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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
36•valyala•2h ago•17 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
216•ColinWright•1h ago•232 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
27•valyala•2h ago•3 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
128•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•25 comments

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...
7•gnufx•1h ago•1 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
71•vinhnx•5h ago•9 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
836•klaussilveira•22h ago•251 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
124•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•158 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
175•alephnerd•2h ago•120 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
57•thelok•4h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1063•xnx•1d ago•613 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
84•onurkanbkrc•7h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
493•theblazehen•3d ago•178 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
215•jesperordrup•12h ago•77 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
14•momciloo•2h ago•0 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
230•alainrk•7h ago•363 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
573•nar001•6h ago•261 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
40•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
30•marklit•5d ago•3 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

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

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
114•videotopia•4d ago•35 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
78•speckx•4d ago•87 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
277•isitcontent•22h ago•38 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
289•dmpetrov•23h ago•156 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
201•limoce•4d ago•112 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-...
5•josephcsible•25m ago•1 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
558•todsacerdoti•1d ago•272 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
22•sandGorgon•2d ago•12 comments
Open in hackernews

Computer Scientists Figure Out How to Prove Lies

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-figure-out-how-to-prove-lies-20250709/
15•pseudolus•7mo ago

Comments

r721•7mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44519175 (164 comments)
charcircuit•7mo ago
Are they really lies if the grading program considers them correct answers? It sounds like an issue with using a faulty grading program than the protocol.
A1kmm•7mo ago
The problem is that you can construct a proof that there exists a circuit c with hash h = H(c), such that c(x) = y, where h & y are public, and c and x is private. That is a bad thing if you can construct such a proof when it isn't actually true, for certain specially crafted c.
charcircuit•7mo ago
What value is such a proof of you don't know what the circuit is?
A1kmm•7mo ago
It depends what the proof system is being used for. There are applications of ZKC that this would absolutely break.

It isn't on the exact same proving scheme broken in this research, but consider https://risczero.com/blog/zkpoex, which is about proving that you have an exploit (a program) that puts a protocol into into an unexpected state, without revealing the exploit. Imagine you had a specially crafted program that allows you to prove you have an exploit, but actually none exists, and it is just that you're computing the same hash in your program that is used in the Fiat-Shamir heuristic, and violating the assumptions of the random oracle model.

charcircuit•7mo ago
And why should people trust the program is not computing the hash? If people don't have a way to trust it then of course it can be gamed. This article doesn't sound like a new result, it's just people not verifying that programs aren't gaming the system.