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X (Twitter) is back with a new X API Pay-Per-Use model

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

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
1•neogoose•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Deterministic signal triangulation using a fixed .72% variance constant

https://github.com/mabrucker85-prog/Project_Lance_Core
1•mav5431•5m ago•1 comments

Scientists Discover Levitating Time Crystals You Can Hold, Defy Newton’s 3rd Law

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scientists-levitating-crystals.html
1•sizzle•5m ago•0 comments

When Michelangelo Met Titian

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/michelangelo-titian-review-the-renaissances-odd-couple-e34...
1•keiferski•6m ago•0 comments

Solving NYT Pips with DLX

https://github.com/DonoG/NYTPips4Processing
1•impossiblecode•6m ago•1 comments

Baldur's Gate to be turned into TV series – without the game's developers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24g457y534o
1•vunderba•6m ago•0 comments

Interview with 'Just use a VPS' bro (OpenClaw version) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SnEd1RWUU
1•dangtony98•12m ago•0 comments

EchoJEPA: Latent Predictive Foundation Model for Echocardiography

https://github.com/bowang-lab/EchoJEPA
1•euvin•20m ago•0 comments

Disablling Go Telemetry

https://go.dev/doc/telemetry
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Effective Nihilism

https://www.effectivenihilism.org/
1•abetusk•25m ago•1 comments

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse

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2•pabs3•27m ago•0 comments

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

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1•pabs3•27m ago•0 comments

Seedance 2.0 Is Coming

https://seedance-2.app/
1•Jenny249•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fitspire – a simple 5-minute workout app for busy people (iOS)

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1•devavinoth12•29m ago•0 comments

Dexterous robotic hands: 2009 – 2014 – 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1qp7z15/dexterous_robotic_hands_2009_2014_2025/
1•gmays•33m ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•ksec•43m ago•1 comments

JobArena – Human Intuition vs. Artificial Intelligence

https://www.jobarena.ai/
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Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

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1•KittenInABox•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PaySentry – Open-source control plane for AI agent payments

https://github.com/mkmkkkkk/paysentry
2•mkyang•52m ago•0 comments

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https://moli-green.is/
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The Crumbling Workflow Moat: Aggregation Theory's Final Chapter

https://twitter.com/nicbstme/status/2019149771706102022
1•SubiculumCode•1h ago•0 comments

Pax Historia – User and AI powered gaming platform

https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PMu-pax-historia-user-ai-powered-gaming-platform
2•Osiris30•1h ago•0 comments

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3•ambitious_potat•1h ago•4 comments

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1•jonatask•1h ago•0 comments

Porting Doom to My WebAssembly VM

https://irreducible.io/blog/porting-doom-to-wasm/
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Cognitive Style and Visual Attention in Multimodal Museum Exhibitions

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/15/16/2968
1•rbanffy•1h ago•0 comments

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler in a Bash Script

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/full-blown-cross-assembler-in-a-bash-script/
1•grajmanu•1h ago•0 comments

Logic Puzzles: Why the Liar Is the Helpful One

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/knights-and-knaves/
1•wasabi991011•1h ago•0 comments

Optical Combs Help Radio Telescopes Work Together

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/optical-combs-help-radio-telescopes-work-together/
2•toomuchtodo•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Coding is the purest form of art

1•learningstud•2mo ago
As I was watching a YouTube video on Michelangelo's "Pieta", I was reminded of Milton's "Paradise Lost". Though the latter takes a lot more patience to appreciate. Then, I thought of Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming"; only then did I realize how aptly titled was the book. It struck me that coding could possibly be the purest form of art. It is art constructed of pure thought if only we have a capable enough language to write beautiful prose in it. Lean 4 and Agda come to mind which are more term-based than tactic-based as in Rocq (formally, Coq). Not only could Knuth's book be made an epic in homotopy type theory, it can be the most practical piece of art at the same time. What do you think?

Comments

Trasmatta•2mo ago
I do think it can be an art form, and definitely a craft. That's one reason I'm so disheartened by the push to have AI slop replace all our coding efforts.
tromp•2mo ago
If coding is the purest form of art, then lambda calculus may be the purest form of code. Its graphical representation [1] also looks somewhat artistic.

[1] https://tromp.github.io/cl/diagrams.html

learningstud•2mo ago
Yeah, that's why I mentioned Lean 4, Agda, and Rocq. Homotopy type theory is even better; see it's definition of a circle.
nacozarina•2mo ago
‘programming is the art of creating machines simply by describing them.’

it’s the closest thing to ‘spell-casting magic’ I’ll ever know, it finds ways to stay fresh