Hacker News top 30 - 2026-10-04
- Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died news.ycombinator.com - 103 comments 511 points
- We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything simonwillison.net - 229 comments 465 points
- Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’ techcrunch.com - 242 comments 437 points
- The work by Valve’s Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux www.phoronix.com - 51 comments 318 points
- Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields notoriousbfg.com - 68 comments 303 points
- I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken www.theatlantic.com - 509 comments 265 points
- OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’ www.theguardian.com - 3 comments 263 points
- Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code claude.dev - 152 comments 221 points
- ADHD, autism or complex trauma? - pdf www.cambridge.org - 251 comments 218 points
- Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict cosmowenman.substack.com - 94 comments 215 points
- Agents don’t need memory, they need documentation liao.gg - 111 comments 209 points
- FTL: A new operating system for clouds ftl-os.org - 68 comments 178 points
- LeCun has “zero concerns” about AI wiping out humanity, recent “rogue” incidents fortune.com - 234 comments 169 points
- Why don’t more developers “use the platform”? nolanlawson.com - 133 comments 162 points
- Reasons I didn’t become an EMT, ranked ben.stolovitz.com - 78 comments 161 points
- The Escalation of War in Ethiopia www.africanistperspective.com - 158 comments 151 points
- We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare blog.cloudflare.com - 125 comments 142 points
- City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 www.radical-elements.com - 136 comments 140 points
- Kolibri – Tech Report - pdf aleph-alpha.com - 5 comments 109 points
- Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase www.neowin.net - 156 comments 106 points
- In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia’s assaults energytransition.org - 81 comments 99 points
- Religious scholars met with Anthropic www.nytimes.com - 206 comments 88 points
- Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States medium.com - 17 comments 88 points
- Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? sjg.io - 43 comments 87 points
- We’re working on a new RuneScape MMO play.runescape.com - 33 comments 85 points
- Apple’s “Clean Design” Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers www.gadgetreview.com - 30 comments 74 points
- US killer’s sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court www.bbc.com - 60 comments 71 points
- Vx – One Language, Every Chip vxlang.org - 48 comments 69 points
- Our AI Midwife www.astralcodexten.com - 61 comments 63 points
- Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers aviationa2z.com - 34 comments 60 points
October 4, 2026 ∙