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

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

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
101•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•18 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
52•samasblack•3h ago•39 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
789•klaussilveira•20h ago•243 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
39•vinhnx•3h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1040•xnx•1d ago•587 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
464•theblazehen•2d ago•165 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
510•nar001•4h ago•235 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
51•mellosouls•3h ago•52 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
63•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•60 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
189•alainrk•5h ago•282 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

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
19•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/
108•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
59•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
268•isitcontent•21h ago•34 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
198•limoce•4d ago•107 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
281•dmpetrov•21h ago•150 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•47 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
169•bookofjoe•2h ago•153 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
549•todsacerdoti•1d ago•266 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
39•matt_d•4d ago•14 comments

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

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•23h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
465•lstoll•1d ago•305 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
342•eljojo•23h ago•210 comments

What Is Ruliology?

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

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
18•sandGorgon•2d ago•8 comments
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The Perils of an .xyz Domain

https://www.spotvirtual.com/blog/the-perils-of-an-xyz-domain
26•PaulHoule•6mo ago

Comments

gnabgib•6mo ago
(2021) Discussion at the time (492 points, 275 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400
PaulHoule•6mo ago
I'm seeing people submit a lot of them these days. Great way to kill your startup.
cebert•6mo ago
Is .ai the new “cool” TLD for startups now or has that fad passed already too?
Brajeshwar•6mo ago
Oh! It is still very much on. I used to occasionally order missed school tiffin backups (in India) from a pretty good school tiffin supplier. This year, too, I tried to set it up as a backup. Their `.in` domain re-directed to their new AI-ed `.ai` domain.
ShadowBanThis03•6mo ago
The continued existence of a limited, canned collection of TLDs testifies to the corruption of ICANN't and the administrative regime of the Web.
riffic•6mo ago
feel free to use alternative roots but everyone else has agreed to this system after much deliberation.
ShadowBanThis03•6mo ago
Bullshit. What are you talking about? ICANN is a corrupt, self-serving cabal.

I mean... your assertion is hilariously naíve, or outright shilling for these assholes.

kassner•6mo ago
At this day and age, any cheap TLD will be used for spam. I used to think people shouldn’t do it, but now the only option is to blanket-ban some TLDs.

I operate my own postfix. In the last 6 months, I see at least 250 daily attempts from domains in the .sbs, .cfd, .quest and other TLDs, all with valid SPF/DKIM and even IP reverse. The domains are at maximum 7 days older, and they all are formatted like “(commonword1)(commonword2)(commonword3).(tld)”. The only way to tell them apart is by running spamassassin on it, or if you aren’t much worried, it’s a way easier to just block the TLD.

Given how little people communicate via email nowadays (relative to IM), email spam feels in an all time high.