965
434
A $1k Wheelchair
https://newmobility.com/not-a-wheelchair/
2 months ago
544
192
Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation
https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation
514
209
Is the world really running out of sand?
https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/10/1/is-the-world-really-running-out-of-sand
481
422
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/
473
419
Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx
455
256
Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41710227
425
437
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
414
438
Bots, so many bots
https://wakatime.com/blog/67-bots-so-many-bots
385
261
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/
363
488
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709301
345
218
Math from Three to Seven
https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-math-from-three-to-seven-by
337
127
Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41714672
333
259
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/
319
165
Life, death, and retirement
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/life-death-and-retirement/
59
Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative
https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot
252
115
How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video]
https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2024/schedule/how-cern-serves-1eb-of-data-via-fuse/
251
299
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
248
60
ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2413/
244
2
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/
229
105
Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011)
https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9H5PQMgh6cUobaKL8FZ3-Ib1lk2jXz-BBrutnvv14LwcLObCTepV_IHs6nj83QW1bzJZzkyQpOm2OVPZbBmOmtzIMoRw&_hsmi=327012423
212
97
OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/1/openai-devday-2024-live-blog/
64
Northern Ontario man solves local legend, finds vintage liquor at bottom of lake
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/larder-lake-local-legend-sunken-taxi-vintage-liquor-1.7332124
201
82
A Local-First Case Study
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/a-local-first-case-study/
198
203
The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-netherlands-returned-288-stolen-artifacts-to-indonesia-180985137/
184
140
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store
https://christianselig.com/2024/10/juno-removed/
179
95
The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet Archive
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-major-label-music-lawsuit-1235105273/
162
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/anthropic-hires-openai-co-founder-durk-kingma/
55
SlateDB – An embedded database built on object storage
https://slatedb.io/
161
485
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709299
160
66
300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto
https://ziglang.org/news/300k-from-mitchellh/
150
305
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike
https://apnews.com/article/port-strike-ila-dockworkers-begins-e5468e760f46a64e4322d1702beb1f72
73
Web scraping with your web browser: Why not?
https://8chananon.github.io/tut/scraping1.html
149
75
The Simple Guide to Building and Breaking Habits
https://alexy.tech/posts/the-simple-guide-to-building-and-breaking-habits/
148
166
Insider trader had all the answers
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-01/insider-trader-had-all-the-answers
147
38
Quake runs in just 276 kB RAM on the Arduino Nano Matter board
https://community.silabs.com/s/share/a5UVm000000Vi1ZMAS/quake-ported-to-arduino-nano-matter-and-sparkfun-thing-plus-matter-boards?language=en_US
142
End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3iUmhkP10k
125
The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp
https://ds9soft.com/blog/2024/06/the-liberating-experience-of-common-lisp/
124
250
The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/26/other-british-invasion-how-uk-language-conquered-the-us
123
31
Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution
https://interconnected.org/home/2024/09/27/distribution
121
118
Piracy
https://blog.cobanov.cloud/blog/piracy
110
86
Evolving GitHub Issues
https://github.blog/changelog/2024-10-01-evolving-github-issues-public-preview/
103
65
Comparing our Rust-based indexing and querying pipeline to Langchain
https://bosun.ai/posts/rust-for-genai-performance/
101
120
Mullenweg threatens corporate takeover of WP Engine
https://www.therepository.email/mullenweg-threatens-corporate-takeover-of-wp-engine
62
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Erlang?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41706318
96
25
We're building a statue of Aaron Swartz
https://aaronstatue.org/
91
32
Meta fined $101M for storing passwords in plaintext
https://therecord.media/meta-unprotected-passwords-fine-gdpr
90
36
The importance of F-Droid, an Android app store
https://rocket9labs.com/post/on-the-importance-of-f-droid/
89
85
Multiversion Python Thoughts
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/9/9/multiversion-python/
Why strength training? A programmer's perspective
https://fhur.me/posts/2024/why-strength-training-a-programmers-perspective
79
Matrix-Libera IRC Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective (2023)
https://libera.chat/news/matrix-bridge-disabled-retrospective
26
Better privacy can be one click away. Google and Apple won't allow it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/27/chrome-safari-privacy-setting-law-google-apple/
Pine martens return to Dartmoor after 150-year absence
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/01/pine-martens-return-to-dartmoor-after-150-year-absence
76
PS5 Dashboards Flooded with Unwanted Ads–Sony Claims It Wasn't Intentional
https://questalerts.com/ps5-dashboards-flooded-with-unwanted-ads-sony-claims-it-wasnt-intentional/
