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Satellites Have a Lot of Room

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/02/satellites-have-a-lot-of-room/
1•y1n0•7s ago•0 comments

1980s Farm Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_farm_crisis
1•calebhwin•44s ago•0 comments

Show HN: FSID - Identifier for files and directories (like ISBN for Books)

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/fsid
1•modinfo•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Holy Grail: Open-Source Autonomous Development Agent

https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource
1•Moriarty2026•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game
1•foxiel•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•20m ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
1•rolph•23m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•23m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•25m ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•28m ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•29m ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
3•rolph•29m ago•1 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•33m ago•0 comments

Old Mexico and her lost provinces (1883)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77881/pg77881-images.html
1•petethomas•36m ago•0 comments

'AI' is a dick move, redux

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
4•cratermoon•37m ago•0 comments

The source code was the moat. But not anymore

https://philipotoole.com/the-source-code-was-the-moat-no-longer/
1•otoolep•37m ago•0 comments

Does anyone else feel like their inbox has become their job?

1•cfata•37m ago•1 comments

An AI model that can read and diagnose a brain MRI in seconds

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/ai-model-can-read-and-diagnose-brain-mri-seconds
2•hhs•41m ago•0 comments

Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about?

2•vampiregrey•43m ago•0 comments

AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•44m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
2•hhs•46m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•46m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

5•Philpax•47m ago•1 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
2•cui•53m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
2•geox•55m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
3•EA-3167•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
6•fliellerjulian•57m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•59m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-to-Read Books (2002)

https://adilegian.com/FranzenGaddis.htm
20•ofalkaed•2mo ago

Comments

ofalkaed•2mo ago
Rereading this for the first time in 20 odd years, I think what we lost with the death of David Foster Wallace is the loss of the friendship between David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen. It is easy to see the effect this loss has had on Franzen, but it is impossible to see the effect it had on Wallace, we can only assume. Society did not lose a great author, it lost a great friendship.

I keep trying to get through this but I can't do it, it makes the loss too difficult to overcome.

logicprog•2mo ago
This was an incredibly well written essay, well worth the read. Thank you for sharing
rurban•2mo ago
Looks like Franzen didn't understand JR at all. JR is a novel without an author. There is no subjectivity given by any author. No descriptions, no voice over explanations, no thoughts. Only objective observations, only dialog ie what people say, not what they didnt say, just think. It's like a modern film without a Scorsese like voice over a narrative, which explains everything, instead of letting the observer come to his own conclusions. For literature it was a revolution.

And if you are in it it's very easy to read. You just to keep going on, because when you forgot who said what you get lost. There is no he said, she said. There's only subjects speaking, no author explaining. No double quotes.

My favorite book

miltonlost•2mo ago
There's portions where the voices overlapping is intentional, like calling into a party line on accident, and others where you can tell immediately from the Voice who is speaking. Few other authors have characters you can (or must) identify from idiolects alone.
mna_•2mo ago
There are glimmers of JR in Gaddis' earlier work The Recognitions, specifically during the party scenes where voices overlap. But of course because the rest of the book is written in a "usual manner", you can recognise who's saying what quite easily.
pessimizer•2mo ago
> And if you are in it it's very easy to read. You just to keep going on, because when you forgot who said what you get lost.

That book was one of the weirdest experiences of my life. I didn't know anything about it, just started flipping through it at the library (probably shelved near something I was interested in), and ended up reading the entire thing in one sitting. So I'm definitely with you.

I think my mind was still racing from that book a year later, and I was hoping that it was Gaddis's style (I didn't know anything about him) and I'd be able to find other books by him (or anyone else) written with that velocity. I did not:(

edit: Would appreciate recommendations, though.

mitchbob•2mo ago
This might be easier on the eyes:

https://archive.ph/uyBJD

rudimentary_phy•2mo ago
The Contract version. Thanks!