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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
233•theblazehen•2d ago•68 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
694•klaussilveira•15h ago•206 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
6•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•0 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
962•xnx•20h ago•555 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
130•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/
67•videotopia•4d ago•6 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
54•jesperordrup•5h ago•24 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
37•kaonwarb•3d ago•27 comments

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

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

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
233•dmpetrov•16h ago•125 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
32•speckx•3d ago•21 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
11•__natty__•3h ago•0 comments

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

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
300•eljojo•18h ago•186 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•185 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
425•lstoll•21h ago•282 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

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

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
96•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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
19•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•5 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
265•i5heu•18h ago•216 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
33•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
64•gfortaine•13h ago•28 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/
1076•cdrnsf•1d ago•460 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...
39•gmays•10h ago•13 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
298•surprisetalk•3d ago•44 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
154•vmatsiiako•20h ago•72 comments
Open in hackernews

Calendar Puzzle "Rhombus"

https://praxispuzzles.com/calendar_puzzle_rhombus
59•xyzzy_plugh•3mo ago

Comments

rawling•3mo ago
Have they made it so impossible dates are impossible, I wonder?
xyzzy_plugh•3mo ago
Doesn't seem like it. Using the interactive board on the website I was able to produce a solution that only revealed numbers.
peterpuzzle•3mo ago
Creator here. No, you can arrange the puzzle pieces to make dates that don't exist, like Monday February 31. Actually there may be "impossible" dates, because I didn't check for them, but I guess all combinations of days of the week, day of the month and month are possible. And also many non-dates, like 1, 2, 3. But good point: alle possible dates have at least 1 solution. Disclaimer: I sell these puzzles for a little more than the raw material.
seanhunter•3mo ago
Looks like a really nice puzzle. Congrats.
legedemon•3mo ago
Great puzzle. Do you ship internationally?
yapyap•3mo ago
not OP but yes
slig•3mo ago
So nice! Do you create them entirely algorithmically, or do you use the solver just to verify that every date is possible?
peterpuzzle•3mo ago
I wrote 2 solvers in Python. One that loops through all possible dates and searches for a solution. And one that loops through all solutions and checks if they form a date or not. And luckily both gave the same answers.
drivebyhooting•3mo ago
How did you select the piece shapes to ensure there was always a solution?
peterpuzzle•3mo ago
Actually I tried a lot of different combinations of piece shapes to find the "hardest" set of pieces that can still solve all possible dates. "Hard" is subjective, but I mean pieces with multiple protrusions.
zvr•3mo ago
I have the "A Puzzle A Day" https://www.dragonfjord.com/product/a-puzzle-a-day/ since a few years and I have thoroughly enjoyed it.

All dates are possible and most (all?) have multiple solutions.

spencerflem•3mo ago
Was just about to link to this one!
peterpuzzle•3mo ago
Creator here. That puzzle started my search into this type of puzzle. But in the end my puzzle is harder, because it also contains the day of the week and has the most "irregular" puzzle pieces possible.
Y_Y•3mo ago
Those particular rhombuses are typically known as "squares"
dfee•3mo ago
I thought the same thing, but it seems that certain dates would make it so there is one square ("rhombus") and one (non-square) rectangle (e.g. Feb 15).

So rather than 3 rhombuses – or 3 squares – perhaps it's 3 squares of 1 square and 1 rectangle. (Perhaps the positions of the puzzle pieces make it such that it truly is 3 squares)!

RyanOD•3mo ago
Announcing new Diamond Shreddies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bccNH82DIo0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_2yHXD_CU

(and...neat puzzle...nice job, creator!)

peterpuzzle•3mo ago
Creator here. I know, I know, the "rhombuses" are just rotated "squares", but I already had a calendar puzzle "Square", so that's why.
ky_vulnerable•3mo ago
That's really creative. Did the creator come up with the design himself?
peterpuzzle•3mo ago
Creator here. Yes I did. Used some existing puzzles as inspiration. See https://praxispuzzles.com/calendar_puzzle_square
seszett•3mo ago
Nice, but it's only available in English sadly, there's a link that says "see kalenderpuzzel "Ruit" for the Dutch version" (I'd prefer French but Dutch would do as well) but that page says "De maanden en dagen van de week zijn in het Engels".

The "square" one is in Dutch but sold out and the Rotterdam one in English only.

But I like that idea, apparently it's not the first puzzle of this kind but I didn't know about them.

peterpuzzle•3mo ago
Creator here. If there is enough demand I can make a French version. Ordering a new batch of lasercut wood cost me $20, so I have a minimum batch size of 20.
nonethewiser•3mo ago
Seems pretty hard! Even the easy example.
peterpuzzle•3mo ago
Creator here. I sometimes advise people not to focus on today's date, but a date in the following week. Then you have more time to find a solution!
racl101•3mo ago
Ooh, nice white elephant gift idea for work. I never know what to give.