fp.

Dutch Computer Museums

https://aresluna.org/dutch-computer-museums/

47•npollock•1h ago•11 comments

The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf

167•suopspaces•4h ago•95 comments

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility

111•hn_acker•19h ago•37 comments

FLUX 3 Image

https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3-image

104•minimaxir•22h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

https://stillwet.art/

84•alstonite•17h ago•23 comments

ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5977815/trump-icc-sanctions-kimberly-prost

90•rbanffy•52m ago•22 comments

Supabase is acquiring Turso

https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-is-acquiring-turso

133•cvburgess•2h ago•70 comments

Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

https://inrng.com/2026/10/shimano-bicycle-museum/

266•pietroppeter•12h ago•63 comments

Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code

https://liquidbrain.net/blog/giving-friends-custom-text-buzzes-based-on-morse-code/

32•evakhoury•22h ago•15 comments

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/

510•luispa•18h ago•370 comments

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

https://www.science.org/content/article/nazi-germany-had-no-hope-making-atomic-bomb-uranium-cubes...

63•xqcgrek2•16h ago•22 comments

To grieve, or not to grieve?

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/to-grieve-or-not-to-grieve/

98•stabbles•1d ago•87 comments

Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor

https://github.com/kvoltmer/Audionaut

117•vltmrkls•9h ago•39 comments

Fixing GRPO's credit assignment problem without evaluating every step

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36178

17•mrkn1•3h ago•1 comments

Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

https://www.frogandtoad.ai/

489•supermdguy•19h ago•114 comments

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/

602•jasondavies•1d ago•213 comments

Tiny Brutalism

https://placeholders.itch.io/tiny-brutalism

75•abetusk•18h ago•19 comments

Limited Liability In Historical Perspective (1997) [pdf]

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1623&context=wlulr

10•gradus_ad•16h ago•3 comments

Now That's an Impurity Story

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/now-s-impurity-story

32•dcminter•21h ago•2 comments

SvelteKit 3

https://svelte.dev/blog/sveltekit-3-is-here

379•sampsn•21h ago•162 comments

Show HN: Breadcrumb, record everything on your mac + context manager for AI

https://innerloop.works/breadcrumb

31•jv22222•23h ago•5 comments

Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/02/power-approval-set-to-delay-oracles-wisconsin-ai-d...

39•Betelbuddy•2h ago•10 comments

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256

532•chmaynard•1d ago•493 comments

Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/company-knowledge-bench

18•emil_sorensen•4h ago•1 comments

Pi 1.0

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/

1618•sergiotapia•22h ago•552 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

252•whoishiring•1d ago•251 comments

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/

372•Kuyawa•14h ago•194 comments

StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421

611•Snowly•1d ago•168 comments

Turbo Haskell

https://comonad.com/reader/2026/turbo-haskell/

188•pjmlp•1d ago•48 comments

Pi Durable

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable/

474•paulsmith•22h ago•65 comments

Open in hackernews

Limited Liability In Historical Perspective (1997) [pdf]

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1623&context=wlulr

10•gradus_ad•16h ago

Comments

silverFork•14h ago

Even in ancient times, it started with slavery and the boss got away with limiting his losses: LOL..

"If ... the slave (or the son) incurred debts or liabilities, the merchant was only responsible to the extent of the peculium"

kencausey•12h ago

I suspect that this is the original source: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art... (PDF)

dang•1h ago

Changed from https://www.kjmlaw.com/merchants-slaves-peculium-history-llc... above. Thanks!