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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
71•valyala•3h ago•15 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...
23•gnufx•2h ago•10 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
28•zdw•3d ago•2 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
119•valyala•3h ago•91 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
82•mellosouls•6h ago•154 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
39•surprisetalk•3h ago•49 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
142•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

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

https://openciv3.org/
848•klaussilveira•23h ago•255 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
62•samasblack•6h ago•51 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1087•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
60•thelok•5h ago•9 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
228•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
512•theblazehen•3d ago•189 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
318•ColinWright•2h ago•379 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
249•alainrk•8h ago•402 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
25•momciloo•3h ago•4 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
607•nar001•7h ago•267 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
177•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•247 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
45•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
123•videotopia•4d ago•37 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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
91•speckx•4d ago•103 comments

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

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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
208•limoce•4d ago•115 comments

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

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
564•todsacerdoti•1d ago•275 comments
Open in hackernews

Astronomical Telescope “Hadley” – an easy assembly, high performance Newtonian

https://www.printables.com/model/224383-astronomical-telescope-hadley-an-easy-assembly-hig
56•yehoshuapw•6mo ago

Comments

omgJustTest•6mo ago
Does anyone know of a cool (cheap) way to get adaptive optics in one of these devices?
teamonkey•6mo ago
Adaptive optics and cheap don’t usually go together and I don’t know of any successful amateur attempts. In any case, Hadley’s appeal is that it’s cheap and 3d printed, it’s not a precision instrument that is limited by the atmosphere.

That said, assuming you’re doing planetary photography, you can do speckle imaging by using an astronomy camera to take lots of short-exposure frames and running them through software such as AutoStakkert!4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckle_imaging

poulpy123•6mo ago
The mirror used in hadley telescope is spherical instead of parabolic because it is small enough that the difference don't count much for the desired image quality. An adaptive optic would make no sense in this scenario.
doodlebugging•6mo ago
The author mentions that locating metric fasteners in bulk may be a problem.

When I need anything metric (automobiles use a lot of metric fasteners of various sizes) I order them from BelMetric.com [0].

You can order one or one hundred or one thousand and they assemble your order and get it out to you faster than any other provider of fasteners that I have used.

They have an excellent selection including specialty parts that might be useful for building telescopes.

https://belmetric.com/

They're the best.

Overall this looks like an interesting project that is not difficult to make. I may need to level my printer bed and see what happens.

geocrasher•6mo ago
I built a Hadley, and it's pretty amazing. I have seen the rings of Saturn with it- and the moon- WOW. Here's a video I did about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA076d-gsyY

Also wrote it up on my website, which has a link to the Hackaday article I wrote on it: https://miscdotgeek.com/3d-printing-the-hadley-114mm-newtoni...

I still need to build a proper base for it. Balancing it on a chair or some other thing is just no good. It needs to move smoothly. What you think you know, don't realize how pronounced it is until you're watching through a decent telescope, is that the cosmos are on the move!

yehoshuapw•6mo ago
I see you wrote you used PETG - would you recommend it, or would you have done it again in PLA?

(due to accuracy.)

geocrasher•6mo ago
It worked fine, no regrets. It's more stable for outdoor use, so that is why I went with it. I've printed exclusively with PETG.