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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

70•ColinWright•1h ago•41 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode

21•surprisetalk•1h ago•17 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

121•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•24 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...

99•alephnerd•2h ago•52 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/

824•klaussilveira•21h ago•248 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html

56•vinhnx•4h ago•7 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/

53•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/

103•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•118 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...

1057•xnx•1d ago•608 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/

478•theblazehen•2d ago•175 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/

204•jesperordrup•11h ago•69 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique

547•nar001•5h ago•253 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back

215•alainrk•6h ago•334 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/

8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 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

35•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html

28•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/

113•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline

73•speckx•4d ago•74 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

68•mellosouls•4h ago•73 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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en

199•limoce•4d ago•111 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty

285•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

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal

21•sandGorgon•2d ago•11 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/

555•todsacerdoti•1d ago•268 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/

43•matt_d•4d ago•18 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

424•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

473•lstoll•1d ago•313 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/

348•eljojo•1d ago•215 comments

Open in hackernews

Strap Rail

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/strap-rail

44•surprisetalk•2mo ago

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Animats•2mo ago

Then came John Stevens.[1] Stevens was responsible for converting many American railroads from light to heavy duty. The Duluth South Shore was first. Then the Great Northern and the Rock Island. Then the Panama Railroad for building the Panama Canal. Then Russia, Siberia, China...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frank_Stevens

nonamesleft•2mo ago

Strap rail seems to be often found in older abandoned mines in North America (source: watching hours of TVR Exploring and Mine Explorers -videos on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/@TVRExploring/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxhNU-gNyPq2lXA7JhLB90Q/vid... )).