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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
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Cracked – Method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library

https://github.com/billorcutt/i_dropped_my_phone_the_screen_cracked
92•stephenhandley•8mo ago

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stephenhandley•8mo ago
WebAudio-based library that provides quick way to set up a web audio graph.

Desktop wrapper: https://github.com/billorcutt/Cracked

Cat examples: https://idroppedmyphonethescreencracked.tumblr.com/

wesz•8mo ago
This is brilliant! I'm gonna use it to prototype synths for my drum patterns/bass lines website.
gravitronic•8mo ago
You should check out webaudiomodules and sequencer party.
nailer•8mo ago
Just in case you scrolled past it, the live demo was in the github website link:

https://idroppedmyphonethescreencracked.tumblr.com/

hdjrudni•8mo ago
THese all sound awful. I don't get it.
promiseofbeans•8mo ago
I think the idea is that you can use this to build synths that you then control woth midi, etc
DrSiemer•8mo ago
Would this also work for adding effects to existing audio? A simple reverb and pitch bend on a recorded vocal would make me a lot more excited than experimental synth effects.
stephenhandley•8mo ago
You didn't even like this one!? https://idroppedmyphonethescreencracked.tumblr.com/post/9350...

That said, guessing a bunch of those are meant to be concise examples.

For what its worth my quick take on a lot of the text-based sound coding environments [1] is that they provide a relatively quick way to approach creating audio programmatically differently compared to a more traditional spatial / grid-based daw.

One nice thing about Cracked is that you can treat it as an audio input in Ableton, Logic, etc. and so you could use it to generate a sound to sample / process further in a daw arrangement. I had stumbled across it originally from the author's Wikipedia page which mentions that he uses it to create longer albums / pieces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Orcutt

Interview with him about it https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/41540/bill-orcutt-releases-op...

[1] https://tidalcycles.org/ https://sonic-pi.net/ https://chuck.stanford.edu/ https://supercollider.github.io/

thenthenthen•8mo ago
I think i-dropped-my-phone-in-the-toilet-and-the-audio-stopped-working-and-yes-i-checked-the-mute-switch because it does not seem to generate any sound on iOS Safari, not supported?
freeamz•8mo ago
Hmm seems like the jQuery of Web Audio API? How are the browser support on mobile?

Edit: with a bit pure data flavor mixed in... super nice!

jeremyleach•8mo ago
This is wonderful - a very immediate and intuitive way to construct and create audio graphs!
phantomathkg•8mo ago
Interesting library with a rather weird name.
mattigames•8mo ago
Its just social engineering to make people who drop their phones get involved in audio creation.
tristanMatthias•8mo ago
Would love to plug this into https://synthia.app
jeremyleach•8mo ago
Nice app!
stephenhandley•8mo ago
cool app. maybe its already possible but i'm missing how but would be awesome if dragging a new node between an existing connection it would automatically insert it between the nodes to avoid the steps to disconnect / reconnect
gitroom•8mo ago
This is super cool, Im definitely gonna mess around with it for my own synth experiments!
xipix•8mo ago
Can it handle "nodes" that emit a different number of audio samples than they consume?

I'm thinking of time stretch effects like mine https://github.com/bungee-audio-stretch/bungee

stephenhandley•8mo ago
It's basically just a wrapper around WebAudio, I've generally just used the builtin nodes, but I think you could do sample-level processing with this? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioWorkle...

love the demo https://bungee.parabolaresearch.com/change-audio-speed-pitch

have you thought about wrapping it as an audio unit or vst via juce/clap/iplug so its usable in a daw?

https://juce.com/ https://cleveraudio.org/developers-getting-started/ https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2

noelwelsh•8mo ago
I find the underlying premise a bit odd. I can name values in Javascript just fine:

const whatever = ...

I would rather refer to them by these names than by strings. It's both faster and safer to do so.

zamadatix•8mo ago
This provides ID + class based selection of nodes with a syntax which allows combining multiple filters. It's more akin to the methodology of selecting nodes in the DOM than just providing a name alone.
chaosprint•8mo ago
if you are looking for some performant declarative web audio lib in js, check:

https://glicol.js.org/

it's ported from Rust

stephenhandley•8mo ago
looks cool but wasn't able to get audio output from the stackblitz demo