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

https://openciv3.org/
576•klaussilveira•10h ago•167 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
889•xnx•16h ago•540 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
91•matheusalmeida•1d ago•20 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
18•helloplanets•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/
21•videotopia•4d ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
197•isitcontent•11h ago•24 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
199•dmpetrov•11h ago•91 comments

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

https://vecti.com
307•vecti•13h ago•136 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
352•aktau•17h ago•175 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
350•ostacke•17h ago•91 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
452•todsacerdoti•18h ago•228 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
20•romes•4d ago•2 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
79•quibono•4d ago•18 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
52•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
253•eljojo•13h ago•153 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
388•lstoll•17h ago•263 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
5•bikenaga•3d ago•1 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
230•i5heu•13h ago•175 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
12•neogoose•3h ago•7 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
68•phreda4•10h ago•12 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...
24•gmays•6h ago•6 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
116•SerCe•7h ago•94 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
135•vmatsiiako•16h ago•59 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
268•surprisetalk•3d ago•36 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
42•gfortaine•8h ago•13 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
168•limoce•3d ago•87 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/
1039•cdrnsf•20h ago•431 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
60•rescrv•18h ago•22 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
88•antves•1d ago•63 comments
Open in hackernews

Loko Scheme: bare metal optimizing Scheme compiler

https://scheme.fail/
165•dTal•4mo ago

Comments

pkphilip•3mo ago
This looks nice and very interesting that this runs on bare metal. Is more documentation / tutorials available anywhere?

EDIT: Found the documentation: https://scheme.fail/manual/loko.html

pjmlp•3mo ago
Nice achievement, building on the foregone dreams of Lisp powered workstations.

We need more efforts like these and less yet another UNIX clone in C.

jll29•3mo ago
Agree. How would one use/access graphics and GUIs with overlapping windows from it?
pjmlp•3mo ago
Like this?

https://interlisp.org/

Or are you asking about this instead?

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_symbolicssGuidetoSymbo...

mark_l_watson•3mo ago
I also like that it runs on bare metal. I wonder is it builds and runs on macOS? (I am on a mobile device and can’t check it myself.)

Off topic, but I love the design of the linked web site.

drob518•3mo ago
After skimming the docs and the site, I suspect this is x86-only for now. No mention of ARM or other processor architectures and the listed hardware support suggests a PC hardware target. You could probably cross compile on an Apple silicon Mac and run under emulation (e.g., QEMU).
vkdev0•3mo ago
That's right, currently only the x86-64 architecture is supported.
JonChesterfield•3mo ago
> Loko’s runtime uses concurrency based on Concurrent ML.

That one could be a big deal.

https://scheme.fail/manual/loko.html#Concurrency

The docs don't mention channels and say that fibres are built on limited continuations (call/cc) which suggests missing some of the clever stuff in CML (e.g. that threads deadlocked on a channel get garbage collected)

bjoli•3mo ago
While being heavily inspired guile-fibers, it seems to not actually be parallel.

Anyway, I would say it is actually the nicest way to write concurrent programs. It supports you and helps you to not shoot yourself in the foot, while also staying out of the way.

wkjagt•3mo ago
This is super interesting. I kind of want to use this to turn one of my old laptops into a Scheme machine. But from the docs I think on bare metal it's only usable over serial.
vkdev0•3mo ago
I did successfully run the bare-metal Loko image on the ThinkPad x230 with GUI, mouse and keyboard access.
wkjagt•3mo ago
OOh nice, I am certainly going to try it then!
vkdev0•3mo ago
To have a working keyboard with en-us keys layout and LAN (Intel's NIC card) you need to build image from the latest development version, it might be an EFI or a legacy MBR image. The REPL is only interpreted, it does not have runtime bindings (I mean you can't change the running system state because REPL creates new library instances) and it does not compile at runtime.
wkjagt•3mo ago
I know what I'll be playing with this week :)
pkphilip•3mo ago
It can be made to work over Qemu