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Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
1•jesperordrup•22s ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•52s ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•1m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•8m ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
3•keepamovin•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
2•sickthecat•21m ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
2•imthepk•26m ago•0 comments

How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•27m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•31m ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2j80klmo
2•breve•32m ago•1 comments

The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•34m ago•0 comments

Rentahuman.ai Turns Humans into On-Demand Labor for AI Agents

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/02/05/when-ai-agents-start-hiring-humans-rentahuma...
1•tempodox•36m ago•0 comments

StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

1•ReviewShield•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Afelyon – Turns Jira tickets into production-ready PRs (multi-repo)

https://afelyon.com/
1•AbduNebu•40m ago•0 comments

Trump says America should move on from Epstein – it may not be that easy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4gj71z0m0o
6•tempodox•40m ago•2 comments

Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

https://github.com/salva-imm/tiny-clippy
1•salvadorda656•45m ago•0 comments

LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMQbsOTX-o
1•adityaathalye•48m ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-moves-deport-5-year-old-detained-minnesota-2026-02-06/
8•petethomas•51m ago•3 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-embassy-mcdonalds-restaurants-austria-hotline-americans-consular-...
1•thunderbong•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid Formatter – CLI and library to auto-format Mermaid diagrams

https://github.com/chenyanchen/mermaid-formatter
1•astm•1h ago•0 comments

RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

https://h3manth.com/scribe/rfcs-vs-readmes/
3•init0•1h ago•1 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

https://altermag.com/articles/kanchipuram-saris-and-thinking-machines
1•trojanalert•1h ago•0 comments

Chinese chemical supplier causes global baby formula recall

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nestle-widens-french-infant-formula-r...
2•fkdk•1h ago•0 comments

I've used AI to write 100% of my code for a year as an engineer

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qxvobt/ive_used_ai_to_write_100_of_my_code_for_1_ye...
2•ukuina•1h ago•1 comments

Looking for 4 Autistic Co-Founders for AI Startup (Equity-Based)

1•au-ai-aisl•1h ago•1 comments

AI-native capabilities, a new API Catalog, and updated plans and pricing

https://blog.postman.com/new-capabilities-march-2026/
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Build a Superscalar 8-Bit CPU (YouTube Playlist) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwjMLyBU4RU&list=PLyR4neQXqQo5nPdEiMbaEJxWiy_UuyNN4&index=1
136•lrsjng•3mo ago

Comments

reader9274•3mo ago
Ben Eater all day long over anyone else building a computer, sorry
monocasa•3mo ago
There's no reason to have to choose.

Ben Eater is great, and Fabian is obviously inspired by him, so in a lot of ways this is simply complementary to Ben Eater's wonderful work.

WesBrownSQL•3mo ago
I don't think Ben would tell you to limit yourself. There are many fantastic people doing these kinds of things. James Sharman has been working on his system for years, and it is fantastic because he is also a programmer. https://www.youtube.com/@weirdboyjim
easygenes•3mo ago
I would also recommend Agon Light from the Byte Attic for pedagogically important 8 bit computer YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf2uklC__d19aBeKd8OXMdup...
Dead_Lemon•3mo ago
This is the exact channel that came to mind when I saw the headline, his work is fantastic.
easygenes•3mo ago
I got lucky stumbling across this series a few years ago after just the first few videos were posted. Production value and pedagogy are excellent. Glad to see him following through all this time and getting to the heart of the matter recently.
nxobject•3mo ago
I applaud the author for doing this! A lot of "get your hands dirty" processor digital design tutorials end up using designs with a single microprogrammed control unit... which has no relation to how the last few decades of microarchitectures,
mrguyorama•3mo ago
Indeed. My CS degree program taught me Karnough maps and some other basics, and that was enough to build a simple microprocessor design myself (it sucked, I neglected to build a way to use immediate values in instructions so I had to build a hacky "set" instruction that just set a register to a 15 bit immediate)

But I mostly can't grok things like cache implementation, or branch prediction, or pipelines, or register renaming and out of order execution, or "store forwarding" and other necessary features.

