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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
374•nar001•3h ago•181 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
104•bookofjoe•1h ago•85 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
415•theblazehen•2d ago•152 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
80•AlexeyBrin•4h ago•15 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
27•vinhnx•2h ago•4 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
13•thelok•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
772•klaussilveira•19h ago•240 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
33•samasblack•1h ago•19 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
49•onurkanbkrc•4h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1021•xnx•1d ago•580 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
157•alainrk•4h ago•202 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
160•jesperordrup•9h ago•58 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
11•mellosouls•2h ago•11 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
9•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
103•videotopia•4d ago•26 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
17•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
8•simonw•1h ago•2 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
35•matt_d•4d ago•9 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•41 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
261•isitcontent•19h ago•33 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
275•dmpetrov•20h ago•145 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
15•sandGorgon•2d ago•3 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
545•todsacerdoti•1d ago•263 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
417•ostacke•1d ago•108 comments

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

https://vecti.com
361•vecti•21h ago•161 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
61•helloplanets•4d ago•64 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
333•eljojo•22h ago•206 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
456•lstoll•1d ago•298 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
371•aktau•1d ago•195 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...
61•gmays•14h ago•23 comments
Open in hackernews

Researchers using the same data and hypothesis arrive at different conclusions (2022)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2203150119
34•like_any_other•7mo ago

Comments

fhsm•7mo ago
Should tag 2022. Fun article but familiar to many after making the rounds back then.
delichon•7mo ago
Maybe data and hypothesis should be published independently from conclusions, such that the conclusions of the researchers are not privileged over others. Without the conclusion, the peer review of the data can be more neutral and focused. Peers can review conclusions on their separate merits.

If the experimenter is in a better position to judge their own data than others, then they have not included sufficient data.

efitz•7mo ago
Maybe hypothesis and methodology should be published before seeking a grant, before any data is collected at all. The methodology could perhaps benefit from peer review.
cdot2•7mo ago
Considering sociology and similar field's complete lack of correlation between data and conclusion, I don't believe they should be considered "science". They're more similar to astrology and phrenology.
snapplebobapple•7mo ago
The term you are probably searching for is "political manipulation." They should be considered political manipulation.
alphazard•7mo ago
I've long thought that scientists should make their money betting on the outcome of experiments run by 3rd parties. This would allow for small steady flows of cash to establishment ideas, while breakthroughs would result in huge one time payouts. And the establishment ideas holding those breakthroughs back would be appropriately punished.

In order for this to be possible, conducting the experiment would need to be done by an impartial 3rd party separate from the researchers.

hackandthink•7mo ago
Research Objective:

"Does Immigration Undermine Public Support for Social Policy?"

ISSP Data (immigration, welfare attitudes) for 17 countries.

73 independent research teams come to different conclusions, nobody knows why.

pella•7mo ago
https://xkcd.com/3101/ "Good science"