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2026-07-18 @ 19:38:21Points: 22Comments: 10
REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
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Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
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The Kimi K3 Moment
2026-07-18 @ 17:32:40Points: 167Comments: 149
Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds
2026-07-18 @ 17:27:24Points: 141Comments: 142
Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
2026-07-18 @ 16:12:08Points: 130Comments: 87
Fake food delivery site for the dopamine
2026-07-18 @ 16:08:38Points: 75Comments: 34
Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind
2026-07-18 @ 16:02:45Points: 46Comments: 21
Gleam Is Now on Tangled
2026-07-18 @ 15:44:04Points: 146Comments: 90
The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding
2026-07-18 @ 15:38:36Points: 25Comments: 31
If You Build It, They Will Come
2026-07-18 @ 15:37:01Points: 137Comments: 45
Elixir-lang.org has a new design
2026-07-18 @ 15:32:04Points: 124Comments: 77
Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser
2026-07-18 @ 15:12:40Points: 44Comments: 10
EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
2026-07-18 @ 14:04:42Points: 240Comments: 229
GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
2026-07-18 @ 13:00:52Points: 432Comments: 264
What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
2026-07-18 @ 11:12:46Points: 327Comments: 378
Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?
2026-07-18 @ 11:00:29Points: 185Comments: 90
LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
2026-07-18 @ 10:21:19Points: 863Comments: 436
Qubes OS Security in the Public Record
2026-07-18 @ 08:50:07Points: 69Comments: 9
The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal
2026-07-18 @ 08:33:31Points: 122Comments: 29
Regressive JPEGs
2026-07-18 @ 03:14:20Points: 613Comments: 62
Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home
2026-07-17 @ 20:10:02Points: 48Comments: 8
The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
2026-07-17 @ 19:41:02Points: 267Comments: 105
Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
2026-07-17 @ 16:57:27Points: 780Comments: 99
My cofounders and I did YC all the way back in the Summer of 2010, with the initial idea of building "OkCupid for jobs." That idea quickly fizzled, and we spent the better part of a year pivoting between other ideas that also failed.
Finally, we made something that we wanted ourselves: a self-directed programming retreat, where people built fun projects, contributed to open source, and helped each other become better programmers.
After running two small batches, we launched on HN[1] and got an incredible reception.
That post on HN helped us reach beyond our personal networks and meet programmers from around the world, many of whom have since become friends. HN brought us the majority of people who came to our next few batches, and in the years since, HN has remained our #2 source of applicants (after word of mouth).
Alas, pg's comment[2] on HN when we launched turned out to be prescient: Running free programming retreats isn't a billion-dollar business, but it's still a worthwhile thing to do, and has positively impacted over 3,000 people so far. And 15 years on I still wake up every day excited to keep working on it.
So, thanks HN, for helping make the Recurse Center possible, and for helping me find my life's work.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3435183
[2] "This sounds like a crazy plan for a startup, I realize, but this is the right sort of crazy. In fact, the way the Hackruiters think about Hacker School is a lot like the way we initially thought about YC: if it doesn't make money, it will at least have been a benevolent thing to do."