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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

Raphael discovery emerges from Vatican museum restoration

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/raphael-rooms-restoration-discovery-2662624
69•andsoitis•7mo ago

Comments

ZiiS•7mo ago
Three highly trained assistents to one of to he greatest artists who over lived, credited with contributing to major masterworks couldn't learn oilpainting? A common evening class subjest, nearly universally considered much easier then painting fresco.
readthenotes1•7mo ago
"The technique used and planned by Raphael was truly experimental for the time, and has never been found in another other mural made with oil paint.”

From the article

ZiiS•7mo ago
Just sounds very circular. We attribute all of these to Raphael because the are no examples we have attributed to his colleges.
alpineman•7mo ago
The artwork was already there, so not sure 'discovered' is the right word. Does it make a difference now we know it was painted by Raphael himself?

It will make a difference, of course. But should it?

mensetmanusman•7mo ago
People decide what should matter. Thats why there are pop star worship museums where mass-produced guitars and shoes that were worn are on display.
throwpoaster•7mo ago
Would you wear Jeffrey Dahmer's sweater?
ectospheno•7mo ago
Hitler loved dogs. Should I get rid of mine?
goopypoop•7mo ago
As long as it's not the cursed one that made him do all that terrible writing
ludicrousdispla•7mo ago
Probably not, considering that many (possibly most) of the well known modern and contemporary painters have other people put the paint on the canvas for them.
dragonwriter•7mo ago
> The artwork was already there, so not sure 'discovered' is the right word.

"Discovered" is used exactly once in the article, in the sentence, "urther, the conservators discovered metal nails under some of these plaster frescoes, which they believe were likely inserted to hold in place more of the resin surface for oil painting." Seems to be exactly the right word where it is used.

It isn't used referring to the work itself, which obviously was not discovered and which the article doesn't suggest was.

> Does it make a difference now we know it was painted by Raphael himself?

It clearly makes a difference to understanding of the provenance of the piece and, from the other side, knowledge of the body of Raphael's work. Whether that's important to you will, of course, vary based on how important those issues are to you.

ludicrousdispla•7mo ago
Interesting to see a dinosaur in one of the paintings.
Cthulhu_•7mo ago
Do you mean the dragon in the background? Fwiw dinosaur fossils have been found for thousands of years already, with theories being that the Cyclops was based on mammoth skulls and griffins on triceratops fossils.
bovinegambler•7mo ago
The mammoth-cyclops/griffin-triceratops connection sounded really cool, so I did some quick searches. For what it's worth, it seems that this is a pop theory but not based in evidence.
ludicrousdispla•7mo ago
The one I am referring to is in the first image, where the central figure has their right hand around the neck of what looks like a dinosaur.
dragonwriter•7mo ago
That is clearly a dinosaur, but almost certainly an avian dinosaur, which aren't particularly hard to find, either in Christian religious art or, for that matter, daily life in much of the world.
ghc•7mo ago
I'm 99% sure that's an ostrich. I do understand your confusion, however...ostriches are pretty dinosaur-like and I have no idea why she is sitting on one.
dragonwriter•7mo ago
> I'm 99% sure that's an ostrich

Ostriches are dinosaurs (in fact, the largest living dinosaurs.)

mkl•7mo ago
It's an ostrich, which is associated with Justice (the figure holding it). https://www.raulprisacariu.com/symbolism/symbolic-literacy-j...

There's a fuller view on the right here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Giulio_R...

doodlebugging•7mo ago
Probably just an editing error but I find it interesting that, according to the text of the article, they were finished with the restoration before they ever started.

>The restoration of the Hall of Constantine began in March 2025 and was completed in December 2024.

Someone probably fat-fingered a number in one or more of those dates or swapped them.

edm0nd•7mo ago
or the most likely scenario, the pope has a time machine == confirmed.
labster•7mo ago
It was already pretty likely, considering Pope Formosus was put on trial months after his death, and he was in attendance.
doodlebugging•7mo ago
Probably suitably air-gapped so that none of us plebes can remote into it and spin for a random date to kick off a global reboot.

I wonder whether it uses a joystick, scrolling wheel, or a user-selectable date and whether the user can pick their spawn point. What is the date format? Gregorian calendar or earlier? Is the machine bright enough make date corrections based on where you want to go on that date if the location doesn't use a standard European calendar?

It would really suck to pick a date where you know something important was gonna happen and find out you rolled it all back to a different continent because you glitched the part where you were supposed to end up in Atlantis and found yourself treading water in the middle of the Atlantic because of a spelling error.

Too many questions here. The unknownable unknowns are a real drag.

LargoLasskhyfv•7mo ago
Waddabout orbits around the central star of the planet of the apes, and fractions thereof in duodecimal?
aruggirello•7mo ago
Maybe the famous Chronovisor by Father Ernetti?

https://archive.org/details/fatherernettisch0000kras

fumeux_fume•7mo ago
The Last Supper was also a fresco painted with oils, IIRC. The painting quickly devolved and needed constant restoration.
beezlebroxxxxxx•7mo ago
The Last Supper by Leonardo was painted with tempera, a medium that uses egg-yolk.