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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
250•theblazehen•2d ago•83 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

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

https://openciv3.org/
705•klaussilveira•15h ago•206 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
967•xnx•21h ago•558 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
66•jesperordrup•5h ago•28 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
7•onurkanbkrc•43m ago•0 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
135•matheusalmeida•2d ago•35 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
42•speckx•4d ago•34 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
68•videotopia•4d ago•6 comments

ga68, the GNU Algol 68 Compiler – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
13•matt_d•3d ago•2 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
39•kaonwarb•3d ago•30 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
45•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
237•isitcontent•16h ago•26 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
237•dmpetrov•16h ago•126 comments

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

https://vecti.com
340•vecti•18h ago•147 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
506•todsacerdoti•23h ago•247 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
389•ostacke•21h ago•97 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
303•eljojo•18h ago•188 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•186 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

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

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
428•lstoll•22h ago•284 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
71•kmm•5d ago•10 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
25•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•14 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
23•bikenaga•3d ago•11 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
96•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/
270•i5heu•18h ago•219 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
34•romes•4d ago•3 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/
1079•cdrnsf•1d ago•461 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
64•gfortaine•13h ago•30 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
305•surprisetalk•3d ago•44 comments
Open in hackernews

Unparalleled Misalignments

https://rickiheicklen.com/unparalleled-misalignments.html
149•ChadNauseam•9mo ago

Comments

saagarjha•9mo ago
I have to admit some of these took a moment to register.
investa•9mo ago
Hypothesis = Understatement makes sense, right?
PeterStuer•9mo ago
This is great, had quite a few chuckles.

You could take it one step further and merge in Cockney Slang as an extra stage.

jl6•9mo ago
Hacker News / Tweaker Buzz?
chabska•9mo ago
That's a very loose definition of "synonyms" . Most are like "conceptually adjacent".
camtarn•9mo ago
Indeed. 'beach' and 'wave' are definitely not synonyms, and while a shelf is a platform, not all platforms are shelves. Too many of these are essentially really forced puns. But there are some absolute crackers in there nonetheless.
roenxi•9mo ago
Some poet must have had a lot of fun with these slipping things past the censors. It'd be in the same league as the underhanded C contest - what is the most innocent short text that can be written while slipping in some subtle but likely rather dirty double meaning in.
pixl97•9mo ago
This was a common thing to do in the late 90s and early 2000s when websites thought you could make 'safe chat' with a limited dictionary and it turns out they were mostly wrong.
krisoft•9mo ago
Some of these are very cool and fits their definition exactly. But some others are very forced. Who would think that “fashion” and “taylor” are synonyms? And they are both further synonyms of “fix”? Or in the “Cold Fusion // Cool Cat” pair how would “fusion” be a synonym of “cat”?
jstanley•9mo ago
A tailor makes clothes.

To fashion something is to make something. To tailor something is to customise it.

`cat` is a Unix command for concatenating files, which you could argue is fusing them together?

krisoft•9mo ago
I think you are onto something with ‘tailor’. If we take it as the verb ‘to tailor’ that is the synonym of the ‘to fashion’. Tailor as a profession is not a synonym of the noun ‘fashion’. But it is enough for them to be synonyms in one sense. So that works.

I hear you on ‘cat’ but i wouldn’t call that relationship synonyms.

em-bee•9mo ago
when you make a list like this then it's always a challenge to deal with edge cases. fashion and tailor fit together as well as many other terms on that list. a swift taylor can be seen as producing fast fashion, even if not true in reality. fixing clothes is also the work of many tailors. with getting custom tailored clothes falling out of fashion (pun intended ;-) the bulk of the work of most tailors is making changes and fixing things. in germany it is even a recognized profession with a two year training (you can become a full tailor with an extra year). most of my visits to a tailor recently have literally been for a quick fix. stuff that i could probably have done myself if i had a sowing machine and time.

i am with you on the cat fusion however. i don't get that one either.

krisoft•9mo ago
> fixing clothes is also the work of many tailors. with getting custom tailored clothes falling out of fashion

These are all good reasons for semantic closeness, but semantic closeness and being synonyms are not the same thing.

