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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
84•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•14 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•167 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
131•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
95•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...
1091•xnx•1d ago•618 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

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
63•thelok•5h ago•9 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
231•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/
332•ColinWright•3h ago•399 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•251 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•108 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

Bits 0x02: switching to Orion as a browser

https://andinfinity.eu/post/2025-07-24-bits-0x02/
63•fside•6mo ago

Comments

ne_ptun_us•6mo ago
I like Orion for its feature that lets me set the whole internet to opt-in mode for javascript. Really a beautiful default for surfing, can't recommend giving it a try enough.
paulryanrogers•6mo ago
NoScript has brought this to mainstream browsers for a while.

I believe Chrome and Firefox can be configured to do it without any extensions.

therein•6mo ago
Does it support SOCKS proxies now? If FoxyProxy or something like that works for it, I might give it a try. Last I checked, the browser itself only supported HTTP proxies and since Safari based it opened the Network Configuration system preferences page.

Edit: Tested on latest Orion. FoxyProxy silently does not function. You can configure a proxy, you can even enable it but it will just not use it. Still no way to use a SOCKS proxy.

mrtesthah•6mo ago
Did you try setting a system-wide proxy server under System Settings » Network » (select a connection) » Advanced… » Proxies?
therein•6mo ago
I haven't tried that and that likely will work but I don't want to use that proxy system-wide. I want it specifically for this browser only.
johnisgood•6mo ago
If you want Tor, "torsocks" probably works. I am not sure if it conforms to or cares about environment variables such as "http_proxy" and "https_proxy", or through CLI: "--proxy-server", as some programs do.
mediumsmart•6mo ago
Only browser I know that has zero telemetry by default, great UI, low battery drain and seamless Kagi integration.

To me Chrome and Firefox are like steampunk borg machines with all that valves and plugs fiddling needed to kid yourself they might do the right thing.

MrAlex94•6mo ago
Tor has had zero telemetry since its inception and I’ve been disabling telemetry in Waterfox for as long as I can remember - which is almost 15 years.

There were Firefox forks before that as well doing the same thing.

johnisgood•6mo ago
Pretty sure there are Firefox forks that have telemetry disabled, Tor Browser being one of them, of course.
mediumsmart•6mo ago
I use one of them, ice-cat, with privacy badger and jslibre and I have tor installed as well as chrome, Firefox, libre wolf, dillo, w3m, Mullvad, links, eww and others because I make oldschool websites. The real no telemetry browser is of course lynx.
johnisgood•6mo ago
> The real no telemetry browser is of course lynx.

links, w3m, and maybe even dillo have any telemetry? I would assume they could make your list of "real no telemetry browser".

drcongo•6mo ago
Mullvad browser too, though it's maybe a bit extreme for a daily driver as it's essentially Firefox but permanently in private mode.
Apocryphon•6mo ago
The only browser that's trying to increase backwards-compatibility! I'm using it on macOS Mojave 10.14.6, and the developers are looking to support High Sierra in the future:

https://help.kagi.com/orion/support-and-community/os-version...

johnisgood•6mo ago
Seems like the Orion browser is only supported on macOS and iOS. I am only mentioning this to save some people a couple of clicks.

https://kagi.com/orion/

conaclos•6mo ago
Yes, and I think it's unlikely that it will support other platforms in future because it's based on Safari.
saagarjha•6mo ago
It's based on WebKit.
tvshtr•6mo ago
https://forms.kagi.com/?q=orion_linux_news
robin_reala•6mo ago
It’s coming on Linux (scheduled for March 2026). See https://kagi.com/changelog#6479
freehorse•6mo ago
They started working on a Linux version this year. There are already WebKit based browsers for Linux so definitely it does not have to be confined to macOS.
pastage•6mo ago
Konqueror is among one of those Linux browsers, it became WebKit. It does not make a port easy though.
kotaKat•6mo ago
Orion is a struggle on iOS. Despite it claiming to block ads, I find its ad-blocking capabilities heavily overstated - they barely work at all on many sites, even with all the filters enabled, and extension support doesn’t work with adblocking extensions making it a moot point. Right now Old Reddit is flooded with Samsung and other crap ads, even with all the lists turned on and updated.
yzydserd•6mo ago
> The only thing I’m missing is multi-account containers, or a way to isolate google or meta products for example into its own profile. But I can live with that for now.

Hmm, “profiles” work fine for me in Orion. A bit different to how Firefox and others achieve MAC, and less full featured maybe, but total separation is possible. You can’t assign sites to profiles but you can open separate profile windows.

gregwebs•6mo ago
I like Orion on iOS- it’s Safari without all the ads showing up. I can run the DarkReader extension at night just like Safari. Unfortunately it’s the most unstable software on my phone- at times regularly freezing up and then I switch back to Safari.
arkt8•6mo ago
For who wants something near similar in other UNIX or Linux, see Luakit, a webkit with customizable adblocker, jsblocker, userscripts and userstyles, vim command alike and fully configurable in Lua.
Imustaskforhelp•6mo ago
I use zen and I am gonna be honest I wouldn't consider it to be buggy and it works really perfect on my linux desktop

But to be fair as it is a linux desktop I am not sure / worried about power consumption so yeah I love zen browser and even some of my friends use this even on their laptops. Would recommend it a 100 times if I could.