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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
84•guerrilla•2h ago•35 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
171•valyala•6h ago•30 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
105•surprisetalk•6h ago•102 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
52•mltvc•2h ago•66 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...
40•gnufx•5h ago•43 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
91•zdw•3d ago•44 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
125•mellosouls•9h ago•262 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
875•klaussilveira•1d ago•268 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
164•AlexeyBrin•12h ago•29 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
123•vinhnx•9h ago•15 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...
52•randycupertino•2h ago•50 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
4•amitprasad•1h ago•0 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
89•samasblack•8h ago•61 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
259•jesperordrup•16h ago•84 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
78•thelok•8h ago•16 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-...
25•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Browser based state machine simulator and visualizer

https://svylabs.github.io/smac-viz/
7•sridhar87•4d ago•3 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
544•theblazehen•3d ago•201 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
46•momciloo•6h ago•9 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
158•valyala•6h ago•140 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
231•1vuio0pswjnm7•13h ago•368 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
22•languid-photic•4d ago•5 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-...
68•josephcsible•4h ago•91 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
105•onurkanbkrc•11h ago•5 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
134•videotopia•4d ago•43 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
292•alainrk•11h ago•467 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
46•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
55•rbanffy•4d ago•15 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
675•nar001•10h ago•292 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
44•sandGorgon•2d ago•17 comments
Open in hackernews

Advice for Tech Non-Profits

https://mitchellh.com/writing/advice-for-tech-nonprofits
53•ksec•5mo ago

Comments

hardwaresofton•5mo ago
Sounds like a SaaS offering waiting to be built
motoxpro•5mo ago
They exist already.

The more basic solution is for the non-profit to just add the info. Grab a squarespace template and just type in the info.

If anything, someone should just make an AI that sucks in all the things she mentioned and add it to the NPO's pages. As she mentioned, most NPO work is just marketing and fundraising, and hopefully a little bit of doing some of the work you started it for.

hardwaresofton•5mo ago
Yeah sounds like those SaaSes have a broken funnel/aren't doing a good job, because customers are still annoyed. Being second to market doesn't mean you can't be best!

> If anything, someone should just make an AI that sucks in all the things she mentioned and add it to the NPO's pages. As she mentioned, most NPO work is just marketing and fundraising, and hopefully a little bit of doing some of the work you started it for.

Mitchell is definitely a he, but yeah it sounds like most people don't want to do the marketing and fundraising, and I don't think AI is ready to take that on quite yet.

He notes specifically about how interacting with humans is a valuable part of the experience, sounds like they need better automated management/coralling of existing resources, not necessarily AI.

pabs3•5mo ago
My favourite tech non-profit is Software Freedom Conservancy, I think it does quite well on these points.

https://sfconservancy.org/

RainyDayTmrw•5mo ago
Non-profits similarly have a problem that also hounds for-profits: Fundraising as a separate activity detracts from the primary mission, and balancing between the two is a struggle.
shomp•5mo ago
As someone working on a tech nonprofit right now, I find a ton of value in your post and really appreciate the time you took to elucidate the minutiae of seeking funding from qualified donors. Thank you.
VivaTechnics•5mo ago
100% agreed. Awesome!

Here is our 501(c)(3) tech non-profit. All corporate profits are directed to children. Clear and transparent.

https://aid.aideo.us/

jakelazaroff•5mo ago
I just clicked around your site and I have no idea what your organization does.
terminalshort•5mo ago
Clear and transparent, yes. Useful, no. By that statement buying the CEOs kid a house is totally within bounds.
blitzar•5mo ago
> All corporate profits

$0 profit by paying the "CEO" all the money - 20 years later all the profits have gone to good charitable causes ... all $0 of it.

n4r9•5mo ago
The spidery green font is really hard to read against the background.
ameliaquining•5mo ago
I'm surprised about the "What is my donation doing?" section, because my experience is that most nontechnical nonprofits suck at this too. (Unless they have a very specific "your $50 donation buys a family a cow"-type marketing model, but those tend to be pretty misleading: https://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/05/donor-illusions/)
throw738458584•5mo ago
Many nonprofits have overhead like 80% (salary cost, management bonuses, marketing). Direct expense accountability is their cryptonite, and they will do everything to obfuscate it!
gnerd00•5mo ago
OK except there are +1 million non-profits.. so you enthusiastically characterize "many" .. what about the long tail? What about uniquely effective? A large number of economic jurisdictions worldwide have no such thing. Why the rush to paint all non-profits with a single brush?
ameliaquining•5mo ago
This isn't actually a very good way to assess whether a nonprofit is good: https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/01/the-worst-way-to-pick-a...

What you actually need to do is assess whether the nonprofit's program works. But that's really hard.

malcolmgreaves•5mo ago
If you want to easily donate crypto, cash, stocks, use your credit or debit card, to basically any nonprofit, go use https://every.org

Best part: they don’t charge the non profits fees! And they’re actually a non profit themselves!