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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
86•valyala•4h ago•16 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...
23•gnufx•2h ago•15 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
35•zdw•3d ago•4 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
89•mellosouls•6h ago•168 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
132•valyala•4h ago•99 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
47•surprisetalk•3h ago•52 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
143•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
96•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
850•klaussilveira•23h ago•256 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
66•samasblack•6h ago•51 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1092•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
64•thelok•5h ago•9 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
4•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
233•jesperordrup•14h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
516•theblazehen•3d ago•191 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
334•ColinWright•3h ago•401 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
254•alainrk•8h ago•412 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
182•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•252 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
611•nar001•8h ago•269 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
35•marklit•5d ago•6 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
27•momciloo•4h ago•5 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
47•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
124•videotopia•4d ago•39 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
96•speckx•4d ago•109 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•5 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
211•limoce•4d ago•117 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
32•sandGorgon•2d ago•15 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
287•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments
Open in hackernews

Prompts for our Grok chat assistant and grok bot on X

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts
39•taubek•8mo ago

Comments

juujian•8mo ago
"We need to feign some transparency and release something. Quick, sanitize the instructions and put something on a repo, doesn't need to be exactly what's in production."
qoez•8mo ago
Similar to what they did to the X/twitter open source algorithm (which hasn't been updated in 2 years)
suddenlybananas•8mo ago
Hmmm, very little mention of South Africa in these prompts.
defrost•8mo ago
Buried deep in the #include Tom Sharpe Riotous Assembly and #include Jeremy Taylor Ag Pleez Daddy et al material.
mirashii•8mo ago
https://www.theverge.com/news/668220/grok-white-genocide-sou...

Another lame excuse and some faux transparency to go with it.

jsheard•8mo ago
> faux transparency

Yep, this isn't the first time they've made this play. Remember when they open sourced the X/Twitter algorithm in the name of transparency-maxxing? Those repos haven't been updated for nearly two years now.

sidibe•8mo ago
The repo has served its intended purpose: his legion of bizarre fans can now say "it's open source" and brag about his transparency
ryanschaefer•8mo ago
Call me cynical but this smells like a PR stunt to get people talking about how much controlling the system prompt matters to everyone’s interaction with assistants.

Most people wouldn’t give it a second thought unless something like this happened and it’s now plain to see how quickly they can be (poorly) manipulated.

readthenotes1•8mo ago
Other than https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/pull/3
_1•8mo ago
Pretty basic stuff that you'd been in a blog post from 2022.
qoez•8mo ago
I know this is fake but I like that it puts pressure on openai etc to be more transparent.
thrance•8mo ago
No mention of the "white genocide" story aka why they need to whitewash their system prompt and are releasing this. They were quite efficient in covering it up.
malfist•8mo ago
Elon claims that was done by an "unauthorized employee"

I believe that as much as I believe it when a politician says it was an "overzealous intern"

tencentshill•8mo ago
It must have been Adrian Dittmann!
readthenotes1•8mo ago
Other than

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/pull/3

belter•8mo ago
Quite a biased dataset you have there...
Squarex•8mo ago
It's response for their South African debacle. https://x.com/xai/status/1923183620606619649
miohtama•8mo ago
Regardless of what one thinks about Mr Musk, this is very good move and ethical thing to do and I hope other LLMs would follow the lead
drivingmenuts•8mo ago
Ethical or unethical doesn't really matter when it's owned and operated by a racist POS ands his collaborators.
Tadpole9181•8mo ago
It's also entirely performative garbage. There's nothing that actually proves these are the (only) prompts being used, and if Elon Musk wants Grok to start pushing bullshit again he will do it. But this time it'll be more subtle and they'll point to this "transparency" to explain how it's not possible.
_ea1k•8mo ago
This was interesting: "Grok 3's BigBrain mode is not publicly available." - What is "BigBrain"?
thomassmith65•8mo ago
It's a private version of Grok that can query the US Social Security database to locate fertile Elon Musk fans with desirable genes. /s