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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
102•guerrilla•3h ago•44 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
186•valyala•7h ago•34 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
110•surprisetalk•7h ago•116 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...
43•gnufx•6h ago•45 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
130•mellosouls•10h ago•280 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
880•klaussilveira•1d ago•269 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
129•vinhnx•10h ago•15 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
166•AlexeyBrin•12h ago•29 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
97•zdw•3d ago•46 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
60•randycupertino•2h ago•90 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
96•samasblack•9h ago•63 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
265•jesperordrup•17h ago•86 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
167•valyala•7h ago•148 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
85•thelok•9h ago•18 comments

Eigen: Building a Workspace

https://reindernijhoff.net/2025/10/eigen-building-a-workspace/
4•todsacerdoti•4d ago•1 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
549•theblazehen•3d ago•203 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
49•momciloo•7h ago•9 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
26•mbitsnbites•3d ago•2 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
48•amitprasad•1h ago•47 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
24•languid-photic•4d ago•6 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
246•1vuio0pswjnm7•13h ago•388 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-...
80•josephcsible•5h ago•107 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
108•onurkanbkrc•12h ago•5 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
138•videotopia•4d ago•44 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
57•rbanffy•4d ago•17 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
215•limoce•4d ago•123 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
303•alainrk•12h ago•482 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
121•speckx•4d ago•185 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
294•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments
Open in hackernews

Robots that learn

https://openai.com/index/robots-that-learn/
96•ulrischa•7mo ago

Comments

HelloUsername•7mo ago
Previous discussion 16-may-2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14350705
echelon•7mo ago
This needs a (2017).
tregoning•7mo ago
The logo in the hoodie is what made me realized it was old
cyrux004•7mo ago
Agree ; got excited too soon.

was listening to Kyle Vogt about his new bot company and he described that folding laundry is sort of a frontier problem for robotics and we are still many ways out from there. There's solution from physical intelligence and probably other companies; but they are still fairly complex and not as easily reproducible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXbrt_2Fvgk

Still looking for the LLM moment in robotics

api•7mo ago
Con: a small chance it may take over the world and exterminate humanity.

Pro: can fold my laundry.

Sounds like a good deal to me.

somethoughts•7mo ago
haha - yes - sometimes when you look at all the Web 2.0 and beyond startups, all of the startups seems to be at least original founded to solve problems single people think need solving:

* finding good looking people in college

* sending dm's to other people

* carpooling with strangers

* crashing on strangers couches

* getting takeout delivered

* robots/drones that fight each other

* the meta verse

* the equivalent of digital beanie babies

Meanwhile automation to help out with stuff like laundry, dishwashing, cooking home cooked meals, other household chores, helping the elderly, etc. remain untouched.

echelon•7mo ago
> Meanwhile automation to help out with stuff like laundry, dishwashing, cooking home cooked meals, other household chores, helping the elderly, etc. remain untouched.

The other things were easy.

iandanforth•7mo ago
Man I saw the Fetch with its busted up gripper plastics and shocked to think they hadn't mothballed it and that it still worked!
thrhhifgjgg4677•7mo ago
I was going to say: ”this looks quite lame compared to stuff that's coming out these days” not then realized it's from 2017.

A lot has changed in robotics since then...

sneak•7mo ago
Now that OpenAI’s CPO has been sworn into the actual US Army, how long until they are sending the current improved versions of these things through basic training?
upghost•7mo ago
For a second I got excited that openai was actually doing cool stuff again.
yalogin•7mo ago
Well the whole video gives a 2000 era apocalypse scenario movie vibe. Is this just OpenAI trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Do we really need general intelligence robots at this point? This is more poc than anything but still
nashashmi•7mo ago
How much is Boston dynamics worth ? Seems like that would have been a better deal than ive’s io.
sorcerer-mar•7mo ago
But sama didn't have an existing stake in Boston Dynamics?
huem0n•7mo ago
If your disappointed by this being from 2017, check out some actual recent advancements (June 17 2025) by a different company https://generalistai.com/blog.html
mingabunga•7mo ago
That was amazing.
wombatpm•7mo ago
I think the robot sorting Lego bricks has an attitude.
pprunty•7mo ago
finally giving the white collar people a break i see...
mikehollinger•7mo ago
(needs a tag to be 2017)
torginus•7mo ago
Yeah, here I was thinking there's something new coming out of OpenAI that's not another LLM/diffusion model.
lasc4r•7mo ago
They (AI Corp. Execs) seem to think LLMs will be central to AGI. They are the experts I guess, but I have my doubts.
jagged-chisel•7mo ago
My cynical side says "exec" and "expert" are mutually exclusive.
stephc_int13•7mo ago
Why did they (OpenAI) stopped showing robotics related progress and demos, this one is seven years old...
alterom•7mo ago
Robocop (1987)¹ might provide an insight :D

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¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop

Ifkaluva•7mo ago
They dissolved their robotics division