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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
211•theblazehen•2d ago•64 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
686•klaussilveira•15h ago•204 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
960•xnx•20h ago•553 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
127•matheusalmeida•2d ago•35 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
65•videotopia•4d ago•4 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
30•kaonwarb•3d ago•26 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
45•jesperordrup•5h ago•23 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
236•isitcontent•15h ago•26 comments

ga68, the GNU Algol 68 Compiler – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
8•matt_d•3d ago•2 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
230•dmpetrov•15h ago•122 comments

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

https://vecti.com
334•vecti•17h ago•147 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
27•speckx•3d ago•17 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
500•todsacerdoti•23h ago•244 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
384•ostacke•21h ago•97 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
296•eljojo•18h ago•187 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
360•aktau•21h ago•183 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
421•lstoll•21h ago•281 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
67•kmm•5d ago•10 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
95•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
21•bikenaga•3d ago•11 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
33•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/
262•i5heu•18h ago•212 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...
38•gmays•10h ago•13 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/
1074•cdrnsf•1d ago•460 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
61•gfortaine•13h ago•27 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
294•surprisetalk•3d ago•46 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
153•vmatsiiako•20h ago•72 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
14•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•1 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
159•SerCe•11h ago•148 comments

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

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74•phreda4•14h ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

Jeffrey Hudson the Court Dwarf of the English Queen Henrietta Maria of France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hudson
49•daverol•4mo ago

Comments

zeristor•3mo ago
Yikes, he was the son of a bull baiter.

How have I not heard of bull baiting until now, ugly though it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-baiting

gerdesj•3mo ago
Guess what bulldogs were bred for 8(
zeristor•3mo ago
I know, that and the Birmingham Bullring, I thought that was a cattle market.
CaptainOfCoit•3mo ago
For some reason, humans stopped pitting dogs against bulls but are still to this day doing it ourselves in stadiums filled with people cheering while a bull is slowly bled to death. Very crazy it's still legal today in parts of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighting
IAmBroom•3mo ago
Happily, Mexico finally made it illegal!
CaptainOfCoit•3mo ago
Kind of, right? It seems it was banned in some states, "but resumed on 29 January 2024 after a series of legal challenges" according to Wikipedia. Unless I'm getting the order of events incorrect.
citruspi•3mo ago
TIL about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear-baiting as well

Apparently still practiced (although illegal) in Pakistan and was occurring in the United States as recently as last decade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-baiting too

golem14•3mo ago
I love the movie "Time Bandits", they did a great job casting the dwarves there.

I'm still thrilled Sean Connery joined the cast and that George Harrison wrote part of the score (Dream away).

RIP, Randall, Fidgit, Strutter, Wally and Vermin!

Many happy returns, Og!

n1b0m•3mo ago
One of my favourite films of all time.

Robin Hood: And you're a robber too. How long have you been a robber?

Strutter: Four foot one.

Robin Hood: Good lord! Jolly good. Four foot one? Well that-that-that is-is- a long time, isn't it?

golem14•3mo ago
That is really long indeed. But John Cleese as Centurion teaching Brian how to graffiti "Romans go home" on the wall must remain my all time favorite.

CENTURION: What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?

BRIAN: It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.

CENTURION: No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!

BRIAN: Aah!

CENTURION: Come on!

BRIAN: 'R-- Romanus'?

CENTURION: Goes like...?

BRIAN: 'Annus'?

CENTURION: Vocative plural of 'annus' is...?

BRIAN: Eh. 'Anni'?

CENTURION: 'Romani'. 'Eunt'? What is 'eunt'?

BRIAN: 'Go'. Let--

CENTURION: Conjugate the verb 'to go'.

BRIAN: Uh. 'Ire'. Uh, 'eo'. 'Is'. 'It'. 'Imus'. 'Itis'. 'Eunt'.

CENTURION: So 'eunt' is...?

BRIAN: Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, 'they go'.

CENTURION: But 'Romans, go home' is an order, so you must use the...?

BRIAN: The... imperative!

CENTURION: Which is...?

BRIAN: Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, 'i'. 'I'!

CENTURION: How many Romans?

BRIAN: Ah! 'I'-- Plural. Plural. 'Ite'. 'Ite'.

CENTURION: 'Ite'.

BRIAN: Ah. Eh.

CENTURION: 'Domus'?

BRIAN: Eh.

CENTURION: Nominative?

BRIAN: Oh.

CENTURION: 'Go home'? This is motion towards. Isn't it, boy?

BRIAN: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! 'Domum', sir! 'Ad domum'! Ah! Oooh! Ah!

CENTURION: Except that 'domus' takes the...?

BRIAN: The locative, sir!

CENTURION: Which is...?!

BRIAN: 'Domum'.

CENTURION: 'Domum'.

BRIAN: Aaah! Ah.

CENTURION: 'Um'. Understand?

BRIAN: Yes, sir.

CENTURION: Now, write it out a hundred times.

BRIAN: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.

CENTURION: Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

sambeau•3mo ago
The Oakham brewery has a rather fine beer named after him:

https://www.oakhamales.com/product/jhb/

tetris11•3mo ago
> Various theories existed for his size, including that his mother choked on a gherkin while pregnant, but he probably had a growth hormone deficiency caused by a pituitary gland disorder.

> No details of his captivity were recorded except that he claimed to have grown to 45 inches (110 centimetres) during this time, doubling his height after 30 years of age,[9] which he attributed to the hardships he had suffered.

Hormones are amazing, I wonder if there's any literature on what triggered his later growth

mechanicum•3mo ago
I mean, 25 years and 27 inches later, and only reappearing after the queen Hudson served had died, with no tale of exactly where he’d been or how he got back… the cynical explanation would be that he was simply a different man claiming to be Hudson in the hope of a handout from the restored monarchy.
exasperaited•3mo ago
That too. This sort of stuff happened a lot; Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel etc.
exasperaited•3mo ago
While it's possible it was something like finally getting proper nutrition or that something delayed puberty, or some random circumstance that caused his pituitary to start working again, like one too many hilaaaaarious slaps on the head, it's probably more likely the historical record was simply inaccurate/falsified/mythologised, and he reached his full height more or less at adulthood. After all, there were likely no really unimpeachable records of his earlier height.
dimal•3mo ago
> Hudson had no interest in resuming his role of pet or clown and let it be known he would suffer no more jokes or insults. There is no record of the precise offence offered, but in October 1644, Hudson challenged the brother of William Crofts to a duel. Crofts arrived at the duel brandishing a large water squirt, but his flippancy would lead to his death, as Hudson fatally shot him in the forehead.

Savage!

exasperaited•3mo ago
Rules are rules, I guess.
shermantanktop•3mo ago
At 18” tall I wondered what type of pistol he would have used. AFAIK 17th c pistols were still sizable and unwieldy.