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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
52•guerrilla•1h ago•20 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
37•mltvc•1h ago•34 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
148•valyala•5h ago•25 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
77•zdw•3d ago•31 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
82•surprisetalk•5h ago•89 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
21•swah•4d ago•13 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
119•mellosouls•8h ago•232 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
157•AlexeyBrin•11h ago•28 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
864•klaussilveira•1d ago•264 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
113•vinhnx•8h ago•14 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
17•martialg•51m ago•3 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
29•randycupertino•58m ago•29 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-...
21•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
73•thelok•7h ago•13 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
75•samasblack•7h ago•57 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...
36•gnufx•4h ago•40 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
253•jesperordrup•15h ago•82 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
156•valyala•5h ago•136 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
533•theblazehen•3d ago•197 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
38•momciloo•5h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
98•onurkanbkrc•10h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

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

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
71•vedantnair•1h ago•55 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
212•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•323 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
42•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
52•rbanffy•4d ago•14 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
273•alainrk•10h ago•452 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
649•nar001•9h ago•284 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-...
51•josephcsible•3h ago•67 comments
Open in hackernews

Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/20440
114•nateb2022•6mo ago

Comments

Jarred•6mo ago
This will ship as part of the Bun v1.2.19 release, which we are aiming for tonight.

There is a Windows-only bug in the isolated install mode blocking us from using isolated installs ourselves in the bun repo, and we need to fix that before we can release this.

If you want to try this early, you can run `bun upgrade --canary` and `bun install --linker=isolated` or put `install.linker = "isolated"` in bunfig.toml.

Isolated installs are a significant performance improvement on Windows (10x, sometimes 20x faster installs) and a minor positive or neutral performance impact on macOS and Linux. More importantly, they make using bun install in monorepos a lot more reliable by preventing dependencies from loading versions of other dependencies they did not specify in their own package.json.

Happy to answer any questions about Bun

gedy•6mo ago
Bun is great, keep up the good work!
8n4vidtmkvmk•6mo ago
Cool. Bun is already pretty fast on Windows, but I welcome more improvements. Thanks for all the great work!

FYI, there seems to be some bugs with installs yet that cause bun to crash. Might be related to having an old package-lock or old node_modules or switching back and forth between WSL and Windows proper. Bun just crashes. Deleting all lock files (bun and npms) and node modules usually fixes it.

jpgvm•6mo ago
Would it be possible to make the default behavior of the isolated linker "nohoist" the same as pnpm?
dsabanin•6mo ago
Really loving Bun these days. Was really pleasantly surprised using their shell scripting API in typescript - single file, shebang line, straightforward DSL, support for piping data here and there.

Really, really nice and ergonomic. Made a few utility scripts today and enjoyed it much better than bash.

https://bun.com/docs/runtime/shell

eknkc•6mo ago
It is also my first choice now. Especially due to built in SQLite support. Also recently needed to write a simple script to dump some data to S3. Found out that bun has built in s3 client too...
Ciantic•6mo ago
I use Bun for many package.json projects, but for shell scripting specifically, I find that Deno is a better choice because you can use dependencies with just import statements via NPM or JSR.

    #!/usr/bin/env -S deno run
    import { z } from "npm:zod";
    import { Webview } from "jsr:@webview/webview";
lioeters•6mo ago
I just learned that Bun supports "autoimports" similar to the above.

> If no node_modules directory is found in the working directory or higher, Bun will abandon Node.js-style module resolution in favor of the Bun module resolution algorithm.

> Under Bun-style module resolution, all imported packages are auto-installed on the fly into a global module cache during execution (the same cache used by bun install).

https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/autoimport

papichulo2023•6mo ago
Recently I migrated some small bash scripts to Js thanks to bunjs, chose it because its simplicity, speed and nice out-of-the-box features (db scripts without external deps). Quite happy with it, now I dont to relearn bash syntax every few months when I need to do some minor changes. Also, Javascript is prob the language that llvms understand the best which is a cool thing on these days.
owebmaster•6mo ago
Llvms?
SwiftyBug•6mo ago
The next gen of compiler backends. They output binaries by infrering the most likely next token.

/s

markl42•6mo ago
Can someone explain what this does differently to the status quo under the hood?
carlosneves•6mo ago
> When using npm, all dependencies for a project are installed in a single node_modules directory. This means that if two packages depend on different versions of the same package, the one that is installed last will be used, which can lead to compatibility issues. This is known as "dependency hell" and can make it difficult to manage the dependencies of a project.

> pnpm's symlink feature addresses this problem by allowing different versions of the same package to be installed side-by-side, and linking them to their dependents through symlinks. This helps to ensure that the correct version of a package is used for each dependent, reducing the chances of compatibility issues and making it easier to manage dependencies.

From the last issue linked in the PR (https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/1760)

Alifatisk•6mo ago
Bun is slowly becoming the all-in-one solution for the js ecosystem, what a talented beast Jarred is
revskill•6mo ago
Main issue is "slowly"
tekkk•6mo ago
So can I use bun now in pnpm monorepo without problems? I like bun and want to try it out more but also, I don't want to do the hassle of migrating only to find out some functionalities are missing eg. ability to run specific scripts on specific packages in monorepo.