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Ask HN: Do we need "metadata in source code" syntax that LLMs will never delete?

1•andrewstuart•4m ago•1 comments

Pentagon cutting ties w/ "woke" Harvard, ending military training & fellowships

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-says-its-cutting-ties-with-woke-harvard-discontinuing-milit...
2•alephnerd•7m ago•1 comments

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? [pdf]

https://cds.cern.ch/record/405662/files/PhysRev.47.777.pdf
1•northlondoner•7m ago•1 comments

Kessler Syndrome Has Started [video]

https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge/video/7602634355160206623
1•pbradv•10m ago•0 comments

Complex Heterodynes Explained

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/02/07/Complex-Heterodyne.html
3•hasheddan•11m ago•0 comments

EVs Are a Failed Experiment

https://spectator.org/evs-are-a-failed-experiment/
2•ArtemZ•22m ago•3 comments

MemAlign: Building Better LLM Judges from Human Feedback with Scalable Memory

https://www.databricks.com/blog/memalign-building-better-llm-judges-human-feedback-scalable-memory
1•superchink•23m ago•0 comments

CCC (Claude's C Compiler) on Compiler Explorer

https://godbolt.org/z/asjc13sa6
2•LiamPowell•25m ago•0 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
3•duxup•27m ago•0 comments

Actors with Tokio (2021)

https://ryhl.io/blog/actors-with-tokio/
1•vinhnx•29m ago•0 comments

Can graph neural networks for biology realistically run on edge devices?

https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8645211/v1
1•swapinvidya•41m ago•1 comments

Deeper into the shareing of one air conditioner for 2 rooms

1•ozzysnaps•43m ago•0 comments

Weatherman introduces fruit-based authentication system to combat deep fakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVbZwJ9gPE
3•savrajsingh•44m ago•0 comments

Why Embedded Models Must Hallucinate: A Boundary Theory (RCC)

http://www.effacermonexistence.com/rcc-hn-1-1
1•formerOpenAI•45m ago•2 comments

A Curated List of ML System Design Case Studies

https://github.com/Engineer1999/A-Curated-List-of-ML-System-Design-Case-Studies
3•tejonutella•49m ago•0 comments

Pony Alpha: New free 200K context model for coding, reasoning and roleplay

https://ponyalpha.pro
1•qzcanoe•54m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tunbot – Discord bot for temporary Cloudflare tunnels behind CGNAT

https://github.com/Goofygiraffe06/tunbot
2•g1raffe•56m ago•0 comments

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496
2•vinhnx•1h ago•0 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
3•rolph•1h ago•0 comments

Dexter: Claude-Code-Style Agent for Financial Statements and Valuation

https://github.com/virattt/dexter
1•Lwrless•1h ago•0 comments

Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
1•vermilingua•1h ago•0 comments

Essential CDN: The CDN that lets you do more than JavaScript

https://essentialcdn.fluidity.workers.dev/
1•telui•1h ago•1 comments

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
2•cedel2k1•1h ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
37•chwtutha•1h ago•6 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
4•osnium123•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
2•jeremy_su•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•1h ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•1h ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Geocities Backgrounds

https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles/backgroundsindex
163•marcodiego•6mo ago
https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles

Comments

486sx33•6mo ago
Geocities was pretty darn cool. My very first website was there but just figuring the place out, the neighborhoods and the depth of the place was like a new adventure at the time. I chose area51
bityard•6mo ago
Geocities hosted my second website, my first one was somewhere on CompuServe I think? I had a GeoCities site for quite a few years, somewhere at the top level of SiliconValley. I can't remember the 4-digit number and I've never been able to find it in any of the archives just by searching for it. (I likely deleted it some time in the early 2000's.)
sejje•6mo ago
I lost my first website, it was on angel fire.

Frames layout, goldeneye fanboy page.

They have a lot of the old sites, but not mine.

