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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
124•guerrilla•4h ago•55 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
210•valyala•8h ago•38 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
119•surprisetalk•8h ago•127 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...
46•gnufx•7h ago•49 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
142•mellosouls•11h ago•304 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
888•klaussilveira•1d ago•270 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
138•vinhnx•11h ago•16 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
169•AlexeyBrin•13h ago•30 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...
73•randycupertino•3h ago•125 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
105•samasblack•10h ago•68 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
273•jesperordrup•18h ago•87 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
59•momciloo•8h ago•11 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-...
31•mbitsnbites•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Craftplan – Elixir-based micro-ERP for small-scale manufacturers

https://puemos.github.io/craftplan/
7•deofoo•4d ago•1 comments

Eigen: Building a Workspace

https://reindernijhoff.net/2025/10/eigen-building-a-workspace/
7•todsacerdoti•4d ago•2 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
88•thelok•10h ago•18 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
554•theblazehen•3d ago•205 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-...
99•josephcsible•6h ago•120 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
100•zdw•3d ago•51 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
175•valyala•8h ago•165 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
262•1vuio0pswjnm7•14h ago•413 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
26•languid-photic•4d ago•7 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
114•onurkanbkrc•13h ago•5 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
138•videotopia•4d ago•46 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
131•speckx•4d ago•203 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
295•isitcontent•1d ago•39 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
59•rbanffy•4d ago•20 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
576•todsacerdoti•1d ago•279 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
49•marklit•5d ago•10 comments
Open in hackernews

EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)

https://edeproject.org/
99•bradley_taunt•2mo ago

Comments

GaryBluto•2mo ago
Funny this should be posted. I was just considering this for a Boot CD project a few months ago.
WD-42•2mo ago
Very cool! Love the crystal icon set. I remember when that was first released, it was mind blowing.
edoceo•2mo ago
Wow! This looks like XP/Win2k. Gotta put this on the parents computer, they'll be happy they got their old Windows back. (They don't really like Xfce)
29athrowaway•2mo ago
Maybe they like LXQt more.

XFCE can be themed to be almost identical to XP.

mghackerlady•2mo ago
theres a windows 9x total conversion out there iirc
packetlost•2mo ago
I don't think it's complete but I have that mostly set up with LXQT on NixOS on my Framework desktop. I love it
wild_egg•2mo ago
Chicago95 theme for XFCE is great
29athrowaway•2mo ago
Looks more legit than Redmond97.

If we go retro then I would go for a MacOS 9 look. Like what this user achieved: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/tsric2/xfce_color...

accrual•2mo ago
Beautiful results there!
accrual•2mo ago
Takes some tuning but Chicago95 can become a very convincing clone of early Windows GUI. Back when they did user research and every element had methology and reason behind it.
_vqpz•2mo ago
The Q4OS distro has an addon called XPQ4 which has some old Windows themes https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/
skerit•2mo ago
I like these kind of themes in theory, but they're always a bit janky. Not that they have to be pixel perfect, but they're always broken enough that they're not a pleasure to use.
WillAdams•2mo ago
Any chance of an rPi image?
woleium•2mo ago
i imagine it’s trivial to install on raspian?
a96•2mo ago
https://edeproject.org/wiki/binarypackages Don't see anything for ARM, but might be as simple as getting the source package and (de)building debs for it.
tyfon•2mo ago
I tried to search their wiki for wayland, but got zero hits so I guess this is for X11 only?

Edit: nevermind, I see this is relatively "ancient" software. Last release over 10 years ago :)

Will take it for a spin on an old computer though

skeezyjefferson•2mo ago
they posted literally just the wiki article for MUDs earlier, slow news day
a96•2mo ago
> EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is a simple and fast desktop environment for *nix-like systems. It uses the FLTK GUI toolkit and offers a familiar look and feel. EDE is designed according to the UNIX philosophy, which means it offers seperate executables for each component to “do one job and do it good”. This makes EDE very modular and also easy to alter for any user's special needs and requirements.

