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

https://openciv3.org/
624•klaussilveira•12h ago•182 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
926•xnx•18h ago•548 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
32•helloplanets•4d ago•24 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
109•matheusalmeida•1d ago•27 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
9•kaonwarb•3d ago•7 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
40•videotopia•4d ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
219•isitcontent•13h ago•25 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
210•dmpetrov•13h ago•103 comments

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

https://vecti.com
322•vecti•15h ago•143 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
370•ostacke•18h ago•94 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
358•aktau•19h ago•181 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
477•todsacerdoti•20h ago•232 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
272•eljojo•15h ago•160 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
402•lstoll•19h ago•271 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
85•quibono•4d ago•20 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
14•jesperordrup•2h ago•6 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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

Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
3•theblazehen•2d ago•0 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
56•kmm•5d ago•3 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
12•bikenaga•3d ago•2 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
244•i5heu•15h ago•188 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
52•gfortaine•10h ago•21 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
140•vmatsiiako•17h ago•62 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
280•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 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/
1058•cdrnsf•22h ago•433 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
132•SerCe•8h ago•117 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
70•phreda4•12h ago•14 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...
28•gmays•7h ago•11 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
176•limoce•3d ago•96 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
63•rescrv•20h ago•22 comments
Open in hackernews

Meta erases Gaza journalist's Instagram

https://twitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/1977795050206576763
77•yardie•3mo ago

Comments

dghlsakjg•3mo ago
> While it’s unclear how or why those archives vanished, Abulhawa says the coincidence raises concern about a broader digital erasure of Palestinian documentation.

Note: I am making no comment on the conflict itself here.

I understand that journalists have to go where the people are, but if your archive strategy relies on posts on social media, you do not, in fact, have an archive strategy.

propagandist•3mo ago
His feed is an archive of war crimes documented under conditions of imposed starvation and an information blackout, in a "conflict" that has had the highest journalist mortality rate by far.

First, he's under no obligation to archive his posts. It's on the world to archive them and prosecute the perpetrators of the documented crimes.

Second, the platform in question has, at the highest levels, intelligence officers from the entity committing those crimes.

Third, humanity has failed in its moral duty yet again, and this sort of "neutral" commentary that ends with a glib remark directed at a murdered non-combatant is shocking to the conscience.

terminalshort•3mo ago
Is he under an obligation? No. Is he, and any other professional who doesn't, an idiot for not backing up his data? Yes.
luaybs•3mo ago
Are you calling a man that was living under a g*nocide documenting the horrific war crimes an idiot because he didn't back up his data, do you hear yourself??
terminalshort•3mo ago
If you can upload it to Meta's servers, you can back it up too.
luaybs•3mo ago
The number one priority was for him to spread the information as fast as possible to as many people as possible. Given the limited bandwidth, limited electricity, limited availability for physical storage devices, and limited everything, do you really think that backing up his data was his priority? Have some empathy...
terminalshort•3mo ago
Given the circumstances, actually yes, I would think that contingencies and backups would be top priority. Google Drive would have been sufficient. Unlike the hell that is social media, you own your data, and your friends can access it and post to Instagram from outside the war zone.
jasonlotito•3mo ago
Technically there was a backup we knew about that was taken down, too.
dima55•3mo ago
This is HN. This thread is about data and backups. Yes.
tclancy•3mo ago
Begging the question there, aren’t we? I can’t imagine that as the takeaway.
jasonlotito•3mo ago
You are making some assumptions here.

He is dead. Any backups he might have made might be long gone, or otherwise, unknown. What we do know is that the IG posts AND the backups done via the Internet Archive are gone.

So, my question to you is: where can you set a backup for no cost, available from Gaza, and that won't be taken down 3rd parties. Note, anything online has the potential to have data removed, and even then, we don't know what other backup locations he might have been using. We just know what was available now to the public.

In addition, let's say he had hardware backups (which are now gone after he was killed), or let's say just a random S3 bucket. We have to know about it. Know how to get access to it. And hope that AWS doesn't nuke it because someone asks them to do it.

It's a big mess, and blaming him for not having more backups than an entire country is incredible.

terminalshort•3mo ago
Google Drive would be good enough (if you can access Meta, you can access Google Drive) or any other cloud storage where you maintain ownership of your data. You can give people anywhere in the world the credentials to access it and upload to any social media. Internet Archive allows takedown requests from content owners, so it's not really a backup. Meta probably automatically sends one when it deletes an Instagram page.
jasonlotito•3mo ago
> Google Drive would be good enough

It gets deleted. TOS violation.

