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

https://openciv3.org/
500•klaussilveira•8h ago•139 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
841•xnx•13h ago•503 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
54•matheusalmeida•1d ago•10 comments

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
112•jnord•4d ago•18 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
164•dmpetrov•9h ago•76 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
166•isitcontent•8h ago•18 comments

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

https://vecti.com
280•vecti•10h ago•127 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
60•quibono•4d ago•10 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
340•aktau•15h ago•164 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
225•eljojo•11h ago•139 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
332•ostacke•14h ago•89 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
421•todsacerdoti•16h ago•221 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
34•kmm•4d ago•2 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
11•denuoweb•1d ago•0 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
360•lstoll•14h ago•251 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
76•SerCe•4h ago•60 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
15•gmays•3h ago•2 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
59•phreda4•8h ago•9 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
9•romes•4d ago•1 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
210•i5heu•11h ago•157 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
33•gfortaine•6h ago•8 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
123•vmatsiiako•13h ago•51 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
159•limoce•3d ago•80 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
257•surprisetalk•3d ago•33 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1017•cdrnsf•18h ago•422 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
51•rescrv•16h ago•17 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
93•ray__•5h ago•46 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
44•lebovic•1d ago•12 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
10•denysonique•5h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
81•antves•1d ago•59 comments
Open in hackernews

Biff – a batteries-included web framework for Clojure

https://biffweb.com
137•TheWiggles•8mo ago

Comments

jacobobryant•8mo ago
Hey HN. Since this has showed up here maybe a status update would be interesting? This continues to be my main side project--amusingly it's had more traction than any of the startups I tried to build with it. Over the past year I've been working on some experimental features for Biff that are meant to help with medium-to-large codebases[1] (I've been doing this as I rewrite one of my Biff apps from scratch). There haven't been many code releases in that time, so I've got a decently sized backlog of things I'd really like to get to. E.g. XTDB v2 is almost out of beta; once I finish the app rewrite, that's next on my list.

[1] https://biffweb.com/p/structuring-large-codebases/

pkphilip•8mo ago
Thank you for doing this. I am just checking out the Biff framework.

One part I would change is the dependence on htmx for html generation. I would really prefer an external template file into which we can replace fields

playworker•8mo ago
I might have misunderstood your comment but I don't think that's what htmx does, it just adds reactivity without needing to write JS, the HTML is represented in the project using Hiccup syntax which is essentially HTML in Clojure data structures - makes sense when code is data is a big part of the Lisp idea. It is an external template file into which you can replace fields, it's just a Clojure file too.
pkphilip•8mo ago
My mistake. I mean Hiccup (not Htmx). I prefer the approach of using external template files.
adityaathalye•8mo ago
AFAIK, all libraries are loosely coupled in Biff. Swapping out Hiccup / Rum for one of the other HTML templating options should be in "userspace"; straightforwardly so, without the framework maintainers intervention.

Ref:

Biff's own documentation: https://biffweb.com/docs/reference/architecture/#modifying-t...

HTML templating options: https://ericnormand.me/mini-guide/clojure-html-templates

jacobobryant•8mo ago
You can use Selmer: https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer
thenobsta•8mo ago
I've played around with Biff. It's an amazing project and a great way to get started with web-development in Clojure. Clojure can be kinda confusing because of the community defaults to orthogonal libraries. Biff, makes it easy to see which libraries are useful to connect up.

Thanks for the great work!

jacobobryant•8mo ago
Glad to hear it!
Daviey•8mo ago
How often do the batteries need to be replaced?
jb1991•8mo ago
“Batteries included” is an expression referring to technical dependencies and other matters and is not to be taken literally.
Daviey•8mo ago
Do you have an example of a Clojure web framework that doesn't include batteries?

ie, does https://luminusweb.com/ (or it's successor Kit, https://kit-clj.github.io/) includes batteries? They provide integrated solutions with templating, database access, authentication, and other common web application components pre-configured.

It's one of those weasel phrases that is poorly defined and has unclear boundaries.

I think Python first used it for the entire ecosystem:

  'The Python source distribution has long maintained the philosophy of "batteries included" -- having a rich and versatile standard library which is immediately available, without making the user download separate packages. This gives the Python language a head start in many projects.' 
- https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0206/

So anything which doesn't require downloading separate packages, and provides a rich and versatile standard library is "batteries included"? Hugo in Golang, or Jekyll in Python are certainly batteries included then. Should all of them add this to their strapline?

The distinction becomes less clear when frameworks offer plugin ecosystems or when they're built atop other "batteries included" platforms. This creates a spectrum rather than a binary classification, leaving me quite skeptical of this adoption of marketing language.

kgwxd•8mo ago
"Opinionated" might have been a more accurate weasel phrase, but I think everyone that cares, knows what they meant anyway.
brettatoms•8mo ago
Zodiac (https://github.com/brettatoms/zodiac) is a web framework/library that tries to fill a similar niche as Flask. It includes fewer batteries but supports extensions for extra functionality, see Zodiac Assets (https://github.com/brettatoms/zodiac-assets) and Zodiac SQL (https://github.com/brettatoms/zodiac-sql).

Zodiac itself does very little. Its mostly a preconfigured Ring app and a Reitit based router.

Full disclosure, I'm the author.

stonemetal12•8mo ago
I took it as a poke at how short lived batteries-included web frameworks seem to be in clojure.
hk1337•8mo ago
“Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?”
adityaathalye•8mo ago
Rarely. Given the stability of the language and its library ecosystem.
slifin•8mo ago
Nice to hear about Pathom being incorporated
hk1337•8mo ago
"You got my homework finished, McFly?"

It looks interesting. I really like clojure when I tried it long ago but never had a good use for it.

genpfault•8mo ago
biff(1)[1]?

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/biff/biff.1.en.html

landr0id•8mo ago
Also https://github.com/burntsushi/biff