We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
652 pts, 313 comments
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Top Hacker News Stories – October 4, 2026 (Summarized)
Recent top stories on Hacker News include a federal judge criticizing Flock for its "indiscriminate mass surveillance," highlighting ongoing concerns over privacy and government oversight. Additionally, the open-source project Kolibri has launched a sovereign open-weight model, garnering 39 points and 3 comments, signaling interest in AI transparency and control. Other notable stories include Valve's Timur Kristóf working on improving Linux support for older AMD GPUs, and discussions around gravitational physics in the game Hole Punch. The platform also features a personal story celebrating the 100th birthday of a kidney donor, alongside debates on budget caps and a verdict on the Rodin Museum 3D scan controversy.
A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
419 pts, 138 comments
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Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
224 pts, 155 comments
224 points · 155 comments · Add your take →
The cost of lies: A Mineserver story
187 pts, 91 comments
187 points · 91 comments · Add your take →
Religious scholars met with Anthropic
169 pts, 446 comments
169 points · 446 comments · Add your take →
Bill Draper has died
144 pts, 48 comments
144 points · 48 comments · Add your take →
Rust's derive often implies inline
120 pts, 33 comments
120 points · 33 comments · Add your take →
Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors
120 pts, 129 comments
120 points · 129 comments · Add your take →
Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales
112 pts, 96 comments
112 points · 96 comments · Add your take →
AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens
84 pts, 31 comments
84 points · 31 comments · Add your take →
The evolution of effective altruism
81 pts, 259 comments
81 points · 259 comments · Add your take →
Blindsight (Watts Novel)
80 pts, 184 comments
80 points · 184 comments · Add your take →
Incentives in Academic Research
64 pts, 77 comments
64 points · 77 comments · Add your take →
Gallery of Processor Cache Effects (2010)
53 pts, 5 comments
53 points · 5 comments · Add your take →
"Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
46 pts, 105 comments
46 points · 105 comments · Add your take →
Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024)
35 points · 32 comments · Add your take →
I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around
32 points · 31 comments · Add your take →
Protest against housing crisis in Spain
32 points · 60 comments · Add your take →
The Legend of the Paper Crane
31 points · 12 comments · Add your take →
RuneScape's Position on Gen AI
28 points · 72 comments · Add your take →
AI can clone your indie game, but not its soul
24 points · 21 comments · Add your take →
Russian strategy of war crimes escalation in Ukraine (winter 2026/2027)
21 points · 4 comments · Add your take →
AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war
19 points · 13 comments · Add your take →
The Auditor's Opinion
18 points · 16 comments · Add your take →
Arcadeia – A self-hosted media library with animated video previews
17 points · 6 comments · Add your take →
Robert X Cringley's Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.0.1 [video]
17 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop
13 points · 3 comments · Add your take →
Teenager suspected of leading KillSec ransomware group
13 points · 2 comments · Add your take →
The complement of true is true, except when it's false
12 points · 28 comments · Add your take →
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
12 points · 1 comments · Add your take →
How a Boeing 737 MAX Survived a Nosedive Traveling at the Speed of Sound
12 points · 7 comments · Add your take →
Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi isn't running at night, and Lidar is the answer
12 points · 3 comments · Add your take →
"No Vendor Lock-In" Is Code for "No Product"
12 points · 21 comments · Add your take →
Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers hacks
12 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Fundamentals of circadian entrainment by light (2021)
12 points · 1 comments · Add your take →
Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable
11 points · 2 comments · Add your take →
Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system
11 points · 5 comments · Add your take →
Canada, EU plan to link next-gen payment systems
10 points · 2 comments · Add your take →
Improving and Stabilizing the Racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD
9 points · 11 comments · Add your take →
How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
9 points · 9 comments · Add your take →
What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit
9 points · 20 comments · Add your take →
Why don't more developers "use the platform"?
9 points · 370 comments · Add your take →
Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill
8 points · 42 comments · Add your take →
Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool
8 points · 559 comments · Add your take →
China's space plane appears to have released a mystery object in orbit
8 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
I'm Calling for a Pause in the Development of the Universal Bone Dissolver
8 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Iran is going after America's debt it's targeting the $40T America owes
8 points · 11 comments · Add your take →
Mosquitoes Are a Choice
8 points · 241 comments · Add your take →
Iran says it seized US underwater vehicle conducting 'espionage'
8 points · 1 comments · Add your take →
Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China
7 points · 1 comments · Add your take →
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