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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

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

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
228•ColinWright•1h ago•244 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
31•valyala•2h ago•4 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...
8•gnufx•1h ago•1 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
132•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•160 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
71•vinhnx•5h ago•9 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...
181•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•366 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
577•nar001•6h ago•261 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
9•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
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

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•91 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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
431•ostacke•1d ago•111 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-...
7•josephcsible•29m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: A tool to benchmark LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, local/self-hosted)

https://llmapitest.com/
55•mrqjr•7mo ago
I recently built a small open-source tool to benchmark different LLM API endpoints — including OpenAI, Claude, and self-hosted models (like llama.cpp).

It runs a configurable number of test requests and reports two key metrics: • First-token latency (ms): How long it takes for the first token to appear • Output speed (tokens/sec): Overall output fluency

Demo: https://llmapitest.com/ Code: https://github.com/qjr87/llm-api-test

The goal is to provide a simple, visual, and reproducible way to evaluate performance across different LLM providers, including the growing number of third-party “proxy” or “cheap LLM API” services.

It supports: • OpenAI-compatible APIs (official + proxies) • Claude (via Anthropic) • Local endpoints (custom/self-hosted)

You can also self-host it with docker-compose. Config is clean, adding a new provider only requires a simple plugin-style addition.

Would love feedback, PRs, or even test reports from APIs you’re using. Especially interested in how some lesser-known services compare.

Comments

mdhb•7mo ago
In what universe is a post created by a new account with zero comments and a grand total of 2 votes over the course of 2 hours doing on the front page?
iRomain•7mo ago
LLM
vntok•7mo ago
It's an informative post about new tech, that fits pretty well here of all places.

Why would you want the author to write about something else to validate the post? That would be an appeal to authority, which is the complete opposite of what the Hacker Manifesto has always been about in terms of ethos, goals, etc.

bdangubic•7mo ago
I am polishing up my blog about some FORTRAN code I wrote last week in hopes of the same :)
mrqjr•7mo ago
I wish I could see some of your code besides tech gossip and financial news.
swyx•7mo ago
idk what it is but buying that domain made it seem more commercial and therefore less trustworthy. also most people prob want to just use artificialanalysis' numbers rather than self run benchmarks (but this is ok if want to run your own)
mrqjr•7mo ago
I honestly don't know how to make you feel credible about this project, it was just a demo site and didn't have any features that you had to pay to use, I just simply felt like I was making something that might be of some use to someone else as well.
MitPitt•7mo ago
If it was named 'api arena' everyone would eat it up
vmeklis•7mo ago
cool idea, seems like a nice twist on the LMArena