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The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
1•dhruv3006•40s ago•0 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
1•mariuz•53s ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
1•RyanMu•4m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
1•ravenical•7m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
1•rcarmo•8m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
1•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
1•andsoitis•9m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•10m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•12m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•13m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•15m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•16m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•16m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•16m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•18m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•26m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
2•zdw•26m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
37•bookofjoe•27m ago•12 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•27m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•29m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•30m ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
1•thelok•30m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•30m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/the_calculator-on-a-chip.html
47•Bogdanp•7mo ago

Comments

classichasclass•7mo ago
Commodore infamously used TI chips in their calculators too, leading to the situation where Jack Tramiel was getting massively undercut by TI using the same chips in their own TI calculators for less. Buying the ailing MOS Technology gave him the vertical integration he wanted and enabled him to force TI out of the home computer market only a few years later. Revenge is such a dirty word.
Dwedit•7mo ago
Now we just need that one cool article about the Sinclair Scientific Calculator. It was a scientific calculator that was made to run on an underpowered chip intended for regular four-function calculators.
kens•7mo ago
How about https://static.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_sim...
mek6800d2•7mo ago
I came to post the same link earlier. My mind is kind of slow these days and it wasn't until a few hours later that I made the connection with your username. I am not worthy!!! --a long-time reader
mek6800d2•7mo ago
@kens beat me to it-I too was going to suggest Ken Shirriff's "Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack". The page has a Sinclair Scientific emulator that displays the running, underlying calculator chip instructions.

I bought the Sinclair Scientific in 1974 for a physics lab class in college. It was much less expensive than the TI and HP scientific calculators of the time, but it was painful to use in the lab class. I subsequently changed majors, so I only had to bear with it that first year, but, all these years later, I'm still in awe of what Sinclair achieved with it though!