10.4.26 | Bob Cringely obituary, budget caps for everything, Valve's Timur Kristóf improves AMD GPUs on Linux

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 4, 2026 · 12m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 4, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:16) - Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

(01:18) - We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

(02:42) - The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

(04:16) - Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

(05:08) - So you think you could be an electrician?

(06:25) - I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

(07:48) - Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan…