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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
289•theblazehen•2d ago•95 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
20•alainrk•1h ago•10 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
34•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
14•onurkanbkrc•1h ago•1 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
715•klaussilveira•16h ago•216 comments

The Waymo World Model

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978•xnx•21h ago•562 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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94•jesperordrup•6h ago•35 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
11•tosh•1h ago•8 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

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138•matheusalmeida•2d ago•36 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
74•videotopia•4d ago•10 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
16•matt_d•3d ago•4 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
46•helloplanets•4d ago•46 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
242•isitcontent•16h ago•27 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
242•dmpetrov•16h ago•128 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

https://medium.com/lensesio/cross-region-msk-replication-a-comprehensive-performance-comparison-o...
4•andmarios•4d ago•1 comments

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https://vecti.com
344•vecti•18h ago•153 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
510•todsacerdoti•1d ago•248 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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393•ostacke•22h ago•101 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
308•eljojo•19h ago•191 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•187 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
436•lstoll•22h ago•286 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
31•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•29 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

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73•kmm•5d ago•11 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
26•bikenaga•3d ago•13 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
98•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
277•i5heu•19h ago•226 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
43•gmays•11h ago•14 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1088•cdrnsf•1d ago•469 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
312•surprisetalk•3d ago•45 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
36•romes•4d ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Stefan20162016/linux-insides-code/master/bootloader.asm
88•1vuio0pswjnm7•9mo ago

Comments

1vuio0pswjnm7•9mo ago
This is Bootloader ID #11 with comments

See:

http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de

https://docs.kernel.org/arch/x86/boot.html

not_your_vase•9mo ago

  > Blog nicht gefunden.
Ahhh, after looking harder, I see the typo

https://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.com/

watermelon0•9mo ago
.de redirects me to .com.

Maybe this is somehow geolocked in a weird way, to return not found error for you.

  > GET / HTTP/1.1
  > Host: sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de
  > User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
  > Accept: */*
  >
  * Request completely sent off
  < HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
  < Location: http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.com/
1vuio0pswjnm7•9mo ago
"On Blogger since November 2020."

https://www.blogger.com/profile/10975102234345772797

Blog post is dated 2012.

https://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.com/2012/07/1.html

This is what happens when Google acquires potential competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)

Unlikely that original Blogger service registered a "blogspot" domainname in myriad ccTLDs such as .de

Blogger was not a surveillance-based advertising company

not_your_vase•9mo ago
When I wrote the comment the top comment's link had a typo in it: https://sebastion-plotz.blogspot.de

Since then it was edited, and in a cash-money style there isn't any note about it.

secure•9mo ago
I use this bootloader in gokrazy and blogged about debugging a limitation in it a while ago: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2024-02-11-minimal-linux...
D4ckard•9mo ago
I love MBR hacking, it's so fun to see. Cf. sector lisp [1] and OSle [2].

[1]: https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866585

micw•9mo ago
Do I see it right that I need to recompile and reinstall it on each new kernel?
paulannesley•9mo ago
Yeah it looks like it needs to be assembled and written any time the kernel file's position on disk changes (`current_lba`), or different kernel cmdline is required.

I seem to remember having to do something similar with lilo… not hand-editing assembly, but running a command to rewrite the boot sector when the kernel moves on disk.

M95D•9mo ago
I don't see how this is better than lilo.
WalterGR•9mo ago
It’s not meant to be full-featured. It shows how to write a bootloader that’s smaller than 512 bytes.
6SixTy•9mo ago
It's not supposed to be better than lilo, just code golf. Limine is pretty much the only serious bootloader gunning for the spot lilo/elilo was going for.
6SixTy•9mo ago
Kind of cool, but being exclusively for BIOS/MBR kind of kills my excitement.
seba_dos1•9mo ago
With EFI, you can just boot straight into Linux without any bootloader.
NewJazz•9mo ago
Technically there's a pe shim, no?
cyberax•9mo ago
You can just package Linux as a PE executable.
NewJazz•9mo ago
I guess my point was that the package was in a way a very minimal bootloader. Equivocal, easily.
seba_dos1•9mo ago
Part of Linux: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/efi-stub....
nine_k•9mo ago
Yes. BIOS. Real mode. Not that I've been missing them these 30 years, and they are still in place. It gives a weird feeling.

I mean, if you target ancient baroque hardware like e.g. ZX Spectrum, you specifically target an ancient machine. But this is expected to work on any modern x86 hardware, while it feels like code for a 80286, and likely would run there. And this ancient stuff is still supported and actively used.

musicale•9mo ago
> this ancient stuff is still supported and actively used.

It sort of warms my heart that code for the IBM 360 (now IBM Z) and the IBM PC (now x86 PC) can still run on modern hardware decades later.

On one hand, we're stuck with the legacy of the past. But on the other hand, we can build on things and don't need to reinvent them unnecessarily.

msla•9mo ago
How much emulation is required to get System/360 code running on a modern IBM mainframe? Can the CPUs still run the original 32-bit code? Do CCWs and whatever other peripheral code still work?
zokier•9mo ago
Intels X86S proposal[1] gives perspective on this. Both in how there would be reasons to get rid of legacy, and how yet it still got shot down pretty quickly[2]. It's unfortunate that I don't think we ever got more explanation on it's termination, where did the opposition come from

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36013257

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42468664

msla•9mo ago
Did you reply to the wrong person?
musicale•9mo ago
Apparently user code can still run:

"z/Architecture retains backward compatibility with previous 32-bit-data/31-bit-addressing architecture ESA/390 and its predecessors back to the 32-bit-data/24-bit-addressing System/360."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture

raxxorraxor•9mo ago
> Yes. BIOS. Real mode.

  ; 0x20000 - 0x2fdff temporal space to load ; size: 63.5Kb is the max.
wasn't there an inofficial unreal mode that increased the adressable space? Otherwise there aren't too many options as to stay minimal in the first place.
gitroom•9mo ago
yeah im always low key impressed this old boot stuff still works now - makes messing with it feel kinda worth it
1vuio0pswjnm7•9mo ago
HN has added "(2018)" to the title but the source for this bootloader was originally uploaded to Google six years earlier in 2012. The version uploaded to Github in 2018 added comments.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130516162543if_/http://sebasti...