Thomas Selfridge: The First Airplane Fatality
On the evening of 17 September 1908, a young American officer named Thomas Selfridge climbed into a fragile wooden aircraft at Fort Myer, Virginia. Minutes later, he would become the first person in history to die in the crash of a powered airplane. The machine was a Wright Flyer, designed and flown by Orville Wright, […]
Things I’ve Done with AI
Mon, Mar 9, 2026 | View comments on Hacker News I started programming in middle school. The first thing I remember writing is HTML for my neopets homepage. That morphed into writing static sites for Minecraft servers, and later on Java plugins for Minecraft. Programming is so fun. I took it on as a hobby […]
A New Chapter for Bluesky
After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I’ve decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer. In 2019, I set out to build an open protocol for social media, with the goal of enabling the development of a new generation of […]
Show HN: The Mog Programming Language
This guide requires JavaScript to display. What if an AI agent could modify itself quickly, easily, and safely? Mog is a programming language designed for exactly this. Overview Mog is a statically typed, compiled, embedded language (think statically typed Lua) designed to be written by LLMs – the full spec fits in 3200 tokens. An […]
Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
STUART, Fla. (CBS12) — A Broward County judge has dismissed a red-light camera ticket, ruling that the state law used to issue the citation improperly shifts the burden of proof onto vehicle owners. In a 21-page order signed March 3, Judge Steven P. DeLuca granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a photo-enforced traffic citation issued […]
Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
Procedural medieval islands from 4,100 hex tiles, built with WebGPU and a lot of backtracking. Run the live demo · Source code on GitHub Every map is different. Every map is seeded and deterministic. I’ve been obsessed with procedural maps since I was a kid rolling dice on the random dungeon tables in the AD&D […]
DARPA’s new X-76 Experimental Plane
Eliminating one of the battlefield’s most difficult choices – between the high speed of an aircraft that needs a runway and the go-anywhere flexibility of a slower helicopter – is the goal of DARPA’s SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) program. Announcing DARPA’s Newest X-Plane, X-76 SPRINT’s experimental aircraft, officially revealed as the X-76, is […]
Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents
Hello Hacker News! We’re Filip, Stavros, and Vivek from Terminal Use (https://www.terminaluse.com/). We built Terminal Use to make it easier to deploy agents that work in a sandboxed environment and need filesystems to do work. This includes coding agents, research agents, document processing agents, and internal tools that read and write files. Here’s a demo: […]
Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and Nvram
Repairing a dead power supply and replacing the NVRAM in a vintage UNIX workstation. If you worked in computing in the early 90s, studied computer science around then, or just had a keen interest in computers, the chances are that Sun Microsystems was a familiar name and their workstations were highly coveted. At this time […]
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
March 9, 2026 Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month—released a new version. Version 7.0 is 48 times faster than its predecessor, supports multiple cores, and was redesigned from the ground up. Anthropic’s Claude is listed as a contributor. The […]