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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
70•guerrilla•2h ago•26 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
155•valyala•6h ago•29 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
84•zdw•3d ago•37 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
90•surprisetalk•5h ago•94 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...
37•gnufx•4h ago•43 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
122•mellosouls•8h ago•249 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

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

https://openciv3.org/
869•klaussilveira•1d ago•266 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
117•vinhnx•9h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Browser based state machine simulator and visualizer

https://svylabs.github.io/smac-viz/
4•sridhar87•4d ago•2 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...
39•randycupertino•1h ago•41 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
42•mltvc•1h ago•52 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

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
84•samasblack•8h ago•59 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
28•swah•4d ago•31 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
74•thelok•7h ago•14 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
256•jesperordrup•16h ago•83 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
157•valyala•6h ago•136 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
539•theblazehen•3d ago•197 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
42•momciloo•6h ago•5 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
9•jbegley•23m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
100•onurkanbkrc•10h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
220•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•340 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-...
58•josephcsible•3h ago•71 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
281•alainrk•10h ago•462 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
129•videotopia•4d ago•42 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
660•nar001•10h ago•287 comments
Open in hackernews

Microsoft-backed Veir is bringing superconductors to data centers

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/microsoft-backed-veir-targets-data-centers-for-its-megawatt-class-superconductors/
32•sudonanohome•2mo ago

Comments

analog31•2mo ago
I casually research this topic once in a while, and so far, have not seen high temperature superconductors emerge from either the laboratory or short haul pilot projects. Is this technology close to widespread commercial use?
luz666•2mo ago
The technology is widespread, you can buy spools of wires and wind your own coils. A spool might still be in the range of 3k$+, probably due to the manufacturing costs of all those single wire strands.

However, as we already know, the superconductivity currently starts only at low temps and I think the wires are limited by a maximum current (max field density?)

If you handle the spool, NEVER lose the beginning of the wire, always fixate it, otherwise there might be a knots after some unspooling, then you might need to buy a new one.

doubled112•2mo ago
Learned the lesson about the end of the wire with 3D printer filament.
hyghjiyhu•2mo ago
High temperature super conductors is a term of art. It does not mean what it sounds like. They still have to be pretty cold.
analog31•2mo ago
Indeed, ever since the first high-Tc superconductors were announced, the holy grail has been 77k, i.e., liquid nitrogen. In addition, critical current, field, and pressure are important for practical applications.
wiml•2mo ago
I'm not sure what your criteria are, but high-Tc superconductors are used in a bunch of commercial applications. Magnet windings, very high-Q RF filters, and some exotic switching applications. "High temperature" still means liquid-nitrogen cooled but compared to liquid helium that's swelteringly hot.
JumpCrisscross•2mo ago
Dumb fact: the layer of Uranus’s atmosphere where it’s 1 bar is also around 75 K, the temperature high-temperature superconductors like to live at.