Hackernews posts about Wild Ball

1. A giant ball will help this man survive a year on an iceberg (www.outsideonline.com)
   55 points by areoform 19 days ago | 52 comments
2. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121
   21 points by daitandojo 2 days ago | 6 comments
3. US Fed will start buying Treasury bills to manage market liquidity (www.reuters.com)
   37 points by nimbius 22 days ago | 14 comments
4. YouTube Will Stop Submitting Data to U.S. Billboard Charts in 2026 (variety.com)
   23 points by misterspaceman 11 days ago | 2 comments
5. New Texas Instruments $60B fab will pump out tens of millions chips per day (www.tomshardware.com)
   13 points by rbanffy 13 days ago | 3 comments
6. Show HN: Bill My Cloud, a simple no-nonsense AWS cost estimator (billmycloud.org)
   7 points by loanjoe 1 day ago | discuss
7. Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn) (github.com)
   373 points by misterchocolat 16 days ago | 277 comments
8. Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents (www.trynia.ai)
   131 points by jellyotsiro 24 days ago | 87 comments
9. My contribution to the idea that we lived in a simulation
   3 points by Gardinengleiter 14 days ago | 7 comments
10. Ask HN: What does it take to dodge the cloud?
    3 points by zwnow 24 days ago | 7 comments
11. Show HN: I made a HumanLayer-clone Claude Code plugin (billlyzhaoyh.github.io)
    1 points by yz494 19 days ago | 2 comments
12. Building an AI cost-optimizer and AI Slop Prevention tool Looking for feedback."
    1 points by mdzakki 21 days ago | 2 comments
13. US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified (arstechnica.com)
    612 points by rbanffy 10 days ago | 520 comments
14. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (dl.acm.org)
    2031 points by Kerrick 14 days ago | 239 comments
15. Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features (mastodon.social)
    586 points by twapi 14 days ago | 546 comments
16. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    136 points by scapbi 11 days ago | 67 comments
17. The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn't Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat (paulallies.medium.com)
    37 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 5 comments
18. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
    24 points by funnyfoobar 6 days ago | 39 comments
19. Mamdani Will Be Sworn in at Abandoned Subway Station Beneath City Hall (www.nytimes.com)
    23 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 2 comments
20. Show HN: Allscreenshots – a developer focused screenshot as a service API (allscreenshots.com)
    3 points by erikpau about 11 hours ago | discuss
21. Ask HN: By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer?
    33 points by nomilk 5 days ago | 90 comments
22. Happy New Year
    4 points by DenisDolya 1 day ago | 2 comments
23. Ask HN: A self populating task list
    3 points by Vishal19111999 about 8 hours ago | 4 comments
24. Axion One OS
    2 points by yigrem 1 day ago | discuss
25. Ask HN: How are you using Nvidia cards on Linux with its VRAM issues?
    1 points by nickjj 2 days ago | 4 comments
26. Need for 'Untagged' Label in Keep Notes
    1 points by mil10akash about 11 hours ago | discuss
27. Wild Ball (r3f-drei-rapier.surge.sh)
    55 points by mohabnasser about 1 year ago | 37 comments
28. Show HN: Debunking Election Fraud Claims – Interactive Data Viz and Simulations (sullivan.zip)
    8 points by hannasanarion 5 months ago | 4 comments
29. Show HN: Sics-Ground – An Open Source Physics Sandbox with Real-Time Effects
    2 points by magi-clip 7 months ago | discuss
30. Chinese student faces criminal charges for voting in Michigan. Ballot will count (www.detroitnews.com)
    10 points by koolba about 1 year ago | 21 comments
31. Balloons will surf wind currents to track wildfires (www.technologyreview.com)
    4 points by billybuckwheat over 1 year ago | discuss
32. Oakland AIs? The Ballers will be first professional sports team managed by AI (www.nytimes.com)
    2 points by t23 4 months ago | 1 comments
33. Wild billboards call attention to free-loading off open source projects (sf.gazetteer.co)
    2 points by klooney about 1 year ago | 1 comments
34. The U.S. Is Selling Its Helium. Will Balloons and M.R.I.s Be OK? (www.nytimes.com)
    2 points by bookofjoe almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
35. Oakland AIs? The Ballers will be first professional sports team managed by AI (www.nytimes.com)
    1 points by ceejayoz 4 months ago | 1 comments
36. Billboards in SF call attention to tech companies free-loading off open source (sf.gazetteer.co)
    38 points by coloneltcb about 1 year ago | 13 comments
37. An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone's Ballots to Combat Mistrust (www.nytimes.com)
    9 points by pcl about 1 year ago | 15 comments
38. An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone's Ballots (www.nytimes.com)
    8 points by aiz0Houp about 1 year ago | 2 comments
39. North Korea will stop sending trash balloons as South Korea vows retaliation (apnews.com)
    2 points by theogravity over 1 year ago | discuss
40. Show HN: Balloonist – Balloon inspection drawings and extract features (QC Tool) (balloonist.io)
    1 points by SeaMetal over 1 year ago | discuss
41. Two billionaires have different – and wild – visions of a future in space (www.cnn.com)
    3 points by Kaibeezy 4 months ago | discuss
42. Show HN: Gravity ball, a free Playdate game
    2 points by adibalcan over 1 year ago | discuss
43. Ask HN: Is YC entangled with Trump’s rich supporters?
    26 points by stonethrowaway over 1 year ago | 21 comments
44. Show HN: Freeze Trap (deepanwadhwa.github.io)
    5 points by dwa3592 4 months ago | 3 comments
45. Ted Cruz AI bill could let firms bribe Trump to avoid safety laws, critics warn (arstechnica.com)
    11 points by barbazoo 4 months ago | 3 comments
46. Private Equity's $24B Walgreens Bid Is Wild (www.bloomberg.com)
    5 points by petethomas 10 months ago | 2 comments
47. AI Pushes Wild-West-Era Texas Landowner to $40B Valuation (news.bloomberglaw.com)
    4 points by cpgonzalez about 1 year ago | discuss
48. Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
    365 points by tndl over 1 year ago | 172 comments
49. Show HN: A high-altitude low-power flight computer for high-altitude balloons (github.com)
    42 points by mpkendall 5 months ago | 22 comments
50. Unauthenticated, RCE vulnerability in Palo Alto firewalls, exploits in the wild (security.paloaltonetworks.com)
    38 points by billyhoffman over 1 year ago | 1 comments
51. Ask HN: Are weather balloons going to be replaced by weather satellites?
    7 points by tndl over 1 year ago | 3 comments
52. Show HN: Bite Ballot – Vote on where to eat (www.biteballot.app)
    5 points by domokato over 1 year ago | 2 comments
53. I've spent 4 months and $800/mo AI bill on Cursor, Claude Code. Later is better?
    3 points by ianberdin 5 months ago | discuss
54. Determinism, Free Will, and Computational Irreducibility
    3 points by qarl 9 months ago | discuss
55. Bill Gates Traumatized His Parents–and Other Stories of a Wild, Wonky Youth (www.wired.com)
    3 points by headalgorithm 11 months ago | discuss
56. What if, the scouter from Dragon ball, or aiming HUD from Halo, come true?
    1 points by sprhawk 7 months ago | 3 comments