fp.

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/

38•thelok•2h ago•3 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

101•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•18 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

51•samasblack•3h ago•38 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/

789•klaussilveira•20h ago•243 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html

39•vinhnx•3h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/

63•onurkanbkrc•5h ago•5 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...

1040•xnx•1d ago•587 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

462•theblazehen•2d ago•165 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique

509•nar001•4h ago•235 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/

183•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/

63•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•59 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

49•mellosouls•3h ago•51 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back

186•alainrk•5h ago•280 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

27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism

17•0xmattf•2h ago•7 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html

19•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/

108•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline

58•speckx•4d ago•62 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo

268•isitcontent•20h ago•34 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en

197•limoce•4d ago•107 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty

281•dmpetrov•21h ago•150 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o

169•bookofjoe•2h ago•152 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes

152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•47 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/

549•todsacerdoti•1d ago•266 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

422•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/

39•matt_d•4d ago•14 comments

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

https://vecti.com

365•vecti•23h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

465•lstoll•1d ago•305 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/

341•eljojo•23h ago•209 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/

66•helloplanets•4d ago•70 comments

Open in hackernews

An Ode to the Thigh (2024)

https://ponnekanti.net/posts/an-ode-to-the-thigh/

28•mefengl•9mo ago

Comments

dullcrisp•9mo ago

Ironic that we went and invented wheels.

tbrownaw•9mo ago

... And then followed that up by inventing lots more different kinds of wheels.

otabdeveloper4•9mo ago

The first real wheels were invented in the mid Bronze Age, i.e., much later than cities and pyramids and civilizations.

Wheels are a recent and relatively untested contraption in the grand timeline of human inventions.

janderson215•9mo ago

“This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

AnonC•9mo ago

Needs 2024 in the title.

This article would’ve been a lot more interesting for laypeople if it had pictures showing the described muscle and tissue structures.

> The most fundamental evolutionary act is motion, not cognition

This is highly reductive. Evolution and survival cannot be explained by one single facet of a biological organism.

hoseja•9mo ago

And ignores the first couple billion years just manifesting the basic biochemical machinery of cells out of chaos.

m463•9mo ago

I think (loosely) of another published paper:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2997957/

“Why I Hate the Index Finger” by William L. White, M.D., was originally published in Orthopaedic Review, Volume IX, No. 6 (June 1980) pp. 23–29.