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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
116•valyala•4h ago•20 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
52•zdw•3d ago•18 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...
28•gnufx•3h ago•23 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
4•guerrilla•38m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
62•surprisetalk•4h ago•73 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
104•mellosouls•7h ago•186 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
147•AlexeyBrin•10h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
104•vinhnx•7h ago•14 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
855•klaussilveira•1d ago•261 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
18•vedantnair•40m ago•9 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1097•xnx•1d ago•620 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
71•samasblack•6h ago•51 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-...
10•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
65•thelok•6h ago•12 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
143•valyala•4h ago•119 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
242•jesperordrup•14h ago•81 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
522•theblazehen•3d ago•194 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
34•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
95•onurkanbkrc•9h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
15•languid-photic•3d ago•5 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
39•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
194•1vuio0pswjnm7•11h ago•284 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
51•rbanffy•4d ago•10 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
261•alainrk•9h ago•435 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
620•nar001•8h ago•277 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
125•videotopia•4d ago•40 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
103•speckx•4d ago•127 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
36•sandGorgon•2d ago•16 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
291•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
213•limoce•4d ago•119 comments
Open in hackernews

The 44 Year Old Computer Magazine That Changed Everything [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSnw5pPEPBc
20•xkriva11•8mo ago

Comments

xkriva11•8mo ago
This Byte volume can be found here: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/mode/2up
dosinga•8mo ago
I remember biking to the library to read it every time it came out
jaybrendansmith•8mo ago
Ha! Same.
commandersaki•8mo ago
I tried to watch the first bit of the video, but I'm still trying to figure what exactly did it change?
timonoko•8mo ago
There was no internet, so unless you were connected to educational organization and their curriculum, there was no way to get information of various topics in somewhat palatable way. BYTE changed all that, and suddenly everybody could learn all about Prolog and Smalltalk and other Scheiße.
commandersaki•8mo ago
Ah okay, yeah fair enough. I thought the guy was talking about the specific magazine issue of Smalltalk.
jecel•8mo ago
He was: he pointed out that the world of computing he (we) knew back then is illustrated in all the ads. Note that August 1981 is also the month the original IBM PC came out. In contrast the articles showed a world of computing with mice, overlapping windows, menus, cut/copy/paste.

A comment in the video pointed out that the mouse had been invented back in 1964 and claiming it was not common is a cop out. The author of the video didn't know about it before this issue and I didn't know about it. But now we knew, and for how many others was this true?

igouy•8mo ago
"Scheiße"
timonoko•8mo ago
Bad memories of Smalltalk. Current implementation did not scale up.
igouy•8mo ago
Good memories of Smalltalk. (Was it Smalltalk or was it me?)

> Current implementation did not scale up.

Did the prototype suggest it would?

timonoko•8mo ago
I was not in that project, but I heard it just suddenly choked up, just when the model was becoming useful.

There was no mention in the box that there was a limit. It was the fancy version with EMS-support, so it was not a hardware problem.

igouy•8mo ago
Not your memories of Smalltalk.
TruffleLabs•8mo ago
Byte was a magazine I always looked forward to receiving as it had a great connection via the writers to what was happening in the computer and software world.
mikewarot•8mo ago
It's a real shame that Object Oriented programming got perverted into a boatload of boilerplate, as evidenced in C++, Java, etc.

I was all on board with it in Borland Pascal for Windows, and Delphi, but when I looked at C++, I got off that train. You can always take a good idea, and go too far with it... I never did understand the whole Factories for classes thing.