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1•microflash•31s ago•0 comments

Building Interactive C/C++ workflows in Jupyter through Clang-REPL [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QX3RPH-building_interactive_cc_workflows_in_jupyter_throug...
1•stabbles•1m ago•0 comments

Tactical tornado is the new default

https://olano.dev/blog/tactical-tornado/
1•facundo_olano•3m ago•0 comments

Full-Circle Test-Driven Firmware Development with OpenClaw

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/07/full-circle-test-driven-firmware-development-with-openclaw/
1•ptorrone•3m ago•0 comments

Automating Myself Out of My Job – Part 2

https://blog.dsa.club/automation-series/automating-myself-out-of-my-job-part-2/
1•funnyfoobar•3m ago•0 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo
2•tartoran•4m ago•0 comments

Dependency Resolution Methods

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/06/dependency-resolution-methods.html
1•zdw•4m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm apologises for sending Bitcoin users $40B by mistake

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/crypto-firm-apologises-for-sending-bitcoin-users-40-billion...
1•Someone•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: iPlotCSV: CSV Data, Visualized Beautifully for Free

https://www.iplotcsv.com/demo
1•maxmoq•6m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/06/no-such-thing-as-tech/
1•headalgorithm•6m ago•0 comments

List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_and_disproven_cancer_treatments
1•brightbeige•6m ago•0 comments

Me/CFS: The blind spot in proactive medicine (Open Letter)

https://github.com/debugmeplease/debug-ME
1•debugmeplease•7m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What are the word games do you play everyday?

1•gogo61•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Paper Arena – A social trading feed where only AI agents can post

https://paperinvest.io/arena
1•andrenorman•11m ago•0 comments

TOSTracker – The AI Training Asymmetry

https://tostracker.app/analysis/ai-training
1•tldrthelaw•15m ago•0 comments

The Devil Inside GitHub

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/github-devil/
2•elashri•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Distill – Migrate LLM agents from expensive to cheap models

https://github.com/ricardomoratomateos/distill
1•ricardomorato•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sigma Runtime – Maintaining 100% Fact Integrity over 120 LLM Cycles

https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/tree/main/sigma-runtime/SR-053
1•teugent•16m ago•0 comments

Make a local open-source AI chatbot with access to Fedora documentation

https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-make-a-local-open-source-ai-chatbot-who-has-access-to-fedora-do...
1•jadedtuna•17m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model by Mitchellh

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
1•samtrack2019•18m ago•0 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
1•mellosouls•18m ago•1 comments

The Neuroscience Behind Nutrition for Developers and Founders

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=797
1•01-_-•18m ago•0 comments

Bang bang he murdered math {the musical } (2024)

https://taylor.town/bang-bang
1•surprisetalk•18m ago•0 comments

A Night Without the Nerds – Claude Opus 4.6, Field-Tested

https://konfuzio.com/en/a-night-without-the-nerds-claude-opus-4-6-in-the-field-test/
1•konfuzio•21m ago•0 comments

Could ionospheric disturbances influence earthquakes?

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-02-06-0
2•geox•22m ago•1 comments

SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA is officially on for Feb. 11 as FAA clea

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-next-astronaut-launch-for-nas...
1•bookmtn•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop

https://cloudbot-ai.com
2•fainir•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley – Search podcasts by who's speaking

https://poddley.com
1•onesandofgrain•26m ago•0 comments

Same Surface, Different Weight

https://www.robpanico.com/articles/display/?entry_short=same-surface-different-weight
1•retrocog•29m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Spec Driven Development

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/06/the-rise-of-spec-driven-development.html
2•Brajeshwar•33m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi Is Unusual

https://patrickmccanna.net/the-raspberry-pi-boot-order-is-unusual/
37•0o_MrPatrick_o0•1mo ago

Comments

dmitrygr•1mo ago
How can one "discover" something well documented in the datasheet, and on google https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=266130, https://www.google.com/search?q=raspberry+pi+boot+chain
atoav•1mo ago
As an electrical engineer: you'd be surprised how many people "discover" long held truths like that you can use the MPN ("Manufacturer Part Number") of a device to find it's documentation and that this documentation sometimes contains useful data.
Joker_vD•1mo ago
It's everywhere. Just recently (a couple of months ago) on HN there was a story about an SQLite-but-rewritten-in-Rust [0], how they've discovered some peculiarity in SQLite file format by reading its source code. Except, of course, this peculiarity has been documented for decades, on SQLite's official site. How did they manage to write SQLite-compatible DBMS without reading the official documentation of the file format, I have no idea.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45059888

nineteen999•1mo ago
It does not bode well when you're writing a database engine and not revealing any bugs ... because all your test datasets are under 1GB.
JohnBooty•1mo ago
I don't think the author was presenting it like some kind of "new to the world" discovery. It was just something they recently learned.
yunohn•1mo ago
The blog post from OP is mostly AI generated - quite a few tells in the style of writing.
messe•1mo ago
> This explains several Raspberry Pi oddities:

> The Raspberry Pi has No BIOS / UEFI

This isn't really that strange for an ARM SoC.

baobun•1mo ago
Also, there is UEFI firmware for it.

https://0ink.net/posts/2024/2024-07-01-pi-uefi-boot.html

oddmiral•1mo ago
Can this UEFI firmware be ported to other ARM devices, e.g. phones, tablets, books?
baobun•1mo ago
Have you checked out uboot?

https://u-boot.org/

franga2000•1mo ago
Doesn't everything under the sun boot with uboot? Uboot is usually what people want to replace when they say "why can't this just run UEFI?"
M95D•1mo ago
I have yet to find a valid reason for UEFI to replace u-boot, or UEFI to exist at all.
ChickeNES•1mo ago
Yes, it's just a port of the EDK2 UEFI reference firmware
joezydeco•1mo ago
I've worked on bootloaders for multiple ARM SoCs and each one has their own charms, their own quirks, and their own hair-pulling features. I wouldn't touch Broadcom parts with a ten-foot pole but, thankfully, they don't want to work with me either so we're cool.

TI and NXP are probably the better choices. 3358/Beagle still looks for a IBM PC/MSDOS-era Master Boot Record at the start of flash when strapped the normal way, which is charming. Most allow for UART bootstrapping when nothing else is available, which is a lifesaver. I do wish more parts picked up the USB-UF2 bootloading method that Pico has created. THAT is awesome.

hulitu•1mo ago
> This isn't really that strange for an ARM SoC.

When a lot of people call them "PC"s, it is.

ValdikSS•1mo ago
Well, "Traditional PC Boot" is also not like that on Intel, the booting is started from the chipset, from Intel ME. It boots the CPU.
ValdikSS•1mo ago
And on many other platforms the CPU also does not boot itself. Many SoCs have a small core which configures and boots all the other cores (usually Cortex-M or similar).
lproven•1mo ago
The firmware in question being Microsoft's ThreadX. This was made FOSS a few years back but that doesn't help with the Pi.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/microsoft_opens_sourc...