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USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
1•breve•10s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•1m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
1•ks2048•1m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•4m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•4m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
2•mltvc•8m ago•0 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•9m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•9m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
1•SchwKatze•10m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•11m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•12m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

https://mlq.ai/news/ai-startup-founder-organizes-march-for-billionaires-protest-against-californi...
1•hidden80•12m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Need feedback on the idea I'm working on

1•Yogender78•13m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

https://thebiggish.com/news/openclaw-s-security-flaws-expose-enterprise-risk-22-of-deployments-un...
1•vedantnair•13m ago•0 comments

Apple finalizes Gemini / Siri deal

https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-reportedly-plans-to-reveal-its-gemini-powered-siri-in-february-...
1•vedantnair•14m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
3•vedantnair•14m ago•0 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: high-performance TRAMP back end using MsgPack-RPC

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•16m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
1•s4074433•20m ago•1 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

2•amichail•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•29m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•31m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•31m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•32m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•33m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design system generator (mood to CSS in <1 second)

https://huesly.app
1•egeuysall•34m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 26/02/26 – 5 songs in a day

https://playingwith.variousbits.net/saturday
1•dmje•35m ago•0 comments

Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•37m ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
5•codexon•38m ago•2 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