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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
126•ColinWright•1h ago•93 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
24•surprisetalk•1h ago•26 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
121•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•24 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...
125•alephnerd•2h ago•81 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
62•vinhnx•5h ago•7 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
829•klaussilveira•21h ago•249 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
55•thelok•3h ago•8 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
110•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•139 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...
4•gnufx•41m ago•1 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1060•xnx•1d ago•611 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
76•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
484•theblazehen•2d ago•175 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
10•valyala•2h ago•1 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
210•jesperordrup•12h ago•70 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
9•valyala•2h ago•0 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
559•nar001•6h ago•257 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
223•alainrk•6h ago•343 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
37•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 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

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
29•marklit•5d ago•2 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
114•videotopia•4d ago•31 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
76•speckx•4d ago•75 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
6•momciloo•2h ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
273•isitcontent•22h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
201•limoce•4d ago•111 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
22•sandGorgon•2d ago•11 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
286•dmpetrov•22h ago•154 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
71•mellosouls•4h ago•75 comments
Open in hackernews

Calculating Oil Storage Tank Occupancy with Help of Satellite Imagery

https://medium.com/planet-stories/a-beginners-guide-to-calculating-oil-storage-tank-occupancy-with-help-of-satellite-imagery-e8f387200178
36•marklit•7mo ago

Comments

hkchad•7mo ago
Saw this headline and thought, HA been doing this for YEARS, yea, need to add a (2017) to the headline...
exabrial•7mo ago
ok so like the lid moves up and down on those? How does it seal? How does it keep from tipping sideways or jamming on the walls? fascinating
officeplant•7mo ago
Floating roof tank> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_floating_roof_tank

TL:DR yes there is a seal along the roof edge and alignment poles/rods so things stay flat.

I do fire suppression builds for these tanks, so all of my equipment on the tank lid has to move up and down with it as it gets filled/emptied. So we end up with self coiling cables/hoses that have to collect themselves on the lid as it fills up. Linear heat detection wire goes all the way around the rim of the tank and also along the lid, which melts and signals the alarm/suppression system in the event of a fire. Companies with more money also have us install UV/IR based flame detection.

Same with these usually having a ladder that becomes more or less stairs depending on how full the tank is.

addaon•7mo ago
Seeing people use a spreadsheet as an image measuring tool does sort of explain why there’s a group of people who seem to find so much more value in current AI than I do… if you’re using the wrong tool for the job already, a bad replacement for doing it right might still be an improvement from where you are, I suppose.
actionfromafar•7mo ago
It’s very true on a deep level, too. LLMs etc will smear out technology into places it never occupied before
pests•7mo ago
Definitely did a double take on first read
jduckles•7mo ago
Did this with grain bins in the 2010s to estimate total on-farm storage capacity available in a few states.
whatshisface•7mo ago
What did you do with that information?
fnands•7mo ago
I've heard this story so many times, and I really want to know if anyone is actually using this technique to actually make decisions, or is it just basically the "hello world" of satellite data analysis (along with identifying aeroplanes)?

The company that famously touted they were doing it, Orbital Insights [1], almost went bankrupt, and were sold for cents on the dollar [2]

I'm in the EO industry, and it's a use case you hear a lot, but I am not sure anyone is actually doing this profitably.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/gv-backed-orbital-insights-i... [2] https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-google-backed-i...

fnands•7mo ago
Ursa Space Systems seems to still be providing this as a service (via API). Wonder how they're doing.
blueg3•7mo ago
This was their lead product for a while. I think it had one customer.

Not sure how they're doing post-layoffs.

fnands•7mo ago
Thanks for the info!

Yeah, it seems a bit niche to me. Could be that there might be one or two large clients.

Simulacra•7mo ago
I read that during the Cold War, the CIA employed people they euphemistically referred to as "cratologists", who could look at satellite images of crates and shipping containers, and tell you what's in them.