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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
82•valyala•3h ago•52 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...
19•gnufx•1h ago•2 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
47•valyala•3h ago•8 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
4•mooreds•20m ago•2 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
161•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•200 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
80•vinhnx•6h ago•10 comments

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

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

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
282•ColinWright•2h ago•324 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1074•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/
57•thelok•5h ago•8 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/
503•theblazehen•3d ago•187 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
221•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-...
25•josephcsible•1h ago•20 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
9•zdw•3d ago•0 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...
222•alephnerd•3h ago•171 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
20•momciloo•3h ago•2 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
241•alainrk•7h ago•383 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
591•nar001•7h ago•261 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•2 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
119•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...
19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
87•speckx•4d ago•95 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
204•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
281•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

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

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

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
24•sandGorgon•2d ago•13 comments
Open in hackernews

Pseudo, a Common Lisp macro for pseudocode expressions

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/07/pseudo.html
73•reikonomusha•6mo ago

Comments

nurettin•6mo ago
I see a bunch of 18+ ads.
hofrogs•6mo ago
I see none, it's a regular blog post (no ads there, just some code) page with a few comments (no ads there either). I am using an adblocker.
wk_end•6mo ago
I get some ads (not using an ad blocker) but nothing NSFW.

This is Blogspot, unless something real weird is going on you’re just seeing normal Google ads. I have found, in my travels, that Google (Meta too) doesn’t moderate its ads as well as you’d expect once you leave the US.

anonzzzies•6mo ago
I only see starlink ads.
jlarocco•6mo ago
That's kind of neat. I had an idea for a macro that would search GitHub for functions with the desired name and use their implementation, but this is probably more predicatable.
JonChesterfield•6mo ago
Passing the lexical information in and requiring s-expressions be returned is a good idea. Put a cache on it to remember what the llm came up with last time and you have a legitimate, if somewhat weird, language implementation.
anonzzzies•6mo ago
Cache it and give the user a tool to see the code and regenerate it when not happy and this is really quite a bit of fun.
cryptonector•6mo ago
Can't commit pseudo-code to prod like this :laugh: cause you might get different results once in a while!
xigoi•6mo ago
After decades of research, we have finally come up with a way to make programs break in unpredictable ways on every compilation.
anonzzzies•6mo ago
... and yet, the author will probably get an email soon with $500m VC offer for a revolutionary way of coding.
flavio81•6mo ago
One could easily implement an Emacs (SLIME) plugin to "macroexpand" the (pseudo) expresion to real (concrete) Lisp code, and even to try again until the implementation satisfies you.

Then it becomes a concrete Lisp implementation and thus not unpredictable anymore.

xigoi•6mo ago
Isn’t that just vibe coding with extra steps?
tluyben2•6mo ago
I like it, and indeed neatly shows the power of Lisp. The JS variety (well the one that I could come up with) is far less elegant, but works [0] (well, mostly). It really shows how the different LLMs stack up; some really cannot get anything right, but something like openai/gpt-4o-mini seems to get it right mostly (8/10).

[0] https://github.com/tluyben/pseudo-js

soegaard•6mo ago
Similar idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueGC3xVcDlc William Bowman: First class Prompt Engineering with llm lang! (This is a bad idea.) (RacketCon)