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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
50•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
114•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•20 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
49•vinhnx•4h ago•7 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
809•klaussilveira•21h ago•246 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
72•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
88•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•99 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1053•xnx•1d ago•599 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
470•theblazehen•2d ago•173 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
196•jesperordrup•11h ago•67 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
8•surprisetalk•59m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
534•nar001•5h ago•248 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
42•alephnerd•1h ago•14 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
204•alainrk•6h ago•309 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
33•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
25•marklit•5d ago•1 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
63•mellosouls•4h ago•67 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
110•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
67•speckx•4d ago•70 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
21•sandGorgon•2d ago•10 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
271•isitcontent•21h ago•36 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
199•limoce•4d ago•109 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
284•dmpetrov•21h ago•151 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
553•todsacerdoti•1d ago•267 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
424•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

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

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
348•eljojo•1d ago•214 comments

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

https://vecti.com
367•vecti•23h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
466•lstoll•1d ago•308 comments
Open in hackernews

Micro Wheeled legged Robot

https://github.com/MuShibo/Micro-Wheeled_leg-Robot
61•nill0•9mo ago

Comments

linuxlizard•9mo ago
I want to hack this to drive around the office and find an AP based on signal strength. Bloodhound mode!
leeoniya•9mo ago
"What is my purpose?"

"You pass butter"

btbuildem•9mo ago
I really appreciate the level of documentation -- I aspire to eventually publish a project of mine this way.

I've been struggling with PCB/circuit design and documentation -- here OP lists the schematics, but I can't find layouts. Can anyone hint at what software was used to produce these plans? The JSON sources hint there might be layouts in there!

EDIT: Answered my own question: it's EasyEDA

https://imgur.com/a/1xOuyB6

bitwize•9mo ago
Robots that combine the mobility advantages of both wheels and legs are going to proliferate, I think.

I saw vids of a Chinese "dog" style robot with wheels shredding like Tony Hawk, climbing stairs and even small walls, etc. If this footage is real, and Chairman Xi gets it in his head to airdrop them on our shores, the West is cooked.

pengaru•9mo ago
Have you read the Daemon/Freedom novels by Daniel Suarez?
sitkack•9mo ago
This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2UxtKLZnNo ?
bitwize•9mo ago
That's the one.
btbuildem•9mo ago
At the end, the rider! My inner cyberpunk wants to see races/rodeos involving these
snovv_crash•9mo ago
... for about an hour, then the battery goes flat.
neom•9mo ago
The link to the video, has links to videos, of loads of people in China making these things!! very cool: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1io4y1q73L/

also the homemade(?) NASA phone case, cool/interesting cultural insight.

DriftRegion•9mo ago
NASA branded things have been big in China since as early as 2019, peaking in 2021.

https://fashion.sina.cn/s/fo/2019-04-28/detail-ihvhiqax54682...

https://www.zhihu.com/question/337494558

https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/931153568796681979/answer/...

neom•9mo ago
Interesting, the forum post seems like it's the same thing as National Geographic in South Korea: https://www.instagram.com/ng_apparel/?hl=en
btbuildem•9mo ago
Is bilibili a general video site like youtube over there? Or hacker-specific?
neom•9mo ago
It's a good question because china does tend to operate that way in terms of it's microblogs (renren is a good place to find a job!). Youku is their main youtube, although even that's not right because it's sorta twitch meets netflix meets youtube. bilibili (b-station) is what I'd call "deviantart meets hackernews of video".
vivzkestrel•9mo ago
non electronics / non arduino guy, i would really appreciate if someone has a very good article on how to go about building a robot from scratch in arduino explained like how they would teach a 10 yr old kid