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Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
39•mellosouls•3h ago•32 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
36•thelok•2h ago•3 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
95•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
46•samasblack•2h ago•34 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
787•klaussilveira•20h ago•241 comments

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

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
29•simonw•2h ago•35 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
37•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
59•onurkanbkrc•5h ago•3 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
456•theblazehen•2d ago•163 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1037•xnx•1d ago•587 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
496•nar001•4h ago•231 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
12•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
174•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
182•alainrk•5h ago•269 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
27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
59•1vuio0pswjnm7•6h ago•56 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
17•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/
107•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
56•speckx•4d ago•62 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
267•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
280•dmpetrov•21h ago•148 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
196•limoce•4d ago•105 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•46 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
165•bookofjoe•2h ago•150 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
9•0xmattf•2h ago•4 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
37•matt_d•4d ago•12 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
547•todsacerdoti•1d ago•266 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
422•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

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

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•22h ago•167 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
339•eljojo•23h ago•209 comments
Open in hackernews

Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer (2023)

https://kbd.news/Honeywell-H316-kitchen-computer-1940.html
29•glimshe•7mo ago

Comments

gnabgib•7mo ago
Recently The Honeywell Kitchen Computer (51 points, 6 months ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42296485

Older When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021) (50 points, 2022, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439

musicale•7mo ago
Tablets and smartphones are great kitchen computers, as long as you remember to clean and disinfect them before any food preparation.
nottorp•7mo ago
Is there anything in Corning's marketing about using smart thingies as cutting boards?
glitchc•7mo ago
> built-in cutting board

Hey, that's a great spot to place my Macbook.

dylan604•7mo ago
ohmuhgawd! that picture of the computer thing in the kitchen where it takes up all the space is so amazeballs funny. nobody would actually do this for anything other than a picture
nartho•7mo ago
I'm guessing people who could spend $90,000 for a computer to store their recipes were likely to have a kitchen big enough to accommodate this computer
skyechurch•7mo ago
As the article mentions, this is (or was, it's been a while) at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, along with other computing milestones and ambitious dead ends. They even have an apparently-functional Babbage Engine.

https://computerhistory.org/ https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/

helix278•7mo ago
So cutting edge you wouldn't even need a kitchen knife
WWLink•7mo ago
"If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute."

Oh my goodness it's a satirical ad. I don't know the proper marketing term for it, but I've seen these in magazines before plenty of times.

It's pretty funny that some people took this seriously.

os2warpman•7mo ago
I know that it was a joke but I still poked around to see if I could find any DDP-116 recipe software because the DDP-116 (H316) is available in simh.

Didn’t find any.