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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/

39•thelok•2h ago•3 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

101•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•18 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

52•samasblack•3h ago•39 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/

789•klaussilveira•20h ago•243 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html

39•vinhnx•3h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/

63•onurkanbkrc•5h ago•5 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...

1040•xnx•1d ago•587 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

464•theblazehen•2d ago•165 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique

510•nar001•4h ago•235 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/

184•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

51•mellosouls•3h ago•52 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/

63•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•60 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back

189•alainrk•5h ago•282 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

27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html

19•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/

108•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline

59•speckx•4d ago•62 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo

268•isitcontent•21h ago•34 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en

198•limoce•4d ago•107 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty

281•dmpetrov•21h ago•150 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes

152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•47 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o

169•bookofjoe•2h ago•153 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/

549•todsacerdoti•1d ago•266 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

422•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/

39•matt_d•4d ago•14 comments

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

https://vecti.com

365•vecti•23h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

465•lstoll•1d ago•305 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/

342•eljojo•23h ago•210 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/

66•helloplanets•4d ago•70 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal

18•sandGorgon•2d ago•8 comments

Open in hackernews

Dimensions of everyday objects

https://www.dimensions.com/

80•kaniksu•4mo ago

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brudgers•4mo ago

If you are fascinated by this sort of thing, In US architectural practice, Architectural Graphic Standard has been the standard for the sizes of things for nearly a century. Even the old "Student Edition" is a rabbit hole book.

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Architectural+Graphic+Standards%...

Toby1VC•3mo ago

Please take (some) of my money, what a beautiful site.

abraae•3mo ago

The color design is intriguing, works so well for this kind of catalog type site.

gowld•3mo ago

It looks cute, but very hard to read, bright monochrome color.

heikkilevanto•3mo ago

I can not make out how those things were chosen. A lot of Ikea furniture, a random selection of bollards, Dolly Parton, and a Yellow-Spotted Millipede.

pxeger1•3mo ago

They must be at least partly automatically generated. Lots of IKEA items because their dimensions are easy to scrape from the website?

turtledragonfly•3mo ago

From the name, I thought it was going to be about fractal dimensions[1] (:

So on that tangent ... you can measure that value for ordinary objects using the "box counting" method[2], to get a notion of objects being "1.3 D" and such.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_dimension

[2]https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ergreen/honors_thesis/dimension.h...