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Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America's Technology Long Game

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/260120_EST_Tech_Edge_0.pdf?Version...
1•hunglee2•3m ago•0 comments

Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
1•chartscout•5m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
2•AlexeyBrin•8m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
1•machielrey•10m ago•1 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
2•tablets•14m ago•0 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•19m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•19m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
2•billiob•20m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•25m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•31m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•32m ago•1 comments

Slop News - HN front page right now as AI slop

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•37m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•39m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
3•tosh•45m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
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Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•49m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
3•goranmoomin•53m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•54m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•55m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•58m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
4•myk-e•1h ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
5•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•1h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•1h ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•1h ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
2•lembergs•1h ago•2 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Stefan20162016/linux-insides-code/master/bootloader.asm
88•1vuio0pswjnm7•9mo ago

Comments

1vuio0pswjnm7•9mo ago
This is Bootloader ID #11 with comments

See:

http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de

https://docs.kernel.org/arch/x86/boot.html

not_your_vase•9mo ago

  > Blog nicht gefunden.
Ahhh, after looking harder, I see the typo

https://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.com/

watermelon0•9mo ago
.de redirects me to .com.

Maybe this is somehow geolocked in a weird way, to return not found error for you.

  > GET / HTTP/1.1
  > Host: sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de
  > User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
  > Accept: */*
  >
  * Request completely sent off
  < HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
  < Location: http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.com/
1vuio0pswjnm7•9mo ago
"On Blogger since November 2020."

https://www.blogger.com/profile/10975102234345772797

Blog post is dated 2012.

https://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.com/2012/07/1.html

This is what happens when Google acquires potential competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)

Unlikely that original Blogger service registered a "blogspot" domainname in myriad ccTLDs such as .de

Blogger was not a surveillance-based advertising company

not_your_vase•9mo ago
When I wrote the comment the top comment's link had a typo in it: https://sebastion-plotz.blogspot.de

Since then it was edited, and in a cash-money style there isn't any note about it.

secure•9mo ago
I use this bootloader in gokrazy and blogged about debugging a limitation in it a while ago: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2024-02-11-minimal-linux...
D4ckard•9mo ago
I love MBR hacking, it's so fun to see. Cf. sector lisp [1] and OSle [2].

[1]: https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866585

micw•9mo ago
Do I see it right that I need to recompile and reinstall it on each new kernel?
paulannesley•9mo ago
Yeah it looks like it needs to be assembled and written any time the kernel file's position on disk changes (`current_lba`), or different kernel cmdline is required.

I seem to remember having to do something similar with lilo… not hand-editing assembly, but running a command to rewrite the boot sector when the kernel moves on disk.

M95D•9mo ago
I don't see how this is better than lilo.
WalterGR•9mo ago
It’s not meant to be full-featured. It shows how to write a bootloader that’s smaller than 512 bytes.
6SixTy•9mo ago
It's not supposed to be better than lilo, just code golf. Limine is pretty much the only serious bootloader gunning for the spot lilo/elilo was going for.
6SixTy•9mo ago
Kind of cool, but being exclusively for BIOS/MBR kind of kills my excitement.
seba_dos1•9mo ago
With EFI, you can just boot straight into Linux without any bootloader.
NewJazz•9mo ago
Technically there's a pe shim, no?
cyberax•9mo ago
You can just package Linux as a PE executable.
NewJazz•9mo ago
I guess my point was that the package was in a way a very minimal bootloader. Equivocal, easily.
seba_dos1•9mo ago
Part of Linux: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/efi-stub....
nine_k•9mo ago
Yes. BIOS. Real mode. Not that I've been missing them these 30 years, and they are still in place. It gives a weird feeling.

I mean, if you target ancient baroque hardware like e.g. ZX Spectrum, you specifically target an ancient machine. But this is expected to work on any modern x86 hardware, while it feels like code for a 80286, and likely would run there. And this ancient stuff is still supported and actively used.

musicale•9mo ago
> this ancient stuff is still supported and actively used.

It sort of warms my heart that code for the IBM 360 (now IBM Z) and the IBM PC (now x86 PC) can still run on modern hardware decades later.

On one hand, we're stuck with the legacy of the past. But on the other hand, we can build on things and don't need to reinvent them unnecessarily.

msla•9mo ago
How much emulation is required to get System/360 code running on a modern IBM mainframe? Can the CPUs still run the original 32-bit code? Do CCWs and whatever other peripheral code still work?
zokier•9mo ago
Intels X86S proposal[1] gives perspective on this. Both in how there would be reasons to get rid of legacy, and how yet it still got shot down pretty quickly[2]. It's unfortunate that I don't think we ever got more explanation on it's termination, where did the opposition come from

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36013257

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42468664

msla•9mo ago
Did you reply to the wrong person?
musicale•9mo ago
Apparently user code can still run:

"z/Architecture retains backward compatibility with previous 32-bit-data/31-bit-addressing architecture ESA/390 and its predecessors back to the 32-bit-data/24-bit-addressing System/360."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture

raxxorraxor•9mo ago
> Yes. BIOS. Real mode.

  ; 0x20000 - 0x2fdff temporal space to load ; size: 63.5Kb is the max.
wasn't there an inofficial unreal mode that increased the adressable space? Otherwise there aren't too many options as to stay minimal in the first place.
gitroom•9mo ago
yeah im always low key impressed this old boot stuff still works now - makes messing with it feel kinda worth it
1vuio0pswjnm7•9mo ago
HN has added "(2018)" to the title but the source for this bootloader was originally uploaded to Google six years earlier in 2012. The version uploaded to Github in 2018 added comments.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130516162543if_/http://sebasti...