top 20 hacker news stories for today

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/

1 hour ago

171 upvotes – 71 comments

Bob Cringely Has Died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949438

1 hour ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers

https://www.gadgetreview.com/apples-clean-design-is-stupidity-when-it-comes-to-hiding-fire-extinguishers

2 hours ago

37 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: jpm – a JavaScript package manager in Rust, every line by Claude Code

https://getjpm.sh/

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Second Strike, a 200-player world war on a 3D globe in the browser

https://secondstrike.io/

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 3 comments

How a Boeing 737 MAX Survived a Nosedive Traveling at the Speed of Sound

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/how-a-boeing-737-max-survived-a-nosedive-traveling-at-the-speed-of-sound-e8cae3b4

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/

16 hours ago

3 changes
518 upvotes – 302 comments

Extra Big Ass Intelligence

https://www.extrabigassintelligence.com/

22 hours ago

482 upvotes – 120 comments

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

https://www.newgrounds.com/

1 day ago

437 upvotes – 133 comments

Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works

https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri

15 hours ago

3 changes
410 upvotes – 11 comments

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/

4 hours ago

311 upvotes – 203 comments

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/

8 hours ago

240 upvotes – 61 comments

ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/30CC4826561366615BFAEC807CDE28A7/S0007125026108046a.pdf/adhd-autism-or-complex-trauma-the-complicated-nature-of-the-question.pdf

8 hours ago

205 upvotes – 216 comments

Things that apparently cause cancer

https://www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/things-that-apparently-cause-cancer

1 day ago

1 change
204 upvotes – 75 comments

Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-ohttp-gateway/

22 hours ago

1 change
185 upvotes – 89 comments

An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows

https://blog.kagi.com/update-orion-linux-windows

21 hours ago

179 upvotes – 105 comments

Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code

https://claude.dev/blog/getting-the-most-out-of-opus-5-5/

7 hours ago

162 upvotes – 121 comments

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken

3 hours ago

159 upvotes – 104 comments

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

https://ftl-os.org/

11 hours ago

1 change
150 upvotes – 60 comments

The Escalation of War in Ethiopia

https://www.africanistperspective.com/p/on-the-escalation-of-war-in-ethiopia

14 hours ago

145 upvotes – 156 comments
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