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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
264•jumploops•3h ago•48 comments

What goes into making an animated film?

https://www.disneyanimation.com/process/
35•embedding-shape•1h ago•15 comments

Why I Am a Programmer

https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
65•jruohonen•3h ago•10 comments

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
42•speckx•3d ago•11 comments

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer
332•sungam•5h ago•173 comments

The State of Context Engineering

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/24/the-state-of-context-engineering.html
20•pchristensen•1h ago•1 comments

Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbia-votes-students-seek-unseat-vucic-snap-election-2026-1...
80•consumer451•1h ago•28 comments

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/
310•Tomte•4h ago•166 comments

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/
295•tdeck•4h ago•74 comments

Gheist campaign plants secret-dumping workflows using stolen GitHub tokens

https://www.wiz.io/blog/gheist-attempted-scaled-abuse-of-stolen-github-tokens-stumbles
37•acossta•3h ago•0 comments

The U.S. Power Grid

https://nomagicpill.site/knowledge/powergrid.html
44•surprisetalk•3d ago•13 comments

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

https://iosiflazaridis.github.io/battles-of-the-romans/
23•endorphine•3h ago•7 comments

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/
22•minimaxir•1h ago•26 comments

VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wxttvq9qY
45•zdw•1d ago•11 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
725•ltratt•1d ago•670 comments

Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English

https://huggingface.co/destined/hurston-1
32•Gcarter08•20h ago•10 comments

UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/
26•robin_reala•5h ago•4 comments

Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again

https://www.getty.edu/news/buddha-head-of-merv-turkmenistan-conservation/
3•laybak•2d ago•0 comments

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/
91•greenchair•9h ago•34 comments

JetBrains Thinkrail

https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail
133•hmokiguess•5h ago•93 comments

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/ai-use-leads-uc-berkeley-math-professor-to-see-no-...
164•romanhn•5h ago•250 comments

Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/recreate-the-apollo-guidance-computer/
34•Brajeshwar•3d ago•2 comments

Eunice is almost here

https://armincat.com/articles/eunice-is-almost-here
49•armcat•2h ago•41 comments

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras
343•gmays•20h ago•125 comments

Root shell on Samsung TV

https://twitter.com/log4j/status/2113014142600953868?s=46
726•testing22321•1d ago•553 comments

Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/personalized-mrna-cancer-vaccine-cut-melanoma-death-recurr...
120•_Microft•2h ago•23 comments

Focused Company Operating Principles

https://focused.io/operating-principles
6•mooreds•2h ago•0 comments

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics
70•bootlegbilly•4h ago•18 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
554•bobbydigitales•1d ago•345 comments

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made
181•bookofjoe•3d ago•49 comments
Open in hackernews

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
42•speckx•3d ago

Comments

ckx•24m ago
This is so useless yet so cool!
SugarReflex•20m ago
It doesn't do anything for shareholder value, but I love it.
bethekidyouwant•14m ago
Unless you make ram
triclops200•17m ago
"Originally, I was thinking about blocking users from closing their overgrown tabs until they slash all plants, but I thought it would be too annoying... " I would ask that you please add this as an option :), might actually use it for that feature alone because I do accidentally close old tabs by accident without noticing that was meaning to keep open.
drfloyd51•16m ago
This isn’t as useless as it seems. It is a visual representation of how old the tab is. And I control what “old” is.

To put it another way, it helps me recognize which tabs I am using. And which I am saving for later without having to evaluate the content of the tab.

One tweak… the coverage percentage can it be adjustable? Max = 100% looses all information about the pages contents, except the title.

Also also… if the images can be made translucent… you can make old timey effects like yellowing and decay.

paid_dot_expert•10m ago
It also creates a human feedback loop. It will train you to instinctively not keep old tabs open as you need to deal with the plants.
tamimio•12m ago
These useless programs are like what you used to see back in win98 or winxp with dancing monkey or scoopydoo walking all over your desktop windows, which I think later turned to human dancers before being used to distribute all sort of viruses.
b33l•10m ago
I like to throw cress seeds into unattended keyboards
paid_dot_expert•9m ago
Cress is a word I haven't heard in decades. Got to get some cress!
johnea•3m ago
I like it!

I have a ton of these tabs. I don't consider them "neglected" though.

Some things take years to come to fruition. You can't just go buy them at home despot.

Maybe younger people don't yet have an appreciation for things that assume an air of legacy and heritage after many years of "just sitting there".

When finally re-visited, they have a meaning that can only accumulate with the passage of significant time...