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

https://openciv3.org/
546•klaussilveira•9h ago•153 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
872•xnx•15h ago•527 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
78•matheusalmeida•1d ago•16 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
186•isitcontent•10h ago•23 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
189•dmpetrov•10h ago•84 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
10•videotopia•3d ago•0 comments

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

https://vecti.com
298•vecti•12h ago•133 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
347•aktau•16h ago•169 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
73•quibono•4d ago•16 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
343•ostacke•16h ago•90 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
441•todsacerdoti•18h ago•226 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
240•eljojo•12h ago•148 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

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

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
378•lstoll•16h ago•256 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
5•helloplanets•4d ago•1 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
222•i5heu•13h ago•168 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
97•SerCe•6h ago•78 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 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...
20•gmays•5h ago•3 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
162•limoce•3d ago•83 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
63•phreda4•9h ago•11 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
129•vmatsiiako•15h ago•56 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
40•gfortaine•7h ago•11 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
261•surprisetalk•3d ago•35 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/
1032•cdrnsf•19h ago•428 comments

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

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
6•neogoose•2h ago•3 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
56•rescrv•17h ago•19 comments

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

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
85•antves•1d ago•62 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
20•denysonique•6h ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Compiler for "Easy" language from "Etudes for Programmers" book (1978)

https://github.com/begoon/easy
28•begoon•3mo ago

Comments

dukoid•3mo ago
I was assuming it's something similar to PL/0 but the grammar looks quite extensive...
Joker_vD•3mo ago
Basically Algol, but with gratuitous "SET" to simplify parsing assignment statements, and without generic "BEGIN" braces: those are baked into "DO"/"THEN"/"ELSE".

You can probably straightforwardly translate it to Golang by running through a C preprocessor with an obvious set of macros.

ape4•3mo ago
The "FI" for "endif" is like bash.

The semicolons are like C.

The "PROGRAM" section is like COBOL.

kragen•3mo ago
The "fi" thing arose during the Algol-68 process, which Steve Bourne participated in, which is why he put it in his shell. (He would have put "od" there too to terminate "do" if it wasn't already used for a hexdumper.) You also find it in, for example, Dijkstra's Discipline of Programming.

Semicolons were widely used as statement separators in Algol-family languages, but in Easy they seem to be statement terminators, so they are apparently like C rather than like earlier Algol-family languages such as Pascal.

Pascal also had the "program" thing. I'm not sure if earlier Algol languages did?

IAmBroom•3mo ago
COBOL precedes Pascal.
kragen•3mo ago
Yes, of course it does. I didn't mean to imply that COBOL got it from Pascal. I meant that the practice was much more widespread than just COBOL, and given that the rest of Easy is clearly an Algol-family language very similar to Pascal or (then-draft) Ada, that's probably where he got it.
Rendello•3mo ago
If you're Stephen R. Bourne, "FI" is also like C!

(From the Bourne Shell source): https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh...

shrubble•3mo ago
The Etudes book is considered a classic, especially among FSU programmers-the book was licensed for a small amount, translated into Russian and used in many classrooms.
kragen•3mo ago
It's absolutely a classic!