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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
111•theblazehen•2d ago•29 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
658•klaussilveira•13h ago•193 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
947•xnx•19h ago•550 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•39 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
49•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
228•isitcontent•14h ago•25 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
14•kaonwarb•3d ago•19 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
219•dmpetrov•14h ago•116 comments

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

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

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
378•ostacke•20h ago•94 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
487•todsacerdoti•21h ago•241 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/
287•eljojo•16h ago•168 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
410•lstoll•20h ago•278 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
22•jesperordrup•4h ago•13 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

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

Dark Alley Mathematics

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

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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

Where did all the starships go?

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

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
253•i5heu•16h ago•195 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/
1065•cdrnsf•23h ago•444 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
148•vmatsiiako•19h ago•67 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
145•SerCe•10h ago•134 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...
31•gmays•9h ago•12 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
72•phreda4•13h ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

Yangwang U9 Xtreme hits 308mph(496km/h), becomes fastest production car

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/yangwang-u9-xtreme-hits-308mph-becomes-worlds-fastest-ever-production-car
35•SoKamil•4mo ago

Comments

eastbound•4mo ago
There’s enormous debate about the 511km/h record measurement at Le Mans, so let’s wait until this is cross-checked by competitors ;)
bamboozled•4mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD9v1WyAgLA

Also For anyone who wants to watch a lap of nurburgring, it's absolutely insane...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td_c1zeEn2Q

Fade_Dance•4mo ago
Another truly insane electrified lap - Porsche 919 lap, at under 5.5 minutes!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmSUHhP3ug&pp=ygUYcG9yc2NoZSB...

HarHarVeryFunny•4mo ago
That's insane!

I'm guessing the weight of the drivers balls is limiting factor here. Any lighter and the car would not be able to go so fast.

Fade_Dance•4mo ago
It was actually a bit limited by the gearing/transmission. The car can go faster...

Granted, what that essentially means is that the engineers went "balls too big, let's cap this in case the tires explode or the car flies off the track."

HarHarVeryFunny•4mo ago
Wow!

Seriously though, the driver is putting it all on the line here. Driving a brand new car balls-to-the-wall at 300mph around a curvy race trace ... it's basically like being a test pilot with no parachute or margin for error.

yummypaint•4mo ago
I haven't done any math to check if this is actually possible but it sure sounds like it spins the tires near 100 mph on a few occasions
bob1029•4mo ago
> Total kerbweight stands at 2,480kg

> 308mph

This car has more kinetic energy than a fully loaded semi truck traveling at 70mph.

lillecarl•4mo ago
The real technological marvel here is the tire manufacturers.

I took an RC car (Traxxas Rustler 4x4) designed for 11.1V(3s) and strapped a 22.2V(6s) system to it, upgraded all transmission parts and it holds up well.

However you can't go full throttle without full ground contact (and barely even then) without shredding the tires into atoms. I've tried reinforcing with glass fibers and various glue compounds but it always finds a weak spot and propagates.

I think the car does around 160kmh, I've GPSed it to 140 but since it's an off-road vehicle it just takes off at those speeds. I assume free-rolling the tires reach over 200kmh, with some napkin math the tires rotate at over 9000RPM (150 per second).

Napkin AI math says the tire could experience as much as 4000G.

It's honestly "easy" to build an "unlimited horsepower" car with EV technology, high-quality cells, high-voltage, expensive components takes you there, tires though...

metalman•4mo ago
about 10hp/mph, and 6 lbs/hp, so the trick here is traction control. any skip,hop, or bump, that loostens up one wheel relative to the others invites wheel spin, asymetric wheel spin at 300mph, goes bad instantly for the RUD, so the software has to be every bit as good as the hardware
jpfromlondon•4mo ago
The automotive quartz crisis is well under way.