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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
469•nar001•4h ago•224 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
156•bookofjoe•2h ago•137 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
447•theblazehen•2d ago•161 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
33•thelok•2h ago•2 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
33•mellosouls•2h ago•27 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
93•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
782•klaussilveira•20h ago•241 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
42•samasblack•2h ago•28 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
26•simonw•2h ago•24 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
36•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
59•onurkanbkrc•5h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1034•xnx•1d ago•583 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
180•alainrk•4h ago•255 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
27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
171•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
10•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
16•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
107•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
7•0xmattf•1h ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
266•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•43 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
278•dmpetrov•20h ago•148 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
36•matt_d•4d ago•11 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
546•todsacerdoti•1d ago•264 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
421•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

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

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•22h ago•166 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
65•helloplanets•4d ago•69 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
338•eljojo•23h ago•209 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
460•lstoll•1d ago•303 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
373•aktau•1d ago•194 comments
Open in hackernews

Why the 737 MAX has been such a headache for Boeing

https://www.jalopnik.com/1853477/boeing-737-max-incidents-aircraft-problems/
39•cebert•9mo ago

Comments

xiphias2•9mo ago
I don't really understand how a company can be criminally liable without any person working in it (especially the president)
AtlasBarfed•9mo ago
Corporations are legally people who can't be jailed. Make sense?
mjevans•9mo ago
That never made sense to me. Isn't the whole reason the 'board' gets paid so much that they're the ones who go to jail if stuff is messed up (and they're culpable rather than clearly wronged by someone else)?
AngryData•9mo ago
Theoretically sure, that is the excuse given for their massive pay. But really that has only been true in practice for a few short periods of time, atleast in the US.
avalys•9mo ago
How much do you think the board gets paid?
Y-bar•9mo ago
In my company our chairman has a yearly compensation less than our CEO, but greater than our CFO.
somat•9mo ago
corporations are not people, they don't have personal privilege, corporations are governments, they have governmental privilege.

A corporation is the ruling apparatus for a group of people, which is a fancy way of saying government.

Animats•9mo ago
County of Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific Railroad.
gonzo41•9mo ago
I remember suggesting during the VW emissions scandal that we needed something like a corporate guillotine to execute companies of scale that were involved in serious crime. Not just a change out of directors, but wholesale breakup.

But you know, just a person on the internet yelling into the void...

alexey-salmin•9mo ago
They jailed the engineer, all working as expected
ahazred8ta•9mo ago
Someone said "Speaking truth to power isn't just shouting into the cannons"
cameldrv•9mo ago
Corporations can be jailed. You can freeze their assets and suspend their operations for a period of time. We do this in some circumstances like failing to renew a business license, but not for say, murder.
ars•9mo ago
It's because of dilution of responsibility, each individual didn't do anything wrong, but take all together it adds up to wrongdoing.

It's not usually nefarious, it's usually a result of imperfect information - each individual works off of the information they have which leads them to wrong actions as a whole, but correct actions individually.

xiphias2•9mo ago
,,It's because of dilution of responsibility, each individual didn't do anything wrong''

In that case it would be true, but it would be hard for me to think that nobody told the leader of Boeing (who should have known it himself as the leader of the biggest airplane company) that putting an engine over the wing is both stupid and dangerous and unstable.

bambax•9mo ago
Yes. It's good to inflict huge fine on the company itself, as it will eventually hurt stockholders; but management should be held accountable too, especially C-level personnel who quit with golden parachutes of various sizes. They should have to pay those back, at the very least.
ninetyninenine•9mo ago
As an American I sort of live in a bubble. I didn't realize the rest of the world views the US as a country that's falling apart until recently. This article solidifies what I've heard even further. With Airbus dominating the commercial aviation market, what is the US currently best at?

Space, Defense, cinema and software?

iancmceachern•9mo ago
Medical devices
fakedang•9mo ago
Pretty much all of the above. And drugs, although America's healthcare model is so well known it cancels that out.

