Hacker News Daily — October 3, 2026

25 stories · October 3, 2026

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In this issue

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

newgrounds.com · 420 points · Discussion

Ninjaxbr just joined the crew! We need you on the team, too. Support Newgrounds and get tons of perks! Oct 01 – Oct 31 - Evil Doer Inktober Prompts Oct 01 – Oct 31 - Analogtober Audio Challenge Oct 10…
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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

aleph-alpha.com · 405 points · Discussion

https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri
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Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

blog.cloudflare.com · 177 points · Discussion

Today, end users carry too much of the burden of online privacy. To avoid third-party trackers or targeted ads, users are instructed to use a VPN, disable cookies, or install adblockers.…
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ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

cambridge.org · 175 points · Discussion

Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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FTL: A new operating system for clouds

ftl-os.org · 123 points · Discussion

https://github.com/nuta/ftl
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C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler

github.com · 119 points · Discussion

Contents What Why Building Usage Get Involved Support What C++ Insights is a Clang -based tool that does a source-to-source transformation. The goal of C++ Insights is to make things visible that…
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Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

notoriousbfg.com · 110 points · Discussion

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Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

darbiansphotography.com · 109 points · Discussion

 Feel free to follow me on the social media below and add your email to the box for notifications of new posts on here. Woking Electrical Control Room: External Woking Electrical Control Room:…
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Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]

aleph-alpha.com · 101 points · Discussion

Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

whec.com · 73 points · Discussion

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Webster man is celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney his mom donated to him as a teenager.  In March 1978, surgeons at Strong Hospital transplanted a kidney into…
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Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux

againstallodds.games · 51 points · Discussion

(Edit: original URL was https://againstallodds.games/, but we've switched it to https://againstallodds.games/blog/2026/10/03/our-risc-v-emul... in response to user requests for explanation.) We're a…
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Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

pipod.dev · 45 points · Discussion

pi pod runs sessions of the pi coding agent in isolated sandboxes ("pods") on a server you run, in composable environments. ---- Since moving my company towards AI-native work, I have been really…
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Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code

claude.dev · 44 points · Discussion

Opus 5.5 works well with the way you already use Claude. A few things behave differently, though: it works for longer on its own, it tells you plainly what it did, and it thinks before every reply.…
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Vx – One Language, Every Chip

vxlang.org · 34 points · Discussion

Vx is a systems programming language for heterogeneous computing. CPU, GPU, NPU and accelerator memory are part of the type system — so a host thread dereferencing a device pointer is a compile error,…
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Holes (1996-2025)

plato.stanford.edu · 34 points · Discussion

Holes are an interesting case study for ontologists and epistemologists. On the one hand, naive descriptions of the world treat holes as objects of reference and quantification, on a par with ordinary…
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Our AI Midwife

astralcodexten.com · 34 points · Discussion

This is a guest post by Drew Housman, whose review of Dominion earned finalist status in the 2024 ACX book review contest. If you are unsuccessful for long enough on your pregnancy journey, and none…
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We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

blog.cloudflare.com · 32 points · Discussion

GitHub was built for a world where humans write code, organize it into repositories, and collaborate through branches, commits, issues, and pull requests. But the next generation of software is going…
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Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers

aviationa2z.com · 30 points · Discussion

WASHINGTON, D.C.- American Airlines (AA) has experienced another unusual air traffic control communications issue after two American Eagle flights with the same callsign operated simultaneously…
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Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos

nature.com · 29 points · Discussion

Introduction Since Gallup’s pioneering study of chimpanzees 1 and Amsterdam’s later adaptation for children 2, the mirror self-recognition (MSR) test has been widely regarded as the primary method for…
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MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today

red5.net · 27 points · Discussion

One thing I’ve learned over the years building streaming infrastructure is that new video streaming protocols do not succeed just because they are technically better. They succeed when they solve real…
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Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being

telegraph.co.uk · 23 points · Discussion

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Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent

github.com · 18 points · Discussion

My friend and I have worked at a number of BI companies and thought: Can’t a coding agent do most of this now? Almost. They just need a context/semantic layer to ensure query correctness and some kind…
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RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)

kevincox.ca · 15 points · Discussion

RSS Feed Best Practices Posted on 2022-05-06 Last updated on 2024-03-13 These are some technical tips for publishing a blog. These have nothing to do with good content, just how to share that content.…
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At the Conformation Show: Chasing the Ideal Dog

theparisreview.org · 3 points · Discussion

All photographs courtesy of Hannah Berger. The Meadow Event Park in Doswell, Virginia, lies on a few hundred acres of flat land abutted by farms and an amusement park called Kings Dominion. It’s the…
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RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com · Discussion

We are RetailReady (YC W24) - an AI-powered supply chain compliance engine. We’ve raised $6.6M in funding, onboarded over 50 customers, and in the past 12 months we’ve 4x’d our revenue. We are…