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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
81•guerrilla•2h ago•33 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
165•valyala•6h ago•30 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
101•surprisetalk•6h ago•99 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...
40•gnufx•5h ago•43 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
90•zdw•3d ago•41 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
48•mltvc•2h ago•58 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
123•mellosouls•9h ago•257 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
873•klaussilveira•1d ago•267 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
163•AlexeyBrin•11h ago•29 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
121•vinhnx•9h ago•15 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
48•randycupertino•1h ago•46 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
87•samasblack•8h ago•61 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
24•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Browser based state machine simulator and visualizer

https://svylabs.github.io/smac-viz/
7•sridhar87•4d ago•3 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
257•jesperordrup•16h ago•84 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
76•thelok•8h ago•16 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
45•momciloo•6h ago•7 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
542•theblazehen•3d ago•198 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
157•valyala•6h ago•139 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
227•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•359 comments

Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
65•josephcsible•4h ago•81 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
105•onurkanbkrc•11h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
21•languid-photic•4d ago•5 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
45•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
131•videotopia•4d ago•43 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
287•alainrk•11h ago•466 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
54•rbanffy•4d ago•15 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
667•nar001•10h ago•290 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
114•speckx•4d ago•159 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
215•limoce•4d ago•123 comments
Open in hackernews

Interesting SPI Routing with iCE40 FPGAs

https://danielmangum.com/posts/spi-routing-ice40-fpga/
99•hasheddan•2mo ago

Comments

Graziano_M•2mo ago
I enjoyed playing with FPGAs and all the open-source tooling makes it so much quicker and easier.

That said, I never understood the appeal of the FOMU. It's cool that it fits in a USB port, but so little IO, there's not a lot I can think to do with it.

Has anyone heard of some cool projects that others have done with this hardware?

CamperBob2•2mo ago
I suppose you could create your own crypto wallet or something, but agreed, an FPGA without I/O is not a very interesting or useful thing. You'd be better off with a conventional microcontroller, I'd think.
duskwuff•2mo ago
> You'd be better off with a conventional microcontroller, I'd think.

Or with a more conventional FPGA development board like Icebreaker:

https://1bitsquared.com/products/icebreaker

Aurornis•2mo ago
The primary appeal of these minimalist devices is to get people started as cheaply as possible.

They exist at a price point where it’s an easy decision to pick one up on a whim and spend an evening installing the toolchain and building some little hello world tutorial.

Graziano_M•2mo ago
I was typing out a response saying that you can buy an ice stick for cheaper, I went to check the price and it's $150 now! https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/lattice-semicondu...

I bought one for $25 back in 2018! What's going on here?

That obviously makes the FOMU a more reasonable starter purchase, but I'd still probably get an icebreacker for $80 (which I also have and love).

sylefeb•2mo ago
Hi there, a while ago I had a ton of fun with the Fomu: https://x.com/sylefeb/status/1571489610647371776

Fantastic little device! Relating to the post, I also happened to brick one erasing the Foboot bootloader by writing the flash beyond the limit (there was a bug regarding writing to addresses beyond max at the time, but then I was pushing the limit by abusing dfu-utils :) https://x.com/sylefeb/status/1391898565061001225 ). I tried to use the programming pads but at the time was lacking the skills and it ended in disaster (ripped pads...).

The code repo for the overall project is here: https://github.com/sylefeb/tinygpus

Graziano_M•2mo ago
Wow very cool.
ChrisGammell•2mo ago
I aggressively enjoyed this post
cushychicken•2mo ago
Oh my god I fucking HATE the SPI config bus on the ice40 series

So difficult to get the directionality right and also enable a JTAG bus

Hate these parts for that reason

imtringued•2mo ago
I was thinking about an "In-system programming" use case and thought about how to best do it and the biggest problem by far is that powering the flash chip also powers the rest of the system. What a pretty niche topic to have a Baader–Meinhof phenomenon happen to you.

I have to agree with others that the "Fomu" design appears to be highly suboptimal. They could have given you a way better edge connector on the other side.