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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
52•guerrilla•1h ago•20 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
37•mltvc•1h ago•34 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
148•valyala•5h ago•25 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
77•zdw•3d ago•31 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
82•surprisetalk•5h ago•89 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
21•swah•4d ago•13 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
119•mellosouls•8h ago•232 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
157•AlexeyBrin•11h ago•28 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
864•klaussilveira•1d ago•264 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
113•vinhnx•8h ago•14 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
17•martialg•51m ago•3 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
29•randycupertino•59m ago•29 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
21•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
73•thelok•7h ago•13 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
75•samasblack•7h ago•57 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
36•gnufx•4h ago•40 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
253•jesperordrup•15h ago•82 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
156•valyala•5h ago•136 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
533•theblazehen•3d ago•197 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
38•momciloo•5h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
98•onurkanbkrc•10h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
19•languid-photic•3d ago•5 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
71•vedantnair•1h ago•55 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
212•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•323 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
42•marklit•5d ago•6 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
52•rbanffy•4d ago•14 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
273•alainrk•10h ago•452 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
649•nar001•9h ago•284 comments

Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
51•josephcsible•3h ago•67 comments
Open in hackernews

A magnetic field orientation that changes the fundamental design of motors

https://www.paranetics.com/copy-of-home
53•dillonshook•3mo ago

Comments

JumpCrisscross•3mo ago
What advantage would this have over a rotary Hallbach array?
roarcher•3mo ago
Maybe I'm missing something but this just seems to be a guy playing with magnets? In the "Demonstration of Ion Propulsion" video, he shows how the magnet "shoots" through the ring, but it's just the release of potential energy from forcing the opposing poles together in the first place. It's like those "permanent magnet rail guns" people post on YouTube. I don't see what's novel about it.
lazylester•3mo ago
beneath the fancy graphics there's zero explanation of how these are manufactured, how they're constructed, or the magnetic field patterns. No actual deployments or demonstrated applications, just graphics. It's a 3-person company that "expects to begin testing of this exciting new technology early in the 2nd quarter of 2023".
thro1•3mo ago
Howard JOHNSON, Permanent Magnet Motor http://www.rexresearch.com/johnson/1johnson.htm - is that similar ?

( https://patents.google.com/patent/US4877983A/en expired 2006, https://www.freepatentsonline.com/4877983.html )

Edit: https://www.paranetics.com/electric-motors - there is more details. And parametric motor https://patents.google.com/patent/JPH04344155A/en is more similar.

(and magnetic experiments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZaRMt6xhoE explains a lot nicely)

hazbot•3mo ago
Don't talk about it, be about it.
ohman876•3mo ago
I migh sound negative but when I was reading through this website it looked a bit like free energy scams to me, "stick a rod into the ground and voila, bulb is lit". drawings of magnets with two poles adjecent to the same pole- when I was attending physics course our proffesor told us that magnet would rearrange so there would be 2 poles if we tried tricks like this.. I'd like to see the 'how it's built' before I can attempt to get rid of my scepticism..
animal531•3mo ago
Yeah, doing some googling it seems that if you for example glue two together in a NS-SN type fashion that they would either turn into a single magnet as you are describing, or if its unstable then the two fields will demagnetize each other over some time.

But having said that, there's probably a few openings for research in there where you can experiment with different field/magnet shapes, sizes and counts.

juancn•3mo ago
You could in theory make that with two solenoids sharing a core and inverting the electric field and make it work like a NS-SN joined magnet.

But I guess it would heat up fairly quickly, having to fight the force of the opposing S-S poles. Now I want to try it.

karlkloss•3mo ago
I'm not sure what they want to achieve with that. The logo looks like they invented magnetic monopoles, but otherwise it's just a lot of blabla.

Investor trap?

Razengan•3mo ago
I misread that as "a magnetic fluid orientation" and it made me wonder: could a torus of liquid or something like that be induced with a spinning magnetic field to replace mechanical motors for electricity generation?
jacknews•3mo ago
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)?
ElevenLathe•3mo ago
Maybe a giant spinning mass of molten iron the size of a small planet?
metalman•3mo ago
the idea is simple enough, use both poles of permanent magnets, unlike other motors that use only one side while alternating the polarity of the fixed magnets. Watch the little slow motion video, it is either a masterfull slight of hand, or evidence. the magic I believ is in harnessing modern compute and power control hardware to achive something that was long ago dismissed as wishfull thinking
IAmBroom•3mo ago
No numbers: no data. No data: smoke and mirrors.
BewareTheYiga•3mo ago
Did I miss the memo where we repealed ∇·B = 0?
jakedata•3mo ago
It reminds me of a cylindrical Hallbach array that has been split in two.

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