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1•mav5431•41s ago•0 comments

ReKindle – web-based operating system designed specifically for E-ink devices

https://rekindle.ink
1•JSLegendDev•2m ago•0 comments

Encrypt It

https://encryptitalready.org/
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NextMatch – 5-minute video speed dating to reduce ghosting

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1•Halinani8•3m ago•1 comments

Personalizing esketamine treatment in TRD and TRBD

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1736114
1•PaulHoule•4m ago•0 comments

SpaceKit.xyz – a browser‑native VM for decentralized compute

https://spacekit.xyz
1•astorrivera•5m ago•1 comments

NotebookLM: The AI that only learns from you

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1•byandrev•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An open-source starter kit for developing with Postgres and ClickHouse

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1•saisrirampur•6m ago•0 comments

Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements

https://gekkio.fi/blog/2026/game-boy-advance-d-pad-capacitor-measurements/
1•todsacerdoti•6m ago•0 comments

South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends $44B in bitcoins to users

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1•layer8•7m ago•0 comments

Apache Poison Fountain

https://gist.github.com/jwakely/a511a5cab5eb36d088ecd1659fcee1d5
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Web.whatsapp.com appears to be having issues syncing and sending messages

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1•sabujp•9m ago•2 comments

Google in Your Terminal

https://gogcli.sh/
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Shannon: Claude Code for Pen Testing: #1 on Github today

https://github.com/KeygraphHQ/shannon
1•hendler•11m ago•0 comments

Anthropic: Latest Claude model finds more than 500 vulnerabilities

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2•Bender•15m ago•0 comments

Brooklyn cemetery plans human composting option, stirring interest and debate

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/brooklyn-green-wood-cemetery-human-composting/
1•geox•15m ago•0 comments

Why the 'Strivers' Are Right

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/02/03/the-strivers-were-right-all-along/
1•paulpauper•17m ago•0 comments

Brain Dumps as a Literary Form

https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/brain-dumps-as-a-literary-form
1•gmays•17m ago•0 comments

Agentic Coding and the Problem of Oracles

https://epkconsulting.substack.com/p/agentic-coding-and-the-problem-of
1•qingsworkshop•18m ago•0 comments

Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

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1•Bender•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a <400ms latency voice agent that runs on a 4gb vram GTX 1650"

https://github.com/pheonix-delta/axiom-voice-agent
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Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge

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4•Bender•19m ago•0 comments

Arcan Explained: A browser for different webs

https://arcan-fe.com/2026/01/26/arcan-explained-a-browser-for-different-webs/
1•fanf2•21m ago•0 comments

What did we learn from the AI Village in 2025?

https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-we-learned-2025
1•mrkO99•21m ago•0 comments

An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller

https://github.com/lowobservable/oec
1•bri3d•23m ago•0 comments

The P in PGP isn't for pain: encrypting emails in the browser

https://ckardaris.github.io/blog/2026/02/07/encrypted-email.html
2•ckardaris•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mirror Parliament where users vote on top of politicians and draft laws

https://github.com/fokdelafons/lustra
1•fokdelafons•26m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?

1•Chance-Device•28m ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
2•ColinWright•30m ago•0 comments

Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

https://robotsandstartups.substack.com/p/humanoids-platform-urdf-kitchen-nvidias
1•robotlaunch•34m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The ABC Programming Language

https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/
60•TheFreim•5mo ago

Comments

jll29•5mo ago
There is a great documentary film about the origins of Python, which also talks about the ABC license, which influenced Python syntax (and the ABC project gave G. v. Rossum the job during which he created Python): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0
ronimaciel•5mo ago
Documentary excellent
jibal•5mo ago
There's an article at the above site: https://inference-review.com/article/the-origins-of-python

From it I learned a remarkable nugget of computing history: P.J. Plauger, well known as a C language guy (he and I were both on X3J11, the C Language Standards committee), originated the idea of using significant white space as the "signal" to the compiler to indicate statement grouping instead of using begin/end keywords or braces.

tomcam•5mo ago
Seems to be strongly influenced by HyperTalk... or is it the other way around?
zahlman•5mo ago
Both date to 1987. Aside from the use of whitespace, I don't really see the same influence. HyperTalk loops looked like `repeat with i = 1 to ...`; it didn't have the same concept of iterating over a container directly, even though it could treat strings as containers (not just of "characters", but also space-separated "words" or comma-separated "items").

On the other hand, it had explicit syntax sugar that was specific to the HyperCard environment (thus actions like `ask` and `answer` for simple modal dialog prompts), along with phrasing intended to make things read in English and even avoiding basic operators (thus, `put ... into ...` as an assignment syntax, `the number of` as a length operator, `it` referring to the result of the previous line in some contexts, ...). And of course, the HyperCard environment was event-driven; you could write explicitly callable functions, but your entry point was only ever some GUI interaction, not top-level code or a "main" function.

Perhaps you could say that they both came from a similar philosophy about how to make a programming language "natural-language-like". Which IMO was a big step up from COBOL at least ;)

Qem•5mo ago
Is it still mantained and instalable under current OSes?
anta40•5mo ago
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/implementations.html

Installable under current OSes? Looks like a yes. Assuming your OS still provide 32-bit compatibility mode.

unwind•5mo ago
Meta: this might benefit from a "(1987)" in the title, to clarify it's not a(nother) new language.
tpoacher•5mo ago
Not to be confused with the ABC music notation programming language