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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/

75•valyala•3h ago•41 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...

18•gnufx•1h ago•1 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

43•valyala•3h ago•5 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

134•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/

152•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•183 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

267•ColinWright•2h ago•300 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/

840•klaussilveira•22h ago•252 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html

77•vinhnx•6h ago•10 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...

1069•xnx•1d ago•615 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

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...

209•alephnerd•3h ago•154 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/

87•onurkanbkrc•7h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

501•theblazehen•3d ago•186 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html

7•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/

219•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 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

20•momciloo•3h ago•1 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back

240•alainrk•7h ago•380 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-...

20•josephcsible•53m ago•13 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique

585•nar001•7h ago•260 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html

33•marklit•5d ago•4 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

42•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/

10•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/

117•videotopia•4d ago•35 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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline

84•speckx•4d ago•94 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo

281•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en

204•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty

292•dmpetrov•23h ago•156 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/

562•todsacerdoti•1d ago•272 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal

23•sandGorgon•2d ago•13 comments

Open in hackernews

M.2 SSD Can Self-Destruct by Giving Itself a Burst of Voltage

https://uk.pcmag.com/storage/159074/this-m2-ssd-can-self-destruct-by-giving-itself-a-burst-of-voltage

16•austinallegro•6mo ago

Comments

beeflet•6mo ago

seems unnecessary with encryption

SketchySeaBeast•6mo ago

You know, sometimes security through obscurity works. If you can't find all the pieces you certainly aren't going to retrieve their data.

dafelst•6mo ago

You can be compelled to give up encryption passphrases, either through legal process or by force. If that data is irrecovably and provably erased, that is no longer an avenue for access.

beeflet•6mo ago

put part of the symmetric encryption key in volatile memory

pepa65•6mo ago

Just flash/flush the embedded encryption key, the SSD remains usable with a/the new encryption key. This just seems like a way to increase sales...

bhaney•6mo ago

ATA_REQUEST_THERMITE_RELEASE

ATA_POLL_THERMITE_RELEASED // always returns 0. Assume 1 if timeout

MarkusWandel•6mo ago

If smartphones can wipe themselves irrecoverably on factory reset by simply throwing away the storage encryption key, why not do the same thing and avoid all the trouble? Surely erasing 512 bits or so, irrecoverably, can be done quickly.

mrheosuper•6mo ago

What if Quantum computer is actually possible ?

MattPalmer1086•6mo ago

Symmetric encryption, used for data storage only loses about half its key strength to a quantum computer, due to Grover's algorithm.

So if you are using a 256 bit key you're still fine. Even a 128 bit key would still have 64 bit strength, which would still be a huge amount of work to crack, even though theoretically possible.

DevelopingElk•6mo ago

Flash chips, unlike hard drives, are highly reliant on their controllers. If you hit it with a hammer the data is unrecoverable. No need for a voltage zap.