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

https://openciv3.org/
546•klaussilveira•9h ago•153 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
872•xnx•15h ago•527 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
78•matheusalmeida•1d ago•16 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
186•isitcontent•10h ago•23 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
189•dmpetrov•10h ago•84 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
10•videotopia•3d ago•0 comments

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

https://vecti.com
298•vecti•12h ago•133 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
347•aktau•16h ago•169 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
73•quibono•4d ago•16 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
343•ostacke•16h ago•90 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
441•todsacerdoti•18h ago•226 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
16•romes•4d ago•2 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
240•eljojo•12h ago•148 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
44•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
378•lstoll•16h ago•256 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
5•helloplanets•4d ago•1 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
222•i5heu•13h ago•168 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
97•SerCe•6h ago•78 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 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...
20•gmays•5h ago•3 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
162•limoce•3d ago•83 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
63•phreda4•9h ago•11 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
129•vmatsiiako•15h ago•56 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
40•gfortaine•7h ago•11 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
261•surprisetalk•3d ago•35 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/
1032•cdrnsf•19h ago•428 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
6•neogoose•2h ago•3 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
56•rescrv•17h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
85•antves•1d ago•62 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
20•denysonique•6h ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

In 1979 one of the best guitar solos recorded was cut for radio time

https://www.seekhifi.com/my-sharona-by-the-knack/
48•wmeredith•4mo ago

Comments

wmeredith•4mo ago
I'm not sure about the rules of submitting something like this to Hacker News, but I found it to be a fascinating quirk at the intersection of culture and technology. I didn't even know about it (the radio edit) when I started researching this song for my website. The gist is below.

The Knack's 1979 breakout hit My Sharona is remembered for spending six weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, but that radio edit is woefully incomplete. Lead guitarist Berton Averre’s full-length My Sharona solo is absolutely transcendent. Which makes it all the more ridiculous that it was cut for time on the radio release.

ChrisMarshallNY•4mo ago
Tons of songs were cut. It's still typical to have "radio edits" of songs.

When the tech came out, that allowed the tempo to be increased, without changing the pitch, a lot of songs suddenly got faster.

In radio, every second counts, and there will be a lot of fighting for tenths of a second. Sort of like top-shelf track and field athletes.

The prose in that story is a bit ... intense.

MarkusWandel•4mo ago
Oddly enough... I looked for the full length version, played it through and... yep, that's how I remember it. From what I recorded off the radio as a 12 year old in Germany. I guess they ran the full length version there.
jdalgetty•4mo ago
I'm too young to know the radio version but I've definitely enjoyed the solo for many years listening to the mp3 version.
bitwize•4mo ago
Fun fact: Sharona Alperin, now a realtor, uses her status as the subject of this song to market her real estate business. https://mysharona.com
ChrisMarshallNY•4mo ago
Sorry you got dinged. That was a fascinating fact. Thanks for sharing it!
Anthony-G•4mo ago
Also referenced in the article: https://www.npr.org/2010/03/06/124397021/the-woman-behind-my...
alsetmusic•4mo ago
The Beatles never sat on the stereo mixes for any of their songs because the radio of the time was AM / mono. All the stereo mixes were done by their producer / sound engineers / possibly others without their input. Not that they were cut out or anything; they just didn't care.
ribfeasty•4mo ago
The Beatles (especially John) also hated the tedium of re-recording vocals to layer them, as is common in audio production to improve the impact of vocals in recordings.

Their engineer ended up coming up with a technical approach we call ADT (Automatic double-tracking) to artificially duplicate and layer the vocals without requiring the artist(s) to re-record vocals.

IAmBroom•4mo ago
IIRC, Richard Carpenter took this to the Nth level. He found the recording equipment with the largest number of tape tracks - 28 - and used them all to layer Karen's voice.

She had an amazing voice, but she also stood out because of his technical nuancing of their sound.

alsetmusic•4mo ago
I'm super late with this reply, but they were also the first to close-mic drums. Before that, drums were always recorded with a couple of mics above the kit.
ChrisMarshallNY•4mo ago
The worst, for me, was watching a Gary Clark Jr live recording (I think it was When My Train Pulls In) on YouTube. He had a long solo, and, right in the middle of it, a damn Cialis ad pops in.
comrade1234•4mo ago
When my train pulls in... Cialis ad...

Am I just pointing out the obvious joke that you made, thus making it unfunny?

ChrisMarshallNY•4mo ago
Well, the Internet knows I'm a white guy in my 60s, so I get these really weird ads, all the time. Wouldn't surprise me, it the choice of ad was deliberate.

These ads look like they were designed by young folks, that have no idea what it's like, being older. AI is making them even weirder.

IAmBroom•4mo ago
Scene: ordinary couple, on a cliffside, both naked and sitting in side-by-side bathtubs, holding hands.
db48x•4mo ago
Adblockers solve so many problems.
ChrisMarshallNY•4mo ago
Not sure that would work, with inline video ads. The Two Yutes solution, below, might be better.
db48x•4mo ago
It would work.
andrewstuart•4mo ago
What an awesome guitar solo. I think my favorite of any.

In fact the entire album is really awesome.

marshray•4mo ago
Wow, I'd never heard that before. That was really wonderful.

All those times I'd listened to it on the radio... I knew it was missing something.

dundercoder•4mo ago
That was some serious musicianship right there!
kristianp•4mo ago
Favourite guitar solos? I like "Sweet Child of Mine" and "Brothers in Arms".
johnh-hn•4mo ago
Slash's World on Fire album (2014) is excellent, in case you're interested.
wmeredith•4mo ago
I'm partial to the solo in comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd.