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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
42•valyala•2h ago•19 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
225•ColinWright•1h ago•239 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
29•valyala•2h ago•3 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
128•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 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...
7•gnufx•1h ago•1 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
71•vinhnx•5h ago•9 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
130•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•160 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
836•klaussilveira•22h ago•251 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...
179•alephnerd•2h ago•124 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
57•thelok•4h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1064•xnx•1d ago•613 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
85•onurkanbkrc•7h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
493•theblazehen•3d ago•178 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
215•jesperordrup•12h ago•77 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
14•momciloo•2h ago•0 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
231•alainrk•7h ago•365 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
575•nar001•6h ago•261 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
41•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
30•marklit•5d ago•3 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

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 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•35 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
80•speckx•4d ago•90 comments

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

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

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

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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
558•todsacerdoti•1d ago•272 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-...
6•josephcsible•28m ago•1 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

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
22•sandGorgon•2d ago•12 comments
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At Chile’s Vera Rubin Observatory, Earth’s Largest Camera Surveys the Sky

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/19/science/rubin-observatory-camera.html
47•wglb•7mo ago

Comments

wglb•7mo ago
https://archive.ph/2025.06.19-151703/https://www.nytimes.com...
pamoroso•7mo ago
Archive.ph hasn't been working for at least a week or so: it never loads.
pamoroso•7mo ago
Never mind, it's just me. Maybe my ISP blocks the site.
keyle•7mo ago
20 TB of data every night, incredible. 15 seconds per image and 2 seconds to download.

Hopefully those hi-res images will help us answer the many questions we have, provided the answer is in the south!

jamessinghal•7mo ago
And you can view the widely hi-res images interactively here https://skyviewer.app/!
SwtCyber•7mo ago
It's like the universe is getting live-streamed
JKCalhoun•7mo ago
> 20 billion galaxies and 17 billion stars…

Are there more visible galaxies than stars? (Discounting of course that those galaxies are comprised of stars.)

malfist•7mo ago
It's estimated their similar in number. 100b galaxies in the _visible_ universe and the Milky Way has around 100b stars
Retric•7mo ago
We haven’t detected every star in the Milky Way, low mass stars that stars can be very dim.

However we can also detect individual stars in the Andromeda galaxy and several others as well.

UltraSane•7mo ago
This is funded by the National Science Foundation. 1800 NSF employees are being evicted from their office building by the Housing and Urban Development.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administrat...

larrymcp•7mo ago
The title should be corrected to "Earth's", which is the original NYT headline. "Earths" would mean more than one Earth.
mc32•7mo ago
Why do they do this? One of the political divisions is not like the others (one of them is also a colloquial name):

"which will be transferred and processed at facilities in California, France and Britain."

Keep it consistent, else I don't know what else you're playing fast and loose with.

rantallion•7mo ago
France is the odd one out, right? California and Britain having in common that they're each only a part of a country.
aragilar•7mo ago
Possibly because of the way things are set up (and then the journalist didn't think to clean things up). SLAC (California) is where the US-hosted data will be, but for the UK and France there is more collaboration between HPC/compute centres and so it may end up in different locations (I know for SKA the "UK" "node" is spread across 5 different institutes, so "UK" is a better description than listing 5 different cities).
mc32•7mo ago
That sounds plausible. Still, "Britain" isn't the name of any sovereign nation I know of. It'd be like a datacenter in Eemshaven getting attributed to "Holland." It's a bit sloppy. Also California isn't a country.
PatronBernard•7mo ago
Fucking Starlink.
thomascountz•7mo ago
I'm looking for more sources of information about how the data is scrubbed of NRO satellite data.

Scott Manley mentioned in his recent video that archived data is not scrubbed, but the alerting pipeline is. I would think that artificial satellites were already scrubbed, but I suppose the National Reconnoissance Office and Department of Defense could their own filter.

SwtCyber•7mo ago
Archived raw data probably contains everything
aragilar•7mo ago
The software pipelines are open source and public (I think?), so maybe you could look at the code?
SwtCyber•7mo ago
The idea of cataloging billions of galaxies and spotting millions of nightly changes feels like a new chapter in skywatching
perihelions•7mo ago
Also,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356890 ("Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images (rubinobservatory.org)" (169 comments))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323389 ("Giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy (science.org)" (69 comments))