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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
98•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•37 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

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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

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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

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

An Update on Heroku

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

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https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
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Dark Alley Mathematics

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

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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

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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

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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

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1062•cdrnsf•23h ago•443 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
143•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

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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

Zutty: Zero-cost Unicode Teletype, high-end terminal for low-end systems

https://git.hq.sig7.se/zutty.git
72•klaussilveira•4mo ago

Comments

frfl•4mo ago
The source code is locked behind a login though. Is that intentional?

Edit: just the web view is locked. Read the homepage, it tells you how to access the code (be respectful though, don't hug the site to death)

nine_k•4mo ago
In short: it's a terminal emulator where rendering is completely run by GL ES compute shaders. It allows for GPU-accelerated performance on low-end SBCs.

Said to be very stable, runs for months, compliant enough to run Emacs with mouse support.

ComputerGuru•4mo ago
I’ve used this but it made my laptop spontaneously reboot a few times (or was it a hard lockup that necessitated a reboot)? I liked it but ended up putting it away.

Dual GPU nvidia and integrated Intel, was running the latest Ubuntu LTS at the time with all updates.

keyle•4mo ago
eek what? That shouldn't happen on a modern OS, unless the cpu spiked so hot the computer decided the best course is a reboot.

Typically it's a RAM issue, or power stability issue or a graphics card issue/firmware causing instant reboots

adastra22•4mo ago
Unfortunately, it often does. I've run into this on both AMD and NVIDIA hardware.
LoganDark•4mo ago
> That shouldn't happen on a modern OS

They're running Ubuntu.

keyle•4mo ago
Care to explain? Sorry I don't use ubuntu but the claim that the OS just straight up reboots during normal operations is particularly concerning.
LoganDark•4mo ago
It's completely normal for Linux operating systems, and in fact even most others (even Windows and Mac under certain loads), to choke and fail under resource exhaustion. I've experienced it the most with Linux though, but I've done it to Windows and Mac too.
odc•4mo ago
And that's why it is best to avoid GPU-acceleration unless you truly need it.

GPU drivers have always been full of bugs and will always be, since modern GPUs are ridiculously complex and designed for speed rather than reliability.

9front•4mo ago
Homepage: https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/
aragilar•4mo ago
https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-... is also useful as a comparison piece.
klaussilveira•4mo ago
This is also great: https://tomscii.sig7.se/2021/01/Typing-latency-of-Zutty

The typing latency on zutty is the biggest feature for me. Everything feels snappy.

ggm•4mo ago
sadly, not an ASR33 teletype emulator. I miss my teletype, it got broken in an office move. chonka-chonka-chonka-chonka-chonka-chonka----chonka TING
bawolff•4mo ago
It kind of seems weird to put unicode in the name but not support astral characters, combining characters or bidi.

I understand these things are complicated for terminals but its weird to so thoroughly emphasize unicode and then not do a significant portion of unicode.

nxobject•4mo ago
Looks like it's due to fundamental limitations – there's a one-to-one mapping between cells and Unicode code points, and glyphs are blitted from a pre-rendered atlas. (It's very Shadertoy-like.)

I agree it's an awkward situation: ye olde xterm and rxvt can render emoji outside of the BMP, while zutty doesn't seem to be able to.

The documentation is a pleasure to read, though.

JdeBP•4mo ago
My terminal emulator has that mapping (because it is designed to be a workalike for kernel terminal emulators that have that mapping). It quite happily supports the other planes. There is no actual fundamental limitation here.

Even with the one-codepoint-per-cell model, what planes one can cover is simply a matter of whether an integer is 16-bit or 24-bit/32-bit. In the Zutty code, it's a 16-bit integer, and I suspect that that is a knock-on effect of the particular way that it flattens fonts out and maps code points to glyph bitmaps, which isn't the only way that one could do that.

zizzencs•4mo ago
I can pronounce the name of this software correctly. Now that's something I guess.

https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/wiki/FAQ.html#How%20do%20I%20c...

JdeBP•4mo ago
It probably will not catch on, I suspect. Wiktionary lacks the word completely, it appears, not even its Hungarian flavour having it, giving an indication of how obscure it is going to be when non-native speakers try to look it up.

* https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/zutty

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Hungarian_words_Z

Francophones are going to be thinking of something else. (-:

* https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/zut

ckbkr10•4mo ago
My workday is 95% terminal, I work on a company managed windows 11 machine using git-scm as an easily updateable min-gw environment. A git-bash has been my configurable linux terminal on windows.

Why would one need a gpu accelerated terminal? What's the use case here?

I mean, I've worked on connections offering a an mbit of throughput. That was enough for the kind of work I'm doing.

I really do not understand what this is for, can someone enlighten me please?

klaussilveira•4mo ago
Well, in the age of 3440x1440 displays and retina, you are forced to render high-quality fonts, not just bitmaps. In order to do that well, and fast enough, you need the GPU.

Font rendering is hard:

https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/

https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/

https://behdad.org/text2024/

So much that Slug is a thing:

https://sluglibrary.com/

ckbkr10•4mo ago
I see. I'm still holding on to my 3:4 aspect ratio EIZOs as second screen just because I prefer having a smaller second screen instead of 2 huge widescreens.

Opting into anything higher than 1920x1080 seems uncomfortable for me.

Maybe I just get old. I find it hard to read fonts on higher resolutions and it seems like other people do as well..

16pt Lucida Console on 1920x1080 just works way too well for me to even consider switching to anything else.

klaussilveira•4mo ago
As I got older, I've noticed I was slouching more and more. So I got one of those LG UltraGear 45” curved monitors. It's gigantic, but helped me so much with posture and eye strain. I view every website at 200% or 250% zoom, my text editor has Inconsolata at 28px.

Of course, that came with some pains. Managing windows was time consuming, so i3 came into the picture. rxvt and st got slow, so zutty came to the rescue.

But I would be a liar if I didn't say that I miss 1024x768 with pixel-perfect fonts and UI widgets.