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Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
1•Willingham•4m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•5m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•10m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
1•mooreds•11m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•13m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•18m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•20m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•20m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•20m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•22m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•23m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•29m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
3•dragandj•30m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•31m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•32m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•33m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•34m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•36m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•37m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•37m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•38m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•40m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•41m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•42m ago•0 comments

Wellness Hotels Discovery Application

https://aurio.place/
1•cherrylinedev•42m ago•1 comments

NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/03/nasa-delays-moon-rocket-launch-month-fuel-leaks-a...
2•mooreds•43m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS

https://oshub.org/projects/retros-32/posts/getting-a-webserver-running
102•joexbayer•2mo ago

Comments

roetlich•2mo ago
Very cool! Why was and the entire networking stack straight forward, but not HTTP (and TCP)? Could you take inspiration form other projects for things like DNS?
joexbayer•2mo ago
Up to TCP most protocols are very straight forward, atleast getting them to work semi reliable. But then TCP explodes in complexity with all the state management and possible paths a connection can take.

HTTP is mostly annoying because of all the text parsing :D

sweetjuly•2mo ago
Yeah...HTTP/1 is one of those weird cases where the older protocol is considerably more difficult to implement correctly than the newer ""more complex"" standard. This is especially true if you want your server to work with they myriad of questionably compliant clients out in the world.

HTTP/3 might have been easier, and using QUIC+HTTP/3 in your hobby OS is a fun flex :)

merb•2mo ago
I don’t think that http/3 is easier to implement than http/1.1 especially since h3 is stateful where http/1.1 is not. Especially not when everything should be working correctly and securely because the spec does not always tell about these things. Oh and multiplexing is quite a hard thing to do especially when you are also dealing with a state machine and each of your clients can be malicious.
codys•2mo ago
I can't speak to http/3 (I haven't tried to impl it), but I can say that a bare-bones http/2 is very easy to implement because it doesn't try to pretend to be prose.
kragen•2mo ago
httpdito http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s implements HTTP/1.0 GET in about 320 machine instructions, and I haven't yet found a questionably compliant client that doesn't work with it. Writeup in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/httpdito-readme.
yupyupyups•2mo ago
You should add OpenAPI generation. So that basically the endpoint /openapi.json is auto-generated.
winrid•2mo ago
related - someone should take a stab at actually finishing this :) https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon/issues/988
nesarkvechnep•2mo ago
Like most thing in web development, this is backwards. Applications should be generated from the spec, not the other way around.
yupyupyups•2mo ago
Care to explain the advantage of starting off with the spec rather than with code?
nesarkvechnep•2mo ago
Because, you can iterate on the spec with all the stakeholders without ever writing a line of business logic. There are tools which can create a dummy web server from the specification and you can build clients without implementing business logic. I thought the advantages of spec-first development are obvious but I hope I helped.
yupyupyups•2mo ago
Thanks. The advantages of having a spec is obvious to me as well. I'm just not sure why building business logic that generates the spec (that generates the client) is a bad idea. That way you still have a single source of truth, and a spec.
canyp•2mo ago
Great website, massive rabbit hole I didn't know existed. There's a verified Ada/SPARK OS in there...
Aldipower•2mo ago
"After a long break from working on my hobby operating system, I finally got back into it and finished a very important milestone"

This is a sign of great engineering. Code gets foreign code after some time of not being in it. If you easily can pick it up again, it is a sign that you've written maintainable and understandable code, also for others.