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

https://openciv3.org/
592•klaussilveira•11h ago•176 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
901•xnx•17h ago•545 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
22•helloplanets•4d ago•15 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
95•matheusalmeida•1d ago•22 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
28•videotopia•4d ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
203•isitcontent•11h ago•24 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
199•dmpetrov•12h ago•91 comments

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

https://vecti.com
313•vecti•13h ago•137 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
353•aktau•18h ago•176 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
355•ostacke•17h ago•92 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
459•todsacerdoti•19h ago•231 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
23•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
80•quibono•4d ago•18 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
259•eljojo•14h ago•155 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
7•bikenaga•3d ago•1 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
392•lstoll•18h ago•266 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

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

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
234•i5heu•14h ago•178 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
46•gfortaine•9h ago•13 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
122•SerCe•7h ago•103 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
136•vmatsiiako•16h ago•60 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
68•phreda4•11h ago•12 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
271•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
25•gmays•6h ago•7 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1044•cdrnsf•21h ago•431 comments

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

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
13•neogoose•4h ago•9 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
171•limoce•3d ago•91 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
60•rescrv•19h ago•22 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
27•denysonique•8h ago•5 comments

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

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
89•antves•1d ago•66 comments
Open in hackernews

The twin probes just launched toward Mars have an Easter egg on board

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/the-twin-probes-just-launched-toward-mars-have-an-easter-egg-on-board/
70•pseudolus•2mo ago

Comments

clickety_clack•2mo ago
When they sent the voyagers out, they had plaques that represented the species, with an attempt at universally communicating who we are. These ones have the equivalent of spray painted tags, or a name scratched into a desk: “John woz ere”. Different times.
BigTTYGothGF•2mo ago
These things are only ("only"!) going to Mars, anybody getting that close to us and wanting to know more can go right to the source.
dotancohen•2mo ago
K'Breel, Speaker for the Council of Elders, Responds

Citizens of the Blue Planet,

Once again your surface-crawling machines inch toward our sacred dunes, and once again you proclaim that "anyone wanting to know more can go right to the source." We are the source.

Let the Council make this perfectly clear: Your probes do not "visit." They trespass.

Each lumbering, dust-belching contraption arrives uninvited, drilling our soil, sniffing our winds, and snapping impertinent images of our most private crater-gardens. Then your kind declares triumph: "We have studied Mars!"

You have studied exactly nothing, save for what we allow your machines to perceive.

Our Atmospheric Obfuscation Choir continues to blanket your sensors with carefully tuned spectro-misdirection. Your rovers cannot see the Red Orchards. Your orbiters cannot detect the life-pools. Your spectrometers cannot interpret a single nutrient of our gelsacs - may they throb eternally.

Yet still you boast.

And so hear this proclamation from the Council of Elders:

If the beings of the Blue Planet truly wish to "go to the source," they may present themselves honorably: unshielded, unarmed, and prepared for diplomatic puncturing of their diplomatic gelsac. Such is our custom. Such is our law.

Until then, we will continue to tolerate your stumbling robots, harvest what amusement they provide, and allow them to perish in their own confusion.

iammattmurphy•2mo ago
10/10 comment—has it all: intrigue, interplanetary sociopolitical commentary, K’Breel, terms like “gelsac”
DarmokJalad1701•2mo ago
> Let the Council make this perfectly clear: Your probes do not "visit." They trespass

Molon Labe. Until then, we will continue to boast, and above your "private" crater-gardens (that we will keep taking pictures of), the stars will belong to us.

CamperBob2•2mo ago
Here -- achoo -- have a cold.
hidroto•2mo ago
To an archeologist both artifacts are worth having, just look at Pompeii the frescoes tell you alot but the graffiti on the sides of the buildings tells you something as well.
inglor_cz•2mo ago
I think the implication is that within that time period which separates Voyagers from today, we have become distrustful or ashamed of the higher parts of the culture, and that such a dysbalanced situation is fairly new, with hard-to-predict consequences.
qlm•2mo ago
Sounds like reactionary nonsense to me. It's just some names. It's not indicative of the debasement of society.
inglor_cz•2mo ago
In isolation, yes. But other things have happened as well. People dress like slobs; interestingly, in my country, where GDP per capita skyrocketed since 1989, standards of clothing seem to have gone down, especially for formal occasions. We have a major problem with physical fitness, Westerners of the 1970s were much thinner and moved more. People read fewer books and spend their days consuming brainrot on Tiktok, Instagram and YouTube shorts.

