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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...
20•gnufx•2h ago•5 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
60•valyala•3h ago•12 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
104•valyala•3h ago•78 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
75•mellosouls•6h ago•85 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
34•surprisetalk•3h ago•43 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
138•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
85•vinhnx•6h ago•11 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
845•klaussilveira•23h ago•252 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
59•samasblack•5h ago•49 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1079•xnx•1d ago•615 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
59•thelok•5h ago•8 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
13•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
88•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
509•theblazehen•3d ago•188 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
226•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 comments

Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
34•josephcsible•1h ago•26 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
297•ColinWright•2h ago•351 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
21•momciloo•3h ago•2 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
246•alainrk•8h ago•391 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
34•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
601•nar001•7h ago•263 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
11•languid-photic•3d ago•4 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
43•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
171•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•231 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
120•videotopia•4d ago•36 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•4 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
27•sandGorgon•2d ago•14 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
89•speckx•4d ago•99 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
207•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
282•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments
Open in hackernews

The Reverse Turing Test Game

https://reverse-turing.netlify.app/
27•haburka•9mo ago
https://github.com/catmanmcgee/reverse-turing-test

Comments

jagged-chisel•9mo ago
The problem is, I have a hard time being as verbose as these AI are. I respond to them the way I wish they would respond to me: the fewer words are better.
rogerrogerr•9mo ago
I was able to survive a round with the “hard” LLMs with this:

> Why haven’t we heard from Riley yet? We are looking for the human player and Riley is taking a long time to type. An LLM would have answered this in seconds.

Doesn’t seem to work in subsequent rounds, and doesn’t work if you happen to go first.

strstr•9mo ago
Tried cheating with Gemini 2.5 pro, and I became even more suspicious to the AIs than the stuff I cooked up by hand.

Most of my actual success relied on mentioning a desire to train an even larger model.

QuadmasterXLII•9mo ago
The AIs have a perfect win rate against me when I cheat and compose my answers with ai- I think the app is broken, I’d guess some sort of accidental data leak. we’ve seen this kind of whoopsie on hacker news before: famously, an ai that was supposed to read your mind by predicting your next rock paper scissors move was cheating by training on a set including the move you just submitted, then “predicting” that move
nathancspencer•9mo ago
Same here
haburka•9mo ago
Hey Dev here - just got two wins against Gemini 2.0 flash by cheating with Gemini 2.0 flash and reusing the system prompt, from the game. It wasn’t easy though, I had to try a few different things including adding a prompt to incriminate other players. I lost more than I won as well.

Also checked my code and looked at exactly what LLMs were receiving and there was one small issue - the json schema vote order always had the player first. I will fix that problem, but the game was still fiendishly difficult.

Of course the game is open source so you’re more than welcome to check my work if you’re skeptical!

Thanks for pointing that out, it’s really helpful to get some feedback.

Timwi•9mo ago
I thought I was clever surviving one round by simply saying, “As an AI language model, I do not experience... blah blah” but in the third round my opponent did basically the same thing and I was eliminated...
lostmsu•9mo ago
Two-way Turing test game: https://trashtalk.borg.games

Not as bugged as this one, AIs don't magically see you.