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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
159•theblazehen•2d ago•45 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
674•klaussilveira•14h ago•202 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
950•xnx•20h ago•552 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
123•matheusalmeida•2d ago•33 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
21•kaonwarb•3d ago•19 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
58•videotopia•4d ago•2 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
232•isitcontent•14h ago•25 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
225•dmpetrov•15h ago•118 comments

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

https://vecti.com
331•vecti•16h ago•144 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
494•todsacerdoti•22h ago•243 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
383•ostacke•20h ago•95 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
360•aktau•21h ago•182 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
289•eljojo•17h ago•175 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
413•lstoll•21h ago•279 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
20•bikenaga•3d ago•8 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
63•kmm•5d ago•7 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
91•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
258•i5heu•17h ago•196 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
31•jesperordrup•4h ago•16 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
32•romes•4d ago•3 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
44•helloplanets•4d ago•42 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
60•gfortaine•12h ago•26 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1070•cdrnsf•1d ago•446 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
16•speckx•3d ago•6 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
36•gmays•9h ago•12 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
150•vmatsiiako•19h ago•68 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
288•surprisetalk•3d ago•43 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
150•SerCe•10h ago•142 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
186•limoce•3d ago•100 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
73•phreda4•14h ago•14 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-...