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Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•56s ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
1•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
2•oxxoxoxooo•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•10m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•15m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•17m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•19m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•22m ago•3 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•23m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•25m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•27m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•29m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•31m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•36m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•38m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•41m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•55m ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•56m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•1h ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•1h ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Old Computer Challenge – Modern Web for the ZX Spectrum

https://0x00.cl/blog/2025/occ-2025/
78•0x00cl•3mo ago

Comments

Exoristos•3mo ago
Some of those views are delightfully terrible, no surprise; but I did think the Google homepage and the HN new-comment form turned out satisfyingly clean.
cyberax•3mo ago
This is so ridiculous. Love it!
BergAndCo•3mo ago
But you can't click any of the links... :(
raffraffraff•3mo ago
I had the Datel Genius mouse for my spectrum. It came bundled with the OCP Art Studio (which never worked on my spectrum). You could 'peek' into memory addresses to find the position and button state, so I wrote silly little BASIC programs for it.
userbinator•3mo ago
Provided one had a network stack, it would've actually been possible to use Google on a ZX Spectrum until a short while ago, as it still listened on port 80 and the usual /search?q=<query goes here> was all that was necessary. Now Google has destroyed that, and even with HTTPS it refuses to do anything without JS.
anthk•3mo ago
Once you have gopher (magical.fish and soon a gopher->gemini bridge, thus gemini://gemi.dev will be available from gopher, and from that, the News Waffle) and irc -> bitlbee to the rest of the networks, you won't need the web at all.

I mean:

gopher->gemini->web via News Waffle, enough to read news sites and blogs

irc->bitlbee->IM and chat networks, from Mastodon to XMPP, Steam, Discord...

rcarmo•3mo ago
Hmmm. There was an 8-bit IPv4 stack around that might compile to Z80 assembly, and we could always chirp out data at 1500baud or whatever, so… might well happen in real life some day.
lproven•3mo ago
There are several ZX Spectrum IP stacks, e.g.

https://github.com/milankowww/ppp_tcpip_zxspectrum

The more elegant solution is probably a Spectranet interface, which does TCP offload:

https://www.bytedelight.com/?page_id=3515

anthk•3mo ago
Gopher would be far easier, they already are some gopher clients for the ZX and you can visit an HN mirror at gopher://hngopher.com

Also:

    gopher://magical.fish (web-like portal with news feeds, games and services)

    gopher://sdf.org (blogs basically)

    gopher://bitreich.org (huge directory a la Altavista/Yahoo back in the day)
 
    gopher://gopher.icu (Nice personal page)

    gopher://gopher.icu/7.gutenberg (Gutenberg project)

    gopher://1436.ninja (Nice personal page too)
zimpenfish•3mo ago
Slightly disappointed there's no Tasword 2 (page 3 of [0]) tiny font shenanigans to horizontally extend the visible screen space.

There's Vaticanus[1][2] on a (mostly) 4x6 grid for 64x32. Or Tiny Talk[3] on a 5x5 grid for 51x38 if you prefer slightly more height.

[0] https://ia902300.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/4/...

[1] https://www.fontspace.com/vaticanus-font-f128585

[2] With some tweaks to characters and using 2px for space[4], I think you can get e.g. "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." into 158px (61.7% of a line) instead of 344px. One of the headlines shown ("[2] Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy?" would fit into 149px (58.2% line) rather than being truncated to "[2] Is Postgres read heavy or..."

[3] https://v3x3d.itch.io/tiny-talk

[4] https://git.rjp.is/rjp/zx-vaticanus-spacing

ggaughan•3mo ago
Maybe this could help show 64 chars per line: https://chuntey.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/64-column-print/
zimpenfish•3mo ago
Excellent, thanks[0].

[0] Although slightly distressing because I certainly read this at the time and typed it in to play around with but had lost all memory of it. Ah, age.

-edit-: Also I had completely forgotten all about the channels and streams shenanigans.

lproven•3mo ago
> Slightly disappointed there's no Tasword 2 (page 3 of [0]) tiny font shenanigans to horizontally extend the visible screen space.

I thought the same thing.

ddmf•3mo ago
Reminds me of Gopher / Lynx from back in the day.
anthk•3mo ago
And today:

gopher://magical.fish (the news section it's huge)

gopher://sdf.org

gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn (the directory it's huge)

gopher://gopher.icu (good site)

gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver

gopher://typed-hole.org (some adventures)

mark_round•3mo ago
There is also Spectranet[1] and clones for the Sinclair Spectrum, which allows for a much richer Internet-connected experience. It can load and boot remote programs from a server which allows you to get quite creative and produce sites like my TNFS server[2]. You can also try it out from an emulated Spectrum in a web browser at https://jsspeccy.markround.com if you don't have the original hardware lying around to see the sort of stuff you can build!

There's also Telnet clients so you can access old-school BBSes, and a variety of interesting "bridges" that grant access to Gopher or even parse websites. Quite amazing to access the modern Internet on an 8-bit machine from the early 80s that originally loaded games from cassette tape :)

[1]=https://www.bytedelight.com/?page_id=3515

[2]=https://tnfs.markround.com

anthk•3mo ago
Once you have telnet you just get an SDF account and do anything you want with a Unix shell. And, if you fire up Emacs, you are god. IRC, EMail, Jabber, Mastodon, gopher, gemini, a calculator, a Lisp environment, play ZMachine games with Malyon (and spawn full v5 and v8 games unlike the Speccy which could just handle v3 ones)...