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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
274•theblazehen•2d ago•92 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
33•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•5 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
9•alainrk•54m ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
14•onurkanbkrc•1h ago•1 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
712•klaussilveira•16h ago•212 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
978•xnx•21h ago•561 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
90•jesperordrup•6h ago•34 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
136•matheusalmeida•2d ago•35 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
7•tosh•1h ago•6 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
70•videotopia•4d ago•10 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
15•matt_d•3d ago•4 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
46•helloplanets•4d ago•46 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
242•isitcontent•16h ago•27 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
242•dmpetrov•16h ago•128 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

https://medium.com/lensesio/cross-region-msk-replication-a-comprehensive-performance-comparison-o...
4•andmarios•4d ago•1 comments

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

https://vecti.com
344•vecti•18h ago•153 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
509•todsacerdoti•1d ago•248 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
393•ostacke•22h ago•100 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
308•eljojo•19h ago•190 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•187 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
435•lstoll•22h ago•285 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
29•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•26 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
26•bikenaga•3d ago•13 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
73•kmm•5d ago•10 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
98•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
275•i5heu•19h ago•225 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...
43•gmays•11h ago•13 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
3•lembergs•2h ago•3 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/
1085•cdrnsf•1d ago•467 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
311•surprisetalk•3d ago•45 comments
Open in hackernews

TaIrTe₄ photodetectors show promise for sensitive room-temperature THz sensing

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-tairte-photodetectors-highly-sensitive-room.html
18•wglb•7mo ago

Comments

wglb•7mo ago
The paper in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01397-z
Y_Y•7mo ago
> We fabricated Har bar geometry sensing devices using atomically thin TaIrTe₄,

I've never heard of a "Har bar" not its geometry, but apparently neither has Google.

perching_aix•7mo ago
GPT-4o did hear of a "Hall bar geometry" though and suggested it's a typo. That one does return results on Google as well, and makes sense in context too.
meepmorp•7mo ago
Yeah, there's this line in the original paper:

> Accordingly, we measured the nonlinear Hall transport in a few-layer sample with a Hall bar device geometry at room temperature

DFHippie•7mo ago
Tantalum, iridium, and tellurium? How expensive is this stuff?
philipkglass•7mo ago
These materials are pretty expensive. Tellurium is currently about $86/kg, tantalum $430/kg, and iridium $140,000/kg:

https://www.dailymetalprice.com/metalpricecharts.php?c=ir&u=...

https://www.metal.com/en/markets/20

But it's a "2d material" so it only takes a tiny atomically thin quantity of these elements to build a detector:

https://news.columbia.edu/news/what-are-2d-materials-and-why...

K0balt•7mo ago
Is this good for making tricorders? ‘Cause if it ain’t good for making tricorders I don’t give a rats a&&.

But seriously, THz imaging ins going to be wild.