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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
95•valyala•4h ago•16 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
43•zdw•3d ago•7 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•19 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
55•surprisetalk•3h ago•54 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
97•mellosouls•6h ago•174 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

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

https://openciv3.org/
850•klaussilveira•1d ago•258 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
138•valyala•4h ago•109 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-...
7•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
68•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...
1093•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•6h ago•10 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
13•languid-photic•3d ago•4 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
30•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
256•alainrk•8h ago•425 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
186•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h 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
48•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
614•nar001•8h ago•272 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
344•ColinWright•3h ago•412 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
98•speckx•4d ago•115 comments

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

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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

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

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

FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

https://public.resource.org/ntis.gov/index.html
145•bookofjoe•7mo ago

Comments

mrbluecoat•7mo ago
They have "The Great Seal of the Seal of Approval" but they didn't call it "Nedflix"?
pogue•7mo ago
Anything worth using in here? Old b roll or ww2 footage? I just see what looks like a bunch of 360p shorts from the 1950s.
InTheArena•7mo ago
A quick glance at some bespoke topics (Ulithi, supply runs, India and WW2)shows some footage.
philistine•7mo ago
A video about surfing safety for US soldiers stationed in Hawaii featuring a young Jason Momoa.
pogue•7mo ago
Can you share the url?
philistine•7mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbFDIrsTpPg
blensor•7mo ago
Tangential thought, but someone should make a library for freely available AI generated videos and songs.

There is so much energy wasted for generating and most of the time you aren't getting exactly what you wanted anyway

ivape•7mo ago
It’s called TikTok.
blensor•7mo ago
I meant as a resource for others to use, like shutterstock and artlist but solely for AI generated b roll to be used by others.

If you generate videos that are then sitting in some walled garden why not make them available for others to use.

I am pretty sure there are endless hours of similar videos in all accounts, and instead of recreating it from scratch every single time why not check with a public database first if there is already something for you to use

bookofjoe•7mo ago
Probably quicker to recreate it from scratch than spend lots of time scrolling through that public database looked for the perfect one that's more likely than not indexed incorrectly and thus effectively unfindable.
blensor•7mo ago
If the prompt is saved alongside with it then it should be manageable.

Or at least if platforms would show similar results you can use before generating something new.

For all the first frame/last frame video creations it's probably not feasable but for pure text to video it could work

ivape•7mo ago
check with a public database first if there is already something for you to use

That's from the old world. Think of it like, why would the kids post-Napster flip through an album store? They wouldn't and they didn't. We had to flip through databases of stock images because we couldn't conjure up whatever we wanted instantly before.

blensor•7mo ago
When it becomes free and much more energy efficient, sure, but look at how much veo 3 costs.
ivape•7mo ago
Take a look at Google Whisk, it doesn't cost much at all.
szszrk•7mo ago
So you want a free, legal source of art, which was generated with tools that scrapped other people's art without their consent, respecting it's licensisng and without their knowledge? :)

Doesn't make sense to me - result has questionable legal status at best.

Boogie_Man•7mo ago
Yes

For non commercial purposes

jchrisa•7mo ago
I just vibed up a quick and dirty catalog browser for FedFlix -- thanks IA for making the API so easy to use!

https://unknown-ptarmigan-3137.vibecode.garden

Click the remix button in the bottom right and you can make it your own.