Gualdrapo•6mo ago
As a person that loves tiled desktop wallpaper backgrounds, thank you
medstrom•6mo ago
Just found that GNOME seems to have lost support for tiled wallpapers...

Unfixed for years https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1473

chromehearts•6mo ago
Wish I found this sooner; my first website I made many years ago contains 2 or 3 background images which I also found on various neocity sites (yungztrunks.de)
righthand•6mo ago
Can’t tap tiles to change background on Firefox iOS.
medstrom•6mo ago
Long-press and download the image?
righthand•6mo ago
Analog browsing, wouldn’t that just download the thumbnail not the actual gif?
inanutshellus•6mo ago
Those ain' thumbnails, whippersnapper. Them's the whole image.
righthand•6mo ago
Interesting. From the mobile view it appears the page has a right side menu with preview options of all the backgrounds with the space background set as the default tile but I guess I’m misinterpreting the page UI.
nemomarx•6mo ago
The preview is probably just one imagine that would be tiled to create a full background. Isn't that how all backgrounds and wallpapers used to work?
righthand•6mo ago
With the animation on the space background and how the page was previously squished on mobile it looked like preview thumbs for animated backgrounds.
inanutshellus•6mo ago
Correct, you're thinking with modern-UI brain.

It's just a page template and the content of the particular page is a long list of images. No javascript to do fancy stuff. Just a collection of backgrounds the dude found.

Actually, this page is already "advanced" for a Geocities site, because the starry night pattern is for the left-gutter next to the site's content, and then there's an easy-on-the-eyes background behind the real content. Normal Geocities would just have one super duper beautiful and impossible-to-read-on background.

(Oh, and you wouldn't /also/ do that cool background on the right side too because... "who knows how to figure out a floating left side border image?! that's basically impossible.") ;)

crtasm•6mo ago
if you can access the console, this adds that functionality:

  document.body.addEventListener('click', function(e) { if (e.target.nodeName == 'IMG') { document.body.style.backgroundImage = `url("${e.target.src}")`; document.body.style.backgroundRepeat = 'repeat'; } });
p1mrx•6mo ago
If you're using a mouse, change 'click' to 'mouseover' for easier browsing.
biofox•6mo ago
They also make for great retro PowerPoint backgrounds :)
luc_•6mo ago
bless this mess
giancarlostoro•6mo ago
Page doesn't load correctly for me, they seem to be hosting the images in a sketchy looking domain (I'm sure its not actually sketchy), corporate firewall is ruining my retro nostalgic experience.
PixelMoondust•6mo ago
Oh, I'm sorry to hear it's not loading properly for you :c I host my images through filegarden and I certainly hope it's not sketchy because it's the best file hosting service I can find since I no longer use Imgur.
marcodiego•6mo ago
Actually, the correct index is this one: https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles/b...
jihadjihad•6mo ago
@dang can we update the post's URL to this one? It seems more relevant and usable.
medstrom•6mo ago
I found it much less striking. The original link is perfect -- and subjectively, I find it more "usable" that it puts everything on a single page.
dang•6mo ago
Ok, I've put that link in the top text so people can access both.
sp0rk•6mo ago
This page only contains links to about half of the backgrounds present on the page that is linked currently.
dang•6mo ago
Changed from https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles. Thanks!
luckystarr•6mo ago
That page can't be very old because it doesn't use any frames!
SpecialistK•6mo ago
I love these - I wonder if anyone has put them together in an archive to download all at once?
medstrom•6mo ago
In the spirit of "analog browsing", there is always https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall
jaynate•6mo ago
Geocities and Angelfire are how I learned to program for the web. Amazing how much of the fundamentals of the web are still exactly the same as they were back then (90s). Just with a lot more layers of libraries today.
giantrobot•6mo ago
A great thing about the Web is it can still be programmed just like it was thirty years ago. Unless you actually need an application a lot of web tooling and libraries are a waste of time. It's a great medium for actual documents.
spennant•6mo ago
What? No love for Perl scripts in cgi-bin/ ?
giantrobot•6mo ago
In today's world of stupidly fast CPUs and IO a CGI program can be surprisingly performant and effective.
soneil•6mo ago
The part that really feels different to me, is that I'm not sure that a 12yo equivalent of myself would get far with View Source anymore.

