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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/
114•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•20 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

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

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

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
89•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•101 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1053•xnx•1d ago•599 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
470•theblazehen•2d ago•173 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
196•jesperordrup•11h ago•67 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
8•surprisetalk•59m ago•2 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
535•nar001•5h ago•248 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...
42•alephnerd•1h ago•14 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
204•alainrk•6h ago•309 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•5 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
63•mellosouls•4h ago•67 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
67•speckx•4d 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•151 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

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

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
466•lstoll•1d ago•308 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
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Caligra Workbench

https://caligra.com/workbench/
36•phanimahesh•6mo ago

Comments

visviva•6mo ago
There are a couple interesting-sounding claims made here but there is basically no detail to be found, which strikes me as odd at best and suspicious at worst.
gchadwick•6mo ago
Yeah it's a bit odd. I can get a sense of what they might be doing and perhaps it's a compelling product but no where near enough info to go on, let alone reserve one for $99 and later buy at $1999.
satertek•6mo ago
The OS sounds like bluefin-dx, but I'm struggling to figure out who they're marketing to here. Seems like a small market that System76 already owns.
garciansmith•6mo ago
I was confused by the command symbols, since most Linux distros use the ctrl/alt/super terms. But they have some hardware too with integrated keyboard (do any other desktop computers do that anymore?). The custom keyboard layout is both interesting and kinda awful (biggest escape key I've ever seen).
fake-name•6mo ago
It looks like they're trying to be "linux for apple ex-pats".
ugh123•6mo ago
Man, thats a confusing setup for what this is, of which "Workbench" is a reduced desktop environment on some (custom?) linux distribution. All of which runs on the Caligra "developer terminal" (viewable on the home page https://caligra.com/ ) which, from the single top-down photo they provide, looks like a slightly more modern Commodore 64.
gjvc•6mo ago
looks like an AI design to me. no way the escape key needs to be that big.
mechanicum•6mo ago
On that page they have Cmd + Esc mapped as the shortcut for the global system menu (see “Teleport”), and it looks like the CEO is a NeoVim user[0].

I guess they anticipate users hitting escape a lot. Making it a large target doesn’t strike me as a worse use of the space than dividing function keys into blocks of 4, and more likely to be intentional than an artefact of generative AI.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7353029...

gjvc•6mo ago
ctrl-[ wants a word
gjvc•5mo ago
that's like saying this is a sensible thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqfkuc5mawg&t=322s
type0•6mo ago
Seems to be unrelated with Calligra Suite https://calligra.org/

They should change their name in order to not confuse anyone since it's targeted at existing Linux users

unixhero•6mo ago
I wonder if anybody in the wirld is actually using Calligra Suite
jmclnx•6mo ago
I do when I need to look at WP and spreadsheets people send to me. It comes with Slackware.

It is fine for my purposes.

unixhero•6mo ago
Why not Libreoffice, surely it must be available too?

I used to be a Slackware user back in the day, good times!

jmclnx•6mo ago
No reason, slackware already has a suite, so I just use what is already there.
type0•6mo ago
I do, wirldly enough
unixhero•6mo ago
You got me. Writing thumb touch on the phone with a another language set (I use 5 different lqnguages on the phone) is proned for mistakes :)
pjmlp•6mo ago
Apparently too many Apple influences on what is supposed to be a Linux distribution.
LocalH•6mo ago
I got a chuckle out of that, since this also shares a name with the Amiga GUI