That being said while tailor (profession) is not a synonym of fashion (concept), tailor (verb) is a synonym of fashion (verb) and can be also a synonym of fix (verb).

ben_w•9mo ago
Ah, the difficulty of learning a second language as an adult.

Reminds me of the ways that my mediocre grasp of the German language still haunts me => Resurrects myself out of specific tracks in which my half-hearted clutch on the Alsatian tongue still plagues me.

Last year I inadvertently asked to borrow a fork-lift truck when I meant stapler. Still, at least my pronunciation is no longer Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYNXMWRdCx0

keeganpoppen•9mo ago
this is absolutely genius
gwern•9mo ago
An interesting ML exercise (possible class project!) would be to try to automate this. A bigram corpus combined with word embeddings and a NSFW text classifier, maybe? Your usual word embedding might not work because the point is the multiple meanings, so maybe the twist would be that you need a polysemous word embedding with multiple vectors or something like that, so it's not just an off-the-shelf word2vec...
_1tem•9mo ago
You don’t even need embeddings or Ml. A simple search across dictionaries, thesauruses and the Wikipedia entry list (with disambiguations) should be enough.

- Find all 2 word phrases and compound words - search across all pairwise combinations of mutual synonyms, and determine whether the compound synonym is itself a word or phrase

https://chatgpt.com/share/6818d11d-f444-800a-96b0-7a932e9213...

gwern•9mo ago
That would be a good baseline. Maybe the ML part would be for ranking them? Because I expect you would drown in matches, and the hard part becomes finding the good ones.
_1tem•9mo ago
I expect the opposite. I would expect an ML/embedding approach to find lots of false positives, because lots of words have close embeddings but are not synonyms. A strict thesaurus lookup should produce fewer matches. As for ranking the good ones, an embedder might help with that, but then we need a definition of "good". I would argue the most conceptually "unrelated" matches are the "best" ones, so yes, an embedder could quickly determine the farthest vector distance.
flufluflufluffy•9mo ago
Underdog/subwoofer is my favorite. A lesser known rapper needs to make a bar out of that xD
_1tem•9mo ago
Somebody should write commentaries/explanations for all of these, especially for non-native speakers and technical jargon. Hell, ChatGPT can probably write it up quickly. Even as a native speaker, there were quite a few that took a moment to understand. Have Reddit-style voting for the "best ones" and you could make a whole social network out of this.
chrisweekly•9mo ago
Brilliant, and hilarious. Thank you for sharing!
svat•9mo ago
Lovely. This is a fun, devious list (constable?), and though it says "since 2018", it's clearly actively maintained, as it contains entries like "Twitter ban / exterminate" and "quick jab / prompt injection".
tmiku•9mo ago
"since 2018" means "starting 2018, through the present", no?
_1tem•9mo ago
Hacker News / Intruder Alert
throw100•9mo ago
A related idea I've thought of is finding (comparatively) long words that have different definitions in different languages. E.g. "fetter" (English/German). In theory you only need a wordlist for each language, but in practice, most common words across languages also share definitions (e.g. "unintelligent" in English/German).
edent•9mo ago
These are called False Friends - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend
_1tem•9mo ago
Someone please vibe code a quick website to submit, verify, rank, filter, sort and explain/comment on all of these. Should be an hour with Cursor.
nullc•9mo ago
Just noted to my partner last night, a screw and a nail are similar things, but "you screwed it" and "you nailed it" are opposites. But if you take them as sexual innuendo they mean the same thing again.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF•9mo ago
> Home-schooled / house trained

The gifted kid to burnt-out transgender puppygirl pipeline

Explanation for anyone who needs it: "Home" and "house" are both nouns that mean a place you live in. "School" and "train" here are both used as verbs that mean "to teach something to someone". But "Home schooling" is the practice of parents teaching their own children at home and keeping them out of public school, whereas "House training" is the practice of teaching dogs not to pee inside the house.

rahimnathwani•9mo ago
home schooled is about the location of the teaching

house trained is about the subject of the teaching