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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
157•theblazehen•2d ago•45 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
674•klaussilveira•14h ago•202 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
950•xnx•19h ago•552 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
123•matheusalmeida•2d ago•33 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
58•videotopia•4d ago•2 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
20•kaonwarb•3d ago•19 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
231•isitcontent•14h ago•25 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
225•dmpetrov•15h ago•118 comments

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

https://vecti.com
331•vecti•16h ago•144 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
494•todsacerdoti•22h ago•243 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
382•ostacke•20h ago•95 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
359•aktau•21h ago•182 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
289•eljojo•17h ago•175 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
413•lstoll•21h ago•279 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
20•bikenaga•3d ago•8 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
63•kmm•5d ago•7 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
91•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
31•jesperordrup•4h ago•16 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
258•i5heu•17h ago•196 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
44•helloplanets•4d ago•42 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
60•gfortaine•12h ago•26 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/
1070•cdrnsf•1d ago•446 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
16•speckx•3d ago•6 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...
36•gmays•9h ago•12 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
150•vmatsiiako•19h ago•68 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
288•surprisetalk•3d ago•43 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
150•SerCe•10h ago•141 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
73•phreda4•14h ago•14 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
185•limoce•3d ago•100 comments
Open in hackernews

The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/the-white-house-is-already-one-of-the-most-blocked-accounts-on-bluesky/
78•dxs•3mo ago

Comments

hunglee2•3mo ago
A notable characteristic of the Trump 2.0 administration is its near universal disregard for protocol. The use of US government assets - like the White House social accounts - for partisan political messaging is clearly damaging to the long term credibility of those accounts, damage which will last long after this administration is gone. It's a crazy thing to observe
ai-christianson•3mo ago
Isn't the hatch act supposed to prevent this?
shawn-butler•3mo ago
Due to a lapse in appropriations, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel is closed. Complaints may still be filed, but most will not be addressed until OSC reopens. [0]

They are the "independent" body that enforces Hatch act regulations.

[0]: https://osc.gov

lisper•3mo ago
> They are the "independent" body that enforces Hatch act regulations.

Right. And I have this nifty bridge you might be interested in buying.

newtonsmethod•3mo ago
I don't think the hatch act is supposed to prevent the use of the White House account for political purposes. It seems like basically every administration with an X account has done this, e.g.: https://x.com/WhiteHouse46/status/1662171756830892032 .

Although there are probably more contentious case with other government agencies.

pclmulqdq•3mo ago
The Hatch act just makes them more careful about what they say when an election is imminent. It's not a blanket ban on "politics."
tshaddox•3mo ago
That seems like it could have been a headline in a nonpartisan newspaper.
newtonsmethod•3mo ago
A nonpartisan newspaper could also condemn or blame a political party for an action. But if all of its posts were supportive of one administration, it would no longer be partisan.

You can just look through the old white house accounts. For example this tweet https://x.com/WhiteHouse46/status/1879171105044181097 , "While Congressional Republicans refused to pass a bipartisan border security agreement, President Biden took action and encounters today are the lowest since July 2020."

Looking through the tweets, you'll see it's not nonpartisan and isn't supposed to be.

V__•3mo ago
Nobody is going to enforce any laws on Trump or his executive. Either the midterms will allow for oversight to return or he dies before the transition into authoritarianism is complete. With SCOTUS about to end the Voting Rights Act, it could be over sooner than people think.
hshdhdhj4444•3mo ago
Unfortunately it’s worse in that the Supreme Court has declared that nothing Trump can do is illegal anymore.
nickthegreek•3mo ago
No such thing has occurred.
tshaddox•3mo ago
Do you think a sitting President could ever be charged with a crime (apart from impeachment)?
wtfwhateven•3mo ago
Wrong.
bitfilped•3mo ago
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/supreme-court-grants-tru...
pclmulqdq•3mo ago
If it were August-September of 2026 and an election were around the corner, yes. The Hatch act is pretty narrowly tailored if you look at its enforcement history, though.
gl-prod•3mo ago
Laws depend on having someone who wants to enforce them.
thephyber•3mo ago
The Hatch Act was famously almost never enforced.

Couple that with this admin going out of their way to only selectively enforce laws/policies in ways that benefit only them and their desired constituents, and it’s not even worth talking about the Hatch Act until someone else heads the Executive Branch.

mschuster91•3mo ago
> for partisan political messaging is clearly damaging to the long term credibility of those accounts, damage which will last long after this administration is gone.

It's a common topic with this admin: short term profits, long term losses. Be it that weird shit with a sell-off of public lands, the closure of and impedance to science in general, the rollback of clean renewable energy sources in favor of fossil fuels, the turn towards corruption and fascism, the fear they're spreading in everyone who's not white, citizenship be damned.

In Germany we have a saying for this - "nach uns die Sintflut" or "after us, the floods may come". Trump, those around him and those profiting off of him are having one last blast at the cost of what is going to be our children, the truly uber rich are already building bunkers and thinking how to keep their guards loyal - everyone clearly knows where this ship is headed.

TRiG_Ireland•3mo ago
We have that saying in English, too, except that we quote it in French. "Après moi, le déluge."
skybrian•3mo ago
I wouldn't even know the account existed if it weren't for the other people talking about it.

(Generally true on Bluesky.)

nothercastle•3mo ago
This is why blue stalled. Discovery is absolutely crap. And the only thing it wanted to feed me originally was gay, furry and anime content. Probably not a solid intro feed setup.
Gigachad•3mo ago
Lol yeah I thought the discovery feed was fine but I do just want to find furries there.
LexiMax•3mo ago
I'm not on bluesky myself, but is it weird that I am actually a little bit relieved by your description?

Personally, I think it's generally a bad thing when a social space tries to be all things to all people.

archagon•3mo ago
Seems lively and active to me.
tim333•3mo ago
I saw a lot of mentions of it on X for what that's worth.
janwl•3mo ago
I thought that bluesky only showed you posts from people you follow so why go through the effort of blocking someone whose posts you’ll never see?
detaro•3mo ago
it doesn't
mpalmer•3mo ago
Because blocks are public and thus tend to be a form of expression
Avshalom•3mo ago
The default "following" feed only shows who you follow. There are a couple other default feeds like "Discover" and "Popular with Friends" that show other stuff. There also a bunch of feeds made by people that show whatever...

The result is that even if you have extremely good hygiene about who you follow: rage bait will still often make it's way onto your skyline as quote dunks, reskeets or replies. So if there's an account you just don't ever want to see blocking is still the most fullproof way, even then you're still often exposed to screenshots of rage bait.

As a corollary if there are accounts that everybody knows are just going to be trolls, mass blocks help starve them of attention before they get a foot hold.

Our_Benefactors•3mo ago
> reskeets

Gross.

mcphage•3mo ago
People retweet and quote tweet things, and honestly, why would I ever want their brand of toxic garbage in my life? Even if accidentally?
delichon•3mo ago
Self defense. They are making significant real world changes that can change your plans if you, you know, interact with the world. Like traveling to another country, or saying things out loud. It's good to be prepared. The pace of those changes is at a historic high in the current administration. There's a sweet spot between being informed and obsessed, but it's sometimes hard to station keep.
mcphage•3mo ago
If it’s something important I’ll hear it from a news agency, and they can filter out the videos of Trump dumping shit on his own country.
nitwit005•3mo ago
Yep, unfortunately, it's practical to block people who behave like trolls in advance, as people seemingly can't help but repost their annoying content.