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

https://openciv3.org/
372•klaussilveira•4h ago•79 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
737•xnx•10h ago•453 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
130•isitcontent•4h ago•13 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
106•dmpetrov•5h ago•48 comments

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

https://vecti.com
233•vecti•7h ago•108 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
19•quibono•4d ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
300•aktau•11h ago•149 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
301•ostacke•10h ago•80 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
151•eljojo•7h ago•118 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
371•todsacerdoti•12h ago•214 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
42•phreda4•4h ago•7 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
300•lstoll•11h ago•224 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
98•vmatsiiako•9h ago•32 comments

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
48•jnord•3d ago•3 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
165•i5heu•7h ago•121 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
134•limoce•3d ago•75 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
34•rescrv•12h ago•15 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
5•kmm•4d ago•0 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
222•surprisetalk•3d ago•29 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/
950•cdrnsf•14h ago•409 comments

The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch into Art

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-31/oklahoma-architect-bruce-goff-s-wild-home-desi...
16•MarlonPro•3d ago•2 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
25•ray__•1h ago•4 comments

Claude Composer

https://www.josh.ing/blog/claude-composer
93•coloneltcb•2d ago•67 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
76•antves•1d ago•56 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
31•lebovic•1d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

https://github.com/stablyai/agent-slack
36•nwparker•1d ago•7 comments

How virtual textures work

https://www.shlom.dev/articles/how-virtual-textures-really-work/
22•betamark•11h ago•22 comments

Evolution of car door handles over the decades

https://newatlas.com/automotive/evolution-car-door-handle/
38•andsoitis•3d ago•60 comments

The Beauty of Slag

https://mag.uchicago.edu/science-medicine/beauty-slag
26•sohkamyung•3d ago•3 comments

Planetary Roller Screws

https://www.humanityslastmachine.com/#planetary-roller-screws
33•everlier•3d ago•6 comments
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Malaya's Timeless Design

https://www.linyangchen.com/Philately
75•cenazoic•9mo ago

Comments

kubb•9mo ago
Incredible how deep people can go into something so mundane as a post stamp.

The other day I was discussing with a friend what would happen if there wasn't any need to work at jobs anymore, and whether people would be able to find fulfilment in their lives.

I think there would be so many new areas of knowledge being explored that we can't even imagine it. In my opinion, people don't find meaning, they create it, and they have an endless capacity for it.

V__•9mo ago
There is a reason why a lot of science in the past happened to be done by clergymen or pastors. They had a lot of time on their hand and a secure income. I am certain science, art and the community in general would profit immensely if the modern workload would be reduced.

I think covid was a good example of this. So many people took up a new hobby or tried something new.

khy•9mo ago
I get the sense that a lot of science in the 19th century was done by the idle rich.
teachrdan•9mo ago
Charles Darwin was independently wealthy and largely funded his own research into evolution.
vessenes•9mo ago
Postage stamps are a surprisingly deep topic, overlapping with money, collectibility and bank notes. I’m not a postage stamp enthusiast myself, but it’s one of those “the universe is surprisingly detailed” type topics.

Your optimism on humans is appreciated, although arguably not backed up by history: it seems to me like most places times and economic systems turn out a similar percentage of knowledge explorers: ask yourself what percentage of the landed gentry in the UK did this, for instance, and what percent just leisured away. I propose with no data the numbers are largely invariant; what a society or economic systems does change is the ability of the x% to make progress and impact/implement.

kubb•9mo ago
I feel like 98% were fox hunting, gambling and whatnot, but the 2% gave us William Wilberforce, Charles Darwin and Lord Byron. If the number of idlers increases so will the number of productive ones.
vessenes•9mo ago
Yeah that’s my rough ratio too. Think Athens long ago: probably like max 5% in an ideal (well for male non slaves) society.
kubb•9mo ago
It’s kinda like startup math. Most will fail but the few successes will offset the failures.
KaiserPro•9mo ago
Firstly, this is an awesome website. I was looking for some high resolution stamp images a few weeks ago, these would have been perfect.

However the thing that really caught my interest is the font they are using. Yes its designed to look old, nothing new. But what is new is that the letters are not all at a fixed level, they move up and down minutely. Is that a product of the font, or something that is done in the rendering?

cenazoic•9mo ago
The font is IM Fell English:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IM+Fell+English

ayushrodrigues•9mo ago
timeless is a great word to describe this. almost impossible to tell what era these are from
weiliddat•9mo ago
Glad to see a bit of Malaysian/Singaporean history in the form of post stamps featured on HN.

Personal anecdote: my dad grew up during the post-colonial Malaysian era, and attended some colonial schools that were still ran by the British Anglican missionaries. I guess that's what instilled some stamp collection habits, which he did try to impart to me. I recall waiting in line for first day covers in my early school years, or going to tiny local post stamp trading events. For some stamps that were still affixed to letters, we'd carefully try to dissolve it with water, dry them, and store them in collection books lined with plastic/paper. Ah the simple tangible hobbies of the pre-Internet era...