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

https://openciv3.org/
624•klaussilveira•12h ago•182 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
926•xnx•18h ago•548 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
32•helloplanets•4d ago•24 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
109•matheusalmeida•1d ago•27 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
9•kaonwarb•3d ago•7 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
40•videotopia•4d ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
219•isitcontent•13h ago•25 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
210•dmpetrov•13h ago•103 comments

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

https://vecti.com
322•vecti•15h ago•143 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
369•ostacke•18h ago•94 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
358•aktau•19h ago•181 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
477•todsacerdoti•20h ago•232 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
272•eljojo•15h ago•160 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
402•lstoll•19h ago•271 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
85•quibono•4d ago•20 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
14•jesperordrup•2h ago•6 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
25•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
3•theblazehen•2d ago•0 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
56•kmm•5d ago•3 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
12•bikenaga•3d ago•2 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
243•i5heu•15h ago•188 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
52•gfortaine•10h ago•21 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
140•vmatsiiako•17h ago•62 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
280•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1058•cdrnsf•22h ago•433 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
132•SerCe•8h ago•117 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
70•phreda4•12h ago•14 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
28•gmays•7h ago•10 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
176•limoce•3d ago•96 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
63•rescrv•20h ago•22 comments
Open in hackernews

People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62wx23y2v1o
96•bookofjoe•6mo ago

Comments

benwills•6mo ago
For those interested, there's a new set of hour-long videos on the PBS site that has more about the recent Pompeii excavations.

There are four so far. Not sure if there will be more: https://www.pbs.org/show/pompeii-the-new-dig/

inglor_cz•6mo ago
IIRC the first explosion of 79 AD didn't bury the Pompeii completely. (It did bury Herculaneum, and much deeper so.) It was another explosion around the time of collapse of the Western Roman Empire that finished the job and hid the remaining structures from human view.
dboreham•6mo ago
The 79 eruption buried the first floor. Upper floors (if they existed) were still visible. Over time the upper floors were demolished to scavenge the stones to build other villages in the area. So when the site was "rediscovered " in modern times it was the first floor that could be excavated.
aurizon•6mo ago
looters would dig holes at known rich villas?
cloudbonsai•6mo ago
I think I found the source paper (written in Itallian):

https://pompeiisites.org/e-journal-degli-scavi-di-pompei/la-...

So the archaeologists think that, after the destruction of 79 A.D., some survivors returned to Pompeii and found their homes half-buried in ash. They tried recover their belongings by digging underground, and some apparently attempted to rebuild their lives in their old homes, because they had nowhere else to go.

While their efforts ultimately proved to be futile, they did leave some historical artifacts behind (e.g. bread oven entirely made of salvaged materials), and the archaeologists recently unearthed them.

lostlogin•6mo ago
It’s not hard to imagine people mining the ruins for valuables.
Drunkfoowl•6mo ago
We are doing it right now :).
rg2004•6mo ago
How would anyone be able to afford anything if all their possessions were under hardened magma
lostlogin•6mo ago
It wasn’t magma, it was 4-6m of ash and pumice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii

downrightmike•6mo ago
Romans were known to take poor people and make them slaves, that's one solution
ggm•6mo ago
Volcanic ash is highly productive and at the very least you would think latifundia would be there. If opportunistically you can find an old water cistern and turn it into an oven, why not?

Modern day Indonesian and Philippines and Pac rim Island farmers don't stay away from volcanoes any longer than they have to. Mud flows different. Ash? That's plantable. And tuff forms, you can build with it.

Intralexical•6mo ago
I find this surprising, because my impression was that complex biology requires pioneer species to spend some time making "fresh" geology from the earth inhabitable first if there isn't already an established ecosystem.

Why is volcanic ash so productive? Is it the result of coincidence? Adaptation? Some resource cycle?

ggm•6mo ago
Bio available trace elements and loose structure. Stuff you find in fertiliser is typically rich in volcanic ash. And lack of competition because its virgin soil. The coloniser species are what happens without human intervention.
lostmsu•5mo ago
On Hawaii or Iceland the lava riverbeds stay barren for decades. I think the parent is right.