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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/
50•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
117•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•20 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
811•klaussilveira•21h ago•246 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
49•vinhnx•4h ago•7 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
91•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•102 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
73•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1054•xnx•1d ago•601 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
471•theblazehen•2d ago•174 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
49•alephnerd•1h ago•15 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
197•jesperordrup•11h ago•68 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
9•surprisetalk•1h ago•2 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
537•nar001•5h ago•248 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
206•alainrk•6h ago•313 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
33•rbanffy•4d ago•6 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
26•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/
110•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
69•speckx•4d ago•71 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
63•mellosouls•4h ago•70 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
21•sandGorgon•2d ago•11 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•36 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
199•limoce•4d ago•110 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
284•dmpetrov•21h ago•153 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
553•todsacerdoti•1d ago•267 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
467•lstoll•1d ago•308 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
41•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/
348•eljojo•1d ago•214 comments

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

https://vecti.com
367•vecti•23h ago•167 comments
Open in hackernews

Voice Controlled Swarms

https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Voice-Controlled-Swarms/
33•jfantl•6mo ago

Comments

ttemPumpinRary•6mo ago
You need view or gesture pointers to go make "go from here to there" meaningful . A standalone sound interface will always fail .

And for 3d space it needs ai, as omly ai can deduce the depth along the view axis by analysing context.

Then you need a cubic volume selection . With a relational addition .

"a,3,5 Select all except resting drones and fly to here."

simne•6mo ago
Not exact, at least for military.

What I mean, usually right generals have already planned moves for every possible outcome, and these moves are already painted on maps and in text plans, or even practiced at trainees, and have exact names like many combinations in chess game [1].

So, real military command center activity, typically need human hands just because old software was not capable to understand high abstraction level commands, but with AI grow this could change.

As example, now conduct works on AI pilots for UAVs, which controlled by human pilot voice commands like "cover me", "check cell at coordinates alpha 7", "attack target number 2", "follow me", "return to base", etc.

BTW, as I know from pilot trainings, they usually flight at constant altitude, coordinating altitude change with dispatcher.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings

yencabulator•6mo ago
Also consider that Air Traffic Control and marine VHF radio[1] (and anything else based on old school radio) are a "standalone sound interface". It requires a formalized setting and training, sure. Rattling off grid coordinates isn't exactly relaxing, but it's a thing.

For usability, consider something more along the lines of "Hey roomba, go clean up the spill in the kitchen. [...] You missed a spot near the door."

[1]: As in maritime, not military.

simne•6mo ago
Agree. As usually military is better organized than ordinary citizen, also navy better organized than land military.
kennywinker•6mo ago
Sooo… we’re just posting our defense contractor kill-swarm audition tapes online now?
chatmasta•6mo ago
My favorite part of the AI era is the polite prompting of our LLM assistants... "_please_ fork the swarm of killbots..." I bet the narrator didn't even realize he was doing it. It's just become a natural part of prompting.
metalman•6mo ago
so far drones are producing battlefield stalemates and a war of atrition, the ability to deny access to the radio spectrum by any motivated oponent renders drones as terror weapons rather that tools of conquest, and that against soft unprepared targets only
kennywinker•6mo ago
Looks like you’ve got the start of your grant application down. Congrats, and thanks for sharing!
metalman•6mo ago
not that, was raised by combat veterans, and have a bit of down range experience myself....so it's a habitual type of museing.....not uncommon I think.I got into a discussion with a checkout girl about muckers and general mayhem just bieng part of life and she related how she dreams up ways of assembling various items in the store into weapons and actualy just saw a short video clip of someone taking out a drone with a spear......so
AustinLikesAI•6mo ago
Awesome. If this were a game I would buy it.