoitis•1d ago•1 comments

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed
195•azhenley•2d ago•178 comments

Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/09/snap-wants-to-be-a-state-actor-kansas-v-snap.htm
43•hn_acker•1d ago•12 comments

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
218•signa11•22h ago•265 comments

Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2026/fup_26_116-enceladus-cassini-mikroben-s...
52•geox•1d ago•25 comments

Evolving programming languages in the AI era

https://dashbit.co/blog/evolving-ai-era
87•pjm331•2d ago•56 comments

We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages

http://jimmyhmiller.com/change-our-languages
42•surprisetalk•1d ago•18 comments

Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

https://ampdot.mesh.host/token-space-fonts.html
58•z-mach9•1d ago•12 comments

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal
170•birdculture•2d ago•74 comments

Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/welcome-to-the-medical-clinic-at-the-interplanetary-re...
67•bucket2015•12h ago•13 comments