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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...
20•gnufx•2h ago•6 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
61•valyala•3h ago•12 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
105•valyala•3h ago•78 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
75•mellosouls•6h ago•85 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
35•surprisetalk•3h ago•43 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
138•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
85•vinhnx•6h ago•11 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
846•klaussilveira•23h ago•252 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
60•samasblack•5h ago•49 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1080•xnx•1d ago•615 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
59•thelok•5h ago•8 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
13•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
88•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
509•theblazehen•3d ago•188 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
226•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 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-...
34•josephcsible•1h ago•26 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
21•momciloo•3h ago•2 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
297•ColinWright•2h ago•352 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
246•alainrk•8h ago•391 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
34•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
601•nar001•7h ago•263 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
11•languid-photic•3d ago•4 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
43•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
171•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•231 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
120•videotopia•4d ago•36 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•4 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
27•sandGorgon•2d ago•14 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
89•speckx•4d ago•99 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
282•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments
Open in hackernews

Ferroelectric helps break transistor limits

https://spectrum.ieee.org/negative-capacitance-schottky-limit
35•jnord•6mo ago

Comments

maxbond•6mo ago
> HZO is a ferroelectric. That is, it has a crystal structure that allows it to maintain an internal electrical field even when no external voltage is applied. (Conventional dielectrics don’t have this inherent electrical field.) When a voltage is applied to the transistor, HZO’s inherent electric field opposes it. In a transistor, this leads to a counterintuitive effect: A decrease in voltage causes an increase in the charge stored in HZO. This negative capacitance response effectively amplifies the gate control, helping the transistor’s 2D electron cloud accumulate charge and boosting the on-state current.
hinkley•6mo ago
> Leakage current is a well-known problem in these kinds of transistors, “so integrating an innovative ferroelectric layer into the gate stack to address this has clear promise,” says Aaron Franklin, an electrical engineer at Duke University, in Durham, N.C. “It certainly is an exciting and creative advancement.”

I'm wondering if this will eventually transition out of power electronics into other sorts of electronics. Sounds like they've got their next five years planned just looking at power electronics though.

innis226•6mo ago
Negative capacitance in a field effect transistor is not new. In fact this has been shown mire than a decade ago. The reason it won't make its way into modern chips is because the materials used to make the ferroelectrics aren't CMOS foundry compatible.
adrian_b•6mo ago
Hafnium and zirconium dioxide are CMOS foundry compatible.

Hafnium dioxide has been the gate dielectric for MOS transistors in all dense CMOS processes for a couple of decades. It is certainly used in whatever smartphone or computer you have.

With the former gate dielectric, silicon dioxide, it was impossible to make MOS transistors as small as in modern processes, because it has a too low dielectric constant, which would have required impossibly thin gate layers (for high enough gate capacitances).

Hafnium dioxide has a much higher dielectric constant, allowing to achieve the same gate capacitance at a manageable gate thickness.

The chemical behaviors of hafnium and zirconium are almost identical, their similarity being as great as between rare-earth elements, but for the dielectric behavior of their oxide the substitution of a fraction of the hafnium with zirconium and appropriate treatments can make the oxide ferroelectric.

Many great applications have been proposed for ferroelectric Hf-Zr dioxide already for some years, but I have not heard of any commercial device. The reason is not any compatibility problem with CMOS processes, but I believe that it might be hard to obtain reproducible ferroelectric properties, as they might vary a lot depending on the exact parameters of the manufacturing steps.

b00ty4breakfast•6mo ago
ok, let's see it in a real-world production environment. What works in the lab doesn't always scale to the factory floor.

It's not an uninteresting thing (it's very interesting, from a purely technical POV) but it reads like so many "groundbreaking" press releases that never materialize

ygritte•6mo ago
Found some explanation what negative capacitance is:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/611003/what-...