(Notice that the very word brainrot is a neologism?)

I don't think we should pooh-pooh such developments as irrelevant, and I am very unhappy that they have been subsumed to the universal polarization of the culture wars that consume everything while producing nothing of value.

The Moloch indeed.

PaulDavisThe1st•2mo ago
> standards of clothing

Examined more closely, this appears to mean nothing more than "people spend less time wearing the clothes that a previously dominant culture considered to be high status markers".

inglor_cz•2mo ago
I think you just re-formulated what I said, in a more intellectuallish and dismissive way.

People will now turn out for a funeral in a tracksuit. Yes, previously dominant culture frowned upon such things. Yes, the culture has obviously changed.

Our main disagreement seems to be whether such change is good, bad, or irrelevant.

I could live with people dressing in a disgusting way, but I really dislike the death of book reading. That will make us all worse at thinking.

PaulDavisThe1st•2mo ago
You were the one who insisted that "standards of clothing have gone down" (emphasis mine).

When it comes to culture, I believe that things change rather than go up or down. In general, I suspect there are two very long term (i.e. many millenia-long) trends that occur in parallel, one of them generally improving the human condition and one of them degrading it. The world is literally going to hell in a handbasket, at the same thing as nearly everything is getting better.

Your concerns about book reading are, of course, the opposite of those of the Greek philosophers who imagined that it would make us all more stupid.

inglor_cz•2mo ago
Yes, I can live with it, but I think the standards have gone down. It also seems to me that you basically consider that change irrelevant. We can surely disagree on that.

As for the Greek philosophers, I feel you are being too dismissive saying that they imagined us being more stupid. First, it was mostly about Socrates and second, his position was a bit more nuanced than how you present it. He was concerned about education becoming impersonal, which definitely has some downsides (until today, we haven't discovered any educational mode more efficient than 1:1 tutoring, at least from the student's individual point of view; the economic dimension, of course, differs). Second, he believed that our memory capabilities would go down, which they probably did. We don't have much contact with purely oral cultures now, but the little we do, show that pre-literate people were indeed better at remembering their collective past, including their culture, in the sense of "actually having it in their own heads" instead of "hearing about it once in the class and then promptly forgetting what they heard".

How many people today can recite a thousand songs from memory? Not that long ago, people like that would exist and keep ancient songs alive.

Today I hear Ed Sheeran ten times a day (ugh), but I wouldn't be able to recollect the lyrics even if threatened with an execution.

That is certainly one way of being stupider than before. Yes, it is compensated by other improvements, no doubt about that.

gcanyon•2mo ago
> When it comes to culture, I believe that things change rather than go up or down.

In the '80s movie Trancers, Jack Deth is a visitor from the future, and as he's slicking his hair back with water from a flower vase a woman from the present day asks something like, "People from the future put vase-water in their hair?!" and Jack Deth replies very seriously, "Dry hair is for squids."

BigTTYGothGF•2mo ago
> People will now turn out for a funeral in a tracksuit.

I bet if they had showed up in a sport coat you wouldn't have found it notable despite the fact they were the tracksuits of their day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_coat

inglor_cz•2mo ago
No, because they lost that meaning in the meantime.

Yes, it is possible that tracksuits will become the to-go clothing for funerals and theatres as well as gyms.

tired-turtle•2mo ago
“Standards of clothing” is not a set with a total order, and society has never had one way to dress. You’re unfairly projecting your values (of a certain style of dress) onto society as if it’s shared by everyone.
inglor_cz•2mo ago
This is not maths, and nothing is shared by everyone in a human society.

I am actually an algebra major and I always felt that the need of some of my peers to stuff the entire outside world into mathematical definitions does not lead anywhere. Please don't mathematize societal concepts ("a set with a total order"), you will only mislead yourself and others. Maths isn't a good tool to understand people.

