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

https://openciv3.org/
624•klaussilveira•12h ago•182 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
926•xnx•18h ago•548 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
32•helloplanets•4d ago•24 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
109•matheusalmeida•1d ago•27 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
9•kaonwarb•3d ago•7 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
40•videotopia•4d ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
219•isitcontent•13h ago•25 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
210•dmpetrov•13h ago•103 comments

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

https://vecti.com
322•vecti•15h ago•143 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
370•ostacke•18h ago•94 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
358•aktau•19h ago•181 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
477•todsacerdoti•20h ago•232 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
272•eljojo•15h ago•160 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
402•lstoll•19h ago•271 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
85•quibono•4d ago•20 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
14•jesperordrup•2h ago•6 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
56•kmm•5d ago•3 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
3•theblazehen•2d ago•0 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
12•bikenaga•3d ago•2 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
244•i5heu•15h ago•188 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
52•gfortaine•10h ago•21 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
140•vmatsiiako•17h ago•63 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
280•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 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/
1058•cdrnsf•22h ago•433 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
132•SerCe•8h ago•117 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
70•phreda4•12h ago•14 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...
28•gmays•8h ago•11 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
176•limoce•3d ago•96 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
63•rescrv•20h ago•22 comments
Open in hackernews

Prompt Engineering: From Zero to Hero

https://promptz2h.com/
12•blackpc•6mo ago

Comments

9dev•6mo ago
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the AI hype train has already left prompt engineering in the dust and driven on to the great central context engineering station.
dSebastien•6mo ago
The main problem with books lagging behind "now" is almost solved
tptacek•6mo ago
I don't think this is generally true, though maybe I'm just missing the semantic drift. "Context engineering" as I'm familiar with it is something you do when you're building your own agent loops, not simply strategies for how to get the best response from a chatbot.
tehemperorer•6mo ago
The chatbot forgets once the context tokens are used up. How do you engineer a solution, then, that ensures that the chatbot never forgets?
9dev•6mo ago
That's not engineering in any sense of the word, and calling it that is an insult to any real engineer.

What you're describing is poking a thing with a stick to see if it moves.

akerl_•6mo ago
Isn’t this the same thing folks said in the past when software developers got reclassified into “engineers” alongside civil/electrical/etc engineers who had standards bodies, professional credentials, and licenses?

It’s really convenient that now folks here are in the in-group so that we can turn around and guard the entry gate.

9dev•6mo ago
We have to set the lower bar somewhere. Am I a spreadsheet engineer now because I calculate expenses in Excel? No, because that would be ridiculous.

More to the point: If the system you’re interacting with isn’t deterministic, you don’t understand how it really works internally, and you’re prodding it to see what happens if you do this instead of that—then that just isn’t engineering! or at least not in the sense that the word has been used, not without it becoming a term void of any specific meaning.

akerl_•6mo ago
> If the system you’re interacting with isn’t deterministic, you don’t understand how it really works internally, and you’re prodding it to see what happens if you do this instead of that—then that just isn’t engineering!

Biological engineering would like a word.

But to press your overall point: why? What bad happens if we discard an attempt at a “lower” bound and let somebody be a spreadsheet engineer or a breakfast engineer or a roulette engineer?

9dev•6mo ago
Nothing really bad happens for sure. The term engineer just looses its meaning, becoming a generic way to refer to someone doing… something. I like language that's precise, expressive, and succinct. If someone says they're a baker, I know what they do. If we start to apply that label to anyone working in a bakery, even if they just operate the coffee machine, that holds no longer true, and more explanations are needed, more opportunities for misunderstandings arise, things become less efficient and more error-prone. How can that be desirable?
akerl_•6mo ago
It doesn’t bother me as much as having an in-group trying to close the door on people they’ve decided are below the bar and don’t get to use a word.

I think engineers will survive just fine.

InterviewFrog•6mo ago
"Context Engineering" is all the rage now. Picked up by AI Influencers.

Basically you give context to the AI models. Like if you want to build a social network you give the AI all the documentation around it so it can follow the best practices and guidelines etc.

ianbicking•6mo ago
I'm confused, where's the content?

For instance I looked in Meta-Cognitive Techniques and it mentions "Articles in This Series" but the list doesn't have any links...?

https://promptz2h.com/chapter_03_advanced_prompting_techniqu...

sshine•6mo ago
Oh, the content? It's coming soon!

    Article 16: The Anatomy of a Good Prompt in 2025 (Coming Soon)
    Article 17: Zero-Shot Prompting: The Foundation (Coming Soon)
    Article 18: Few-Shot Prompting: Learning from Examples (Coming Soon)
    Article 19: The Power of Instructions: Clarity and Precision (Coming Soon)
    Article 20: Using Personas and Role-Playing Effectively (Coming Soon)
    Article 21: The Art of Prompt Formatting and Delimiters (Coming Soon)
    Article 22: System Messages vs. User Messages: Best Practices (Coming Soon)
    Article 23: Prompt Chaining and Sequential Reasoning (Coming Soon)
    Article 24: The Art of Iteration: Refining Your Prompts (Coming Soon)
    Article 25: A/B Testing Your Prompts for Optimal Performance (Coming Soon)
    Article 26: The Impact of Prompt Length on Response Quality (Coming Soon)
    Article 27: How to Deal with "I don't know" Responses (Coming Soon)
    Article 28: Common Prompting Mistakes to Avoid (Coming Soon)
    Article 29: Techniques for Reducing Bias in LLM Outputs (Coming Soon)
    Article 30: Understanding and Working with Model Limitations (Coming Soon)
blackpc•6mo ago
Will be ready VERY soon )
tehemperorer•6mo ago
Prompt engineering was never a thing, sorry. Anyone that got paid as one certainly rode the hype train funded by people who didn't understand what they were paying for.
add-sub-mul-div•6mo ago
> 1. Prompt Engineering: From Zero to Hero (promptz2h.com) 12 points by blackpc 6 hours ago

> 2. .NET: From Zero to Hero (dotnetz2h.com) 4 points by blackpc 12 hours ago

> 3. Python: From Zero to Hero (pythonz2h.com) 4 points by blackpc 17 hours ago

> 4. AI-Powered Financial Companion (pomegra.io) 3 points by blackpc 1 day ago

> 5. Python: From Zero to Hero (pythonz2h.com) 2 points by blackpc 5 days ago

> 6. ReactJS from Zero to Hero Free Online Book (reactz2h.com) 2 points by blackpc 5 days ago

If I wanted this low quality garbage why wouldn't I just generate it myself?

blackpc•6mo ago
Just do it
anomalistically•6mo ago
Lie? The user testimonials cannot be true, the domain was created yesterday.

Also one of them is an Asian lady named James Wilson, another is Reagan using the name Carlos Martinez?

magicteam•6mo ago
This book is AI generated, the author doesn't exist ..., right?