top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-10-01

A $1k Wheelchair

https://newmobility.com/not-a-wheelchair/

2 months ago

965 upvotes – 434 comments

Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation

https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation

2 months ago

544 upvotes – 192 comments

Is the world really running out of sand?

https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/10/1/is-the-world-really-running-out-of-sand

2 months ago

514 upvotes – 209 comments

Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

https://www.neowin.net/news/ublock-origin-lite-maker-ends-firefox-store-support-slams-mozilla-for-hostile-reviews/

2 months ago

481 upvotes – 422 comments

Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub

https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx

2 months ago

473 upvotes – 419 comments

Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41710227

2 months ago

455 upvotes – 256 comments

COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it

https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2024/10/2024-10-01-death-of-cobol/index.html

2 months ago

425 upvotes – 437 comments

Bots, so many bots

https://wakatime.com/blog/67-bots-so-many-bots

2 months ago

414 upvotes – 438 comments

Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)

https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-castle-in-other-peoples-kingdoms/

2 months ago

385 upvotes – 261 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709301

2 months ago

363 upvotes – 488 comments

Math from Three to Seven

https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-math-from-three-to-seven-by

2 months ago

345 upvotes – 218 comments

Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41714672

2 months ago

337 upvotes – 127 comments

YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/y-combinator-is-being-criticized-after-it-backed-an-ai-startup-that-admits-it-basically-cloned-another-ai-startup/

2 months ago

333 upvotes – 259 comments

Life, death, and retirement

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/life-death-and-retirement/

2 months ago

319 upvotes – 165 comments

Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative

https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot

2 months ago

259 upvotes – 59 comments

How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video]

https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2024/schedule/how-cern-serves-1eb-of-data-via-fuse/

2 months ago

252 upvotes – 115 comments

Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-27/sports-betting-apps-are-even-more-toxic-than-you-imagined

2 months ago

251 upvotes – 299 comments

ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2413/

2 months ago

248 upvotes – 60 comments

Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/10/01/mozillas-massive-lapse-in-judgement-causes-clash-with-ublock-origin-developer/

2 months ago

244 upvotes – 2 comments

Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011)

https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9H5PQMgh6cUobaKL8FZ3-Ib1lk2jXz-BBrutnvv14LwcLObCTepV_IHs6nj83QW1bzJZzkyQpOm2OVPZbBmOmtzIMoRw&_hsmi=327012423

2 months ago

229 upvotes – 105 comments
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