Jane Goodall has died(latimes.com)
1188 points by jaredwiener | 161 comments
Los Angeles Times obituary reporting that primatologist Jane Goodall, known for her chimpanzee research, has died at 91.
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Show HN: Autism Simulator(autism-simulator.vercel.app)
719 points by joshcsimmons | 804 comments
A browser-based interactive simulator game showing what autistic masking, decision fatigue, and burnout can feel like through choices and stats.
Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP(support.google.com)
582 points by sumanep | 324 comments
Gmail Help Center article announcing that starting January 2026 Gmail will drop support for Gmailify and fetching third-party email via POP.
Don't avoid workplace politics(terriblesoftware.org)
469 points by matheusml | 245 comments
A Terrible Software blog post arguing that engineers should engage in, rather than avoid, workplace politics.
Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)
392 points by nee1r | 267 comments
Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.
Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing(alephic.com)
377 points by noahbrier | 197 comments
Blog post by Noah Brier on Alephic describing how Claude Code, combined with Obsidian's plain Markdown files and filesystem access, became his agentic operating system.
![Screenshot of db.cs.cmu.edu: F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/10/2/31749d51-afe4-455e-b01b-88af39f20fa8.jpg)
F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf](db.cs.cmu.edu)
366 points by eatonphil | 117 comments
SIGMOD 2025 paper presenting F3, a next-generation open-source columnar data file format that embeds WebAssembly decoders for extensibility and interoperability.
CDC File Transfer(github.com)
354 points by GalaxySnail | 94 comments
Archived GitHub repository for Google's CDC File Transfer, tools for syncing and streaming files from Windows to Linux using content-defined chunking.
I only use Google Sheets(mayberay.bearblog.dev)
313 points by mugamuga | 310 comments
The Beer Can (2023)(brr.fyi)
278 points by Michelangelo11 | 50 comments
Our efforts, in part, define us(weakty.com)
264 points by todsacerdoti | 184 comments
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)
214 points by whoishiring | 293 comments
![Screenshot of cs.cornell.edu: Type Theory and Functional Programming (1999) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/10/1/d230b483-e079-4cd0-a35f-4c9438242320.jpg)
Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects(codeberg.org)
165 points by welovebunnies | 57 comments
Systems Programming with Zig(manning.com)
161 points by signa11 | 102 comments
The Company Man(lesswrong.com)
157 points by surprisetalk | 59 comments
The gaslit asset class(blog.dshr.org)
134 points by zdw | 96 comments
Announcing Tinker(thinkingmachines.ai)
120 points by pr337h4m | 65 comments
Cursor 1.7(cursor.com)
116 points by mustaphah | 112 comments
Minimal files and config for a PWA(github.com)
116 points by rcarmo | 18 comments
Leveling Up My Homelab(cweagans.net)
81 points by cweagans | 38 comments
