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Show HN: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•45s ago•0 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•2m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•2m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•4m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
3•derriz•4m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•4m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•5m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•8m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•9m ago•0 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
2•jackhalford•10m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
1•geox•11m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•13m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•15m ago•2 comments

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-delays-mars-plans-to-focus-on-moon-66d5c542
1•BostonFern•15m ago•0 comments

Jeremy Wade's Mighty Rivers

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyOro6vMGsP_xkW6FXxsaeHUkD5e-9AUa
1•saikatsg•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP App to play backgammon with your LLM

https://github.com/sam-mfb/backgammon-mcp
2•sam256•18m ago•0 comments

AI Command and Staff–Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming

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1•tomwphillips•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CCBot – Control Claude Code from Telegram via tmux

https://github.com/six-ddc/ccbot
1•sixddc•19m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Is the CoCo 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made?

2•amichail•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Convert your articles into videos in one click

https://vidinie.com/
3•kositheastro•24m ago•1 comments

Red Queen's Race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
2•rzk•24m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•gozzoo•27m ago•0 comments

A Horrible Conclusion

https://addisoncrump.info/research/a-horrible-conclusion/
1•todsacerdoti•27m ago•0 comments

I spent $10k to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex

https://twitter.com/KarelDoostrlnck/status/2019477361557926281
2•tosh•28m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Spring Boot Deep Dive

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/
1•jjcob_sikorski•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Solving NP-Complete Structures via Information Noise Subtraction (P=NP)

https://zenodo.org/records/18395618
1•alemonti06•33m ago•1 comments

Cook New Emojis

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1•vasanthv•36m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Fifteen Years

https://xkcd.com/3172/
211•frizlab•2mo ago

Comments

ChrisArchitect•2mo ago
darn, something in my eye again.
ktpsns•2mo ago
I was introduced to XKCD by a friend 20yrs ago. Dann, time.
neilpointer•2mo ago
As a person whose wife got her "you're in remission" statement a few months ago, this one hit me right where it counts.
occam65•2mo ago
Jeeeesus I wasn't ready for that. my wife was diagnosed 11 years ago. we had been trying for kids for 4 years prior and finally had to give up. the drugs they put you on for cancer for 5 years, well, you cannot have kids. and she was already getting up there in age. she finally came off of them in 2020. then a year later, we found out she was pregnant. and because she was pregnant with a girl, my wife got a genetic test and found out she has the BRCA-1 mutation which explained her breast cancer diagnosis from 2014... and also put her on high alert for ovarian cancer. after the preventative surgery, it turns out she had precancerous cells in her fallopian tubes. this little girl of ours had saved her life. just by being born. she's now three. and my wife is healthy, and happier than ever. I'm a lucky, lucky guy.

good on you, Randall. Congratulations.

man-ls•2mo ago
That made so happy to read, wish you all the best!
bn-l•2mo ago
Thanks for the comment. This was touching to read.
DerArzt•2mo ago
Just damn, that's quite the rollercoaster. It's great that everything worked out for the better!
Ayesh•2mo ago
This must be how winning in life feels like. I wish your family good health.
delichon•2mo ago
> "Want to feel old? Yes."

No you don't.

An elderly neighbor rolled up on his golf cart the other day and said out of nowhere, "growing old isn't for pussies". He wasn't lying. You get to feel old; you don't want to.

drweevil•2mo ago
As my mother-in-law would say, "It beats the alternative." If you're feeling old, it means you're alive.
rimunroe•2mo ago
>> "Want to feel old? Yes."

> No you don't.

Maybe I missed something but I don’t know what you’re quoting or paraphrasing. In the comic the guy is saying he’s glad they’re getting old together, not that he’s glad they feel old. I don’t want to speak for my brother, but it seems weird to assume he is unfamiliar with what aging entails. Personally, I’m thrilled my sister-in-law is getting to experience the pains of aging instead of late stage cancer treatment.

jorams•2mo ago
> Maybe I missed something but I don’t know what you’re quoting or paraphrasing.

They're quoting the image's title text. Every xkcd comic has one. On desktop you can see it by hovering over the image. On mobile you generally can't see it. You can go to the mobile subdomain (https://m.xkcd.com/3172// and tap on the image, then it pops up underneath.

rimunroe•2mo ago
Ah yeah sorry I was on my phone and don’t usually use the mobile site. The rest of my point stands though. Maybe I’m too close to it but it seems like an odd response. The pains of aging are far preferable to dying of cancer at a relatively young age.
sudahtigabulan•2mo ago
Firefox for Android, for one, shows the alt text at the top of the context menu that pops up when you long press an image.

If it's too long, it gets truncated, though.

shmeeed•2mo ago
You can tap on a truncated alt text to extend it.
IAmBroom•2mo ago
Wow, that is certainly a superficial take on the meaning of Randall's sentiment.
delichon•2mo ago
The sentiment is clear, but the choice of words is a little jarring. Maybe both you and Randall are too young to know what feeling old feels like, so to you it seems like a charming metonym for enjoying a long life together, rather than daily mandatory torture. May you persist in that interpretation for a very long time.
andersource•2mo ago
This is a reference to the "wanna feel old?"-style comics, another recurring xkcd theme, for example [0], [1]. But yes, feeling old sucks.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1393/

[1] https://xkcd.com/1686/

pell•2mo ago
> No you don't.

Growing old together is what couples want. He was afraid he would lose her to cancer thus he’s happy they’re getting older as it means they’re both still here together.

drweevil•2mo ago
This one touched me deeply, when I first read it. I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma 5 years ago. Mean survival after diagnosis, I learned then, was 5 years. "Next year"? Damn. For a long time I couldn't think past next week! I'm finally venturing some thoughts about "next year."
thomascgalvin•2mo ago
This is beautiful
smag•2mo ago
Yes, this is true.
Dusseldorf•2mo ago
This one, Lanes[0], has always stuck with me. I've not really kept up with webcomics after the death of Google Reader, so very happy to see this update so many years down the line!

[0] https://xkcd.com/931/

Normal_gaussian•2mo ago
This is the one. Its impact on me has grown with time. I've read nearly every xkcd, but this is the one I think of.
timonofathens•2mo ago
Same, I think often about this image
mncharity•2mo ago
"Years You Have Left to Live, Probably"[1], on Nathan Yau's FlowingData[2], reminded me of Lanes. I stumbled on it, selected my gender and age, and the animated distribution sampling began. And the first-ish sample was a 'dead this year', immediate ball plummet. That... left an impression.

[1] https://flowingdata.com/2015/09/23/years-you-have-left-to-li... [2] https://flowingdata.com/

btreecat•2mo ago
Great reminder to step back from the keyboard and hug your loved ones.

And Firefox mobile sucks for cutting off the left side of the screen with no way to scroll. But viewing the image directly works.

sizzle•2mo ago
Who’s cutting onions…
9dev•2mo ago
Hey Randall, in case you read this… like many here, I've been following xkcd for a long, long time, and invariably, through the comics, the story of you and your wife. I don't know how you manage to convey so much through stick figure comics, but the raw emotion of the milestone comics makes me cry every time, both out of happiness for the two of you, the suffering in this world, and the beauty and madness and wonder of being alive. It really strikes home. I wish you all the best in the world, and many years together still. Thanks for everything.
mncharity•2mo ago
Two Years https://www.xkcd.com/1141/ , Seven https://xkcd.com/1928/ , Ten https://xkcd.com/2386/ . Lanes https://xkcd.com/931/