TIHI, but I can definitely see places where this would be useful. Based on the name, I thought it was just Enlightenment/E rebrand or something.

analog8374•2mo ago
I like the look of this. It looks like mate, which I presently use. I wonder what the difference is
BirAdam•2mo ago
Well, FLTK instead of GTK is a big one. Also, EDE more closely mimics the Win98 Explorer rather than GNOME. EDE is also lighter weight.
analog8374•2mo ago
But it's the same desktop, menus, windows, icons thing with nothing fancy tacked on pretty much. Right?
BirAdam•2mo ago
Not quite. The crystal icon set is not, to my knowledge, the default in any GNOME version though it was in some KDE3 releases. The menus and window design of EDE are very Win98, while those of GNOME are slightly different depending upon the Metacity theme in use. EDE has a few other tweaks and add-ons, but it lacks the MATE/GNOME2 plugin ecosystem.
analog8374•2mo ago
Have we arrived at where everybody knows what a desktop environment should look like?

I mean, an end to experiments and variants and improvements. We all know how it should be and anything else is wrong.

I would like that.

seanhunter•2mo ago
Different people want different things because they use computers in different ways. That's ok.

I personally am very happy with my sway setup - it works fantastically for me but most people would honestly hate it. That's ifne - I wouldn't force anyone else to use it.

analog8374•2mo ago
And yet for 99% of the cases we have a certain way we like them to be. And I'm in that 99%. And we know exactly what I'm talking about. So for all intents and purposes, fuck the edge cases. Let's focus on the archetype.
seanhunter•2mo ago
Not 100% sure what point you’re making. Mainstream desktop O/Ss strive to service this 99%, so you have an abundance of choice. Windows, MacOS, KDE, Ubuntu are all there to cater to you.
tracker1•2mo ago
It depends... I've found things I like and dislike with every DE I've ever touched... from early windows, to OS/2, Mac old and new, Amiga, BeOS, and even some bits from more modern Windows. On my personal desktop, I've been running Cosmic, as it's close to what I want. I had run Budgie desktop previously and had it tweaked very specific to my liking, but it was a hodge-podge and I just wanted an out of the box experience easier to deal with.

I think there is/was a lot to like with the Win9x interface that I feel advanced a lot through to Windows 7 even. I think the current taskbar in windows is relatively nice too, but the start menu itself has taken a few steps back. I'd like to see Cosmic get a bit closer to the taskbar, but keeping it's application menus and settings, which get better with each iteration imo. There's still something alien about the spacing on the dock's corners though.

kjs3•2mo ago
No?

Be forced to use Gnome because some royal 'We' decided that's what a DM should be? No farking way. Force someone else to use KDE because I think Gnome is kinda awful? No. Give up on low-resource desktop environments because Gnome or what ever is The One True DE? Sorry...no.

I would not like that.

lproven•2mo ago
Oh nice. I occasionally mention EDE in desktop roundups on El Reg. Glad it is not forgotten.

It's based on FLTK, and although the effort to create FLTK 2.0 faltered and died a few years ago, last year there was a new point release, FLTK 1.4, the first in 13 years.

I wrote about it almost exactly a year ago:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/fltk_14_released/

(In researching that I discovered that apparently it's not pronounced "eff ell tee kay" but "full tick".)

Since then it's got up to 1.4.4, and they're working on FLTK 1.5. And yes it supports Wayland now.

So maybe it's time for a new release of EDE to go with it. :-)

https://www.fltk.org/

jayroh•2mo ago
If anyone wants some screenshots: https://edeproject.org/page/screenshots
chriswarbo•2mo ago
EDE is a standalone WM/DE with a Windows 9x look

XPde was a similar project, but with a Windows XP look. Their site seems dead, though I'm sure the software could be found out there somewhere https://web.archive.org/web/20070825005617/http://www.xpde.c...

cout•2mo ago
How does it compare to using icewm or fvwm95?
pndy•2mo ago
Oh I remember EDE being briefly reviewed some 20 years ago in local Linux magazine and if I'm not mistaken being a part of Mandrake packages selection
anthk•2mo ago
There's Dillo and Florb (Open Street Maps client). Now we just need a simple MPV UI and some kind of FLMail client. On office suites, someone should modernize Siag Office with XFT and Unicode support.

If anyone says "that's outdated crap", Siag supports RTF, and the spreadsheet module could just use plugins written in Scheme with incredible features related to number crunching. Printing? PostScript and PDF, problem solved.