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

https://openciv3.org/
610•klaussilveira•12h ago•180 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
913•xnx•17h ago•545 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
28•helloplanets•4d ago•21 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
102•matheusalmeida•1d ago•24 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
31•videotopia•4d ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
210•isitcontent•12h ago•24 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
206•dmpetrov•12h ago•99 comments

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

https://vecti.com
316•vecti•14h ago•139 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
355•aktau•18h ago•180 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
361•ostacke•18h ago•94 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
466•todsacerdoti•20h ago•232 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
4•kaonwarb•3d ago•1 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
25•romes•4d ago•3 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
263•eljojo•15h ago•156 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
398•lstoll•18h ago•271 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
80•quibono•4d ago•20 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
54•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
9•bikenaga•3d ago•2 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
239•i5heu•15h ago•182 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
50•gfortaine•9h ago•15 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
138•vmatsiiako•17h ago•60 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
274•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
68•phreda4•11h ago•13 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
126•SerCe•8h ago•109 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
28•gmays•7h ago•9 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1051•cdrnsf•21h ago•432 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
7•jesperordrup•2h ago•2 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
172•limoce•3d ago•93 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
61•rescrv•19h ago•22 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
15•neogoose•4h ago•9 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.