I think that was my single greatest resource, and on a huge majority of sites it won't get you far anymore.

camcil•6mo ago
Being able to paste source into early version of Dreamweaver really made things "click" for me. Image maps, IFrames, and SSI really set you apart. Ah, thems were the days.
simoneau•6mo ago
I think I recognize some of these as coming from a tiled background pack I used back in the 90s. Maybe associated with the Enlightenment Window Manager project?
p3rls•6mo ago
yeahhh, but did you have a cool cjb.net redirect to show your friends in the progs channel?
tsumnia•6mo ago
Dear Web Developers: THIS is what I want for surfing the World Wide Web. Simple UI, maybe some tiled gifs, and that's it!

Stop all the corpo-brutalist nonsense and give me back my flame gifs!

reaperducer•6mo ago
I once rebuilt an internal employee directory tool, and added the ability for people to add an emoji below their name.

Before that, hardly anyone used the internal directory, which is probably why I inherited it (I was the stig). After the feature was added, people went nuts and used it all the time. I feel bad for the guy who runs it now, as I understand he is bombarded with feature requests from the employees.

cluckindan•6mo ago
Making things a little bit fun and personal yields engagement, who would have thought.
rjh29•6mo ago
Obligatory mention of Hypnospace Outlaw, a game where you play a moderator of a 1990s AOL-style internet (right down to the tiled backgrounds and flame gifs) and uncover a mystery.
standardUser•6mo ago
I miss having my own little website. It wasn't a blog or even a weblog because those words didn't exist yet. I especially miss the mix of icons and widgets I'd curate at the bottom of the page, the most important of which was the counter (which was mostly counting my own visit to my own page). This was probably around 1994 when I was 12 or 13.
konfusinomicon•6mo ago
i recall the glorious day the linkexchange counter on my site hit 10k. still waiting on my check for $176 from featuring cyberthrills casino banner ads though.
gopher2000•6mo ago
Is there a way to dig up old GeoCities pages? My only thought is to remember the URL and get it from internet archive but I can't remember my 4 digit number. I think I was in the "Baja" area.
PixelMoondust•6mo ago
There definitely is!!! There's a few GeoCities archives projects out there, but these ones specifically let's you search through the areas:

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Baja/ https://www.oocities.org/baja/

If you can find your site here (you may not be able to because I'm sure these sites don't have every single site archived), then you could try to find it through the Internet Archive, or through geocities.ws!

miffe•6mo ago
Anyone remember a software to generate images such as these?

I think it was called something like Terralogic Texture Maker (ttm.exe) and I've been looking for it for years.

127•6mo ago
I would recommend https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker

It's free and fabulous.

Lammy•6mo ago
It was TeraLogic; one ‘r’ :)

DOS ver 0.95: https://www.geocities.ws/freewin3/textrev.html

Win32 ver 1.1: https://www.jazz2online.com/tilesets/stuff/TTM32.zip

Win32 ver 2.0: https://web.archive.org/web/20240213195823/https://www.sac.s...

Both Win32 versions worked for me in Wine just now:

https://i.imgur.com/nRan0Z0.png (1.1)

https://i.imgur.com/976wzwh.png (2.0)

miffe•6mo ago
Thank you!
nonhaver•6mo ago
dont forget blinkies!

https://adriansblinkiecollection.neocities.org/

PixelMoondust•6mo ago
Oh, hey, that's my archive!!! I noticed a sudden jump in activity to my neocities and through a little bit of sleuthing (a single search on Twitter) I found a post, and through that post I found this website...kinda wild to see my little archive being noticed anywhere, but I am definitely flattered!