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The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•48s ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
1•CurtHagenlocher•2m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•3m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•3m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•5m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•6m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•9m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•13m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•15m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•18m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•20m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•21m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•28m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•29m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•34m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
9•mooreds•35m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•36m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•37m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•42m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•44m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
2•saikatsg•44m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
2•aweussom•44m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•46m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•47m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•53m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•54m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Automate compile_flags for C/C++ projects on the Zig build system

https://simonhartcher.com/posts/2025-09-08-announcing-compile-flagz/
43•deevus•5mo ago

Comments

deevus•5mo ago
I built this after struggling with editor integration while working on a game decompilation project. Zig's build system is great for C/C++ cross-compilation, but editors couldn't find any includes.

Technical approach: The tool hooks into build.zig, extracts dependency paths from Zig's cache, and generates a compile_flags.txt that clangd understands.

Currently supports -I flags only. Planning to add -D macros and -std flags based on feedback.

Happy to answer questions about implementation details.

hiccuphippo•5mo ago
I wonder, would this help port projects from cmake to build.zig? I tried porting something (SDLPoP, a port of Prince of Persia) and the amount of macros I had to set up was overwhelming.
deevus•4mo ago
It will help with the editor experience, but not the porting itself.

Porting to build.zig can be a bit of work. It does have some capability to use cmake config, which can help make the process easier.

I ported wildmidi across and consumed their config (I think it was cmake). I have a PR open there:

https://github.com/Mindwerks/wildmidi/pull/260

DrNosferatu•5mo ago
Would love to decompile <3 "Screamer 2" <3

- A thought: would you care to write up a tutorial documenting the details of your efforts so far, so us others can try our hand at this with that reference?

It would be awesome!

deevus•4mo ago
We were lucky enough to find a debug version of Fatal Racing. Having function names helped a lot. That made the process much easier.

I have been less involved with the actual decomp in ROLLER specifically. Though I was part of one of the key decomp pieces which was demystifying the games binary storage format. That part alone took me a year of on and off work.

Once that was done, the rest of the process was much easier.

I suggest if you want to have a go yourself, you just need to start brute forcing it with IDA or Ghidra.

Additionally find out what compiler was used. If it was watcom, there is a great tool called wcdatool that may be of use to you.