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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/
48•thelok•2h ago•5 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
107•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•19 comments

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

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
42•vinhnx•4h ago•6 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
67•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...
1048•xnx•1d ago•589 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
465•theblazehen•2d ago•168 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
71•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•77 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
517•nar001•5h ago•239 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
187•jesperordrup•11h ago•65 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
197•alainrk•5h ago•294 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
56•mellosouls•3h ago•58 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
29•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
4•languid-photic•3d ago•0 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
22•marklit•5d ago•1 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
62•speckx•4d ago•65 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
271•isitcontent•21h ago•36 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...
20•alephnerd•1h ago•10 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
198•limoce•4d ago•109 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
282•dmpetrov•21h ago•151 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
20•sandGorgon•2d ago•10 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
153•matheusalmeida•2d ago•47 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
176•bookofjoe•2h ago•159 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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

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

https://vecti.com
366•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/
345•eljojo•23h ago•212 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
40•matt_d•4d ago•16 comments
Open in hackernews

Traccar: an open source GPS tracking system

https://github.com/traccar/traccar
60•saikatsg•6mo ago

Comments

cranberryturkey•6mo ago
needs examples.
saikatsg•6mo ago
https://www.traccar.org/documentation/
cranberryturkey•6mo ago
Like I said. Examples not docs
plett•6mo ago
Are the demo servers a good enough example? https://www.traccar.org/demo-server/
RonanSoleste•6mo ago
Id have to register my own account with my personal data and connect my private phone to send my location to a server i know nothing about. Lets not.
cyanydeez•6mo ago
At that level of paranoia, why dont you just self host.

https://www.traccar.org/download/

RonanSoleste•6mo ago
I don't specifically distrust the code. I dont know where my data on that hosted service ends up since its rather private information. So self hosting is an option if i can see a demo without providing my personal data.
drewda•6mo ago
It's a great open-source option, but I'd also skip using their hosted service given that Traccar is a Russian company.
ajsnigrutin•6mo ago
> but I'd also skip using their hosted service given that Traccar is a Russian company.

Why?

I mean... I don't live in russia, russian police/fsb has no power here, same probably is true for you too, and if i/yo do something stupid, the chances of a russian company giving data to my/your local police is much lower than if I/you used some local company. Why should hosting in russia be problematic here?

RonanSoleste•6mo ago
No legal power :)
greenavocado•6mo ago
As opposed to their soft power, which is also non-existent?
RonanSoleste•6mo ago
Because nobody ever got murdered or abducted in a safe country by a dictatorial regime :)
ajsnigrutin•6mo ago
I mean...

How else do you expect to test something? You either install it on your own server, and send your private data to your private server, or you use a public server and give them data.... what third option do you expect?

RonanSoleste•6mo ago
A demo with fake data allowing you to explore the product. This is actually very common in both opensource and in the commercial sector
precommunicator•6mo ago
I self-hosted it for a while now. Works well. I track all devices I have and additionally hardwired a GPS in my car, connected to it. It supports a almost infinite list of GPS devices and protocols, so definitely you can find something on their list.

Very configurable, when I added a Bluetooth temperature beacon to the GPS in my car I was able to write specific computed attributes in it so that it converts raw value and saves temperature together with each check-in.

matt-attack•6mo ago
Are these GPS trackers that require their own cellular account?
precommunicator•6mo ago
Yes. There are solutions to that though, that are cheap and work worldwide wherever there is a cellular range (e.g. Hologram, SimBase). They only lost cellular when I was at a really weird place (Faroe Islands), and only one of them. Trackers use very little data (depends on the tracker and config I guess, I use branded ones i.e. Teltonika)