Tbf, the rest of the world also views Europe in the same boat (if not having taken an early-bird ticket on it).

jiggawatts•9mo ago
Software, cloud, AI, financial services, movies, computer games, space (i.e.: Starlink), military technology, etc...

There are entire categories of things where it is just the US doing the thing, OR without the US the thing would implode.

For example, there are only two popular mobile phone operating systems: Android and iOS. Both are made by US companies (Google and Apple).

Let me put it this way: If every undersea fibre link out of the Americas was suddenly severed, people in the USA might not even notice for a while. The rest of the planet would make a winding down noise as every second piece of hardware or software stopped dead because of some missing dependency.

wiseowise•9mo ago
> For example, there are only two popular mobile phone operating systems: Android and iOS. Both are made by US companies (Google and Apple).

Not for long.

https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_unveils_its_own_pc_os__harmo...

MrDrMcCoy•9mo ago
There's also Sailfish OS and Tizen, which could become suitable replacements if investment and necessity arose.
awesome_dude•9mo ago
American Exceptionalism.

From my neck of the woods, we've largely viewed the Americans as part of a security arrangement (Pacific) but, as a trading partner, they are far behind the Chinese (so much so that its a constant political discussion on how to balance the two competing alliances).

This is largely what Trump was trying, and failing (miserably) to address with his tariffs, nobody buys from the US anymore.

If the fibre was cut through the USA, then yes there would be a period of difficulty, but it would be very quickly replaced with other countries technology (keeping in mind that most Western governments were looking to move to Chinese Huawei telecommunications kit until the US made aspersions as to how secure peoples data/secrets would be if that happened, completely ignoring Snowden's revelations that the US had been engaged in using the hardware in overseas telecommunications systems for that exact purpose)

jiggawatts•9mo ago
Sure, that'll be easy!

Just clone the repos from GitHub, wait... oh no.

We'll just deploy it to AWS... wait... IAM is in US East 1 only. Dammit.

Okay, fine, we can live without all of those JS CDN URLs, right?

Where's NPM managed from again?

Crates.io?

NuGet?

Uh-oh.

awesome_dude•9mo ago
Right - cool, there are no offshore backups

Go you :\

immibis•9mo ago
Just yesterday I applied for several job postings for building European Sovereign Cloud at AWS as well as other companies doing a similar thing. The tariff disaster was a global wake-up moment. Don't expect all of these things to remain US-only.

BTW Europe is already the center of the Internet at layer 3. Servers are cheaper in Europe. Bandwidth is cheaper in Europe. So I assume all those services, especially the free ones, are only hosted in the US because of latency or national pride.

data_maan•9mo ago
You live in a bubble and you think that just because you use American products (GitHub owned by MS, AWS and the rest) the rest of the world does too.

Why don't you have a look at Asia (and it doesn't even have to be China, it can be Japan too)? Most major Asian companies have clones of the software stack that you mentioned and do not rely on it as much as you think.

These days there are (luckily) alternatives to American products, and this American-first ideology will only accelerate the speed at which the rest of the world will switch to alternative ones.

yesbabyyes•9mo ago
I thought Huawei's only competitors in telecommunications are European, though?
awesome_dude•9mo ago
I'm not in the telco space anymore, but Motorola, Cisco, Alcatel Lucent (or whatever they are now) are all a mix aren't they, Euro/US
ojl•9mo ago
I think it’s Ericsson and Nokia (which bought Alcatel Lucent I think) that are the main competitors.
mrtksn•9mo ago
IMHO USA is still the best in many of those things, it's just that its no longer uncontested. USA is going through the stage all the former European empires went through. You are even trying to do the nationalism thing which by itself means if you adopt it you will become a nation instead of an empire and instead of doing global stuff you will do what a nation of 340M people do. All those isolationist stuff, identity crisis etc. looks like post-imperial Europe to me. Sometimes I wonder if USA is trying to do soft-transition from being global superpower empire into a largish country like on of the others. I just can't see the mechanism where all that can be orchestrated, so maybe it's not orchestrated but because US have only 2 neighbors and they are well behaved the US empire isn't going down with a huge war but its just pulling back as it is contested.
immibis•9mo ago
Is self-destruction a soft transition?
cjblomqvist•9mo ago
The UK (empire) didn't go down in a big war (although they fought in several, that also threatened them). It seems wars are definitely not needed for the transition to a nation rather then empire.

