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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
63•valyala•2h ago•32 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
39•valyala•2h ago•4 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...
14•gnufx•1h ago•1 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
131•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
255•ColinWright•2h ago•290 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
143•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•170 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
839•klaussilveira•22h ago•251 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
77•vinhnx•5h ago•9 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
196•alephnerd•3h ago•140 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
57•thelok•4h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1067•xnx•1d ago•615 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
87•onurkanbkrc•7h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
497•theblazehen•3d ago•186 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
218•jesperordrup•13h ago•79 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
238•alainrk•7h ago•378 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
581•nar001•7h ago•260 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
18•momciloo•2h ago•1 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
5•zdw•3d ago•0 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
42•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
10•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
32•marklit•5d ago•4 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-...
15•josephcsible•45m ago•10 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
116•videotopia•4d ago•35 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
83•speckx•4d ago•94 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
280•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
203•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
291•dmpetrov•23h ago•156 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
23•sandGorgon•2d ago•13 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
560•todsacerdoti•1d ago•272 comments
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Viral Language

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/viral-language/
47•lermontov•6mo ago

Comments

bitwize•6mo ago
There are a few things being conflated here: general gen Z slang like "rizz"; "algospeak", or euphemisms to avoid demonetization or other disciplinary action from online platforms (e.g., "unalive" for "kill", or "S.A." for "sexual assault"); and replacing vowels with asterisks which is usually done to avoid attention from searchers for disfavored people/things, e.g., "El*n M*sk".

Even in the realm of gen Z slang, gen Z/alpha people don't generally talk as obnoxiously as depicted in the Rizzler song or the infamous Walmart ad with the bus driver. And there are certain things attributed to gen Z that I think are completely made up and then picked up and propagated by gullible journalists and marketroids. A few years back, a number of online outlets began repeating the rise of the term "cheugy" among gen Z, meaning roughly "cheesy and outdated, like something a millennial would find cool". But I could never find actual live examples of "cheugy" being used this way, either online or IRL, outside of thinkpieces about gen Z slang. I'm pretty convinced that "cheugy" is a phenomenon similar to the hoax jargon of "grunge speak" of the 1990s:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak

I think it's important to separate and clarify the different linguistic phenomena going in here, to avoid brainrot regarding how Kids These Days speak and use language.

Swizec•6mo ago
> ut I could never find actual live examples of "cheugy" being used this way, either online or IRL, outside of thinkpieces about gen Z slang. I'm pretty convinced that "cheugy" is a phenomenon similar to the hoax jargon

Au contraire, I have heard a lot of millenials-who-spend-too-much-time-on-instagram use cheugy to describe a tacky outfit choice. But like ironically.

bitwize•6mo ago
Oh, so like "harsh realm" or "cob knobbler" from "grunge speak".
soulofmischief•6mo ago
I don't spend much time on social media and cheugy is one of my favorite neologisms. I finally have a word to describe a particular kind of tacky.
henriquegodoy•6mo ago
crazy how the behaviour impacts the language and language impacts the behaviour such like a loop
balamatom•6mo ago
the language is sentient; we are merely its eyes and teeth
kazinator•6mo ago
"aura" and "brain rot" are not new, sorry.

etymonline.com on "aura":

- 1870: In spiritualism, "subtle emanation around living beings".

- 1859: "Characteristic impression" made by a personality.

- 1732: "An aroma or subtle emanation".

The hyphenated term brain-rot was used by Henry Thoreau in Walden [1854]; search for it in this Project Gutenberg copy:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm