Hacker News Daily — October 4, 2026
30 stories · October 4, 2026
In this issue
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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
763 points · Discussion
I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who's real name was Mark Stevens, was an early employee of Apple and was best known for his…
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Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
github.com · 474 points · Discussion
English · 简体中文 · 日本語 · Deutsch · Français · Español · Português Run a 125-billion-parameter AI model on your own gaming PC NVIDIA or AMD graphics card (12 GB or more) · Windows or Linux · free and…
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The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
phoronix.com · 441 points · Discussion
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade…
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LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
fortune.com · 356 points · Discussion
https://archive.ph/TyDPf
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Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
liao.gg · 324 points · Discussion
A memory plugin analyzes your conversations. It generates 1,000 isolated snippets and inserts them into a vector database. With your every prompt, it attaches the five most similar snippets; if the…
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Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
nolanlawson.com · 260 points · Discussion
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those advocates. The argument is simple: why build…
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Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash
niklasroy.com · 143 points · Discussion
This is a functional 30-minute pendulum clock entirely from discarded materials—cardboard, zip ties, tape, a yardstick, and a paperclip escapement, built in the German Eldorado of precision…
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What is going on with ceiling fans
mcmansionhell.com · 142 points · Discussion
Sometimes new design phenomena slip past even those of us who are most in tune with the happenings of the built environment. Such is the case with whatever the hell is going on with commercial ceiling…
- 9
A map of every lighthouse
mapped.earth · 127 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
sjg.io · 120 points · Discussion
Home Assistant already knows which bins (trash cans, for the international readers) are due for collection. It can tell me it’s bin night, put the right colours on a dashboard, and send me a reminder.…
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Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS
github.com · 120 points · Discussion
SCM — Screen Memories Deep AI search for every photo and every frame of video in any folder on macOS. Local-first — no accounts, no cloud, no uploads. Inference runs on your Mac. What makes it…
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Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast
github.com · 110 points · Discussion
Start dependent crates before their dependencies finish type-checking. Every crate waits for the crates it depends on to be fully checked, function bodies included, before it starts. It doesn't need…
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Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool
github.com · 99 points · Discussion
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and remove its downloaded models. macOS 27 no longer has a single switch for Apple Intelligence, and its models stay on disk after the features are turned off.…
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Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
1011now.com · 81 points · Discussion
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska data centers are required to turn in an annual report to Nebraska’s Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, but some state statutes are preventing the public from…
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cp: -r or -R?
movq.de · 66 points · Discussion
blog - git - desktop - contact 2026-09-30 A question like this recently came up again. I once tried to find an answer, but only posted it in some "forum" a decade ago, and I think it's worth saving…
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The Heilbronn Problem
math.tejstead.com · 57 points · Discussion
Place n points in a unit-area region such that the smallest triangle determined by any three points achieves the largest possible area, A(n). This site collects the best known configurations across…
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Results from the ASIC puzzle
blog.janestreet.com · 51 points · Discussion
In August, we published a puzzle that handed you the final GDS layout of a small chip and asked you to work out what it did. We supplied the physical layout, but not a netlist or internal signal…
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Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
shannadige.com · 42 points · Discussion
View the experience darkroom.shannadige.com I love photography. There is a special feeling to seeing an image through a lens, organizing it to compose a story, and working with the resulting photo. I…
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'Neanderthals Among Us' review
historytoday.com · 39 points · Discussion
I n 1856 quarrymen digging in a cave in the Neander Valley in west Germany came upon the bones of what they assumed to be an old cave bear. Realising it was, in fact, a strange human with a shallow,…
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How effective altruism conquered the world (and might yet end it)
economist.com · 33 points · Discussion
https://archive.ph/3gSCc
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A Minsky machine in ncurses terminfo
seriot.ch · 27 points · Discussion
ncurses terminfo can simulate a two-counter Minsky machine, making repeated parameter expansion computationally universal
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How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]
youtube.com · 19 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Homa: The End of TCP for AI Clusters [video]
youtube.com · 14 points · Discussion
Related: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/10/01/stanford-pro...
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Incentives in Academic Research
msoos.org · 12 points · Discussion
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979) Charlie Munger said: “Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome”. The issue with Academic Research, in my opinion, is that the outcomes have drifted very…
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Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting
birdshistory.com · 11 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Page Table Memory Consumption
frn.sh · 11 points · Discussion
The other day I was reading Linus Torvalds punch some people over hashed page tables. His argument: in a tree, the entries of neighboring pages are adjacent, which means one cache-line fills several…
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I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around
island-three.gruberbuilds.workers.dev · 10 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws
scimigo.com · 9 points · Discussion
Hi HN, I built this because I watched my daughter struggle at learning Python. I made something that runs only in the browser with visuals rather than relying on CLI/terminal output. No need to worry…
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Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed
fog-bank.org · 9 points · Discussion
See also https://hackaday.com/2026/10/01/archiving-the-worlds-oldest-...