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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
115•valyala•4h ago•19 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
52•zdw•3d ago•17 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...
28•gnufx•3h ago•22 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
62•surprisetalk•4h ago•72 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
103•mellosouls•7h ago•186 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
3•guerrilla•36m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
146•AlexeyBrin•10h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
104•vinhnx•7h ago•14 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
855•klaussilveira•1d ago•261 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1097•xnx•1d ago•620 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
71•samasblack•6h ago•51 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-...
9•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
16•vedantnair•39m ago•9 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
65•thelok•6h ago•12 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
143•valyala•4h ago•119 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
242•jesperordrup•14h ago•81 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
522•theblazehen•3d ago•194 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
34•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
15•languid-photic•3d ago•5 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
39•marklit•5d ago•6 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
51•rbanffy•4d ago•10 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
193•1vuio0pswjnm7•11h ago•282 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
261•alainrk•9h ago•434 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
619•nar001•8h ago•277 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
102•speckx•4d ago•124 comments

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

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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
213•limoce•4d ago•119 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
361•ColinWright•3h ago•436 comments
Open in hackernews

ESA’s Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration (2024)

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Connectivity_and_Secure_Communications/ESA_s_Moonlight_programme_Pioneering_the_path_for_lunar_exploration
86•nullhole•6mo ago

Comments

CharlesXY•6mo ago
Honestly, pleasantly surprised that this is a European-led initiative, it’s really great to see ESA stepping up with such an ambitious project.
sandworm101•6mo ago
Mostly European. The ESA map has a little cutout for the one non-european "cooperator" state on the council.

https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Member_States_Co...

ChocolateGod•6mo ago
Canada is currently pretending to be a European country sssh
saubeidl•6mo ago
We'll annex them before the Americans do!
preisschild•6mo ago
For Canada we can rename the EU to just "the Union" or even "The United States" :)
JLemay•6mo ago
I mean it sounds great for materials extraction, but I’m a bit skeptical on infrastructure that will make long-term exploration and a lunar economy actually viable
saubeidl•6mo ago
ESA is leading the way in a bunch of space stuff - we're not great at launchers, but the stuff we send up is top-notch.

There's Euclid, which maps out the visible sky in insane detail [0]

There's Galileo, which provides much higher accuracy than GPS. (20cm vs 5m!)

And then there's Copernicus, which provides open-access Earth Observation as a public good.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZCsUfgLRQ

snickerbockers•6mo ago
>There's Galileo, which provides much higher accuracy than GPS. (20cm vs 5m!)

Very ironic name for a group of satellites orbiting the earth.

BigChemical•6mo ago
The Moonlight programme is one of those low-key projects that could end up being essential. Reliable navigation and comms around the Moon turns exploration into long-term infrastructure. It's less about planting flags, more about making the Moon actually usable.
jcfrei•6mo ago
I mean, kudos to ESA for already thinking about connectivity on the moon. But maybe a bit more pressing would be the launch of IRIS2, so we get at least sovereign satellite based telecommunications in Europe. It's set to launch with the first rockets in 2029 but the full budget post 2027 hasn't even been approved yet.
verzali•6mo ago
IRIS2 is a European Union project, not an ESA project. Different organisations, purposes, and countries.
preisschild•6mo ago
Thats not really true. IRIS^2 is a joint project between the EUSPA and ESA

> The European Space Agency (ESA) is responsible for development and deployment of the system and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) is responsible for the governmental service provision.

The ESA wants to be the "space agency" of the European Union anyways

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS%C2%B2

delijati•6mo ago
Delta-V or better the second book critical mass from Daniel Suarez.
ragebol•6mo ago
The navigation part will be of great use to landers there, I've heard too often that the ground sensing radars lock on too late to help guide the landing. Getting a good location estimate might relieve some of that pressure.

For recent landers also didn't really know where exactly they landed, only after getting spotted in images taken from orbit

sandworm101•6mo ago
No. It is a fundamental data problem relating to sensor accuracy/precision. They are called "suicide burns" for a reason. Start the burn too late and you run out of time and smash into the ground. Start too early and you run out of fuel and smash into the ground. So you need a sensor with error bars similar to your safety window for the planned burn.

Let's say you need to start the burn within a +/-10m box to come to a stop 1 to 21m above the moon surface. You want a sensor with something at least 10m precision but preferably more like 1m. That would be the radar. But then say you have something like a GPS with +/-100m precision. Does that help? Your safe window is somewhere inside that 200m but you cannot be sure where until the radar comes online. So do you use the +/-100m info from the GPS? Do you maneuver to center yourself inside its error bars? All you can be sure of is that you are somewhere within that 200m and are 95% sure you are not within the 10m window. So you make a maneuver anyway. Are you now in any better an information position? No. You are still somewhere in the 200m box and are still very likely outside the 10m box. Heck, you might have been inside the 10m box and just moved yourself out of it. You just wasted fuel. The only logical thing to do is to ignore the GPS and wait for the better/actionable information from the radar. The GPS may give you a warm fuzzy but it doesn't actually help when you only have one shot at the burn.

(This problem is mirrored in areas like missile guidance. Running parallel sensors on a missile sounds like a good idea but in reality leads to confusion, wasted energy/range and reduced chance of getting to the target.)

jvanderbot•6mo ago
Not that I doubt your conclusions necessarily, but isn't this what sensor fusion is for? You can cast it as sensor "selection", which is fine, but given two sensors that show 10/1 accuracy (variance 100:1), and the estimates are consistent, I don't know why you'd expect it to have divergent results. (Am I understanding the problem here?). Your pos/alt is still measurable but with big old error bars until the precise sensors kick in.
nullhole•6mo ago
That's roughly my understanding.

Worth noting too that your original, pre-LPS[1] position/orientation/trajectory is coming from other sensors with their own error bars, namely your IMU and whatever information the ground can glean from radio signals.

If your LPS accuracy is better than your IMU accuracy, I don't see why it wouldn't make sense to start using it once it's available.

[1] gotta call it something and GPS doesn't really fit

sandworm101•6mo ago
You can only fuse sensors that are online. In the recent crashes the radar wasn't. The point is that you cannot swap out a high accuracy sensor, not when doing suicide burns with zero margin.
ragebol•6mo ago
My case was about not having radar at all. Having GPS could buy you some time and start braking already based on GPS even if the radar is still out. Yes, might burn some additional fuel but burning too late sucks harder I suppose.

Also: even tough I couldn't find anything about the navigation (or rather localization?) accuracy of the Moonlight system, I'd expect it to be better than 100m, but I have nothing to confirm or deny this.