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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
76•valyala•3h ago•15 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...
23•gnufx•2h ago•13 comments

The F Word

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

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
124•valyala•3h ago•95 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
85•mellosouls•6h ago•159 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
42•surprisetalk•3h ago•50 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
94•vinhnx•6h ago•12 comments

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

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

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
63•samasblack•6h ago•51 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1089•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/
61•thelok•5h ago•9 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
229•jesperordrup•14h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
514•theblazehen•3d ago•190 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
323•ColinWright•3h ago•388 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-...
3•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
250•alainrk•8h ago•404 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
608•nar001•8h ago•269 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
179•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•250 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•5 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
46•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/
124•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•5 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
92•speckx•4d ago•104 comments

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

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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
209•limoce•4d ago•117 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
283•isitcontent•1d ago•38 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."