I'd say wars have historically been a part of all nations/geographical areas more or less continuously - and empires are more inclined to participate due to 1) being bigger and 2) thinking there's more to gain from those wars (usually due to capability/likelihood of winning).

mrtksn•9mo ago
Maybe being an island helps, maybe the WW1, WW2 and other conflicts were the process of downfall of the British empire I'm not too sure about it but after centuries of global European dominance Europe(including UK and the Turks) ended up transforming into something completely different than their glory days and its alright.

Similarly, maybe the conflicts US was involved last 30+ were the wars that broke the empire?

Personally, I'm looking forward to a world where our planet belongs to all of us and we are not limited by borders and not dying for the careers of politicians. IMHO the technology has advanced enough and the resource scarcity and most issues are artificial.

xiphias2•9mo ago
Regarding defense while US is still ahead, DJI in itself is already far superior in manufacturing small drones, it's just that they are used in both sides of the wars, that's why there was not much focus on them so far.
mjevans•9mo ago
Offhand, what I remember reading during the initial 737 MAX crashes:

Part of the appeal of the 737 series of airplanes was pilot certification across a wide fleet allowed for carrier flexibility and cost savings. Same airframe, same 'response', 'same certification'. So they tried to lie to everyone. Mount the engines on the same airframe a bit differently. Use software to make the behavior (in most circumstances) the same as the older models. etc.

The rational was that they 'couldn't' spend the time, money, or above pilot training needs to field a new competitive model. They'd just come off of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner . Which skimming the Wikipedia article, probably also dovetails in with the seemingly eternal struggle between the Machinists union and Boeing the company who used to be headquartered in Seattle. Penny pinching decisions there probably had negative effects on safety too.

raverbashing•9mo ago
Yeah, because the legacy carriers apparently can't be bothered with spending any more money in moving out of the 70s

But pray tell me, did you save money in having part of your fleet grounded for 1.5yrs?

jiggawatts•9mo ago
"That's a different budget." -- a comment I've heard several times, from several bean counters, justifying $billions wasted.
henry2023•9mo ago
This is not the carriers fault. Boeing promised one thing and was lying about it. Why would the customers take the heat?
philosophty•9mo ago
A miser pays twice...and kills 346 people.
dehrmann•9mo ago
I'm actually sympathetic to using fly-by-wire technology to keep the interface the same. When it works, it can be safer since pilots' experience transfers directly, they don't mix up subtle differences between the models, and it makes it an easy sell to airlines. I fault Boeing for not making it robust enough. It needed to be bullet-proof, and it wasn't.
saurik•9mo ago
I mean, it is easy to be sympathetic to something if you add the constraint that it must be perfect under the assumption that it could be perfect... the issue is that there is no way this wasn't going to be a leaky abstraction, and so I would thereby offer the decision no sympathy.
tim333•9mo ago
Aircraft rely on a lot of systems that are not perfect. They are however generally very well made. The implementation that caused the 737 max crashes was terrible.
immibis•9mo ago
Because if it had redundancy, that would be a sign to the FAA that it was important. If it was important, the FAA would make them teach their customers and pilots about it.

