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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
46•thelok•2h ago•4 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
106•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•18 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
795•klaussilveira•20h ago•243 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
41•vinhnx•4h ago•6 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1047•xnx•1d ago•589 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
465•theblazehen•2d ago•167 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
515•nar001•5h ago•238 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
68•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•75 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
187•jesperordrup•11h ago•65 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
196•alainrk•5h ago•292 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
4•languid-photic•3d ago•0 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
29•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
55•mellosouls•3h ago•56 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
22•marklit•5d ago•1 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
108•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
62•speckx•4d ago•65 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
176•bookofjoe•2h ago•157 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
271•isitcontent•21h ago•35 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
198•limoce•4d ago•108 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
282•dmpetrov•21h ago•151 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
153•matheusalmeida•2d ago•47 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
551•todsacerdoti•1d ago•266 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
423•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
19•sandGorgon•2d ago•10 comments

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

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•23h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
465•lstoll•1d ago•305 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
40•matt_d•4d ago•16 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
343•eljojo•23h ago•212 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
67•helloplanets•4d ago•70 comments
Open in hackernews

Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related orgs from one of its funding lists

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/google-dropped-50-dei-groups-from-funding-list-.html
62•gslin•6mo ago

Comments

michaelt•6mo ago
I hope critics will be equally critical of the companies that weren't donating to any DEI-related orgs in the first place.
djohnston•6mo ago
Most people aren’t critical of either and don’t care about DEI initiatives.
trhway•6mo ago
The companies which followed their principles even when it was against the prevailing ideology du jour? (Being originally from USSR I hate ideologies and those 180 turns people do on a dime the moment the ideology changes)
perching_aix•6mo ago
Why? Wouldn't it make more sense to blame these organizations "now-demonstrated to have been performative", as DEI's critics have been (performatively?) accusing them to be for so long? Or would that count as performative too?

Getting lost in the narratives at this point.

dyauspitr•6mo ago
Disadvantaged folks getting jobs is not performative.
perching_aix•6mo ago
Well yeah. Sure didn't stop from people claiming otherwise though, or at least ignoring it / focusing on the performance and narrative aspect instead.
michaelt•6mo ago
IDK what 'performative' means. But according to my calculations, if I donated $50,000 to a charity last year and $0 this year, I've still donated $50,000 to the charity.

Whereas someone who donated $0 last year and $0 this year has donated $0.

It'd be pretty weird if the former got worse press than the latter.

perching_aix•6mo ago
I was being sarcastic. For a lot of people the narrative is more important; I'd even argue it's what people normally default to, including me. What I meant to convey then was that at this point I find all those narrative driven perspectives beyond tiresome, and yet I fully expect them to barrel on regardless, unlike what you're hoping for.

Your napkin math is one demonstration why a focus on narrative can prove misguided. It can matter very little how genuine their intents were if in practice they materially helped a significant amount.

weldboss•6mo ago
DEI policies are dumb as fuck. Get rid of that shit and let people figure things out for themselves.
neko_ranger•6mo ago
The new South Park episode offers further insights into this very topic
csours•6mo ago
Writing as a person who wants the future to be a better place, the number one pass time of progressives is complaining about other progressives. The number two pass time is complaining about conservatives.

Anyway, my complaint is that a lot of DEI flavored stuff is very very lazy.

A fundamental issue is that once a person has been raised, you don't get to raise them again. You can't parent a grown person - even if they need more parenting. Social punishment only works inside a socially cohesive group. The shame and anxiety you create with social punishment may be exploited by someone else.

Anyway, I'm sure some DEI groups are coming to terms with why anti-woke trolling is so effective, and I hope they find a good way to tell that story.

nerdsniper•6mo ago
*pastime