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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•9 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
69•valyala•3h ago•13 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
118•valyala•3h ago•90 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
81•mellosouls•6h ago•153 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
39•surprisetalk•3h ago•48 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
25•zdw•3d ago•2 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
90•vinhnx•6h ago•11 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
848•klaussilveira•23h ago•255 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
62•samasblack•6h ago•50 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1087•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/
60•thelok•5h ago•9 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
228•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
512•theblazehen•3d ago•189 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
317•ColinWright•2h ago•377 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
248•alainrk•8h ago•400 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
25•momciloo•3h ago•4 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
34•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
604•nar001•7h ago•266 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
177•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•246 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
11•languid-photic•3d ago•4 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
45•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/
123•videotopia•4d ago•37 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•4 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
28•sandGorgon•2d ago•14 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
90•speckx•4d ago•102 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
208•limoce•4d ago•115 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
282•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
564•todsacerdoti•1d ago•275 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.