The simulator programs I was using have instant/single cycle memory access, and the cpu had single cycle execution of all instructions so it wasn't really necessary, but still.

globular-toast•3mo ago
I built Ben Eater's 8 bit computer on breadboards a few years ago. It's a challenging but super rewarding project. I felt like after years of doing computer stuff I could finally say I get how it all works right down to the level of electronics, plus I learnt some new skills and got really good at cutting little wires to exactly the right length. It takes some dedication, especially when you're building the same register module 3+ times, but I found it quite relaxing in the evenings, similar to knitting in many ways.

I'm glad to see there are more projects in case I want to do it again some day...

Joel_Mckay•3mo ago
After these types of projects, most students write better software with implicit streamlined logic.

Notably, James Sharman's "Jam-1" includes an interesting series on video timing for his games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHag4k4yEg&list=PLFhc0MFC8M...

Best regards =3

Graziano_M•3mo ago
I bought the kit and was making progress with it, but unfortunately you have to be extremely lucky to have it work with the way Ben wired it. He skips a lot of pull downs and such, and adding all that is such a chore. More importantly, it can’t really fit on the breadboards with the additional required circuitry, so you end up making a monstrosity that doesn’t doesn’t look anything like his, which really takes away from the value of his lessons.
globular-toast•3mo ago
Hmm... I didn't have this experience at all. Apart from dotting a bunch of capacitors around the busses I didn't have to do much differently. I was able to find the exact components he used myself on Mouser. It's been a while though so maybe I'm forgetting something or maybe I was just lucky as you say. I should really dig it out and see if it still works.

The only major thing I changed was I designed my own EEPROM programmer as I found the way he was doing it laborious.

Graziano_M•3mo ago
Maybe you were! I got the clock working well but none of the register modules worked correctly. I asked in the subreddit and apparently it’s asked a ton because Ben keeps a lot of stuff floating and for most that doesn’t work. I don’t mind having to do it but it’s annoying to have to find extra parts and extra annoying having to try to have it fit in the original footprint so that each breadboard still fits together as in the videos.
globular-toast•3mo ago
I pulled mine out to see if I could jog my memory. The floating issue rings a bell but I seem to remember the TI chips had built-in pulldown resistors. I think I found actual TI chips, was it a problem with the clones perhaps? Are there other variables in the circuitry that would make this not work for some people but work for others?

The project definitely gave me an appreciation for electronics and how much is hidden under that abstraction level. I really wish I'd kept a journal or blog while doing mine!

Graziano_M•3mo ago
I forget the details since I haven't touched it in some time, but that sounds familiar. I think I remember being annoyed that I was given clones despite buying the kit from hit directly.

You could rip it apart and do it again from scratch! You'd definitely learn some stuff you missed the first time. Of course, you could just try the project in OP's link instead.

zkmon•3mo ago
Some channels like these are like collectibles. They are far above over the stature of Youtube itself. Unfortunately we don't have any other place to have these collectibles at, except on a service owned by a private company, who runs it for their business goals.
globular-toast•3mo ago
Agreed. I have been personally archiving anything I find high quality for a while now. YouTube is fighting that, though. I hope one day we can get past this and just share this stuff in a distributed way (like BitTorrent).

I still think what we lack is an easy way to do the busking model online. I refuse to pay by watching ads, and I refuse to further monopolies and contribute to garbage like MrBeast by paying for YouTube Premium or whatever. But if I could regularly pay into an account, say £20/month, and choose where to allocate that to each month by doing something low friction like clicking a button that would be perfect. I don't want to automatically pay for everything I see because I don't think it's all worth it. I'm not forced to pay for buskers in public just because I heard them.

I think we have all the pieces we need for this kind of system, namely BitTorrent, Bitcoin and the public domain or CC licences etc. What we really need is polish and the network effect, ie. the last 20%. Unfortunately we all know the last 20% sucks and we only do it if we're forced to do it.

Lerc•3mo ago
They could easily exist somewhere else, but they would not be found there

YouTube is the place where people find stuff, so if you want to be found, you have to be there. I posted something on this theme the other day. I would love for there to be a way for people to contribute things like this to the world while being supported so that they can do as much of it as they want.

I feel like YouTube is the worst video sharing platform with the exception of every other one.

I'm not sure of the solution. PAD files for videos? Some standard that lets people find videos no matter which service they are hosted on, letting the hosting and interface be provided by different entities. It would probably take regulatory action before YouTube supported anything like that.

ge96•3mo ago
Been finding indie music producers in the dream pop/shoegaze genre, seems better than Spotify recs

These are videos not YT music