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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
355•nar001•3h ago•175 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
90•bookofjoe•1h ago•79 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
411•theblazehen•2d ago•151 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
77•AlexeyBrin•4h ago•15 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
10•thelok•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
767•klaussilveira•19h ago•240 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
32•samasblack•1h ago•18 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
49•onurkanbkrc•4h ago•3 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
25•vinhnx•2h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1019•xnx•1d ago•580 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
155•alainrk•4h ago•189 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
157•jesperordrup•9h ago•56 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
7•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
10•mellosouls•2h ago•7 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
16•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
101•videotopia•4d ago•26 comments

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

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
7•simonw•1h ago•0 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•41 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
260•isitcontent•19h ago•33 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
34•matt_d•4d ago•9 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
273•dmpetrov•19h ago•145 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
15•sandGorgon•2d ago•3 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo
98•tartoran•1h ago•23 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
544•todsacerdoti•1d ago•262 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
415•ostacke•1d ago•108 comments

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

https://vecti.com
361•vecti•21h ago•161 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
61•helloplanets•4d ago•64 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
332•eljojo•22h ago•204 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
455•lstoll•1d ago•298 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
370•aktau•1d ago•194 comments
Open in hackernews

Soldier’s wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/06/soldiers-wrist-purse-discovered-at-roman-legionary-camp/155513
108•bookofjoe•7mo ago

Comments

kaonwarb•7mo ago
The single photo is remarkably elegant - a spare, almost modernist design.
andrewflnr•7mo ago
Pretty slick and functional given the materials of the time. I wonder if it could be made to work today. I think adapting it to cards and cash would make it an awkward package, but maybe if you lay them out along the arm it could work.
hoseja•7mo ago
Bronze is a VERY nice material. It's a shame it's actually too expensive to see much use in our modern consumerist lives.
is_true•7mo ago
It's also easy to steal
andrewflnr•7mo ago
Not when it's a solid band around your wrist. Materials in isolation don't tend to have an inherent difficulty level of theft.
dfedbeef•7mo ago
Seems jingley
ggm•7mo ago
Wrap the silver in cloth. Can't open without removing from arm so within limits stops petty theft.
volemo•7mo ago
Damn, I’ve read “pulse” and was both very confused and very excited!
cyrusmg•7mo ago
Better photos available e.g. at https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/2688552
apples_oranges•7mo ago
Personal items of dead people always make me emotional.. do you know what I mean? Even ~2000 years after the fact.. This person's life ended and all that he was and thought and felt is now gone.. so we do not know much, except that this item was important to him.
bloqs•7mo ago
agree. its quite an intimately human thing
coldtea•7mo ago
You might enjoy this then:

  Davenports and kettle drums
  And swallowtail coats
  Tablecloths and patent leather shoes
  Bathing suits and bowling balls
  And clarinets and rings
  And all this radio really needs is a fuse

  A tinker, a tailor, a soldier's things
  His rifle, his boots full of rocks
  And this one is for bravery and this one is for  me 
  And everything's a dollar in this box

  Cuff links and hubcaps
  Trophies and paperbacks
  It's good transportation
  But the brakes aren't so hot
  Neckties and boxing gloves
  This jackknife is rusted
  You can pound that dent out on the hood

  A tinker or tailor, a soldier's things
  His rifle, his boots full of rocks
  Oh, and this one is for bravery, oh, and this one is for me
  And everything's a dollar in this box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwC8ETa0pg
apples_oranges•7mo ago
thank you for that :)
MrBuddyCasino•7mo ago
Someone loved that child very much: https://greekreporter.com/2024/07/02/ancient-greek-girl-buri...
fhsm•7mo ago
I expected the link to be to they https://www.dw.com/en/they-called-her-jamila-the-mystery-of-...
ljf•7mo ago
I often find myself overcome with sonder and dustsceawung (the infinite complexity of others lives, and that the dust all around me is made from the lives and civilisations before us [and alongside us])

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sonder https://medium.com/etch-to-their-own/dustsceawung-866aff795a...

DragonStrength•7mo ago
I most definitely am reminded of how few people leave an archaeological mark when I read these. Though from my perspective, I see him as one of the special ones, even if we know very little. There are so few folks remembered even a generation later -- even the wealthiest industrialists and movie stars quickly fade.
donatj•7mo ago
Keep in mind the bright shiny copper color one is just a modern interpretation of what it may have looked like when it was complete, and what was found was just the small fragment next to it.

The article just neglects to mention this directly.

The model seems to make a lot of assumptions based on such a small fragment.

jihadjihad•7mo ago
It's a "highly detailed reconstruction" (bottom of TFA). Agreed that TFA is light on details and annoyingly disables text selection, which is something I haven't been annoyed by since 2007.
donatj•7mo ago
Using "Find" in my browser says those words are on the page somewhere but I cannot find them anywhere.
jihadjihad•7mo ago
Weird. It's the last sentence in TFA.
donatj•7mo ago
I think it actually slipped under the ad. Using a browser with Adblock I see it.
voidUpdate•7mo ago
Not only does it manually disable text selection, it also disables the right click menu and most ways of opening the dev tools... for some reason... (you can still reach dev tools using the top right menu on chrome though)
piombisallow•7mo ago
It would have been bright and shiny when new back then too
permo-w•7mo ago
>The model seems to make a lot of assumptions based on such a small fragment

this could be said about a shocking amount of historical study

voidUpdate•7mo ago
How do you get that over your hand, and simultaneously have it tight enough to hold the little flap closed?
thaumasiotes•7mo ago
> The camp was established by the 10th Legion, who was stationed in the area between AD 172 and 180

This is interesting wording. I have a strong urge toward saying either of two other options:

- "The camp was established by the 10th Legion, who were stationed in the area between..." [The Legion is a collection of people]

- "The camp was established by the 10th Legion, which was stationed in the area between..." [The Legion is not a person]

I have difficulty interpreting the Legion as a single person, though. Does the wording in the article work for other people?

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As to the item itself, I find it a little odd to call it a "purse", since it's reconstructed as a solid metal object. That sounds inconvenient and uncomfortable at best.