Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

Punch black holes in space and sling a ship home round them.

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

Writing code by hand is over, forever

After 18 years of writing code every day, I stopped. Our team is shipping more, bug reports haven't increased, and I'm wondering what programming could become next.

Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

pi pod runs your pi session in a cloud pod. pipod.dev

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.

Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

Thoreau BASIC 3.2 is a free 64-bit BASIC interpreter for Windows x64 and bootable x64 UEFI, with GW-BASIC-style syntax, native x64 JIT, multicore PARFOR, 24-bit graphics, sprites, networking, General MIDI/GS wavetable sound, MIDI, WAV, FLAC and Opus playback.

Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself

Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code

How to prompt Opus 5.5, steer a long run, and check your results in Claude apps and Claude Code.

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

The former Meta chief AI scientist shares his take on recent rogue AI incidents and effective altruism, as well as plans for his new company, AMI Labs.

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

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

Sometimes the law is not the law

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant. 

What Meta got right with Muse

Design matters more than ever in consumer AI, as long as you have money to play.

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critical work.

Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.

RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring

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 building world-class software that will disrupt an antiquated industry & we want you on board. What we’re doing here matters.  We’re tackling everyday challenges for real people in the supply chain – that’s the heart of every business. With us, you’ll see your work come to life in amazing ways. Imagine being a part of why Walmart can restock baby formula, helping a health & beauty brand go from startup to Target shelves, and empowering warehouse workers with the latest tech. That’s the impact you’ll have. This isn’t just another job offer - it’s an

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology

New York City should carefully measure a new tree

New York City's tallest carefully measured tree is the Queens Giant (according to Wikipedia). It was measured at 133.8 feet (40.8 m) tall and a 19-foot (5.8 m) circumference IN 2004!

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

Cloudflare is hosting a competition to see who will build the next Git platform for an era of AI agents. Artifacts is in open beta, with Workers bindings, data jurisdiction controls, and event subscriptions for repository changes.