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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...
1041•xnx•1d ago•588 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
511•nar001•5h ago•235 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
64•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•61 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
184•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
3•languid-photic•3d ago•0 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
190•alainrk•5h ago•282 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
51•mellosouls•3h ago•53 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
20•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

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
12•alephnerd•1h ago•7 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
Open in hackernews

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research

https://pearlab.icrl.org/
38•walterbell•4mo ago

Comments

helterskelter•3mo ago
Reminds me of the Global Consciousness Project:

https://noosphere.princeton.edu/gcpdot/

AndrewDucker•3mo ago
The two key snippets from Wikipedia:

"PEAR conducted formal studies on two primary subject areas, psychokinesis (PK) and remote viewing" ... "PEAR's results have been criticized for deficient reproducibility.[16] In one instance two German organizations failed to reproduce PEAR's results, while PEAR similarly failed to reproduce their own results.[13] An attempt by York University's Stan Jeffers also failed to replicate PEAR's results.[9]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Engineering_Anomalie...

mathattack•3mo ago
I think articles like the OP destroy the meaning of words like rigor. If the work was even remotely reproducible we'd see a gold rush that puts AI to shame.
walterbell•3mo ago
https://pearlab.icrl.org/implications.html

  Despite the small scale of the observed consciousness-related anomalies, they could be functionally devastating to many types of contemporary information processing systems, especially those relying on random reference signals.. or to any other technical scenarios where the emotions, attitudes, or purposes of human operators may intensify and deepen their interactions with the controlling devices and processes.. As cutting-edge nanotechnology and quantum computing move into even more delicately poised information processors, protection against such consciousness-related interference could become increasingly relevant..
15m trailer for "The Pear Proposition" DVD review of the project that ran from 1979 to 2007. It was founded by professor Robert G. Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, https://player.vimeo.com/video/4359545
mallowdram•3mo ago
This is parapsychology, not anomalies research.
rhet0rica•3mo ago
Are you really criticizing a name chosen in 1979 by Princeton faculty because it doesn't comply with SCP Foundation nomenclature?
mallowdram•3mo ago
I can dream, can't I?
nakamoto_damacy•3mo ago
Between 1987 and 1988, I was obsessed with recording an anomaly with my first programmable Casio calculator that had an RND function. At the ripe age of 15, I took a bus to a warehouse-like building in some London suburb that had advertised the calculator in some computer magazine. I had saved up 100+ pounds and the calculator was 98 pounds plus VAT. I came home and opened the box and started reading the manual. All the sudden I fixated on some logical issue that can arise based on its instruction set. I have no recollection why, but I knew if that I could crash the calculator if I forced an undecidable state. Sure enough, when I ran it, it would wipe out what I had stored in memory and the LCD would go blank. Nothing unusual about that, I had simply managed to break it. I was fond of breaking things. After some time, I decided to make it more fun so I made it crash only if the random value 0.153 came up (I used the RND function inside the loop) and for fun I started recording the times it took before it crashed. Out of shear boredom and fascination with the power I had to crash the calculator, I started daring it to crash by thinking out loud (but in my head still, like an inner voice) the number 0.153. I convinced myself that I have ESP of some kind because the more I concentrated on that number the faster the calculator seemed to crash. I tabulated the times over a two year period (in a notepad that I ended up shredding and throwing in the trash because I thought I was going crazy.) My data revealed an anomaly in the correlation between the frequency of saying the magic number in my head (nothing special about the number) and the time it took for the calculator to crash.

Personally, I don't believe in the "anomaly". However. I still can't explain it. I mean it's not like my mind could interface with CMOS or that the calculator was fed off some quantum number generator or even an analog source. It was a deterministic pseudorandom number generator.

Yet, I spent two years of my teenage years obsessed with the experiment and the results. LOL.