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Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
39•mellosouls•3h ago•32 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
36•thelok•2h ago•3 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
95•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
46•samasblack•2h ago•34 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
787•klaussilveira•20h ago•241 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
29•simonw•2h ago•38 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
37•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
456•theblazehen•2d ago•163 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1037•xnx•1d ago•587 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
497•nar001•4h ago•232 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
182•alainrk•5h ago•269 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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
59•1vuio0pswjnm7•6h ago•56 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
18•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/
107•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
56•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
267•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
280•dmpetrov•21h ago•148 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
196•limoce•4d ago•105 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•46 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
165•bookofjoe•2h ago•150 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
10•0xmattf•2h ago•5 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
37•matt_d•4d ago•12 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
547•todsacerdoti•1d ago•266 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
422•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

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

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•22h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
462•lstoll•1d ago•305 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
339•eljojo•23h ago•209 comments
Open in hackernews

Flapping-wing robot achieves self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx0465
87•PaulHoule•4mo ago

Comments

mhb•3mo ago
The essential missing (or maybe I just missed it) video:

https://youtu.be/tD5I6x_bPkw?si=KFTx89LmPjrVu5Ib

Edit - better video:

https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/video/2025/bird-like-robot-with-n...

05•3mo ago
It's a render. A real life takeoff video is still missing..
yorwba•3mo ago
Movie S5 from the supplementary material: https://imgur.com/a/LVb2m22
05•3mo ago
Looks super cool. Now I want to build one and stick an FPV camera on it:)
orthecreedence•3mo ago
You can see the string attached to it! Do they think we're stupid??
yorwba•3mo ago
The string goes slack when it lifts off, so it's not like it's being pulled up. I think it's there to catch it in the inevitable case of a crash. And maybe they haven't figured out how to land gracefully yet.
monooso•3mo ago
I look forward to Boston Dynamics turning this into something that will haunt my nightmares.
bigjohnjacob•3mo ago
The birds aren't real people are gonna love this.
ACCount37•3mo ago
Pretty cool. Just two servos per wing, with one shared BLDC motor to provide the power to the strokes. That's comparable to what normal fixed wing drones have. Extreme mechanical complexity though.

I can't see this being practical, but it makes for one hell of a tech demo. Wish there was footage available. It feels really incomplete without a video of this bird taking off, flying and landing.

JKCalhoun•3mo ago
I saw recently the Chinese (The Chinese!) are experimenting in this area (and with flying insect machines?) — perhaps for surveillance drones that will look for all practical purposes like an ordinary bird/insect.
ACCount37•3mo ago
The whole "surveillance drone" thing is so overrated. No one gives a shit, really.

People make things like insect drones and bird drones because they're cool. That's it. That's the only practical purpose. Anything else is flimsy justification, sometimes employed to get the funding to do the cool thing.

ge96•3mo ago
I used to be obsessed with rc ornithopters but I always thought the main problem was that hulking gear ratio/mechanism and the oscillation making it not really great for flight compared to fixed wing/propeller driven.

This one (servo driven) is really light compared to the usual RC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuOw6BUOo78

This guy does great work, it's like his obsession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrB1pKInIu0

PaulHoule•3mo ago
I had a really stylish robot dragonfly that I got from Big Lots at a huge discount, trouble was it could not fly in any amount of wind and the only place I could fly it was in Barton Hall.
ge96•3mo ago
I might know the one you're talking about, did it have a fan as a rudder?

Oh speaking of dragonfly-like ornithopter this one is hardcore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrS52sM3Zs

Reminds me of that Chicken Run movie ha

PaulHoule•3mo ago
It was this

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7j6KPbn4eE

JKCalhoun•3mo ago
Yeah, totally subscribed to "that guy". I think he's been experimenting with ducted fans (kind of not ornithopters) and also dragon-fly type of flight with four wings (entomopter?).
asdff•3mo ago
Advanced bird drones must be born secret technology. It makes little sense how so much can be understood about birds and yet there is no perfect bird replica on the market aside from these pared down maker lab tier efforts.

And indeed, lending further credence to the born secret idea is that the CIA has been experimenting on bird drones since at least the 1960s (1), and this was only revealed to the public in 2013. The state of the art must be so far advanced. What a prize for an intelligence agency to be able to create a surveillance system where it does not matter if it is detected on radar, or visualized at all because it looks exactly like indigenous bird populations.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_AQUILINE

TYPE_FASTER•3mo ago
Of course there is one available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/live/video/0a7d56413360489dbf25611edf...

Also: https://www.amazon.com/Kooteyybhyy-Ornithopter-Generation-He...

Which may be re-branded version of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nuMDV6n18

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hanvon/page/426FE09E-17DC-4FBB...

I found this forum: https://www.rcgroups.com/ornithopters-101/

Which led to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqBoA5CfPs - really neat to see it climb and glide.

fijiaarone•3mo ago
Robots aren’t real.
jacquesm•3mo ago
What an amazing quality article.
ElijahLynn•3mo ago
Truth, so much detail and depth.
ElijahLynn•3mo ago
For the videos: search the page for "Movies S1 to S5" And click download to download a zip file of five videos. The fifth video shows the actual flight. Albeit, there's a string attached to the top, which doesn't appear to be helping it, but I'm not certain.