> (if you can access Meta, you can access Google Drive)

Not necessarily. No capable person that understands tech at all would think this.

> or any other cloud storage where you maintain ownership of your data.

If you don't own the infrastructure, do you really own it? And none of these are resilient to takedown requests, or other means of removal.

> Internet Archive allows takedown requests from content owners,

That's not what happened here. He was the content owner. Also, you pretend like other groups don't also do that.

> You can give people anywhere in the world the credentials to access it:

Like IG did?

None of your solutions meet my criteria in the slightest.

terminalshort•3mo ago
The TOS for Google Drive is nothing like social media. You maintain ownership and do not grant a license to use. Meta's TOS grants them a license to use and delete whenever they want. Instagram isn't a storage product in any sense of the word and Google Drive is. Whatever the details about ownership of the photos are, Internet Archive coppied them from Meta's domain, so Meta can order the takedown. Try knowing something about what you are talking about.
vasco•3mo ago
If you die right now, will people on the internet know how to restore your backups or that you had them or are you an idiot?
terminalshort•3mo ago
People on the internet, no. People involved in my work, yes.
elygre•3mo ago
I think we don’t know if he backed up his data.

We do know that he is dead, though.

dghlsakjg•3mo ago
I intentionally chose not to comment on the politics, and I won’t here either. Please respect that.

My comment only addressed the possible failure to understand the importance, and controversy, of this work and publishing exclusively on social media. Important and controversial things should not be entrusted to social media.

I say this as a former AP photo stringer, who has been in handcuffs, forest fires, and shoot outs in that job. My concern is, genuinely, that socially relevant documentary work needs to be held outside of social media for this exact reason.

propagandist•3mo ago
For what it's worth, my opinion is that there was no a better platform than social media to host that material.

The media companies are virtually all editorially aligned with one side, and they put their thumbs on the scale when it comes to the news about this subject.

The mainstream reporting is so clinically sanitized that it loses all potency and the sense of urgency. They were never going to be conduits for this material.

The best platform is the one that allows you to reach a wide audience so the onus is on them to archive, not on the vulnerable people being hunted with impunity.

vkou•3mo ago
His mistake in choice of archive does not absolve Facebook of the moral bankruptcy of deleting his photos.

It's acting as a willing propaganda mouthpiece for absolutely abominable people. If they were doing nothing wrong, they wouldn't be hiding the truth of what they did from the world.

burkaman•3mo ago
There's no reason to believe he didn't have an archive strategy. I'm guessing he did have one, and his photos and videos are backed up somewhere, but he was relying on not being dead to be able to retrieve them.
thefz•3mo ago
> I understand that journalists have to go where the people are, but if your archive strategy relies on posts on social media, you do not, in fact, have an archive strategy.

Opposite view: platforms should have no say on content if it is not violating any law.

Yizahi•3mo ago
It's called moderation and it existed since the dawn of public internet. The fact that we have such a nice place talk at HN here, is because the platform has a say in it. Notably, no sane person wants to even visit platforms who have no say about the published content, like 8kun and other cesspools.
plugger•3mo ago
I don't believe the Internet Archive would be described as social media. I do believe the quote you provided is referring to the Instagram posts being archived on the Internet Archive, not that the journalist in question expected Instagram to be a sound archive strategy. It's the fact that the posts disappeared on archive.org that's a concern imho, not that Meta arbitrarily deleted a profile.
bhouston•3mo ago
FB should make it available again. It is a historical record of the conflict as seen by someone experiencing it. To deny it is unfair. I don’t think FB is going around deleting the pages of Israelis killed in this conflict - it seems to be exclusive to Palestinians.
alex1138•3mo ago
Usual endless whinging that goes on in HN comments

I'm an Israel supporter but I think the way these companies just hand waive is endlessly infuriating. Whether it's this or Youtube removing covid "misinformation" or other things (from actual experts) - hey, we never have to explain anything to you; "violates our community standards" suffices as an explanation (but, god help you if you actually report things that need to be taken down, for very good reason - then, suddenly, it DOESN'T violate ANY of our community standards!)

They should all be in prison, most likely

cooloo•3mo ago
Without discussing this specific "journalist" which we all know it's nonsense. Those who relay on large company for there digital life should know it's not their data, you sign a deal with companies that have sole single target don't be surprised with any action it takes.
BenGosub•3mo ago
Facebook has double standards and is clearly sided in this conflict.

They probably have also shared data and tech with the IDF, like Microsoft has done and most big tech corps.