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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
411•nar001•4h ago•197 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
126•bookofjoe•1h ago•100 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
434•theblazehen•2d ago•155 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
84•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•16 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
23•thelok•1h ago•2 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
32•vinhnx•2h ago•4 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
777•klaussilveira•19h ago•240 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
53•onurkanbkrc•4h ago•3 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
37•samasblack•2h ago•22 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1025•xnx•1d ago•582 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
167•alainrk•4h ago•219 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
167•jesperordrup•10h ago•61 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
14•mellosouls•2h ago•16 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
23•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
14•simonw•1h ago•12 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
103•videotopia•4d ago•26 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
5•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
12•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•42 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
262•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
35•matt_d•4d ago•10 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
277•dmpetrov•20h ago•146 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
545•todsacerdoti•1d ago•263 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
418•ostacke•1d ago•109 comments

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

https://vecti.com
363•vecti•22h ago•163 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
16•sandGorgon•2d ago•3 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
62•helloplanets•4d ago•68 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
338•eljojo•22h ago•206 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
457•lstoll•1d ago•300 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
372•aktau•1d ago•195 comments
Open in hackernews

Attabotics CEO on devastating week that brought bankruptcy

https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2025/7/6/attabotics-ceo-scott-gravelle-opens-up-about-devastating-week-that-saw-bankruptcy-and-tesco-deal
16•bcantrill•7mo ago

Comments

Noumenon72•7mo ago
I don't consider this article to contain any information from the CEO's interview other than "yeah, we're bankrupt". It also confusingly transitions into an ad and signup appeal for an innovations award ceremony.
anonzzzies•7mo ago
Grating article vs headline for that reason indeed.
SoftTalker•7mo ago
"The EDC agreed to approach the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, an early backer of Attabotics, about investing again."

Pension plan investing in a startup? Is this common? I would have expected them to be much more risk-averse.

toomuchtodo•7mo ago
https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/investments/our-investments/teach...

The OTPP has a team for investing in late stage startups (Series B onward), “Teachers’ Venture Growth.” Seems rational if you believe you can gain asset class exposure at a lower cost than outsourcing it to the usual VCs ($10B invested).

Marsymars•7mo ago
The OTPP has $200+ billion in assets; they’re basically a bog-standard institutional investor trying to maximize risk-adjusted returns over a long-term diversified portfolio. (And being too risk averse wouldn’t generate the returns they need to fund their pension obligations without raising contribution rates.)
fracus•7mo ago
The EDC agreed to help find funding, then reported back that they tried and failed, and then put the company into bankruptcy and took over the company for pennies on the dollar. I wonder how sincere their help was.
Noumenon72•7mo ago
That's actually an interesting story that I totally failed to get by reading the article! I feel bad about criticizing the article now when it was just too neutrally phrased for me to get the gist.