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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
81•valyala•4h ago•16 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...
23•gnufx•2h ago•15 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
34•zdw•3d ago•4 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
86•mellosouls•6h ago•163 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
128•valyala•3h ago•97 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
45•surprisetalk•3h ago•50 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
142•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
95•vinhnx•6h ago•12 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
850•klaussilveira•23h ago•256 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
66•samasblack•6h ago•51 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1090•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
62•thelok•5h ago•9 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
93•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
229•jesperordrup•14h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
514•theblazehen•3d ago•190 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
331•ColinWright•3h ago•390 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
13•languid-photic•3d ago•4 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-...
3•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
253•alainrk•8h ago•408 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
609•nar001•8h ago•269 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
180•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•250 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
35•marklit•5d ago•6 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
26•momciloo•3h ago•5 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
47•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
124•videotopia•4d ago•37 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
95•speckx•4d ago•103 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
20•brudgers•5d ago•5 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
210•limoce•4d ago•117 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
31•sandGorgon•2d ago•15 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
286•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments
Open in hackernews

Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

https://www.starlink.com/
71•thallium205•4mo ago

Comments

notorandit•4mo ago
Done
auggierose•4mo ago
I like the Bladerunner reference in your about.
t1E9mE7JTRjf•4mo ago
same
Joel_Mckay•4mo ago
Yeah, but the Blade Runner Replicants lived longer than most FANG coders churn positions.

One of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time. =3

auggierose•4mo ago
THE best.
152334H•4mo ago
what's supposed to be inferred from the link? I only see the homepage.
merlincorey•4mo ago
Was the website the only thing down?

This community Starlink Status page doesn't seem to show any outage: https://starlinkstatus.space/

mlyle•4mo ago
The funny thing with the community status page is that stations can't report they're down when they're down :P There's big holes in individual stations' history and it looks normal.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/ paints a different picture

Perhaps due to geomagnetic storms, though stronger ones have not caused outages. Possibly just because.

thallium205•4mo ago
Looks like they restored service.
Joel_Mckay•4mo ago
The solar flares in the 11-year cycle are at their peak activity.

There will be random outages for any space based equipment for awhile. =3

WJW•4mo ago
Solar flares are not anywhere near their peak. The NOAA indicates the peak activity was actually in August 2024 with a total of ~245 "flux units". Activity for this month is predicted to be only around 167 units, so almost a full third down from the peak. Total numbers of sunspots is also down dramatically from their peak in August 2024.

See the graphs of https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression for more info.

Joel_Mckay•4mo ago
Indeed, we can't know the maxima for sure until passing through the entire peak prediction model period. The expectation of sun spot frequency and intensity only alluded to the average behavior rather than what we have partially observed in cycle 25 so far. Have fun =3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_25

buyucu•4mo ago
Everything I heard about Starlink indicates that it's very fickle and unreliable.
mrweasel•4mo ago
Really, everyone I've talked to has loved it. Granted they've all either live or work in remote areas where it has completely changed their lives. Those who live in remote areas can now actually work from home reliably and those who work on ships or in remote parts of world can now call home daily.

It's probably down to your expectations. Starlink won't replace a fiber connection, but if you only have a satellite connection or dial up, I can't see it being anything other than an improvement.

One concern I do have is if Starlink is down, there aren't really any backup. On the other hand I also only have one fiber connection at home. It's just that I could get a COAX hookup by tomorrow.

madaxe_again•4mo ago
I use starlink and find it fast and reliable - far more reliable than any cabled connection I ever had elsewhere, and faster than the fibre that’s available around me, which is contended to hell and back. Yes, it’s gigabit in theory, but in practice you get 20Mb/s, and any time there’s a power outage, which is often, it’s down.
cubix•4mo ago
And if you live a rural, mostly wooded area like I do, fallen trees are constantly taking out the fiber services for days at a time.
SirHumphrey•4mo ago
They aren’t buried? Or do the roots tear the fibre?
mrweasel•4mo ago
A lot of countries still uses poles for cables, and fiber. It's always super weird to see when you're from an area that buries everything except high voltage powerlines.

For areas with frequent earthquakes I think poles are preferred because it's easier to fix broken cables.

SirHumphrey•4mo ago
From the part of the Europe where I am from power lines are rarely buried, however fiber is universally buried so I haven’t even considered it could not be.
cubix•4mo ago
They’re not buried around here for the most part. I think the population density is just too low to justify the cost.
GJim•4mo ago
The technology, or the business owner?

Because the fickleness and unreliability of the latter is a serious concern. Once other LEO constellations come online, who is going to stick with Starlink, knowing they may pull the plug at anytime on a whim of "Space Karen"?

mschuster91•4mo ago
> Once other LEO constellations come online

... it's time to "pick one's poison" again. It's either Amazon which is US based (and thus vulnerable to the same kind of political pressure that Starlink is) or it's IRIS2 (which is good if you're European, but might not be that optimal if US-EU relations go catastrophically sour).

On top of that, Kuiper isn't live yet (IIRC scheduled until 2026 for minimal coverage) and IRIS2 is only predicted for 2029 (and everyone who knows a thing about European cooperation projects knows that this is a seriously optimistic example - we don't even have a flight proven cheap rocket yet).

Gustomaximus•4mo ago
Not my experience or people around me (rural area so it's common). WFH with no fibre and patchy mobile so starlink is a godsend.

The most common outage is a regular 3am reboot. Otherwise outages are infrequent and typically a few seconds.

Also the latency is surprisingly good, it's not fibre but can game FPS on it.

inglor_cz•4mo ago
Maybe this is what you wanted to hear?

Because that is not the general experience at all. For a service whose necessary parts (the satellites) move in a rather hostile space environment, Starlink doesn't have that many outages.

I am on a Vodafone backbone buried optic cable here in CZ and yet there are a few unplanned short outages each month. Sometimes as short as 10 seconds, but working on a remote screen like my wife does, you definitely notice it.

sidcool•4mo ago
They don't have a status page?
stanac•4mo ago
(Unrelated to main topic) Why is number of dead comments so high here? Do bots search for keywords that may increase views like "starlink" or something?
euLh7SM5HDFY•4mo ago
I choose to believe HN flame wars are still 100% organic. It is "just" immigration from Reddit. Ars Technica also has more trolls in comments under any Musk related topics.
croisillon•4mo ago
it's just 2 users, no?
stanac•4mo ago
You are right, 5 comments by 2 new users. But looking at "Why We Spiral", which has a similar number of comments, it has a single dead comment by an older account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240146

duxup•4mo ago
I see just 2 users with dead comments at the moment, one of them (a brand new account) just spammed a bunch of posts.
crossroadsguy•4mo ago
NextDNS gaming category filter blocks starlink.com. Bizarre.
6510•4mo ago
I would have thought one could design such thing without a single point of failure.