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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
69•valyala•3h ago•13 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...
21•gnufx•2h ago•9 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
117•valyala•3h ago•90 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
39•surprisetalk•3h ago•47 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
79•mellosouls•6h ago•152 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
23•zdw•3d ago•1 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
89•vinhnx•6h ago•11 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
847•klaussilveira•23h ago•255 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
62•samasblack•6h ago•50 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1085•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/
60•thelok•5h ago•9 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
90•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
228•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
511•theblazehen•3d ago•189 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-...
41•josephcsible•1h ago•38 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
315•ColinWright•2h ago•373 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
248•alainrk•8h ago•399 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
25•momciloo•3h ago•4 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
604•nar001•7h ago•266 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
176•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•244 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
11•languid-photic•3d 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
45•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
123•videotopia•4d ago•37 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•4 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
28•sandGorgon•2d ago•14 comments

Where did all the starships go?

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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
208•limoce•4d ago•115 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
282•isitcontent•23h ago•38 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.