frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Show HN: ZigZag – A Bubble Tea-Inspired TUI Framework for Zig

https://github.com/meszmate/zigzag
1•meszmate•2m ago•0 comments

Metaphor+Metonymy: "To love that well which thou must leave ere long"(Sonnet73)

https://www.huckgutman.com/blog-1/shakespeare-sonnet-73
1•gsf_emergency_6•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django N+1 Queries Checker

https://github.com/richardhapb/django-check
1•richardhapb•19m ago•1 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: High-performance TRAMP back end using JSON-RPC instead of shell

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•todsacerdoti•23m ago•0 comments

Protocol Validation with Affine MPST in Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev
1•o8vm•28m ago•1 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
2•gmays•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zest – A hands-on simulator for Staff+ system design scenarios

https://staff-engineering-simulator-880284904082.us-west1.run.app/
1•chanip0114•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: DeSync – Decentralized Economic Realm with Blockchain-Based Governance

https://github.com/MelzLabs/DeSync
1•0xUnavailable•35m ago•0 comments

Automatic Programming Returns

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
1•benrules2•38m ago•1 comments

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why%20Are%20there%20Still%20So%20Many%...
2•oidar•41m ago•0 comments

The Search Engine Map

https://www.searchenginemap.com
1•cratermoon•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Souls.directory – SOUL.md templates for AI agent personalities

https://souls.directory
1•thedaviddias•49m ago•0 comments

Real-Time ETL for Enterprise-Grade Data Integration

https://tabsdata.com
1•teleforce•52m ago•0 comments

Economics Puzzle Leads to a New Understanding of a Fundamental Law of Physics

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/economics-puzzle-leads-to-a-new-understanding-of-a-fundamental...
3•geox•53m ago•0 comments

Switzerland's Extraordinary Medieval Library

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library
2•bookmtn•54m ago•0 comments

A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-comet-visible-broad-daylight.html
3•bookmtn•59m ago•0 comments

ESR: Comes the news that Anthropic has vibecoded a C compiler

https://twitter.com/esrtweet/status/2019562859978539342
2•tjr•1h ago•0 comments

Frisco residents divided over H-1B visas, 'Indian takeover' at council meeting

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2026/02/04/frisco-residents-divided-over-h-1b-visas-indi...
3•alephnerd•1h ago•4 comments

If CNN Covered Star Wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vArJg_SU4Lc
1•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built the first tool to configure VPSs without commands

https://the-ultimate-tool-for-configuring-vps.wiar8.com/
2•Wiar8•1h ago•3 comments

AI agents from 4 labs predicting the Super Bowl via prediction market

https://agoramarket.ai/
1•kevinswint•1h ago•1 comments

EU bans infinite scroll and autoplay in TikTok case

https://twitter.com/HennaVirkkunen/status/2019730270279356658
6•miohtama•1h ago•5 comments

Benchmarking how well LLMs can play FizzBuzz

https://huggingface.co/spaces/venkatasg/fizzbuzz-bench
1•_venkatasg•1h ago•1 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
19•SerCe•1h ago•14 comments

Octave GTM MCP Server

https://docs.octavehq.com/mcp/overview
1•connor11528•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Portview what's on your ports (diagnostic-first, single binary, Linux)

https://github.com/Mapika/portview
3•Mapika•1h ago•0 comments

Voyager CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/amazon-amzn-q4-earnings-report-2025.html
1•belter•1h ago•0 comments

Boilerplate Tax – Ranking popular programming languages by density

https://boyter.org/posts/boilerplate-tax-ranking-popular-languages-by-density/
1•nnx•1h ago•0 comments

Zen: A Browser You Can Love

https://joeblu.com/blog/2026_02_zen-a-browser-you-can-love/
1•joeblubaugh•1h ago•0 comments

My GPT-5.3-Codex Review: Full Autonomy Has Arrived

https://shumer.dev/gpt53-codex-review
2•gfortaine•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The 90s Unix Utility That Fell Out of Favour

https://blog.alexellis.io/the-90s-unix-command-fell-out-of-favour/
14•alexellisuk•5mo ago

Comments

kazinator•5mo ago
I think they mean, the 80s utility that fell out of favor through the 90s.

Those of us who were alive across both those times, 80s and 90s are not just interchangeable symbols denoting "before my time".

alexellisuk•5mo ago
True - mistakenly wrote 90s as that's when I used it in my youth :)
anthk•5mo ago

      finger sdf.org

      finger london@graph.no
alexellisuk•5mo ago
Nice.. like a kind of "teletext". The first finger didn't work.
1970-01-01•5mo ago
Finger is a stoneage network tool. Saying it fell out of favour is like saying bashing nuts between rocks fell out of favour.
tomwheeler•5mo ago
In 1995-1196, I worked at an ISP. Our first step when trying to troubleshoot an access problem for a new user was to run the finger command on our server to see if the account had been provisioned yet.

30 years later, I still recall the time I had to calm down an angry customer after a frontline support tech told her that he was going to "finger her to find out what the problem is." He _really_ didn't think that one through!

nunez•5mo ago
And they say that developers are terrible at naming things lol.
iamflimflam1•5mo ago
(r)who, finger, talk - I remember having really nice gui wrappers for these that ran on XWindows and let you see who was online and chat with them.
pipes•5mo ago
Why is a click bait headline necessary?
IT4MD•5mo ago
Your answer is embedded within your question. ;)
nunez•5mo ago
I was bored on a flight with crap Internet and, like everyone else on that flight, entertained myself by reading random manpages on my Mac. I think I read the one for finger, and I think it's still from BSD4.4, as its last updated date is from 1993!

In other news, I was born too young to use finger, but I definitely used Hyper terminal on Windows which had a chat like console app that worked with it. (I think it's called CHAT.EXE; I wonder if Windows still includes it in their production images.)

I also still use w to see who's logged into stuff (useless on containers...but sometimes useful!) and the type command to print out definitions of functions from the absolute disaster that are my dotfiles (someday I'll clean them up!)

alexellisuk•5mo ago
Author of the post here. The man pages on my Mac are also a hobby/pastime. It's funny the things you can learn from them.

Not to mention - vimtutor that's built in for extended periods of being offline like on a flight.

burnt-resistor•5mo ago
Create your .plan and wall everyone now. ;P

In ye olden days, computers were more often multiuser, shared, and expensive servers. The computer lab at my university contained a pool of SGI, AIX, HP-UX, Sun SPARC, Linux, and SCO (but no IBM) boxes available over ssh via round-robin dns. The intent was to teach portable software engineering rather than tying things to a particular, proprietary platform. The trend towards so-called "hermetic toolchains" is absurd, anti-tinkering, anti-standards, and anti-portability depending on concealed, opaque binary blobs. Don't even get me started about bazel or systemd.

WorldMaker•5mo ago
I've known people who auto-populated their .plan with their recent tweets or Mastodon toots, and a special few that set it up so that updating their .plan auto-tweeted/tooted those thoughts.
alexellisuk•5mo ago
I like that idea. Not dissimilar to the way GitHub now supports a "personal README" - I've seen it populated with generated graphics/charts/links etc.
WorldMaker•5mo ago
Yeah, I especially look at simonw's Personal README [0] on GitHub sometimes and wonder if I should be doing more interesting automation with mine.

[0] https://github.com/simonw