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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
51•guerrilla•1h ago•20 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
36•mltvc•1h ago•31 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

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

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
76•zdw•3d ago•31 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•39 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
82•surprisetalk•5h ago•89 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
19•swah•4d ago•12 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
118•mellosouls•8h ago•231 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

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

https://openciv3.org/
864•klaussilveira•1d ago•264 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
17•martialg•48m ago•3 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
113•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...
28•randycupertino•56m ago•29 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-...
21•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 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

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
74•samasblack•7h ago•57 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
156•valyala•5h ago•135 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
67•vedantnair•1h ago•53 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
38•momciloo•5h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
98•onurkanbkrc•10h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
19•languid-photic•3d ago•5 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
212•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•320 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
273•alainrk•10h ago•452 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•40 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
648•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
Open in hackernews

Happy 100000th birthday, Debian

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00006.html
128•pabs3•5mo ago

Comments

Yhippa•5mo ago
Deb and Ian
AceJohnny2•5mo ago
RIP Ian
Pet_Ant•5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock
kazinator•5mo ago
Great Scott! A reminder in the nick of time.

Happy #b10000, TXR.

August 2009 - August 2015.

zevisert•5mo ago
It's not linguistically correct for Nth to be used with a binary number, right? It's not like we would say 0b10nd, would we?

I mean, I get the intent with Debian's post, and I think it's fun! I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10

lotyrin•5mo ago
I don't think this happens enough for us to be able to derive descriptive usage, never mind prescriptive rules.
phyzome•5mo ago
All that matters is the last digit, so "th" is correct. In binary you would just have _th and _st.
jibal•5mo ago
100000th is syntactically correct. That it's semantically binary rather than decimal is the joke.

> I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10

No, of course not ... why would there be?

We don't say oneth, twoth, or threeth, we say first (1st), second (2nd), and third (3rd). For all other digits and numbers not ending with 1, 2, or 3 we use th. So zeroth (0th), tenth (10th), hundredth (100th), hundred thousandth (100000th). Stick 0b in front and it's 0b100000th.

esseph•5mo ago
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Debian. It always seemed the most true to a lot of the early Linux/OSS principles.
andyferris•5mo ago
I am definitely having a birthday party when I turn 1,000,000. :)
Agentlien•5mo ago
That's a great idea and I might steal it. I even know which song to play.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_I%27m_Sixty-Four

yablak•5mo ago
Ingrid Daubechies threw a big party on her 64th birthday and invited all her old students and collaborators; we even had a conference around it.
germandiago•5mo ago
Congratulations! Love what this project has done for software. It is amazing.
pcloadlett3r•5mo ago
100000nd* birthday
jibal•5mo ago
binary one-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero th
trenchpilgrim•5mo ago
Debian isn't always my first choice, but it is my favorite choice when I build systems that need to stand the test of time.
reactordev•5mo ago
Happy birthday Debian, RIP Murdock, it’s my go to distro for headless.
WD-42•5mo ago
Debian is a gift.
tra3•5mo ago
I can’t remember why I picked Debian in early aughts but I’m glad I did. Happy birthday!
kaycey2022•5mo ago
Came here expecting a funny new bug or CVE, found a dad joke instead.
kaycey2022•5mo ago
And yes I’ve found few things as stable as Debian. I dual boot with windows, come back after months to see an update is all i need. Cannot say the same about arch etc.
xcf_seetan•5mo ago
Happy birthday Debian!! Still my distro after all these years! :)