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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/
49•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

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

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

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1050•xnx•1d ago•594 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
83•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•90 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/
193•jesperordrup•11h ago•66 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
524•nar001•5h ago•243 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
202•alainrk•5h ago•303 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
32•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/
62•mellosouls•3h ago•63 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...
29•alephnerd•1h ago•13 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
109•videotopia•4d ago•29 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
65•speckx•4d ago•68 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
283•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
154•matheusalmeida•2d ago•47 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
553•todsacerdoti•1d ago•266 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
178•bookofjoe•3h ago•164 comments

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

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

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
466•lstoll•1d ago•307 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
347•eljojo•1d ago•213 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

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

PScientists reveal how bats learn to identify which prey is safe to eat

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-palatable-poisonous-scientists-reveal-prey.html
26•wglb•9mo ago

Comments

wglb•9mo ago
Paper in Proceedings of Royal Society B: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.045...
petemir•9mo ago
If only humans learnt to do the same...
card_zero•9mo ago
Did you accidentally eat a disgusting toad? We've all been there.
catlikesshrimp•9mo ago
Unfortunately, toddlers (not toadlers) don't know that bleach and amonia are toxic, and that colored pills are not for swallowing en masse. They do learn about some, when they survive. People's tastes are truly varied.

Some adults inject chlorine thinking it provides health benefits.

TLDR: Learning what to consume by Trial and error works for bats, but not for humans.

petemir•9mo ago
I was just joking about people eating bats, which kind-of made the news a few years ago...
grues-dinner•9mo ago
Is a PScientist like a P-Zombie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie)?
wglb•9mo ago
Sorry, it is a Pstypo.