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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(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 verdict

(09:11) - Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

(10:30) - Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

(11:47) - FTL: A new operating system for clouds

(12:54) - Outro

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949438We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949235 The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946895 Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946393 So you think you could be an electrician? https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910462 I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_UzUTothfWXsPxtvNVAh7esWToMRD6XnbXmc5WgA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944227 Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946355 Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager https://www.whec.com/top-news/webster-man-celebrating-the-100th-birthday-of-the-kidney-his-mom-donated-to-him-as-a-teenager/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923873 Agents don't need memory, they need documentation https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945933 FTL: A new operating system for clouds https://ftl-os.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944912