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The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
52•xnx•3d ago

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readthenotes1•51m ago
Only has 2 text blobs and a few actors? Not really worth a "tap to continue" a. If the continue doesn't have any value
xnx•45m ago
I saw 19 screens of content.
dec0dedab0de•6m ago
I liked the presentation, and thought it was worth it.
quickthrowman•42m ago
This does not work on iOS Safari, I get stuck in a loop. I haven’t installed the latest iOS update FWIW
kornork•32m ago
This is cool! I liked the time machine the best, and was surprised to see names I didn't recognize at the top (although I did recognize a couple faces once I looked them up).
card_zero•31m ago
Somehow it's a fun fact that you can reach any other actor in four moves, but a much less fun fact that you can probably-reach any other actor in 2.6 moves. "Connectedness", huh. Though it was interesting to see that Frank Welker used to be in fourth place. Never heard of him. Or I've only heard of him, he's a voice actor. He does cartoon animals, often without lines, lots of miaowing.
harikb•20m ago
I would not have guessed Willem Dafoe up there :o
BeetleB•8m ago
Ha! I correctly guessed Samuel Jackson. Over a decade ago I read he was the number 1 actor for gross receipts of all the movies any actor had made (don't know if it's still true). I somehow felt that stat would be connected to this one.

Would never have guessed Nicole Kidman for women, though.

gbil•8m ago
John Candy #2 in 1993! Makes his loss hit hard even after all these years.
dec0dedab0de•7m ago
I hope Kevin bacon takes this as a personal attack and manages to get small roles in every upcoming film that has actors he hasn’t worked with yet.

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
275•pavel_lishin•1h ago•146 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models.html
128•Jowsey•34m ago•43 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
37•nekofneko•23m ago•2 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
958•sohkamyung•18h ago•184 comments

The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
53•xnx•3d ago•10 comments

Time Nuts

http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
11•jacquesm•21m ago•2 comments

Total Historian

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/total-historian/
9•benbreen•1h ago•0 comments

UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does

https://alexsci.com/blog/uuidv7-is-weird/
7•ibobev•54m ago•0 comments

Docker is weird

https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird
762•psxuaw•17h ago•307 comments

The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06

https://isaacmarovitz.com/posts/sonic-06/
14•ibobev•55m ago•0 comments

How Is Music Possible

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/music
11•rafaelc•55m ago•1 comments

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-survei...
51•hn_acker•18h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

https://www.impossiblemachines.xyz
8•bhaprayan•17h ago•0 comments

LISP Comes of Age (1980)

https://microship.com/lisp-comes-of-age/
16•so-cal-schemer•22h ago•7 comments

Job loss and cortisone mania

https://tilschuenemann.de/job-loss-cortisone-mania
112•speckx•7h ago•48 comments

The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01092
175•martincsweiss•1d ago•64 comments

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
320•xiaoyu2006•16h ago•215 comments

Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key

https://github.com/dsmurrell/onkey
164•dsmurrell•1d ago•70 comments

Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

425•ex-aws-dude•20h ago•456 comments

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humans
596•rakannimer•1d ago•567 comments

We have traits at home

https://www.axelmagn.com/blog/202610-zig-traits/
23•Ygg2•18h ago•4 comments

Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy

https://bottlecapai.com/post/thinkingcap-gemma-4-26b/
24•armcat•2h ago•0 comments

An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident

https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-assessment-ukaisi
6•olwmc•2h ago•1 comments

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell
479•niemandhier•23h ago•206 comments

How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WHEQps5PK8LrrcTAb/how-does-fable-5-1-hide-messages-in-images
178•gmays•19h ago•58 comments

OpenSSL 4.1.0

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-4.1.0
162•petecooper•4h ago•46 comments

LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification
420•johnbender•18h ago•257 comments

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
500•aghuang•1d ago•181 comments

Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for use at border

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/21/politics/heat-ray-weapon-dhs-pentagon
65•bushwart•2h ago•62 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
594•alphax314•1d ago•181 comments