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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
88•valyala•3h ago•61 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...
19•gnufx•1h ago•2 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
49•valyala•3h ago•10 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
164•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•209 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
136•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
5•mooreds•25m ago•2 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
81•vinhnx•6h ago•10 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
843•klaussilveira•23h ago•252 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
58•thelok•5h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1075•xnx•1d ago•615 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
10•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
284•ColinWright•2h ago•332 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
508•theblazehen•3d ago•187 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-...
29•josephcsible•1h ago•21 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
222•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 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...
227•alephnerd•3h ago•176 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
20•momciloo•3h ago•2 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

72M Points of Interest

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
242•alainrk•7h ago•385 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
592•nar001•7h ago•263 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

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
119•videotopia•4d ago•36 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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
87•speckx•4d ago•97 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
205•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
282•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
292•dmpetrov•23h ago•156 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
25•sandGorgon•2d ago•13 comments
Open in hackernews

Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305M

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/anne-wojcicki-to-buy-back-23andme-and-its-data-for-305-million.html
55•vidyesh•7mo ago

Comments

iamwil•7mo ago
How did she get the money to buy it back? I understand it’s from the non-profit, but how did they get the money?
antisthenes•7mo ago
You realize that's probably peanuts compared to what she walked away with in the divorce?
testbjjl•7mo ago
Is this speculation or do you have a source?
notjoemama•7mo ago
Sounds like a normal conversational speculation to me. I simply searched for her name + divorce. The Yahoo Finance article I read said there was a prenuptial in place but they settled for an undisclosed amount. At the time he was worth $30B so a $350M buyout for 23andme is probably in a reasonable assumption of what the settlement could have been. Conversationally speaking of course. We don't know either way.
iamwil•7mo ago
No. I have no idea. It's an honest question how people managed to find the money to buy it back.
getcrunk•7mo ago
Oh wow. Sold it to her self and got off on her debts. America!
solardev•7mo ago
Hasn't she been trying to buy it for a while, only to keep getting rebuffed?

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe

> In an attempt to regain control, Wojcicki made an initial bid in February 2024 to take 23andMe private, offering $2.53 per share in a joint bid, but it did not proceed.[39] In July 2024, Wojcicki offered 40 cents each for all outstanding shares not already owned by her directly or through affiliates.[40] The proposal was rejected by a committee set up to evaluate options for the company's future,[41] and in September the seven independent members of the board of directors all resigned.[42] The company subsequently filed with the SEC indicating that it was no longer open to third-party acquisition offers.[40] Users were concerned about the security of their genetic data, and were trying to delete it from the company's archives only to find out that it holds onto the data for three years before deleting to comply with "legal obligations".[43]

> In January 2025, 23andMe declared that it would need additional liquidity to fund operations, and was actively exploring strategic alternatives including a potential sale of the company.[45] Wojcicki made a third offer of 41 cents per share in March 2025.[39]

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I don't know a lot about her, but she co-founded 23andme and has been tied to it ever since. Maybe it's her baby?

decimalenough•7mo ago
> Maybe it's her baby?

Better do a DNA test to confirm.

timewizard•7mo ago
> Maybe it's her baby?

Well it's the "TTAM Research Institute's" baby now. They have an office above a UPS store and not much of a website.

https://ttamresearchinstitute.org/

moralestapia•7mo ago
There's a lot of scrutiny in this kind of deals. It's just not that easy.
patrickhogan1•7mo ago
Not how chapter 11 works. All debtors will be paid or assumed. They have to agree to the plan.
teruakohatu•7mo ago
Wojcicki's non-profit "TTAM Research Institute" domain was registered last month [1] and the current Powered by GoDaddy landing page went online around 5 June. [2]

Anyone know if its a legitimate non-profit or one of the "sort of" non-profit?

From the press release [3] ...

> TTAM Research Institute (“TTAM”), a nonprofit public benefit corporation based in California ... The TTAM Research Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to helping scientists and non-scientists join together to unravel the mysteries of DNA - the code of life. TTAM believes everyone should have the opportunity to access their individual genetic code and be empowered to contribute it to scientific research. The TTAM Research Institute was founded and is led by Anne Wojcicki.

[1] https://who.is/whois/ttamresearchinstitute.org

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://ttamrese...

[3] https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

ChrisArchitect•7mo ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271974