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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
88•valyala•4h ago•16 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
38•zdw•3d ago•6 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...
23•gnufx•2h ago•17 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
51•surprisetalk•3h ago•53 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
93•mellosouls•6h ago•172 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
98•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
143•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
135•valyala•4h ago•106 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
850•klaussilveira•1d ago•257 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
67•samasblack•6h ago•51 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1093•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
64•thelok•6h ago•10 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
235•jesperordrup•14h ago•80 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
5•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
517•theblazehen•3d ago•191 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
94•onurkanbkrc•9h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
13•languid-photic•3d ago•4 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
30•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
254•alainrk•8h ago•418 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
184•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•257 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
48•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
342•ColinWright•3h ago•409 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
614•nar001•8h ago•270 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
124•videotopia•4d ago•39 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
97•speckx•4d ago•112 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
211•limoce•4d ago•118 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•5 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
287•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
32•sandGorgon•2d ago•15 comments
Open in hackernews

Edward Burtynsky's monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/earths-poet-of-scale
123•pseudolus•6mo ago

Comments

pseudolus•6mo ago
https://archive.ph/hTj6w
linusg789•6mo ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20250713051005/https://www.newyor...
cardamomo•6mo ago
There's a fantastic documentary about Burtynsky's work, Manufactured Landscapes. I highly recommend it, even if you just watch the opening. https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/films/manufactured-...
Duanemclemore•6mo ago
It's actually the first in what became a series!

Watermark [0] and The Anthropocene[1] are both phenomenal. In fact, in terms of cinematography, I think Watermark is the best. Manufactured Landscapes was absolutely earth-shattering in my own consideration of humans and our ecologies though.

If you find yourself liking Burtynsky may I also suggest checking out Richard Misrach and the classic book of Manfred Hamm photography, Dead Tech [2].

(We'd be remiss to leave out the contributions of Jennifer Baichwal to all three films and Nicholas de Pencier on The Anthropocene.)

[0] https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/films/watermark

[1] https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/films/anthropocene-...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Tech-Guide-Archaeology-Tomorrow/... (Only linked to Amazon because people have posted images)

cardamomo•6mo ago
Wow, thanks for telling me! I watched Manufactured Landscapes back before the other two had come out and hadn't heard about the rest of the trilogy.
cnr•6mo ago
The whole movie is available on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ManufacturedLandscapes_201902
ethan_smith•6mo ago
Burtynsky's environmental trilogy is worth exploring in full: Manufactured Landscapes (2006), Watermark (2013), and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018).
bookofjoe•6mo ago
All three available to stream on Prime Video
atoav•6mo ago
The first picture must be these windmills that ruin the landscape. /s
pseudolus•6mo ago
Link to the show at the International Center of Photography (NYC): https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/edward-burtynsky-great-accel...

Petapixel article with more photos and commentary: https://petapixel.com/2025/06/24/photographer-edward-burtyns...

jebarker•6mo ago
I just finished reading “The Sixth Extinction” and it’s hard not to just feel sadness at many of these pictures. The economic benefits of this rapid human development are undeniable but the impact on earth as a whole is pretty horrifying.
frogperson•6mo ago
That book put me in a really bad place for more than a year. It was so depressing, i just couldnt shake the inevitablity of it all.

The fascist take over of the US has been a quaint distraction, but in the end it also means nothing compared to the collapse of the food chain. You cant eat dollars.

jebarker•6mo ago
Yeah, the dissonance of day to day stresses and societal issues with mass extinction is hard to deal with. I’m currently putting together a pile of a few books that claim to have pragmatic but optimistic/hopeful views of where we go from here.
vitorbaptistaa•6mo ago
Any good suggestions so far? The best I read was Not The End of The World by Hannah Ritchie from Our World in Data.
jebarker•6mo ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Two I’ve already read that I thought were decent were Bill Gate’s “How to avoid a climate disaster” and Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future”. I have Drawdown next on my list.
AndrewKemendo•6mo ago
Scarcely different than the world shown in WALL-E or idiocracy