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Cloudflare acquires Deno

https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare
777•ilreb•5h ago•417 comments

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k/executive
37•gslin•21m ago•5 comments

Our $445M Series D

https://oxide.computer/blog/our-445m-series-d
424•ahlCVA•5h ago•176 comments

TypeSafe a Raises $870M at a $7.5B

https://typesafe.ai/blog/series-ai
38•tosh•1h ago•17 comments

Sorry, I'm in a meeting

https://iminafleeting.com/
539•splintersio•9h ago•178 comments

Triple-A Minesweeper

https://minesweeper.mikelacher.com/
75•robin_reala•2h ago•23 comments

Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
315•franze•7h ago•136 comments

Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2026/press-release/
353•Anon84•8h ago•183 comments

I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteorites and More

https://jessewaites.com/blog/post/i-pointed-ai-at-400-years-of-archives/
12•piratebroadcast•7h ago•0 comments

You Might Want to Try Being Less Creative

https://blog.bawolf.com/p/you-might-want-to-try-being-less
3•bryantwolf•4m ago•0 comments

Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/14/almost-like-lake-como-germany-transforms-former-coal-mines-in...
130•ohjeez•3h ago•70 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
1010•jonotime•1d ago•913 comments

Training Text-to-Image Models Without a VAE

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/pyramid-jit
24•schopra909•2d ago•7 comments

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
892•gmays•1d ago•174 comments

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-i...
901•ck2•2d ago•540 comments

'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-and-gromit-90-alone
35•vinhnx•4h ago•2 comments

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my
851•soheilpro•2d ago•187 comments

Yes, and

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/
675•Michelangelo11•1d ago•271 comments

MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

https://github.com/microsoft/mxc
148•nreece•12h ago•72 comments

Once: Cache CLI commands

https://github.com/alex0ptr/once
76•baquero•9h ago•33 comments

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/
279•sohkamyung•15h ago•235 comments

Programming Isn't Special

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html
112•ingve•10h ago•115 comments

Theranos.world

https://www.theranos.world/
531•kbyatnal•1d ago•191 comments

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/fired-openai-safety-researchers-dispute-misconduct-claims-warn-...
240•trakkstar•8h ago•154 comments

Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/hey-platforms-your-violent-content-policies-are-about-to-meet...
10•hn_acker•16m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

362•mariocesar•2d ago•580 comments

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

https://ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-of-not-getting-to-the-point/
218•NaOH•23h ago•74 comments

The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview

https://www.hetzner.com/blog/the-hetzner-cloud-network-stack-history-and-technical-overview/
91•cnkk•6h ago•24 comments

100+ reactions to 100+ solutions

https://proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/100-reactions-to-100-solutions/
31•jacobedawson•6h ago•24 comments

Python 3.15

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3150/
248•ngoldbaum•4h ago•65 comments
Open in hackernews

I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/10/08/idle/
34•janvdberg•1h ago

Comments

ulimn•46m ago
Oh, one of the few blogs I was following. Sad to see this news.
armchairhacker•45m ago
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Loquebantur•25m ago
Instead of letting bad people monetize one's freely shared work, one could also post things that aren't monetizable but help people anyway.

That's maybe not "obvious", as society trains people only to think in terms of "money equals value", but it's not very hard to figure out either.

As a simple example: people tend to focus on "new tech gadgets", but the remarkable lack of effort put into making existing stuff better (like Linux UX) simply by employing known things provides lots of opportunity.

dang•20m ago
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

armchairhacker•13m ago
What is a more plausible interpretation?

> Put it this way: I've been pretty pissed off at "helping bad people" with my freely given information since roughly the summer of 2022. It's all been downhill from there in terms of giving a shit about doing this sort of thing.

selfsimilar•45m ago
I get this sentiment, but I think there's probably a LOT of people who are doing good things, cool things, helpful things, who are helped by Al Gore's free and open Internet. But most of them don't bother to upvote, or post a "thank you" or anything because the medium makes everything so frictionless. It's only the OSS zealots and the people who have issues who you'll hear from. The vocal minority. It's kinda shitty, but learning to ignore the haters and bad actors is table stakes. But feeding AI farms is the new threat, and that' definitely something unsolved. Going dark is certainly a solution. Small enclaves of invite-only blogs and tweets, I guess...
OutOfHere•36m ago
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dang•22m ago
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? I replied to you here an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023297, and since then you've posted this personal attack. Not cool.
OutOfHere•18m ago
I didn't mean to post a personal attack against the author. It was targeted at others, not the author. This is a limitation of the English language since the particular users weren't qualified. In any event, I have now edited it to remove the sentence. I will be more careful.
deburo•34m ago
It's unfortunate to think that some people may want to restrain themselves from sharing as much in the form of blog posts, but on the other hand, if you're still using AI in your day to day work from cloud providers, perhaps we'll still benefit from that data in one way or another.

I mean, OpenAI couldn't guarantee that someone's data was not used for training, even though he had the "don't train on my data" setting turned on. I still don't understand what that means. And Anthropic probably does a similar thing, right? Did they share details how they derive from our data for training purposes?

geuis•32m ago
Direct link in case it's needed. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/10/08/idle/

For some reason the first time I tapped the link it didn't go directly to the article, which confused me. Subsequent times it goes straight through.

ChrisMarshallNY•31m ago
> The web is broken. You can keep it.

I do have to agree, but I have a different reason for writing less.

I just enjoy doing stuff that ships. That tends to take up a lot of my bandwidth.

I couldn't care any less about whether or not someone (or something) uses my code (that's why it's MIT-licensed). I'm also not particularly interested in being credited for stuff (as long as I am not the target of a lawyerpult).

I've enjoyed using an LLM, and plan to do a lot more of it. I even let it write a bunch of stuff. It's maybe not stuff that has my "imprimatur," but that's fine. People seem to understand it better.

spongebobstoes•30m ago
if they don't want to write anymore, that's okay, they don't owe it to anybody

but I will disagree with the rationale

I want enable and empower everyone, even though it includes bad actors, because I know it includes good actors

I believe that on balance, humans, the world, the future, are all good

I reject misanthropy and pessimism

gavinray•12m ago

  >  I run into problems, figure out solutions that don't seem to be documented anywhere else, and then I don't post about them.
I don't understand this. Presumably you've only been able to build software your entire career because, when you hit a wall, usually someone online had too and shared the solution.

This feels like throwing a sandwich in the trash rather than let a hungry person eat it.