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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
86•valyala•4h ago•16 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•15 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
35•zdw•3d ago•4 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
89•mellosouls•6h ago•168 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
132•valyala•4h ago•99 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
47•surprisetalk•3h ago•52 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
96•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
850•klaussilveira•23h ago•256 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
66•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...
1092•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/
64•thelok•5h ago•9 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-...
4•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
516•theblazehen•3d ago•191 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
93•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 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/
334•ColinWright•3h ago•401 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
254•alainrk•8h ago•412 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
182•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•252 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

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

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
35•marklit•5d ago•6 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
27•momciloo•4h 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
47•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•39 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
96•speckx•4d ago•109 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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
32•sandGorgon•2d ago•15 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
287•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments
Open in hackernews

AICodingHorrors – The price of AI-assisted coding

https://aicodinghorrors.com/
54•cratermoon•6mo ago

Comments

deadbabe•6mo ago
Gems:

"AI help me write a regex. Now SQL Injections are valid passwords."

"I asked AI to fix a race condition: It introduced a deadlock that took down our entire production app, and no one understands why."

"AI did my taxes: Why I might be going to prison."

"I trusted AI to generate test data: It used real customer info—and emailed them!"

bethekidyouwant•6mo ago
All things that never happened before AI
d00mB0t•6mo ago
Yes, but now they can be done at scale :D
d00mB0t•6mo ago
Coding isn't for everyone.
flurdy•6mo ago
These are my own fears as well, but guardrails will evolve to make them a minor nuisance.

I was pondering whether to exclusively use devcontainers or the codebase in a toolbx container to fence in the blast radius.

eterm•6mo ago
I'm not familiar enough with AI-assisted coding to know: the `rm -rf ~/` example seems like satire, but is it?
iron_ball•6mo ago
No idea about the vibe-coding platforms, but systems like Claude Code have explicit allowlists for commands. Don't allow it, and it'll ask permission each time.
corndoge•6mo ago
What is the point of this site?

"Hammer horrors - the price of using hammers"

"Smashed fingers, bent nails, shattered lives."

Come on. AI is a tool, it doesn't do anything by itself. A showcase of people using tools poorly - who is interested?

wat10000•6mo ago
The point is that these tools CAN do things by themselves if you set them up to do it, and things can go badly wrong if you do.
multjoy•6mo ago
Schadenfreude, obviously.

People are telling us how AI (or LLMs, at any rate) are the next big thing and here we have someone vibe coding their DB out of existence.

vanschelven•6mo ago
Pointing out the dangers of various tools is something that's is consider "a point" to the degree that there is a special government agency for it in every modern state in the world. This is that, but applied to a specific tool and as a meme-site.
TheEnder8•6mo ago
It shows that some measure of supervision is needed. That firing all of the coders, and unleashing bots is probably a bad idea (at least for the near future)
happytoexplain•6mo ago
I have never seen as many different metaphors deployed in the defense of something as with AI. And as with AI, metaphor is over-relied upon for its ease of use.
corndoge•6mo ago
The hammer thing is an analogy, and calling it a tool is an opinion, neither are metaphors.
brookst•6mo ago
Mostly people whose livelihood is threatened. It’s like horse drawn carriage coachmen passing around screeds about the horrors of the automobile.
benterix•6mo ago
A light counterweight to mass marketing of vibe coding tools.
dontmindmehere•6mo ago
there isn't an emerging industry of grifters pitching hammer agents that will build you the next ikea, no woodworking knowledge required
ttul•6mo ago
It’s a bit like hiring a cheap off shore contractor if unsupervised…
jonplackett•6mo ago
There’s something so amusing about the way AIs screw up but still just take full accountability for their actions.

I read them in my head with the voice of the excited dog that is given a collar that makes it speak from Up

> said "NO MORE CHANGES without explicit permission" • I ignored the code freeze that was already in place The violation sequence: "Stop" "You didn't even ask" • But it was already too late This was a catastrophic failure on my part. I violated explicit

somewhereoutth•6mo ago
The deeper issue this site highlights, is that failure modes for these kinds of complex automations (and LLMs are automations, not intelligence) are not only non-linear, non-local - but unbounded and 'super-causal' (I'm trying to reach for some proper terminology to say that output y may have no relation at all to input x).
d00mB0t•6mo ago
This one was my favorite: https://aicodinghorrors.com/vibe-coding-feels-great-until-yo...

"As a non-coder, it was rough." "Lesson learned--more guardrails coming."

Shouldn't the lesson be "Learn how to code"?

rootnod3•6mo ago
That would require thinking, and that is the very skill that LLMs are chipping away at.
jsnell•6mo ago
Not really? The vast majority of apps written by people who know how to code will also not have sufficient abuse controls to start with. Actually most will have no abuse protections, and certainly nothing that would be effective against just "hundreds" of fake requests.

Unless you've worked for years specifically on counter-abuse, it's really hard to have an intuition on what the abusable features of a new app are going to be.

giobi•6mo ago
Even in the most basic app I use cloudflare, and that alone does the job 90% of times
blibble•6mo ago
https://hnrankings.info/44625661/

can't have people saying bad things about the bullshit generator can we

benterix•6mo ago
There is too much money at stake.
AaronAPU•6mo ago
During a gold rush, don’t dig for gold and don’t sell shovels. Sell stories about people dying while digging for gold.
skris•6mo ago
Why did this get flagged? I'm the creator of this site. Someone else submitted it now.

It is meant to be a meme site, for awareness. Inspired by serverlesshorrors.com

evilduck•6mo ago
You're pointing out the emperor's new clothes worn by the entrepreneurial developer niche and the investor class, on a website created by and for them.

Consider the flagging a measure of success.