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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
289•theblazehen•2d ago•95 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
20•alainrk•1h ago•10 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
34•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
14•onurkanbkrc•1h ago•1 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
717•klaussilveira•16h ago•217 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
978•xnx•21h ago•562 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
94•jesperordrup•6h ago•35 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
11•tosh•1h ago•8 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
138•matheusalmeida•2d ago•36 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
74•videotopia•4d ago•11 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
16•matt_d•3d ago•4 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
46•helloplanets•4d ago•46 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
242•isitcontent•16h ago•27 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
242•dmpetrov•16h ago•128 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

https://medium.com/lensesio/cross-region-msk-replication-a-comprehensive-performance-comparison-o...
4•andmarios•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
344•vecti•18h ago•153 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
510•todsacerdoti•1d ago•248 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
393•ostacke•22h ago•101 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
309•eljojo•19h ago•192 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•187 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
437•lstoll•22h ago•286 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
32•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•31 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
73•kmm•5d ago•11 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
26•bikenaga•3d ago•13 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
98•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
278•i5heu•19h ago•227 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
43•gmays•11h ago•14 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1088•cdrnsf•1d ago•469 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
312•surprisetalk•3d ago•45 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
36•romes•4d ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

How Silica Gel Took over the World

https://www.scopeofwork.net/silica-gel/
28•NaOH•10mo ago

Comments

freemoney•10mo ago
this is a piece of knowledge I didn't know I needed
robertlagrant•10mo ago
> Thanks to Brad Avenson for suggesting (facetiously) that we fill our products & packaging with “dry, inert gas,”

This is what we do with crisp packets. Noble gases don't let the crisps go rancid.

pfdietz•10mo ago
Surely nitrogen is cheaper than noble gases?
robertlagrant•10mo ago
Oh yes also nitrogen.
NaOH•10mo ago
This appears to have reached the second-chance pool even though another submission of the same article generated ample discussion a couple days ago.

How Silica Gel Took Over the World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550556 - April 2025 (171 comment)