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Show HN: Tasty A.F

https://tastyaf.recipes/about
1•adammfrank•43s ago•0 comments

The Contagious Taste of Cancer

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/contagious-taste-cancer
1•Thevet•2m ago•0 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
1•alephnerd•2m ago•0 comments

Bithumb mistakenly hands out $195M in Bitcoin to users in 'Random Box' giveaway

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-02-07/business/finance/Crypto-exchange-Bithumb-mis...
1•giuliomagnifico•2m ago•0 comments

Beyond Agentic Coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
2•todsacerdoti•3m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw ClawHub Broken Windows Theory – If basic sorting isn't working what is?

https://www.loom.com/embed/e26a750c0c754312b032e2290630853d
1•kaicianflone•5m ago•0 comments

OpenBSD Copyright Policy

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
1•Panino•6m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzGDAoNOZc
1•schwentkerr•10m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
1•blenderob•11m ago•0 comments

AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
2•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
2•gurjeet•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•14m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•15m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•17m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•17m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•17m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
2•mooreds•18m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•19m ago•2 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•19m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
2•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•20m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
2•ghazikhan205•23m ago•1 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

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1•impish9208•23m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•23m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•24m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•24m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•24m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Compiler for "Easy" language from "Etudes for Programmers" book (1978)

https://github.com/begoon/easy
28•begoon•3mo ago

Comments

dukoid•3mo ago
I was assuming it's something similar to PL/0 but the grammar looks quite extensive...
Joker_vD•3mo ago
Basically Algol, but with gratuitous "SET" to simplify parsing assignment statements, and without generic "BEGIN" braces: those are baked into "DO"/"THEN"/"ELSE".

You can probably straightforwardly translate it to Golang by running through a C preprocessor with an obvious set of macros.

ape4•3mo ago
The "FI" for "endif" is like bash.

The semicolons are like C.

The "PROGRAM" section is like COBOL.

kragen•3mo ago
The "fi" thing arose during the Algol-68 process, which Steve Bourne participated in, which is why he put it in his shell. (He would have put "od" there too to terminate "do" if it wasn't already used for a hexdumper.) You also find it in, for example, Dijkstra's Discipline of Programming.

Semicolons were widely used as statement separators in Algol-family languages, but in Easy they seem to be statement terminators, so they are apparently like C rather than like earlier Algol-family languages such as Pascal.

Pascal also had the "program" thing. I'm not sure if earlier Algol languages did?

IAmBroom•3mo ago
COBOL precedes Pascal.
kragen•3mo ago
Yes, of course it does. I didn't mean to imply that COBOL got it from Pascal. I meant that the practice was much more widespread than just COBOL, and given that the rest of Easy is clearly an Algol-family language very similar to Pascal or (then-draft) Ada, that's probably where he got it.
Rendello•3mo ago
If you're Stephen R. Bourne, "FI" is also like C!

(From the Bourne Shell source): https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh...

shrubble•3mo ago
The Etudes book is considered a classic, especially among FSU programmers-the book was licensed for a small amount, translated into Russian and used in many classrooms.
kragen•3mo ago
It's absolutely a classic!