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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/

66•valyala•2h ago•33 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

40•valyala•2h ago•4 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...

14•gnufx•1h ago•1 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

131•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/

143•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•170 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

256•ColinWright•2h ago•295 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/

839•klaussilveira•22h ago•251 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html

77•vinhnx•5h ago•9 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...

197•alephnerd•3h ago•141 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/

57•thelok•4h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...

1068•xnx•1d ago•615 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/

87•onurkanbkrc•7h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

497•theblazehen•3d ago•186 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/

218•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 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

19•momciloo•2h ago•1 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back

239•alainrk•7h ago•378 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique

583•nar001•7h ago•260 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html

5•zdw•3d ago•0 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

42•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/

10•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html

32•marklit•5d ago•4 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-...

15•josephcsible•46m ago•10 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...

19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/

116•videotopia•4d ago•35 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline

84•speckx•4d ago•94 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo

280•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en

203•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty

291•dmpetrov•23h ago•156 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal

23•sandGorgon•2d ago•13 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/

560•todsacerdoti•1d ago•272 comments

Open in hackernews

The Rise and Fall of the Visual Telegraph (2017)

https://parisianfields.com/2017/11/05/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-visual-telegraph/

37•geox•9mo ago

Comments

Rygian•9mo ago

For the discworld alternative, check the clacks [1].

[1] https://wiki.lspace.org/Clacks

ttoinou•9mo ago

It’s also fascinating this didn’t existed 300 years sooner (with more towers because of poorer telescopes). Communication of information across a kingdom is so important

anthk•9mo ago

Ah, so that's the origin of semáforo in Spanish, which the current meaning is "traffic light". And a semaphore on programming, too.

Rygian•9mo ago

The word "semáforo" literally means "carrier of meaning" from the Greek σῆμα (sêma) meaning 'signal' and ‒́foro meaning 'carrier'.

The visual telegraph is just one such instance of a "carrier of meaning".

anthk•9mo ago

Ah, well, like semantics... right. I didn't know about 'foro/phoro'.

>meaning

Could it mean 'symbol' too?

trhway•9mo ago

If i remember correctly the laser optical transmission tech started as a "laser visual telegraph" between 2 PARC buildings rooftops in the Stanford Research Park here.

ahazred8ta•9mo ago

There are many places called Telegraph Hill that used to be semaphore towers.

dredmorbius•9mo ago

That would include the one in San Francisco, with which some readers may be familiar.