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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
113•ColinWright•1h ago•83 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
22•surprisetalk•1h ago•23 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
118•alephnerd•2h ago•77 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
121•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•24 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
62•vinhnx•5h ago•7 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
827•klaussilveira•21h ago•248 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
55•thelok•3h ago•7 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...
4•gnufx•38m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
108•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•138 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1058•xnx•1d ago•611 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
76•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
484•theblazehen•2d ago•175 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
8•valyala•2h ago•1 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
7•valyala•2h ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
209•jesperordrup•12h ago•70 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
557•nar001•6h ago•256 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
222•alainrk•6h ago•343 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
36•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
29•marklit•5d ago•2 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
114•videotopia•4d ago•31 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
5•momciloo•2h ago•0 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
76•speckx•4d ago•75 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
273•isitcontent•22h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
22•sandGorgon•2d ago•11 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
201•limoce•4d ago•111 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
286•dmpetrov•22h ago•153 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
71•mellosouls•4h ago•75 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Hephaestus – Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework

https://github.com/Ido-Levi/Hephaestus
81•idolevi•3mo ago

Comments

oneandonley1•3mo ago
Terminators soon to follow or the matrix
dudeinjapan•3mo ago
Terminators make good project managers apparently
jmhammond•2mo ago
I mean more to the name, Hephaestus did a lot in the Horizon Zero Dawn project…
hamasho•3mo ago
Umm... I just discovered vibe-kanban[1] as a Kanban-based coding agent and superpowers[2] for brainstorming last week, and am planning to try it this weekend. And your product looks like the combination of both... It's interesting so I hope I'll have enough energy to try all of them, but my gut tells me I'll end up spending my weekend on my bed.

[1] https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban [2] https://github.com/obra/superpowers

baalimago•3mo ago
Very inspirational, cool! Good job!

Couldn't quite get everything to run since there was so much configuration to setup, but the idea is solid.

idolevi•3mo ago
It's still a very first version honestly.. What did you find in the configuration hard? I'll try to streamline it so it'll be easier to run
baalimago•2mo ago
I tried to get e2e working with Codex on a python fastAPI webapp. I made it all the way to the "organizer" who were supposed to read the PRD, but always failed since the agent started executing the PRD markdown as a python script.

My request would be to have an example PRD with premade workflow which works reasonably well for any project. I didn't use the `run_example.py` as it lacked workflows. At the end of the day, I just want to investigate if the project is something I'd like to dedicate time to, I gave up after about 2-3 hours. To have it 'plug-and-play' would be neat.

There's also a lot of references to your local filesystem, which perhaps could be cleaned up.

danr4•3mo ago
still not sold on agent orchestration. needs to be super simple and as close to the native agent interface, like Conductor et al. adding another layer of complexity while LLMs are evolving so rapidly is just fighting against the waves.
maddmann•3mo ago
I’m curious how this would work for production level apps. My concern is that it would go off and do a lot of extra stuff and grow your codebase with orphaned code or non mvp features.
idolevi•3mo ago
Hey, This is just a very first version of Hephaestus that is only a month in a work to showcase the idea of an autonomous agent orchestration. As we speak I'm building on top of it a development tool that would learn your codebase as time goes on, which is hopefully going to result in faster development.

Although do note that Hephaestus is not only for development purposes, it's supposed to be an agnetic framework for building workflows - such as a research workflow, investment workflow and so on, based on the semi-structured phases principles.

Also - everything is forever going to be open source (including the future features and development tools), so look out :)

maddmann•3mo ago
Cool, nice work. I’ll check it out at some point
djmips•3mo ago
Premature optimization as a service? Ok that's a bit unfair but it would be reassuring if the examples showed that debugability was a design pillar.
idolevi•3mo ago
That's fair, the PRD example is pretty cool but not the best - I have a few workflows that I use myself for doing bug bounties and deep research, but they are a bit much.

The current examples were mostly to show how you could set up different phases and how agents can work in parallel in different phases while still keeping some structure - basically any problem that you could define the logical phases in the way for solving it is going to work great with Hephaestus.

Soon I'll release a few more examples and a few tools that would make Hephaestus a development tool that learns about your repo as time goes and able to fix and add features for your code base

djmips•3mo ago
That's great to hear! Exciting times.