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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
59•guerrilla•1h ago•22 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
151•valyala•5h ago•25 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
81•zdw•3d ago•32 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
86•surprisetalk•5h ago•91 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
26•swah•4d ago•19 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
19•martialg•58m ago•3 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
120•mellosouls•8h ago•236 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
159•AlexeyBrin•11h ago•28 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
866•klaussilveira•1d ago•266 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
115•vinhnx•8h ago•14 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...
33•randycupertino•1h ago•33 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
73•thelok•7h ago•13 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-...
22•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
76•samasblack•8h ago•57 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
157•valyala•5h ago•136 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
253•jesperordrup•15h ago•82 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...
36•gnufx•4h ago•41 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
535•theblazehen•3d ago•197 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
100•onurkanbkrc•10h ago•5 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
39•momciloo•5h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
213•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•325 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
276•alainrk•10h ago•454 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
129•videotopia•4d ago•41 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
52•rbanffy•4d ago•14 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-...
52•josephcsible•3h ago•67 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
650•nar001•9h ago•284 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
41•sandGorgon•2d ago•17 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
109•speckx•4d ago•149 comments
Open in hackernews

Circadian justice (2022)

https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/112431/
58•anigbrowl•6mo ago

Comments

piinbinary•6mo ago
It's always seemed strange to me how the world agrees that it is fine to deprive someone of sleep if they happen to have a late sleep schedule (by e.g. starting school or work early).
earnestinger•6mo ago
To solve the issue we must answer several questions: What’s the alternative? How much it would cost for whole class and members of classmate families?
bsza•6mo ago
I don't think anyone is conspiring against people who go to bed late - as an early waker I've often had noisy neighbors playing loud music late at night to contend with. Sometimes it was a larger event like a wedding reception, so calling the police wasn't exactly an option either (not that I'd ever done that).

I would say the world simply agrees that things - whether schools, shifts or parties - should generally start sometime, and thus, by necessity, be less accommodating to some people than to others.

Natsu•6mo ago
As someone who'd naturally stay up all night and sleep until noon, I've found that very tiny doses of melatonin (1 mg, preferably less) a few hours before bed work wonders to help me get proper sleep and stay on schedule with everyone else.
just-working•6mo ago
End DST!
Telemakhos•6mo ago
The author talks about certain groups, like offshored call center employees whose sleep schedule is shifted so that they can respond to needs of people in a different time zone... but wouldn't mobile phone usage have a more widespread (really pervasive) impact on sleep than irregular labor conditions for a few? There are studies showing significant associations of mobile phone use and poor sleep quality.[0] I don't get the feeling that a strong link between mobile phone use and poor sleep quality would appeal to the Journal of Political Philosophy, though.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9707689/ in India, https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.... in UK

anigbrowl•6mo ago
I didn't see those studies cited but it does specifically mention the use of communication devices in the bedroom.
taneq•6mo ago
That second one is about ‘smartphone addiction’ not smartphone use. They don’t even give the number of interviewees with smart phones, presumably because it’s 100%.
oytis•6mo ago
The abstract reads like one of these fake articles people would trick journals on humanities to publish for fun
lurk2•6mo ago
The argument he’s making is coherent.

1) There are social, economic, and institutional norms surrounding sleep.

2) These norms are defined (or at least abided) by a majority group.

3) A minority of individuals can’t abide by these norms either due to physiological differences or necessity.

4) Some people benefit from the work that this minority does, and the minority is not adequately compensated in comparison to the benefits they generate.

Levitz•6mo ago
Only because it uses words like "injustice" or "minorities".

It was my first impression as well, but if I get over my gag reflex and actually read the lines carefully, it seems the "injustice" basically means that people with different schedules are treated unfairly by society and the "minorities" are precisely those with different schedules.

oytis•6mo ago
To me it's the sum of that and using a term from hard science. But the whole article doesn't indeed look like the author is trying to do fake science.
benterix•6mo ago
Oh but as a person whose cognitive capabilities are highly dependent on the amount of sleep I get and as someone whose situation forced me to reduce my sleep hours at some point, I can fully relate. It's one of the problems you can be totally unaware of unless it touches you personally.
delichon•6mo ago
As a high school teacher with a multi ethnic classroom, I don't believe that scheduling is significantly a multi-cultural issue, but rather it's a specific school and community issue. For instance the time at which school starts is less downstream of puritan or protestant heritage, and more a matter of when the sun rises, and how far the busses have to travel. It emerges from lots of discussion with parents and staff.

One thing that came out of those discussion is a four-day school week. That is popular with rural parents across cultures.

The fact that some of our students come from a White or Hispanic or Native American heritage doesn't enter into the conversation, other than through their individual expressed preferences. Some cultures tend to speak more quietly and it's up to us to listen carefully. But we care about what those parents care about, not what our assumptions about their culture would lead us to guess they care about.

fc417fc802•6mo ago
> more a matter of when the sun rises, and how far the busses have to travel

In the suburbs I'm familiar with it was 100% a bus scheduling constraint. The high schools had to start at the crack of dawn because by the time the same fleet of busses made it through the middle schools and on to the elementaries it was getting pretty late.

You could alternatively argue that it was a budget constraint (not enough money to 3x the bus fleet). Either way, it sure would have been nice to have robust city planning and public transit (and thus not need a large private bus fleet in the first place).

lurk2•6mo ago
> The model of an eight-hour, unbroken sleep is a modern and western one, coinciding with the advent of electric lighting and the new routines of the workday, and achieved through class struggle in the emerging industrial workplace.

The scholarship on this isn’t good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/zutvcs/comme...

EA-3167•6mo ago
That tracks, it was a scandal-dogged publication that finally closed the year after this article was published, following the resignation of the editorial board.
cwmoore•6mo ago
This makes me so happy to see, for so many people, now and in the future.
kennywinker•6mo ago
> Given the difficulty and undesirability of restoring the practices that underpin those norms, the challenge is develop societies that no longer presuppose them.

Is this a joke? Instead of idk improving labour laws… more worker power / unionization… let’s just stop “oppressing” people with assumptions about their sleep schedule.

They’ve hit on something real, but their solution is bonkers.

steanne•6mo ago
i'm not sure if this is still active looking at the 'in the press' section, but...

https://www.b-society.org/