Let us talk about humans in a human language instead.

BurningFrog•2mo ago
One theory is that you, like myself, has reached the age where many modern ways seem dumb and younger people aren't even aware of what has been lost.

Importantly: even if this is the case, it doesn't mean we're wrong!

qlm•2mo ago
I suggest you reflect on the value you are placing on aesthetics, and where this way of thinking ultimately leads.
inglor_cz•2mo ago
You don't really know how much of a value I place on aesthetics (not that much, in fact, just more than zero, which is enough to make some judgments).

And "where this way of thinking ultimately leads"? Nowhere special.

nozzlegear•2mo ago
Surely the people at NASA who are launching probes aren't the ones who've become distrustful or ashamed of higher culture.
inglor_cz•2mo ago
Do the launch people have influence on what precisely they launch? IDK. In a massive organization like NASA is, I would expect such responsibilities to be isolated.
hdgvhicv•2mo ago
Those voyager plaques will last millions, even billions of years.

The records might survive to the end of time if they are lucky and get flung into intergalactic space post andromeda collision.

YouAreMammon•2mo ago
They just don't make em like they used to!

yells at cloud

jdpage•2mo ago
This strikes me as a rather uncharitable view. I think it's okay for people to be proud of their work on a difficult project, and want to have their names on it.
3eb7988a1663•2mo ago
I would be a bit sad if most mega projects (space stations, battle ships, international probes, dams, etc) do not have some kind of honorary tribute to the many people who came together to make it happen. A little plaque costs nothing but would be meaningful.

For many years now, NASA has let random people get their name printed on the Mars missions on a little plaque. Perseverance has 11 million names bolted onto the frame. My buddy boasts that he has been on Mars N times.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/nea...

kej•2mo ago
Not that it changes your point, but the plaques were on the Pioneer probes; Voyager had the golden record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

KwanEsq•2mo ago
Huh, I wonder why we would put potential interspecies messages on the probes we're sending into interstellar space, but not on the ones we are only putting into orbit around our neighbouring planet. Real mystery.
tzs•2mo ago
No, it is not different times.

Spacecraft engineers have been putting easter eggs, credits, and other such things that have nothing to do with the mission on spacecraft since the dawn of space engineering.

This is a well established informal part of space engineering culture.

tantony•2mo ago
My name is on the blue plaque. I (and many others) spent countless hours on these two vehicles. Many of us are now working 12-hour shifts performing initial operations tasks.

The majority of us didn't know about the plaques until after the spacecraft were packed up and ready to be shipped to the launch-site. It was a nice surprise when we learned about it. Feels good to know that we got to sign our name on our work.

NooneAtAll3•2mo ago
and in a thousand years your name will be displayed in some space museum :)
takinola•2mo ago
I often imagine future school kids bored out of their mind on a field trip to visit Neil Armstrong's footsteps on a lunar museum. Their exasperated teacher trying to get them to pay attention and recognize the gravity of what they are seeing but they are too distracted playing mind-pokemon or whatever is cool in 2350 AD.
yehoshuapw•2mo ago
will space-edition pokemon go be the only reason some people go to visit earth one day?
hypertele-Xii•2mo ago
So like in Futurama, where the Moon is a theme park.
layer8•2mo ago
> recognize the gravity

Inherently lighter on the moon. ;)

MomsAVoxell•2mo ago
For me its not Neils' footsteps, but the actual multiple moon art exhibits, which I wonder about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Museum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut

I really wish I would be around to see the day those exhibits get their first visitors. I guess there will be a gangway route to take between all these spots, eventually.

I have hope for you, humanity. Don't screw it up.

EDIT: Oh I just remembered that the fine folks behind Artificial Museum[0] have already installed their exhibits on the moon .. can't find the link just yet (maybe its in bunker mode for now), but for those interested in paying a virtual visit to the Moons' first civilian art installations, keep an eye on these guys ..

[0] - https://artificialmuseum.com/list/#2/52.49/13.37

nurettin•2mo ago
Space museum on mars?