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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
137•guerrilla•4h ago•60 comments

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
17•yi_wang•1h ago•3 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
220•valyala•9h ago•41 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
127•surprisetalk•8h ago•135 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
154•mellosouls•11h ago•312 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
893•klaussilveira•1d ago•272 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...
49•gnufx•7h ago•51 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
145•vinhnx•12h ago•16 comments

Show HN: Craftplan – Elixir-based micro-ERP for small-scale manufacturers

https://puemos.github.io/craftplan/
13•deofoo•4d ago•1 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
170•AlexeyBrin•14h ago•30 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
82•randycupertino•4h ago•154 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
110•samasblack•11h ago•69 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
278•jesperordrup•19h ago•90 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
61•momciloo•8h ago•11 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
91•thelok•10h ago•20 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
31•mbitsnbites•3d ago•2 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
103•zdw•3d ago•52 comments

IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/ibm-beam-spring-the-ultimate-retro-keyboard
3•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
558•theblazehen•3d ago•206 comments

Eigen: Building a Workspace

https://reindernijhoff.net/2025/10/eigen-building-a-workspace/
8•todsacerdoti•4d ago•2 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
28•languid-photic•4d ago•9 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-...
106•josephcsible•6h ago•127 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
263•1vuio0pswjnm7•15h ago•434 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
175•valyala•8h ago•166 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
114•onurkanbkrc•13h ago•5 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
141•videotopia•4d ago•47 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
133•speckx•4d ago•209 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
222•limoce•4d ago•124 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
297•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
578•todsacerdoti•1d ago•279 comments
Open in hackernews

Pride Versioning 0.3.0

https://pridever.org/
53•laacz•6mo ago

Comments

neilellis•6mo ago
Love it!
carterschonwald•6mo ago
This is kinda what we’ve all been doing all along!
reb•6mo ago
Finally, a versioning scheme that's rooted in reality
Spivak•6mo ago
They forgot the real first digit, the marketing version.
blahgeek•6mo ago
This makes more sense than it looks. semver is a lie because every change is a breaking change (Hyrum’s law)
mbirth•6mo ago
I very much prefer Gregorian versioning. Also lets you instantly know whether that nice app you’ve just found mentioned somewhere is still being updated or abandoned for 5 years already.
eichin•6mo ago
Do you mean calendar-year-major version numbers? (ubuntu aspell-en is "2020.12.07-0-1") I like the name, but google only found this comment mentioning it :-)
mbb70•6mo ago
Normally just called calendar versioning
chrismorgan•6mo ago
A more common name for it is calendar versioning.

One spec for such a thing is CalVer, but I flatly refuse to ever label anything as that, because they got their terminology horribly wrong, making MM be 1–12 and 0M 01–12 (and so on for each of Y, W and D too). YYYY.MM should obviously mean 2025.08, and 2025.8 should be YYYY.M.

cloudbonsai•6mo ago
This is cute, but I find OpenSSL's version policy way funnier. Here I quote it verbatim from https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Versioning:

    *Major releases* that change one/both of the first two digits, which can break compatibility with previous versions

    *Minor releases* that change the last digit, e.g. 1.1.0 vs. 1.1.1, can and are likely to contain new features, but in a way that does not break binary compatibility. This means that an application compiled and dynamically linked with 1.1.0 does not need to be recompiled when the shared library is updated to 1.1.1. It should be noted that some features are transparent to the application such as the maximum negotiated TLS version and cipher suites, performance improvements and so on. There is no need to recompile applications to benefit from these features.

    *Letter releases,* such as 1.0.2a, exclusively contain bug and security fixes and no new features.
This is arguably the most important piece of software where people need to watch out for updates carefully, but its release version policy is a bit loony.
fao_•6mo ago
> This is arguably the most important piece of software where people need to watch out for updates carefully, but its release version policy is a bit loony.

How so? That seems pretty well defined to me. Just because it's not major/minor/patch, doesn't mean that it's bad

frizlab•6mo ago
They changed that; they are mostly (but not exactly) semver now.

https://github.com/openssl/general-policies/blob/master/poli...

antoncohen•6mo ago
Oh, but what about Ruby's versioning policy, which they call "Semantic Versioning", but the semantics are:

> MINOR: increased every christmas, may be API incompatible

That's right, the semantic meaning behind minor versions is that they are released on Christmas Day. They may or may not be API compatible, who knows.

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/12/21/ruby-version-po...

peter-m80•6mo ago
Majors are the shame versions. Your interface was not well thought and you need to break backwards compatibility