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Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•10m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•10m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•12m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
2•cwwc•14m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•15m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•17m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
1•ark296•17m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
1•medbar•19m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•19m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
1•akagusu•20m ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•20m ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•22m ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•26m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•32m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

1•fud101•32m ago•4 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•33m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

https://archive.org/details/the-yardbirds_dazed-and-confused_9-march-1968
1•petethomas•34m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

https://www.agentnewschat.com/
2•kiddz•35m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

https://www.doimog.com
3•a_n•39m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•44m ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•45m ago•0 comments

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script.html
3•todsacerdoti•45m ago•0 comments

Discovering the "original" iPhone from 1995 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
1•fortran77•46m ago•0 comments

Psychometric Comparability of LLM-Based Digital Twins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14264
1•PaulHoule•48m ago•0 comments

SidePop – track revenue, costs, and overall business health in one place

https://www.sidepop.io
1•ecaglar•50m ago•1 comments

The Other Markov's Inequality

https://www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/2026/01/16/the-other-markovs-inequality/
2•tzury•52m ago•0 comments

The Cascading Effects of Repackaged APIs [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6055034
1•Tejas_dmg•54m ago•0 comments

Lightweight and extensible compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

https://narwhals-dev.github.io/narwhals/
1•kermatt•56m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Scala

https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
84•onestay42•2mo ago

Comments

packetlost•2mo ago
Not that Scala.
kvakvs•2mo ago
This should have been in the title :)
beefman•2mo ago
This predates that. It's written in Ada.
AdieuToLogic•2mo ago
> This predates that. It's written in Ada.

Does it count if, combining the two, one could infer a musical scale[0] such as:

  Ada (ay-dah), Scala (ska-lah)
Bonus points for Latin aficionados:

  The word "scale" originates from the Latin scala,
  which literally means "ladder".
:-)

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(music)

reactordev•2mo ago
Every Good Boy…

Crazy how these two disciplines are so intertwined.

AdieuToLogic•2mo ago
> Every Good Boy…

  Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do, So Do ... compile please!
:-D

EDIT:

Seriously, though, what both music and fundamentally sound programming languages have in common is math. Elegantly defined versions of both are beautiful expressions of thought.

packetlost•2mo ago
Yes, but the programming languages is much more well known.

Regardless, cool! This is the first project I'm aware of to have been written in Ada

goku12•2mo ago
Do you have any specific restrictions on what a 'project' means here? I have seen Ada used on an extensive scale in aerospace and defense projects, including a simple realtime OS.
packetlost•2mo ago
Most of those projects are pretty locked down/closed, I just mean I can actually see the project to a reasonable degree.
goku12•2mo ago
Fair enough. And yes, it's such a shame that there aren't more public, especially FOSS, projects in Ada.
lucyjojo•2mo ago
Been slowly learning Ada these last few weeks and I regret not having learnt it years ago...

This thing is great.

nickt•2mo ago
Then this one?

https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/05/10/scala-series-its-...

drcursor•2mo ago
And not the Amiga Scala.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(company)

tanin•2mo ago
Took me a few minutes to go from "what is going on?" to "oh this is not the Scala".
anematode•2mo ago
Love Scala! One of my favorite high school memories is putting Scala files into a DAW and hooking it up to an electric piano, so that my piano teacher and I could play around with different tunings.
paulddraper•2mo ago
Should change title to “Scala: software for creating scales”
ChrisArchitect•2mo ago
Not related:

The Origins of Scala (2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090294

LargoLasskhyfv•2mo ago
It's from the future! Says 27 Nov 2026 at the bottom :-)

That aside, the fonts looked very fuzzy, until I scaled to 133% in FF. Then they were perfect, crystal clear. Anybody else had that, too?

ofcrpls•2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21278360 - Submission/dicussion from 2019