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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

The unusual mathematics that gives rose petals their shape

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01394-4
20•gnabgib•9mo ago

Comments

Calwestjobs•9mo ago
mandatory rant:

mathematics did NOT give anything to anything.

mathematics found out way to express naturally occurring pattern, without knowing what phenomena is behind creation of that pattern.

mathematics is not creating worlds, universes. mathematics in not physics. mathematics is not biology.

"good" language leads to "good" and logical thinking in every area of human endeavor.

pfortuny•9mo ago
Totally right. It should be "structure". Maths is just its description in a specific language.
fliife•9mo ago
What a pedantic point to make.
Calwestjobs•9mo ago
not like that. i do not care about math in that post.

"good" language leads to "good" and logical thinking in every area of human endeavor.

so it can also be true that "bad" language leads to "bad" thinking. you are making mistakes, making bad conclusions, which can be avoided just by using "proper" language. why make life harder.

that applies for "everything" from "marketing vs scam", to even philosophy itself,

edit: we live in complex world, stacking complexities on top of complexities, so being "20% wrong" in one layer of complexities, can lead to totally opposite result in another layer.

parodysbird•9mo ago
It's not pedantic, it's true, and it actually is deeply important because misunderstanding this can lead to very different beliefs about the world, science, and technology.
jazzyjackson•9mo ago
Nah. There's harmony and order in the unfolding of the universe. Mathematics can refer to both the symbols used to express that order as well as the order itself.
Calwestjobs•9mo ago
refer is not making it happen.

title says mathematics is that thing which gives form to something which does not rely on mathematics. mathematics is human construct to help us to do work in sciences or real life. mathematics is not in any shape or form innate to universe.

you are expressing it in your head, or my head or someones head. expressing in this context does not mean you are MAKING, BUILDING it in real life FROM mathematics, nor BECAUSE OF mathematics.

i mean universe as spacetime we occupy, not as marvel universe, words can have multiple meanings a lot of times even contradictory meanings between disciplines.

IronyMan100•9mo ago
Thats still debateable. There is a phenomenological Mathematical description, called statistics and there are Things Like the Schrödinger ewuations or Maxwell's ewuations. These Things can capture the underlying pattern.
DontchaKnowit•9mo ago
I think its entirely possible that shrodingers equations are phenomenological in nature.