Obviously the problem here is the fact that aeroplanes are regulated.

yread•9mo ago
problem is you can't just take pilots input alone. You need angle of attack, air speed and probably other inputs to correct it. When your sensors disagree or are unreliable you get garbage out. Or you can switch the system off and revert to something like direct law mode. But then pilots would have to train flying a plane in that mode to be familiar with it. Which is the thing you want to avoid in the first place.
Tuna-Fish•9mo ago
It's the company providing their customers what they asked for. Because of the way pilot licensing works, the airliners really want to field as few separate types as they possibly can. If a Boeing executive goes to meet the people who buy his airplanes, upgrades that fit on existing type certificates is the first (and only) thing they ask for.

The job of a CEO is sometimes to tell the customers no. It's just really hard to do.

kelseydh•9mo ago
Little else symbolises technological stagnation better than Boeing reusing the design of its 737 series for its new airplane.
Gathering6678•9mo ago
For anyone who is interested, Petter @MentourPilot on Youtube has a few videos about this topic that are worth watching.
ChicagoDave•9mo ago
Boeing: we should cut costs by getting away from being an engineering company. Then we’ll make very bad decisions because we’re behind AirBus.

Execs: sounds perfect

dingaling•9mo ago
EMBRAER of Brazil has been slowly expanding its market for 60 years but they've been reluctant to move into the A320/737 category. I don't understand why - there are over 12,000 orders backlogged with Airbus and Boeing, surely that's the strongest possible indicator of potential demand.

An airline placing an order for an A320 or 737 now will have a decade to wait for delivery.

Instead EMBRAER keep themselves locked in the regional jet market and are lucky to get 80 orders a year.

trhway•9mo ago
It is a very complicated product. Whole countries like Russia and China are trying to build even somewhat smaller modern jets and basically haven't been able so far.

And for "national jet" the task is easy as you can allow some inefficiencies. For a pure commercial jet product like EMBRAER would supposedly build, it must be a topline on all KPIs otherwise some ROI numbers over 10-20 years would project it to be several percent worse than Boeing/Airbus, and the airlines wouldn't buy it.

tpm•9mo ago
Look what happened when Bombardier tried to do something similar. Brazilian market is too small to accomodate that and other markets will try to protected their own aircraft industry, if they have one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A220#Boeing_dumping_pet...

richardatlarge•9mo ago
The first fault that bedeviled the MAX was the compliance and safety bodies. They built what turned out to be a trap for corporate executives, and Boeing flew right into it
metalman•9mo ago
first of all, Boeing does not exist as the company the created the truely great airliners that they were known for...747's the current compsny is the result of Boeing buying/merging with Macdonald Douglas and then having the Mac Doug executives perform an internal coup, and oust the manager/engineers from Boeing Second, the 737 max was designed partialy in Russia, not that there is anything wrong with rusdian aviation engineering, but that the russians worked cheap, and boeing set up a campus there,the issues bieng that it's non engineering managers running dirrerent teams, who dont speak the same language, and the old way, where the engineers worked directly with each other and the factory floor in real time, was lost. Three, the software was also out sourced to India, or some of it, and lo there you have it, a management frenzy, oooooooo, I bet it sure is busy busy busy, memo storms, and brisk self congradulaotory got it done's and fourth, Boeing moved head office to be as close to the pentagon and the faa as possible in order to concentrate on what they saw as important
karmakaze•8mo ago
This isn't the kind of technical post I'd expect to see on HN. There's not much details on the MCAS[0]. It wasn't only for the 737 Max to be cheap to make, it was up to MCAS to make it so current 737(NG) pilots could fly them without extensive retraining. This is where multiple things went wrong, basically MCAS is lying to the pilots pretending to be a plane it's not, and unfortunately relying on a single AOA sensor that it bases those lies upon.

The MCAS that's in 737 MAX today is different than what were the source of confusion and fatalities in the past. (e.g. Pilots can now always override MCAS inputs using the control column; MCAS can no longer command more stabilizer movement than the pilots can counteract by pulling back on the yoke). The whole idea isn't bad in itself, but the bean counters gleefully skimped to save too many beans in initial/early versions and there wasn't a culture where engineers could pull 'the brake' and blamelessly improve a bad situation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...