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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
82•valyala•4h ago•16 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
23•gnufx•2h ago•14 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
34•zdw•3d ago•4 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
87•mellosouls•6h ago•165 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
45•surprisetalk•3h ago•52 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
129•valyala•3h ago•99 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
142•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
95•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
850•klaussilveira•23h ago•256 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
66•samasblack•6h ago•51 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1090•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
62•thelok•5h ago•9 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
93•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
231•jesperordrup•14h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
516•theblazehen•3d ago•191 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
13•languid-photic•3d ago•4 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
332•ColinWright•3h ago•393 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
3•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
253•alainrk•8h ago•411 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
181•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•251 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
610•nar001•8h ago•269 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
35•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
27•momciloo•3h ago•5 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
47•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
124•videotopia•4d ago•38 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
96•speckx•4d ago•103 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
20•brudgers•5d ago•5 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
210•limoce•4d ago•117 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
32•sandGorgon•2d ago•15 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
287•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments
Open in hackernews

Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250415183433.htm
54•docmechanic•9mo ago

Comments

waynecochran•9mo ago

    This is part of the first 3D picture of the planet's atmosphere, which shows storms are primarily shallow.
Pix or didn't happen.
kjellsbells•9mo ago
I'm still hoping that Arthur C Clarke was right and that the temperature and pressure in the core is so intense that it has fused into one incredibly rigid molecular structure. A diamond. Ah well.
x3n0ph3n3•9mo ago
I'm hoping for metalic hydrogen.
SoftTalker•9mo ago
More likely a lump of (molten) rock from all the asteroids it has absorbed.
singularity2001•9mo ago
would it be doable with today's technology to do radar scans to see if inside of the gas hull there is a rigid body planet bigger than earth?
zx8080•9mo ago
For those who are interested and wants to see how it looks:

There are no pictures in this article.

It's just some story. Actually it is not a science paper.

dmix•9mo ago
No cameras have yet descended into Jupiter’s atmosphere yet, so makes sense. It would probably only be be able to take hazy images before the pressure destroyed it.
wincy•9mo ago
Best I’ve seen is this. Which is sort of real? Apparently it’s complicated.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CC7OJ7gFLvE

nine_k•9mo ago
At about 700 km below the cloud tops, where the gases start to liquefy under pressure, the pressure is estimated to be merely 700 bar, less than half of the pressure at the bottom of the Mariana trench. Earth-made cameras should have no trouble operating there, given an adequate enclosure. The temperature might be a problem, but I could not find any estimates for that depth.

We could certainly put a plane / balloon deep into the Jupiter atmosphere, if we were able to slow the arriving spacecraft to subsonic speeds in the atmosphere. Given that the low-Jupiter orbital velocity is 41 km/s, it's not an easy feat, even if the spacecraft brings enough reaction mass for a retro burn to slow down and insert itself to the low-Jupiter circular orbit.

chewbacha•9mo ago
Got through the first section and it started to feel strangely repetitive.
orbital-decay•9mo ago
Actual study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado9779
fooker•9mo ago
Well it's a verifiable/falsifiable hypothesis, which is great. Eventually we'll send a probe and find out how correct this is.

Fairly rare in physics nowadays to propose a hypothesis that's verifiable with only a few billions in funding :)