top 50% 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

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU

6 hours ago

1 change
139 upvotes – 19 comments

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2

https://www.radical-elements.com/minor-epiphanies/city-building-games-have-a-soul-problem-pt2

10 hours ago

128 upvotes – 124 comments

I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/

12 hours ago

110 upvotes – 156 comments

Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]

https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf

8 hours ago

109 upvotes – 5 comments

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/

6 hours ago

100 upvotes – 93 comments

Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase

https://www.neowin.net/news/system76-bans-ai-generated-code-across-many-of-its-cosmic-codebases/

8 hours ago

96 upvotes – 148 comments

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/reasons-not-emt-ranked/

5 hours ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict

8 hours ago

1 change
85 upvotes – 43 comments

Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States

https://medium.com/@carmitage/big-balls-now-exposed-to-serious-criminal-charges-in-at-least-six-states-ca865e1d6305

3 hours ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-says-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-is-deuded/

8 hours ago

2 changes
82 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace

https://offrun.dev/

17 hours ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-01-new-dashboard-experience-now-the-default/

16 hours ago

73 upvotes – 89 comments

US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwgkvygg5nzvo

12 hours ago

71 upvotes – 60 comments

Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble

https://gizmodo.com/hair-loss-was-just-the-start-ozempic-users-are-also-reporting-nail-trouble-2000820821

1 day ago

66 upvotes – 71 comments

Vx – One Language, Every Chip

https://vxlang.org/

8 hours ago

63 upvotes – 31 comments

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory

9 hours ago

62 upvotes – 46 comments

Our AI Midwife

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/our-ai-midwife

6 hours ago

61 upvotes – 54 comments

Why should I have to pay more for buses if I don't use a smartphone?

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/oct/02/why-should-i-have-to-pay-more-for-buses-if-i-dont-use-a-smartphone

18 hours ago

61 upvotes – 83 comments

Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models

https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1wwalmc/wtf_google_getting_rid_of_free_gemini_flash_and/

16 hours ago

57 upvotes – 50 comments

Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers

https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/2026/08/19/two-american-airlines-flights-end-up-with-same-flight-numbers-again/

7 hours ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence

https://casp.ac/reports/intelligence-explosion

19 hours ago

49 upvotes – 88 comments

An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why

https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-ai-agent-emailed-hundreds-researchers-help-it-told-us-why

16 hours ago

49 upvotes – 78 comments

NTSB Preliminary Report: Prime Air 767 Runway Overrun [pdf]

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA26MA352%20Prelim.pdf

1 day ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/02/anthropic-lobbied-pope-to-argue-ai-conscious-being/

6 hours ago

47 upvotes – 71 comments

Cloudflare opens more Enterprise-only features to all customers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/enterprise-for-all-update/

1 day ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments
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