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

https://openciv3.org/
553•klaussilveira•10h ago•157 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
876•xnx•15h ago•532 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
79•matheusalmeida•1d ago•18 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
8•helloplanets•4d ago•3 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
13•videotopia•3d ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
191•isitcontent•10h ago•24 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
190•dmpetrov•10h ago•84 comments

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

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303•vecti•12h ago•133 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
347•aktau•16h ago•169 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
347•ostacke•16h ago•90 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
75•quibono•4d ago•16 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
444•todsacerdoti•18h ago•226 comments

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https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
242•eljojo•13h ago•148 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
46•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
17•romes•4d ago•2 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
379•lstoll•16h ago•258 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
225•i5heu•13h ago•171 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
103•SerCe•6h ago•84 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
162•limoce•3d ago•85 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
131•vmatsiiako•15h ago•56 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
41•gfortaine•8h ago•11 comments

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63•phreda4•9h ago•11 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

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20•gmays•5h ago•3 comments

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14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

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262•surprisetalk•3d ago•35 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

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1035•cdrnsf•19h ago•428 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
6•neogoose•2h ago•3 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
56•rescrv•18h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
85•antves•1d ago•63 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
20•denysonique•6h ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Theft of 'The Weeping Woman' from the National Gallery of Victoria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_The_Weeping_Woman_from_the_National_Gallery_of_Victoria
75•neom•2mo ago

Comments

nomilk•2mo ago
> It has been suggested that the thieves knew their art history: the method of the theft was an ironic homage to the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.

In both cases, the thieves unscrewed the painting and took it. Feels a bit over the top to call it an homage, let alone an ironic one.

cjs_ac•2mo ago
I think the irony is that in 1911, Picasso was accused of the theft, whereas in 1986, one of Picasso's works was stolen.
jvanderbot•2mo ago
To say that is planned irony is a bit much
jamal-kumar•2mo ago
I think the irony today is that in 2025 the password to the security system for the Louvre's security cameras was "Louvre"

https://abcnews.go.com/International/password-louvres-video-...

hau•2mo ago
In 2014.

>2014 cybersecurity audit performed by the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) at the museum's request

kylecazar•2mo ago
"the possibility of an "inside job" was not considered."

Given the circumstances, it probably should have been...

But then again, this has a happy ending. The painting was returned undamaged, nobody's hurt. Cool read.

sharkjacobs•2mo ago
Art theft is a pretty cool crime.
lenerdenator•2mo ago
Only if it's a proper heist. I don't need more guys just walking in and taking something like they're shoplifting a candy bar. I need guys meticulously planning and executing a theft that dodges the very latest in alarm and anti-theft technology.
Nicholas_C•2mo ago
Agreed. If no one uses gymnastics to traverse a laser filled room it's actually pretty lame.
WalterBright•2mo ago
See "The Hot Rock".
accrual•2mo ago
Bonus points for any rappeling and using tools that cut circular holes in glass.
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF•2mo ago
Taking the discussion seriously, a case study of a well-planned heist that culminated in someone walking in at the right time and just taking the thing could actually be pretty interesting.
dylan604•2mo ago
Right, all of these amateurs wanting to spend all this money on special glass cutting tools, rappelling equipment, bypassing alarms, or even some Ocean's 11 EMP ridiculousness when you just need a ~$10 tool and a big pair of brass ones to pull it off.
Peteragain•2mo ago
"How to steal a million" - a boomerang rather than to screwdriver..
JKCalhoun•2mo ago
Topkapi (1964)
hackernewds•2mo ago
No crime should be described as "cool". Adherence is the foundation of a functioning society.

Although you could argue the law is not the best arbiter of mortality.

throwup238•2mo ago
It was civil disobedience then. What was the point? No idea, but that’s art for you.
Rebelgecko•2mo ago
Rosa Parks did a cool crime
protocolture•2mo ago
Lots of crimes are cool. Adherence is the foundation of slavery.

Functioning societies need every rule and law tested, and retested continually for suitability.

fwip•2mo ago
You may want to re-examine your own username.
ghurtado•2mo ago
I mean, compared to arson, sure.

Compared to growing psychedelic mushrooms, I don't think so.

bigstrat2003•2mo ago
There's nothing cool about stealing cultural artifacts and society's ability to enjoy them.
stevage•2mo ago
Arguably high profile thefts increase interest in art and therefore more people enjoy art.

Also artworks can still be enjoyed post-theft through replicas etc.

And if the artwork is returned, as in this case, it's just a big win all round. Creating a new performance artwork in the process.

wan888888•2mo ago
Great video about this “incident” and art theft in general https://youtu.be/EwK24E7QryU
highway900•2mo ago
The timing of the post suggests this episode was the genesis
kazinator•2mo ago
> McCaughey stated that a specialised type of screwdriver, not available to the public, would have been required to take the painting off the wall.

Why bother with measures such as alarms and security cameras when you have the Super Secret Screws!

WalterBright•2mo ago
Being regularly confronted with wretched special screws, there are all kinds of ways to get them out. The usual go-to tool is one designed to unscrew stripped screw heads.

Just the other day, I was confronted with a security screw that instead of having 4 flutes on it (Phillips head), it had 3. I just drilled it out.

nighthawk454•2mo ago
Nothing worse than a screw you dont have a driver for. I resolved to just have drivers for everything

https://www.ifixit.com/products/mako-driver-kit-64-precision...

ghurtado•2mo ago
After going through several brands over the years, both domestic and foreign, that's the best set of driver bits that I have ever owned.

Kinda pricey, but well worth it.

Rebelgecko•2mo ago
No slotted Robertson :(
pugworthy•2mo ago
It very well could have just been Torx back then. I remember opening my original 128k Mac in '85 or so to do the 512K memory upgrade, and a weird specialized screwdriver (Torx) was required to open the case.
pipes•2mo ago
And n64 cartridges and cases. And snes too I think. Another trick is to melt a plastic pen with a lighter and stick it on the screw and wait for it to cool.
JKCalhoun•2mo ago
Ha ha, that's Some Anarchist's-Cookbook-level stuff.
niccl•2mo ago
In reference to the suggestion that the 1986 theft was an homage to a 1911 theft:

> In 1911, Picasso and his contemporary Guillaume Apollinaire were both suspects in the Mona Lisa theft

> but were cleared of any association with the crime

being dead is quite a good alibi

drabbiticus•2mo ago
> being dead is quite a good alibi

Maybe I'm misreading either TFA or your comment, but both Picasso and Apollinaire were alive in 1911?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire

Some more details from the Apollinaire wikipedia page:

> On 7 September 1911, police arrested and jailed Apollinaire on suspicion of aiding and abetting the theft of the Mona Lisa and a number of Egyptian statuettes from the Louvre, but released him a week later. The theft of the statues had been committed in 1907 by a former secretary of Apollinaire, Honoré Joseph Géry Pieret, who had recently returned one of the stolen statues to the French newspaper the Paris-Journal. Apollinaire implicated his friend Picasso, who had bought Iberian statues from Pieret, and who was also brought in for questioning in the theft of the Mona Lisa, but he was also exonerated. In fact, the theft of the Mona Lisa was perpetrated by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian house painter who acted alone and was only caught two years later when he tried to sell the painting in Florence.

mrkpdl•2mo ago
I laughed out loud at this part, perfect Aussie humour:

“Chilean Australian artist Juan Davila painted a work titled Picasso Theft and offered to donate it to the National Gallery of Victoria in place of the stolen painting. Davila wrote that "mine is a real one".[25] Davila's Picasso Theft was exhibited in the Sydney Avago Gallery, and then itself was stolen.”