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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...
20•gnufx•2h ago•8 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
61•valyala•3h ago•12 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
105•valyala•3h ago•80 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
75•mellosouls•6h ago•147 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
35•surprisetalk•3h ago•43 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
138•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
86•vinhnx•6h ago•11 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
846•klaussilveira•23h ago•253 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
60•samasblack•5h ago•49 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1080•xnx•1d ago•615 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
59•thelok•5h ago•8 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
13•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
88•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
509•theblazehen•3d ago•188 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
226•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 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-...
34•josephcsible•1h ago•26 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
21•momciloo•3h ago•2 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
298•ColinWright•2h ago•354 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
246•alainrk•8h ago•392 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
34•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
601•nar001•7h ago•264 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
11•languid-photic•3d ago•4 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
43•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
171•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•233 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
120•videotopia•4d ago•36 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
20•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
27•sandGorgon•2d ago•14 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
89•speckx•4d ago•99 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
282•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments
Open in hackernews

Portability of Tar Features

https://mgorny.pl/articles/portability-of-tar-features.html
40•Bogdanp•7mo ago

Comments

JdeBP•7mo ago
It does make one wonder whether Illumos pax or pax from one of the other BSDs would have worked better; or whether it was the tool generating the test pax archive in the first place that was the problem.
porker•7mo ago
(2018)
eesmith•7mo ago
We know it's out of date because "This is signalled by setting the MSB of the first octet, and provides for 95-bit integer size, i.e. 32768 YiB (it's so big that we lack a better prefix for it)." ;)

In 2022 ronna- became the recognized prefix for 10^27 and earlier this year robi- became the recognized prefix for 2^90. 32768 YiB is 32RiB.

Jupiter has a mass of 1.9 Rkg.

After that is quetta- for 10^30 and quebi- for 2^100.

The Sun has a mass of 2 Qkg.

bryanlarsen•7mo ago
Qkg? I hope that's not a thing and that you either mean 2Qg or 2000Qg?
eesmith•7mo ago
D'oh! Yes, you're absolutely without a doubt correct!

The Sun masses 2000Qg. We're going to need a new unit.

knome•7mo ago
I wrote a tar parser long ago while playing at parsing various formats and filesystems.

The only thing I really remember about the format is the thing stores sizes formatted as octal in ascii strings.