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Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/
190•trwhite•5h ago•49 comments

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/
101•sbulaev•1h ago•52 comments

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
30•CosmoWenman•5h ago•10 comments

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/reasons-not-emt-ranked/
37•citelao•2h ago•13 comments

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

https://www.whec.com/top-news/webster-man-celebrating-the-100th-birthday-of-the-kidney-his-mom-do...
120•gscott•2d ago•33 comments

Writing code by hand is over, forever

https://eliocapella.com/blog/writing-code-by-hand-is-over/
9•aray07•53m ago•3 comments

Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code

https://claude.dev/blog/getting-the-most-out-of-opus-5-5/
132•saikatsg•4h ago•88 comments

New York City should carefully measure a new tree

https://blog.willmeye.rs/new-york-city-should-carefully-measure-a-new-tree/
25•willmeyers•20h ago•3 comments

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
47•speckx•4h ago•3 comments

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/
473•bastitx•13h ago•286 comments

LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-s...
42•Anon84•5h ago•20 comments

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys...
33•jethronethro•57m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

https://pipod.dev/
67•edverma2•1d ago•27 comments

What Meta got right with Muse

https://metedata.substack.com/p/what-meta-got-right-with-muse
16•young_mete•4h ago•19 comments

Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016)

https://dave.recoil.org/docker-has-always-used-microvms/
10•avsm•7h ago•2 comments

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

https://ftl-os.org/
140•romac•8h ago•57 comments

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/
91•geoffbp•3h ago•83 comments

Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/haunted-by-the-ghosts-of-materialism
11•surprisetalk•17h ago•3 comments

Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/
27•simonjgreen•2h ago•6 comments

RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retailready/jobs/bFcgIe4-implementations
1•sarah74•6h ago

Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

https://thoreaubasic.com/
12•Gorsefound•15h ago•5 comments

Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/33/62
9•mooreds•10h ago•5 comments

Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States

https://medium.com/@carmitage/big-balls-now-exposed-to-serious-criminal-charges-in-at-least-six-s...
26•sans_souse•40m ago•0 comments

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory
17•kmeh•6h ago•13 comments

Gboard Conveyor Belt Version

https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/main/mozc-conveyorbelt
11•xnx•2d ago•2 comments

Memory-Safe WebP Decoding

https://halide.cx/blog/wpd/
29•computerbuster•17h ago•6 comments

RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)

https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/
27•KomoD•4h ago•7 comments

How to hack time, with C2PA

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hacking-time.html
8•Retr0id•4h ago•1 comments

Vx – One Language, Every Chip

https://vxlang.org/
53•elffjs•5h ago•29 comments

The Softmax function and its derivative

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/the-softmax-function-and-its-derivative/
5•costco•1d ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

New York City should carefully measure a new tree

https://blog.willmeye.rs/new-york-city-should-carefully-measure-a-new-tree/
23•willmeyers•20h ago

Comments

paulkrush•19h ago
Lidar is an awesome way to find tall trees!
prattmic•1h ago
I wonder how accurate the locations are in this LiDAR dataset and/or the Queens Giant Wikipedia article. The Alley Pond Park candidate looks suspiciously close to the the Queens Giant, so I wonder if it's actually picking the same tree?
rvba•8m ago
such lists just provide a list of targets for some assholes who will cut the trees