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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
80•ColinWright•1h ago•43 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
21•surprisetalk•1h ago•19 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...
105•alephnerd•2h ago•56 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
58•vinhnx•4h ago•7 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
824•klaussilveira•21h ago•248 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
54•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
105•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•123 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1058•xnx•1d ago•608 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/
479•theblazehen•2d ago•175 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
205•jesperordrup•11h ago•69 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
549•nar001•6h ago•253 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
217•alainrk•6h ago•335 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 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
35•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
28•marklit•5d ago•2 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
4•momciloo•1h ago•0 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

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

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
113•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
4•valyala•1h ago•0 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
73•speckx•4d ago•74 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
68•mellosouls•4h ago•73 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
199•limoce•4d ago•111 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
285•dmpetrov•22h ago•153 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
21•sandGorgon•2d ago•11 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
555•todsacerdoti•1d ago•268 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
43•matt_d•4d ago•18 comments
Open in hackernews

FreeBSD Kernel Modules Pkg(8) Repositories

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/freebsd-kernel-modules-pkg8-repositories/
32•todsacerdoti•7mo ago

Comments

yjftsjthsd-h•7mo ago
Oh good, it does tie to the actual installed minor version. For a moment, I worried we would hit a situation where it would break the other way, with pkg immediately trying to install modules for the next minor version before it was installed.
ggm-at-algebras•7mo ago
Never played with kernel mods via packages but very tempted to start.

I have hopes of a path to a radically smaller kernel and loadables for the things not integrated by default. The end would be a path to a kernel Makefile specifying the minimum set, so a path from loadable to static, but with smaller state than generic and smaller critical dependency size.

vermaden•7mo ago
I believe you already played with /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/MINIMAL kernel?
ggm-at-algebras•7mo ago
Yes. Some time ago. Circumstances took me to TrueNAS Core BSD flavour which is regrettably retrograde, and I am about to rejoin the cleaner experience but the transition is .. scary. Making a smaller kernel is off to one side of my main intent which is to NOT lose my existing ZFS state!
vermaden•7mo ago
After TrueNAS CORE went dead and iXsystems focused on Linux based SCALE version the free and open source 'zVault' fork of TrueNAS CORE happened - https://zvault.io - its page here.

One of my buddies switched from TrueNAS SCALE to FreeBSD based zVault and is more then happy:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/truenas-core-versu...

He does not have really high expectations - besides having about 2TB of data he runs one Bhyve VM with Linux 'Home Assistant' and one FreeBSD Jail with 'Plex Media Server'.

ggm-at-algebras•7mo ago
I've considered Sylve might get where I need to be, but now you have offered me another choice. Interesting!
vermaden•7mo ago
I also watch Sylve development and progress with curiosity :)
Padriac•7mo ago
Anything FreeBSD related gets my attention. My most favoured operating system.
slyfox125•7mo ago
Rock solid and plenty of ports. I use it for multiple ZFS file servers, which subsequently led me to utilizing Linux regularly, which then led to dropping Windows altogether. It sounds corny to say but FreeBSD changed my life is a measurable way.
vermaden•7mo ago
> It sounds corny to say but FreeBSD changed my life is a measurable way.

Mine too.

vermaden•7mo ago
I often do not have enough luck to get to the HN front page so if You are interested in more such FreeBSD content - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/ - then its right here.
CoolCold•7mo ago
> While FreeBSD team fights really hard to keep ABI and kernel interfaces stable across ‘point’ releases – its sometimes not possible due to the nature of Linux DRM

yaw, didn't know Linux influence is so high on FreeBSD.

though, it may be a good sign - as it sorta base system becoming split in packages, may be on day LTS version FreeBSD will be born and it'll become usable

TIL: "as with broken ABI the drm-kmod related kernel modules just panic and reboot each such system instantly … and this problem persists for whole 3 months...I have spoken about that problem for years"

Indeed, stable and solid system, I wouldn't be part of CorpIT team who needs to support such setups.