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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
50•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
115•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•20 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
49•vinhnx•4h ago•7 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
810•klaussilveira•21h ago•246 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
90•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•101 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1053•xnx•1d ago•599 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
470•theblazehen•2d ago•173 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
196•jesperordrup•11h ago•67 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
9•surprisetalk•59m ago•2 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
536•nar001•5h ago•248 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...
42•alephnerd•1h ago•14 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
204•alainrk•6h ago•310 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
33•rbanffy•4d ago•6 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
26•marklit•5d ago•1 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
63•mellosouls•4h ago•67 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
110•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
67•speckx•4d ago•71 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

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
271•isitcontent•21h ago•36 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
199•limoce•4d ago•110 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
284•dmpetrov•21h ago•151 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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
553•todsacerdoti•1d ago•267 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
424•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
41•matt_d•4d ago•16 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
348•eljojo•1d ago•214 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
466•lstoll•1d ago•308 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
367•vecti•23h ago•167 comments
Open in hackernews

Fastmcpp (Fastmcp for C++)

https://github.com/0xeb/fastmcpp
61•0xeb•2mo ago

Comments

noogai03•2mo ago
I find the idea of highly optimised MCP kind of funny. The protocol is so far from finished - the update for stateless MCP (which is our only hope at properly scaling it) isn't even released yet in the core protocol.

And even then - the LLMs are going to be so much slower than the MCP server, I've never quite understood the point of trying to optimise it. Even FastMCP is pretty good because everything is async.

But even given all that - this is very impressive :)

orochimaaru•2mo ago
The agents call the MCPs, which could reside on resource constrained environments or devices. Other situations like MCPs that run on your laptop are better off as self contained binaries (my personal and probably unpopular opinion ;) ).

So MCP optimization may be something that’s targeted to those areas.

anuramat•2mo ago
> so much slower

unless you're working on 10 features in parallel with smaller models in best-of-4 groups

0xeb•2mo ago
It is not about optimization but more just having a C++ library.

Then with C++ implementation, you get more portability than Python or other interpreted languages.

idohlevi•2mo ago
Nice name
0xeb•2mo ago
Yes :)
cyber_kinetist•2mo ago
If they really cared about performance (which I think is the case since they're using C++ for this) - they should use something else than nholmann-json. It's simple to use, but has one of the most atrocious performance for a C++ JSON library. (The safest choice would probably be RapidJSON)
0xeb•2mo ago
Hi, I made that port. Performance was not the goal. Just the C++ port mainly.

I also ported the Claude Agent SDK to C++, so fastmcpp is needed for that: https://github.com/0xeb/claude-agent-sdk-cpp

RapidJSON is a good suggestion, maybe I will switch to it at one point.