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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•9 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
69•valyala•3h ago•13 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
118•valyala•3h ago•90 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
81•mellosouls•6h ago•153 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
39•surprisetalk•3h ago•48 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
25•zdw•3d ago•2 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
90•vinhnx•6h ago•11 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
848•klaussilveira•23h ago•255 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
62•samasblack•6h ago•50 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1087•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/
60•thelok•5h ago•9 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
90•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
228•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
512•theblazehen•3d ago•189 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
317•ColinWright•2h ago•377 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
248•alainrk•8h ago•400 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
25•momciloo•3h ago•4 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
604•nar001•7h ago•266 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
177•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•246 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
11•languid-photic•3d ago•4 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
45•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
123•videotopia•4d ago•37 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•4 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
28•sandGorgon•2d ago•14 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
90•speckx•4d ago•102 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
208•limoce•4d ago•115 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
282•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
564•todsacerdoti•1d ago•275 comments
Open in hackernews

Experience Making a 1-minute AI movie with my 7-year old daughter

https://drsandor.net/ai/minecraft/
22•chris_sandor•7mo ago
My daughter Kate (7 years old) really loves Minecraft! Together, we used several generative AI models (Wan Video, Flux Kontext, and DeepSeek) to create a 1-minute animation based on only 1 input photo of her.

You can read my detailled description of how we made it here: https://drsandor.net/ai/minecraft/ or can directly watch the video on youtube: https://youtu.be/xl8nnnACrFo?si=29wB4dvoIH9JjiLF

Comments

bag_boy•7mo ago
Nice work! Thanks for the detailed description.

My daughter (4yo) and I have been making small animated videos from her Lego creations. We use Runway. She typically gets bored with it after 5-10 minutes, though.

Which part did your daughter enjoy the most?

chris_sandor•7mo ago
You are welcome!

I think she enjoyed most: Storyboarding with Kontext & selecting the best clips

_345•7mo ago
Self forcing is really bad and deteriorates video quality a lot. Dont recommend unless your "job" is extremely simple, like "the character smiles and then turns around"
chris_sandor•7mo ago
My experiences are based on https://huggingface.co/lightx2v/Wan2.1-T2V-14B-StepDistill-C.... Are we talking about the same thing? I could not observe a clear degradation in video quality, quality got sometimes even dramatically better!
zingababba•7mo ago
Very cool. Since Veo 3 launched with the audio generation stuff it is now the norm to spend ~30 minutes making videos with my niece and nephew when I see them which is relatively often. My niece in particular understood prompting immediately.
add-sub-mul-div•7mo ago
"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

So many people lately taking the shortcut of using this place solely to advertise their projects which themselves are shortcuts taken to sidestep real work and creation.

ofrzeta•7mo ago
Speaking of cost .. how much did it cost? 3 Euro for Black Forest, but what about "1-2 hours rendering time on an H100 GPU). We let it run over night on 2 H100s (15 GPU hours in total)"?
chris_sandor•7mo ago
Good point! I should have mentioned that I have free access to an H100 cluster.
ofrzeta•7mo ago
Heh, that certainly helps keep costs down (for you) :)