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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
489•nar001•4h ago•227 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
452•theblazehen•2d ago•163 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

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

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
34•mellosouls•3h ago•31 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
94•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
786•klaussilveira•20h ago•241 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
43•samasblack•2h ago•31 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
36•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
28•simonw•2h ago•30 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
59•onurkanbkrc•5h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1036•xnx•1d ago•586 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
182•alainrk•5h ago•262 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
27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
172•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
10•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
16•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
165•bookofjoe•2h ago•145 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
267•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•46 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
279•dmpetrov•20h ago•148 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
8•0xmattf•2h ago•4 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
37•matt_d•4d ago•12 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
547•todsacerdoti•1d ago•265 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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

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

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•22h ago•167 comments

What Is Ruliology?

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

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
460•lstoll•1d ago•304 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
338•eljojo•23h ago•209 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
374•aktau•1d ago•194 comments
Open in hackernews

Learnable Programming (2012)

https://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
53•kunzhi•6mo ago

Comments

fluxkernel•6mo ago
In the age of LLM powered coding copilots and agents, do programming skills still matter? Shall we focus more on design and algorithmic thinking instead? Computer science != programming, now more true than ever.
ethan_smith•6mo ago
Victor's principles for making programming cognitively accessible (seeing state, time, flow) remain relevant with LLMs because they address how humans fundamentally understand systems, not just how we write code.
mettamage•6mo ago
I wonder if Bret has an update, given LLMs are a thing now.
jakelazaroff•6mo ago
Bret's life's work is all about direct manipulation and building mental models. LLMs are a layer between humans and our work; they make our tools less direct. My guess is that his advice about LLMs would be to not use them.
psawaya•6mo ago
This might shed some light: https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#What_is_Realtalks_relation...
maegul•6mo ago
Salient quote under the “AI” question in the FAQ:

> we aim for a computing system that is fully visible and understandable top-to-bottom — as simple, transparent, trustable, and non-magical as possible. When it works, you learn how it works. When it doesn’t work, you can see why. Because everyone is familiar with the internals, they can be changed and adapted for immediate needs, on the fly, in group discussion.

Funny for me, as this is basically my principal problem with AI as a tool.

It’s likely very aesthetic or experiential, but for me, it’s strong: a fundamental value of wanting to work to make the system and the work transparent, shared/sharable and collaborative.

Always liked B Victor a great deal, so it wasn’t surprising, but it was satisfying to see alignment on this.

patel011393•6mo ago
Yes, his website shows it. Read his latest update and the footnote on the home page: https://worrydream.com/