Mastodawn

Hacker News 300 points 31m ago

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining: https://si.inc/posts/the-heap/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438496

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining

How we spent under half a million dollars to build a 30 petabyte data storage cluster in downtown San Francisco

blog

Hacker News 300 points 6h ago

Don't avoid workplace politics: https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/stop-avoiding-politics/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440571

Stop Avoiding Politics

Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.

Terrible Software

Hacker News 300 points 7h ago

I only use Google Sheets: https://mayberay.bearblog.dev/why-i-only-use-google-sheets/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435463

Why I only use Google sheets

To cut things short, always use the easiest solution to solve a particular problem and once that solution does not work for the business anymore reassess wha...

Maybe-Ray

Hacker News 300 points 9h ago

Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-has-started-working-on-a-737-max-replacement-40a110df

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428482

Hacker News 300 points 12h ago

Jane Goodall has died: https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-10-01/jane-goodall-chimpanzees-dead

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441069

Jane Goodall dead: Trailblazing naturalist studied chimpanzees

Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91.

Los Angeles Times

Hacker News 300 points 12h ago

Show HN: Autism Simulator: https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438346

Autism Simulator - Workplace Experience Simulation

Experience the workplace through the lens of a high-masking autistic professional. An educational simulation exploring sensory overload, social navigation, and burnout in corporate environments.

Autism Simulator

Hacker News 300 points 17h ago

Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14173685

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427197

iPad17,3 - Geekbench

Benchmark results for an iPad17,3 with an ARM processor.

Hacker News 300 points 17h ago

CDC File Transfer: https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433768

GitHub - google/cdc-file-transfer: Tools for synching and streaming files from Windows to Linux

Tools for synching and streaming files from Windows to Linux - google/cdc-file-transfer

GitHub

Hacker News 300 points 1d ago

Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115228/image-site-imgur-pulls-out

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888

Image site Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

A popular image hosting website has stopped its services in the UK after regulators threatened a fine.

Express.co.uk

Hacker News 300 points 1d ago

Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol: https://www.empirical.health/blog/inflammation-and-heart-health/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430498

Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol

The American College of Cardiology now recommends everybody measure their hs-CRP.

Empirical Health