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

https://openciv3.org/
510•klaussilveira•8h ago•141 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
848•xnx•14h ago•507 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

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61•matheusalmeida•1d ago•12 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
168•isitcontent•9h ago•20 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
171•dmpetrov•9h ago•77 comments

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282•vecti•11h ago•127 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
64•quibono•4d ago•11 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
340•aktau•15h ago•165 comments

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

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228•eljojo•11h ago•142 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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333•ostacke•14h ago•90 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
425•todsacerdoti•16h ago•221 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

An Update on Heroku

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365•lstoll•15h ago•253 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

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35•kmm•4d ago•2 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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11•romes•4d ago•1 comments

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12•denuoweb•1d ago•1 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

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85•SerCe•4h ago•66 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
214•i5heu•11h ago•160 comments

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59•phreda4•8h ago•11 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
35•gfortaine•6h ago•9 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...
16•gmays•4h ago•2 comments

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

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123•vmatsiiako•13h ago•51 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
160•limoce•3d ago•80 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
258•surprisetalk•3d ago•34 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

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1022•cdrnsf•18h ago•425 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
53•rescrv•16h ago•17 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
44•lebovic•1d ago•13 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
14•denysonique•5h ago•1 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

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98•ray__•5h ago•49 comments

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

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81•antves•1d ago•59 comments
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Visualizing the most common unisex names in the US

https://nameplay.org/blog/common-unisex-names-by-gender-ratio
38•aaronjbecker•3mo ago

Comments

mc32•3mo ago
Αngel is a funny one. For Anglo Americans I’ve only known girls by that name, but with Mexicans (born in Mexico) I’ve only known guys by that name as they have Angela for their girls.
aaronjbecker•3mo ago
Yeah there are a few names that become "unisex" only in the aggregate, with differently gendered usage across cultures-- Alexis is another I can think of, it's a girls' name in the US but a boys' name in most other countries.
mc32•3mo ago
Also Sean. I think the Irish prefer Sinead or Siobhan instead for naming girls.
Thorrez•3mo ago
Another I think is Rosario. A male name in Italy, a female name in Mexico/Spain.
ks1723•3mo ago
Similarly, “Andrea” is male in Italian but female in German.
jccalhoun•3mo ago
My friends from Poland adopted a female cat named Sasha and were adamant that Sasha was a male name.
xdc0•3mo ago
True for any Spanish speaking country.
danans•3mo ago
To me, what's more interesting than the ranking is that the majority of the unisex names seem to be Celtic or Anglo-Saxon in origin.

Comparatively, there are very few Latin, Greek, or Hebrew names. Perhaps this is because names from the latter languages are still very closely associated with their gendered religious and mythological characters, while those associations have become more hazy with the former.

adrian_b•3mo ago
In old Semitic or Indo-European languages the human names, i.e. the proper nouns, were not unisex, but they had clearly different masculine or feminine declensions.

Actually the grammatical distinction between masculine and feminine nouns had appeared earlier in Afro-Asiatic (including Semitic) languages, and only later in Indo-European languages (perhaps caused by the contact with Semitic languages), where previously a grammatical distinction existed only between the names of animate things and non-animate things. By the time of Ancient Greek and Latin, the grammatical distinction between masculine and feminine nouns was already well entrenched in the European languages.

Many centuries later, a part of the European languages, including English, have lost the word terminations that distinguished the masculine names from the feminine names. Only then formerly different masculine and feminine names have merged into a single unisex name.

So there is no surprise in your observation, as it is caused by the difference in behavior between names that have been fixed in writing at an earlier time, preserving an older pronunciation, which included specifically feminine word terminations, and names that have been fixed in writing more recently, when there no longer existed different masculine and feminine name declensions.

pjmlp•3mo ago
As a language with gendered names, Portuguese, we still have a few like José, Maria, João and a few others, that are unisex.

However given that we usually have two first names, the other gender role happens with the second first name.

As an example how this goes, a girl can be named Maria João, and then it's on her if she rather be called Maria, or João, and by whom, usually different circles get to call her differently.

And so on for many possible combinations of male/female names being used in an unisex way.

fellowniusmonk•3mo ago
I was born a bit ago, up until I was 12 I had only met 2 Ryan's and they were both women and oddly enough both doctors I saw because I was their patient.

Then my family moved to a different part of the country and I walked into a classroom with 7 Ryan's.

IAmBroom•3mo ago
"bar height is proportional to total births" - bars are horizontal, with uniform height.
zamadatix•3mo ago
The height is uniform iff you measure height from the perspective of the rotation of the bar rather than the perspective of the chart. Confusing wording, but they meant the displayed vertical size in the chart instead of the length of the bar.

I think a traditional vertical stacked bar chart would have been far better.

rendaw•3mo ago
I'd like to see a stacked bar chart where the height/length is proportional to the total number of children. For instance, Robin and Kelley have percentage-wise roughly the same male representation, but in reality there are nearly 2x male Kelleys to male Robins it looks like.
cafard•3mo ago
A fair number of these are surnames, and a century ago were probably seldom found as given names: Kelly, Morgan, Taylor, etc.