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

https://openciv3.org/
463•klaussilveira•6h ago•113 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
802•xnx•12h ago•486 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
154•isitcontent•7h ago•15 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
151•dmpetrov•7h ago•65 comments

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
90•jnord•3d ago•11 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
48•quibono•4d ago•6 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
25•matheusalmeida•1d ago•1 comments

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

https://vecti.com
259•vecti•9h ago•122 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
327•aktau•13h ago•158 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
200•eljojo•9h ago•130 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
324•ostacke•13h ago•86 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
407•todsacerdoti•14h ago•218 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
332•lstoll•13h ago•240 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
20•kmm•4d ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
51•phreda4•6h ago•8 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
194•i5heu•9h ago•141 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
113•vmatsiiako•11h ago•37 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
151•limoce•3d ago•79 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
242•surprisetalk•3d ago•32 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/
991•cdrnsf•16h ago•417 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
3•romes•4d ago•0 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
23•gfortaine•4h ago•2 comments

Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety

https://github.com/Deso-PK/make-trust-irrelevant
8•DesoPK•1h ago•4 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
45•rescrv•14h ago•17 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
64•ray__•3h ago•21 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
37•lebovic•1d ago•11 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
78•antves•1d ago•59 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...
5•gmays•2h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

https://github.com/stablyai/agent-slack
40•nwparker•1d ago•11 comments

The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch into Art

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-31/oklahoma-architect-bruce-goff-s-wild-home-desi...
21•MarlonPro•3d ago•4 comments
Open in hackernews

Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

https://evjang.com/2021/10/23/generalization.html
38•jxmorris12•7mo ago

Comments

xg15•7mo ago
(2021), still very interesting. Especially the "post-overfitting" training strategy is unexpected.
luckystarr•7mo ago
I remember vaguely that this was observed when training GPT-3 (probably?) as well. Just trained on and on, and the error went up and then down again. Like a phase transition in the model.
dev_hugepages•7mo ago
This is talking about the double descent phenomenon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_descent)
esafak•7mo ago
The low sample efficiency of RL is well explained.