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

https://openciv3.org/
591•klaussilveira•11h ago•173 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
897•xnx•16h ago•544 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
93•matheusalmeida•1d ago•22 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
20•helloplanets•4d ago•13 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
27•videotopia•4d ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
201•isitcontent•11h ago•24 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
199•dmpetrov•11h ago•91 comments

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

https://vecti.com
312•vecti•13h ago•136 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
353•aktau•18h ago•176 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
354•ostacke•17h ago•92 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
458•todsacerdoti•19h ago•229 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
7•bikenaga•3d ago•1 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
80•quibono•4d ago•18 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
258•eljojo•14h ago•155 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
391•lstoll•17h ago•264 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

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

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
231•i5heu•14h ago•177 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
122•SerCe•7h ago•101 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
45•gfortaine•9h ago•13 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
136•vmatsiiako•16h ago•59 comments

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68•phreda4•11h ago•12 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
271•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 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...
25•gmays•6h ago•7 comments

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

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
13•neogoose•4h ago•8 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/
1043•cdrnsf•20h ago•431 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
171•limoce•3d ago•91 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
60•rescrv•19h ago•22 comments

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

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
89•antves•1d ago•66 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

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14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)

https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/betty-white-world-war-ii
289•thunderbong•3mo ago

Comments

macintux•3mo ago
(2023)
CaptainOfCoit•3mo ago
Alternatively 1941-1945
incanus77•3mo ago
Or, if World War-indexed, 2.
eszed•3mo ago
Fun fact: some historians would 0-index this array, with the Seven Years War being first truly global conflict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War

dang•3mo ago
Added above. Thanks!
hoofedear•3mo ago
Thanks for sharing this, really fascinating stuff. I’m glad her estate is willing to donate these sorts of things.
randomdrake•3mo ago
Betty White holds such a highly regarded “Hollywood Star” place for me. It was fascinating to see her brought to life through her very ordinary belongings. Fun read.
anigbrowl•3mo ago
I worked on a film project with her about 15 years ago and I'm happy to report that she was just as great behind the camera as she was in front of it.
bcraven•3mo ago
Perhaps there were spares in case anyone lost theirs? I don't know enough about the military to say whether that's likely, but as sensible chaps it seems a reasonable assumption.
jacquesm•3mo ago
Wrong comment to reply to?
WillPostForFood•3mo ago
One of the lowest moments in human history, but everyone still dressed well.
dcminter•3mo ago
I was going to throw in a rather glib "and the other side was styled by Hugo Boss" but I figured I'd check if that was actually true first and... only kinda:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gysdhn/how_d...

1-more•3mo ago
Thank you! The Boss meme will not die. It STINKS!
ares623•3mo ago
Why is this top item with like 8 comments
jacquesm•3mo ago
Because of the # of upvotes.
pessimizer•3mo ago
More comments than upvotes is actually a negative sign. Upvotes can be (and will be) gamed, but there's a lot of voting ring detection active here.
tdeck•3mo ago
I'm curious how the soldiers had extra insignias and patches to give away as souvenirs.
volkadav•3mo ago
I can't say as to what it might've been like 80+ years ago, but years back I was with a friend on a trip through a PX and there was a rotary display (perhaps like you might see used for postcards in other contexts) with rank insignia and other small uniform bits for fairly low prices (single-digit dollars iirc, though this was 20+ years ago). Even if they had to pay out of pocket or deal with an irritable quartermaster, the urge to give a small remember-me-by token to a friendly (and let's be honest, beautiful) face when facing down imminent chaos and barbarity is probably strong. Similarly, I recall hearing of troops throwing their coins to kids along the embarkment route in the UK as they headed to Normandy; after all, where they were going they wouldn't need them.
iaw•3mo ago
I wonder if that display is because they would give them out not why.
ssl-3•3mo ago
The display probably exists just because soldiers need that stuff, as a practical matter.

When they're required to be in uniform, then that's a requirement.

So if yesterday a uniform got ruined (by whatever mechanism that happens -- shit does happen to clothes sometimes), then today they can scrounge together another one.

Or they put together a spare one.

Or whatever.

(But it certainly is romantic to think that extra uniform parts exist for sale primarily to give as keepsakes to the Betty Whites of the world.)

andyjohnson0•3mo ago
Brings to mind this poem

    Handbag
    by Ruth Fainlight

    My mother's old leather handbag,
    crowded with letters she carried
    all through the war. The smell
    of my mother's handbag: mints
    and liptsick and Coty powder.
    The look of those letters, softened
    and worn at the edges, opened,
    read, and refolded so often.
    Letters from my father. Odour
    of leather and powder, which ever
    since then has meant womanliness,
    and love, and anguish, and war.
jacquesm•3mo ago
Wow. That hits.
metalman•3mo ago
there are generations of these in my keeping right now, going back to the american civil war, my mothers and fathers things, grand parents, great grand parents, great aunts photo collections, momentos and letters, jewlery, old toys, and diplomas, passports, handspun clothing, ancient crockery( no makers marks....),etc, etc arrow points picked by my great uncle john, as he followed a horse drawn plow.....not much else to do back there right!
acedTrex•3mo ago
Random thought, but i've always considered poetry to be the literary medium that is the most difficult to do in a way that resonates with people. To pack so much emotion and meaning into such a limited format requires, to me, an unimaginably skilled grasp of language and emotion.
caned•3mo ago
I miss the people of her generation. I feel like we could use their perspective, experience and fortitude right now. I sure miss their music too...even though Bird Lives.
righthand•3mo ago
Even more reason to support the live local arts in times like these.
righthand•3mo ago
Okay pathetic downvoters. If the commenter loves music of her generation so much then they should actively look to support local live arts that play that kind of music. But yeah never mind lets only support Big Music Industry instead (or other big entertainment industries).
tracker1•3mo ago
I lost both my grandmothers this past 7 years. One about the same age as Betty, the other a few years younger. It's amazing how much insight you can glean from one-off comments in passing conversation you can pick up, or for that matter drop.

I'm in the middle of Gen-X... kind of the last generation raised "tough" so to speak. Also a generation facing massive ageism, despite knowing and understanding technology as well or better than the younger generations. First generation to make less than that which came before. By the same token, I don't think my generation has a lot of stand-out leaders in its ranks. We've mostly been good by example, but starkly independent.

All I know is that I miss both of my Grandmothers deeply.

iaw•3mo ago
Not to be crude but everything they mentioned inside the bag was from a serious relationship. I really wonder if the outside of the bag was for the less serious relationships that were still candidates.

Or was it common for soldiers to give out pieces of their uniform to people they just met out?

metabagel•3mo ago
Seems like she was a charmer.
nineplay•3mo ago
I read an article about a similar WWII woman's service and more than anything these women's jobs were to be warm and friendly to a bunch of young scared solders who far from home and wondering if they'd make it back.

So they'd smile and they'd flirt and they'd charm and they'd dance and maybe the boys would feel less afraid or less homesick and maybe they'd have something to look forward to.

I'd bet just that was enough for some appreciative solders to give her a pin, if only to remember them by.

ashanoko•3mo ago
Lubricant for those walking into the void, into a inferno, a calming spirit for those society had selected for slaughter, a GOAT