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Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•1m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•2m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•4m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•4m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•5m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
1•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•7m ago•1 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•7m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•8m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•10m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•10m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•11m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•12m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•12m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•13m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•13m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•16m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•16m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•17m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•19m ago•1 comments

Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•19m ago•0 comments

Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
1•birdculture•20m ago•0 comments

The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•20m ago•0 comments

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS (2024)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/
1•tosh•21m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

We maintain HarfBuzz – Ask us anything (or tell us what confused you)

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1m6a7xo/we_maintain_harfbuzz_the_text_shaping_engine_used/
4•behdad•6mo ago

Comments

behdad•6mo ago
We’re the maintainers of HarfBuzz, the open-source text shaping engine used by browsers, operating systems, and applications to render all text, including supporting scripts like Arabic, Devanagari, Khmer, CJK, and more.

HarfBuzz is known for being fast, portable, and complete. But it’s also sometimes seen as hard to understand or work with. We’re working on a Developer FAQ and Design Notes to clear up misconceptions and explain the "why" behind our more unusual design decisions (yes, the macros are intentional).

So we’re asking:

What was your biggest WTF moment reading or using HarfBuzz?

Other things we’d love to hear about:

* Which parts felt like magic or a black box? * What do you think we could explain better? * Have you run into performance or integration surprises? * Are there features you only discovered by reading the source? * What do you wish the documentation had told you?

Anything else you want to know about the project?

We'll answer questions on Reddit, here, and also open a GitHub Discussion afterward to collect and respond to feedback more formally and integrate into our documentation.

Thanks in advance for your curiosity, stories, or frustration—we’re listening!

wiz21c•6mo ago
I'd like to know what is the future of font rendering (according to you) as far the as the quality of the result is concerned (iow, my question is not about speed). For example, are there new way to handle antialiasing or is it a solved problem ?
behdad•6mo ago
Thank you for the question. Rasterization is not my specialty. There definitely is still immense amount of research going into rasterizing fonts and 2D graphics on the GPU efficiently. Here's the latest from Raph Levien's research for example:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sv8K190Zps
wiz21c•6mo ago
Thanks, so that video (wasn't much impressed, just some "tile compression").

My question was more about the quality of the rendering (or other challenges) than about the speed of rendering.