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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
455•theblazehen•2d ago•163 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
36•thelok•2h ago•3 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
35•mellosouls•3h ago•32 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
94•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
45•samasblack•2h ago•32 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
787•klaussilveira•20h ago•241 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
29•simonw•2h ago•34 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
36•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
59•onurkanbkrc•5h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1037•xnx•1d ago•587 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
493•nar001•4h ago•230 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
11•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
174•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
182•alainrk•5h ago•268 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
27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
59•1vuio0pswjnm7•6h ago•56 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
17•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
107•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
55•speckx•4d ago•62 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
267•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
280•dmpetrov•20h ago•148 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•46 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
196•limoce•4d ago•105 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
165•bookofjoe•2h ago•150 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
9•0xmattf•2h ago•4 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
37•matt_d•4d ago•12 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
547•todsacerdoti•1d ago•265 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
421•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

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

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•22h ago•167 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
66•helloplanets•4d ago•70 comments
Open in hackernews

Ralph Wiggum as a "Software Engineer"

https://ghuntley.com/ralph/
18•tosh•6mo ago

Comments

lubujackson•6mo ago
I mean, if we are vibe coding the future let's go all the way.

This is surprisingly similar to a book my son got from the library about how to code for 5 year olds or something along those lines. The example was how do you tell a robot to tie their shoes? With plenty of examples of the robot tying shoes not on its feet, or placed on its head, etc.

The underlying point: computers are stupid, but iteratively less so if you course-correct them a little bit each time. There is absolutely no reason we should need to bother with human readable computer languages within 10 years - straight to Assembly! Blazingly fast and self-healing and inscrutable.

Now we will still need "computer operators" to define what we want with as much fidelity as we need, but ask yourself this - if we could guarantee the program wpuld be correct within the boundaries we define, aren't we in the exact same position as today? It comes down tp our fallible, human ability to precisely tell the computer what we want. It's just a change in the I/O, and potentially a big change for the better.

adamgordonbell•6mo ago
I need a simpler explanation of this.

No special subagents, Ralph just forks himself, right?

But I think I missed a lot.

card_zero•6mo ago
"You'll get 90% done with it", but also it won't be maintainable, but will maintain itself and fix all the errors it causes. Except permanently 10% broken?
Retr0id•6mo ago
> If you wanted to be cheeky, you could probably find the codebase for CURSED on GitHub. I ask that you don't share it on socials, because it's not ready for launch.

I'll respect the authors wishes not to link it. But I have to say, while my expectations for code quality were low, what I found was far below them.

From the github UI:

> Sorry, we had to truncate this directory to 1,000 files. 631 entries were omitted from the list.

slowmovintarget•6mo ago
"These packages taste like burning."