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Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/
153•sbulaev•1h ago•86 comments

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/
203•trwhite•5h ago•52 comments

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
41•CosmoWenman•5h ago•17 comments

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/reasons-not-emt-ranked/
49•citelao•2h ago•17 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...
124•gscott•2d ago•36 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
64•speckx•4h ago•6 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/
142•saikatsg•5h ago•95 comments

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/
477•bastitx•14h ago•292 comments

New York City should carefully measure a new tree

https://blog.willmeye.rs/new-york-city-should-carefully-measure-a-new-tree/
28•willmeyers•21h ago•3 comments

What Meta got right with Muse

https://metedata.substack.com/p/what-meta-got-right-with-muse
23•young_mete•5h ago•29 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...
50•jethronethro•1h ago•12 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...
56•Anon84•6h ago•37 comments

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

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

Gboard Conveyor Belt Version

https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/main/mozc-conveyorbelt
15•xnx•2d ago•3 comments

Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/haunted-by-the-ghosts-of-materialism
15•surprisetalk•18h 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/
32•simonjgreen•3h ago•7 comments

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

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

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

https://thoreaubasic.com/
13•Gorsefound•16h 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...
58•sans_souse•1h ago•6 comments

RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring

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

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/
93•geoffbp•4h ago•84 comments

RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)

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

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory
22•kmeh•6h ago•15 comments

Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/33/62
11•mooreds•11h ago•5 comments

Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016)

https://dave.recoil.org/docker-has-always-used-microvms/
11•avsm•7h ago•3 comments

Memory-Safe WebP Decoding

https://halide.cx/blog/wpd/
30•computerbuster•18h ago•7 comments

Vx – One Language, Every Chip

https://vxlang.org/
55•elffjs•6h ago•29 comments

Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

http://www.darbiansphotography.com/woking-electrical-control-room-urbex
119•NaOH•1d ago•23 comments

How to hack time, with C2PA

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hacking-time.html
9•Retr0id•4h ago•2 comments

The Softmax function and its derivative

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/the-softmax-function-and-its-derivative/
5•costco•2d ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/33/62
11•mooreds•11h ago

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AirPath•11h ago
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rbanffy•10h ago
Interesting to note the question had the answer all along. How would a modest effort outrun a vast organisation?

I never imagined he’d be caught by that mistake.

gshubert17•36m ago
Cray's reply was sardonic: "It seems like Mr. Watson has answered his own question."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600

KerrAvon•31m ago
He wasn't. The CDC 6600 cost IBM some prestige, but it didn't put a dent in IBM's sales, which were about to skyrocket due to the 360 series.
bediger4000•8h ago
I used CDC computers 1986-92. They sucked, and CDC employees could not comprehend that they sucked. They had convinced themselves that their alternate universe was real.