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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
99•theblazehen•2d ago•22 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
654•klaussilveira•13h ago•189 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
944•xnx•19h ago•549 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
119•matheusalmeida•2d ago•29 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
38•helloplanets•4d ago•38 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
47•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
227•isitcontent•14h ago•25 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
13•kaonwarb•3d ago•17 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
219•dmpetrov•14h ago•113 comments

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

https://vecti.com
327•vecti•16h ago•143 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
378•ostacke•19h ago•94 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
487•todsacerdoti•21h ago•240 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
359•aktau•20h ago•181 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
286•eljojo•16h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
409•lstoll•20h ago•275 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
21•jesperordrup•4h ago•12 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
87•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
59•kmm•5d ago•4 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
3•speckx•3d ago•2 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
250•i5heu•16h ago•194 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

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

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
56•gfortaine•11h ago•23 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/
1062•cdrnsf•23h ago•444 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
144•SerCe•9h ago•133 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
180•limoce•3d ago•97 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
287•surprisetalk•3d ago•41 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
147•vmatsiiako•18h ago•67 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
72•phreda4•13h 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...
29•gmays•9h ago•12 comments
Open in hackernews

TIC-80 – Tiny Computer

https://tic80.com/
100•archargelod•4mo ago

Comments

brudgers•4mo ago
Some past comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33678782
sowbug•4mo ago
The terminal font reminds me of the Apple II game Drol.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/9314/drol/screenshots/apple2/...

system7rocks•4mo ago
I want to tinker with this someday.
AISnakeOil•4mo ago
Is there any way to edit programs in my own editor?

I can't work with these blocky fonts.

jsheard•4mo ago
There is, but it's one of the few features reserved for the pro version ($10)

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/external-editor

echoangle•4mo ago
You can also build the Pro version yourself for free according to the docs: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/PRO-Version
archargelod•4mo ago
Yes, you can write code in a separate file and then import it to cartridge with tic-80 console commands[1]

You don't have to do this manually every time, just make a shell script with multiple commands; e.g. this will import code, save and run the cartridge:

    ./tic80 --skip --fs="$PWD" --cmd="load cart.tic & import code main.lua & save & run
The other way is indeed to buy or build yourself a PRO version, it can work with cartridges in plaintext format.

[1] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/import

wkjagt•4mo ago
I love these fantasy computers. This one looks very similar to Pico-8, which I've made a couple of games for. I wonder how TIC-80 compares to it. One obvious thing is that it's open source, which is very cool. From a quick search, Pico-8 seems to have a larger community though.
archargelod•4mo ago
One of main differences with Pico-8 is that Tic-80 supports many more programming languages.

You can write games in Lua, Moonscript, Javascript, Ruby, Wren, Fennel, Squirrel, Janet and even Python.

Or use anything that compiles to WASM. I've recently created my own bindings and a template for building Tic-80 games in Nim[1]

[1] https://codeberg.org/janakali/tic80-wasm-nim

wkjagt•4mo ago
Oh that certainly is interesting. And I've been looking at nim recently, so I'll give your project a look too! Thanks for sharing!
bitwize•4mo ago
Perhaps my favorite fantasy console is one of the first, if not the first to exist: CHIP-8. It was originally an easy way to program video games for the Cosmac VIP hobbyist computer, but it found new life in recent years because writing a CHIP-8 interpreter is a good "babby's first emulator" exercise. It's not really capable of much by today's standards, but it goes to show that the fantasy console phenomenon has a long and deep history.
ge96•4mo ago
I wonder if the font takes away from it
jigglypuff42•4mo ago
Anyone tried vibecoding your ideas into existence with this framework and Claude?
Panzerschrek•4mo ago
How to create games for this fictional computer? Is there some documentation describing this?
FearNotDaniel•4mo ago
https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki