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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
96•valyala•4h ago•16 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
43•zdw•3d ago•7 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...
23•gnufx•2h ago•19 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
55•surprisetalk•3h ago•54 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
97•mellosouls•6h ago•174 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
100•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
143•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
850•klaussilveira•1d ago•258 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
138•valyala•4h ago•109 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
68•samasblack•6h 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-...
7•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1093•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
64•thelok•6h ago•10 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
235•jesperordrup•14h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
519•theblazehen•3d ago•191 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
94•onurkanbkrc•9h ago•5 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
31•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
13•languid-photic•3d ago•4 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
258•alainrk•8h ago•425 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
186•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•264 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
48•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
614•nar001•8h ago•272 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
348•ColinWright•3h ago•413 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
124•videotopia•4d ago•39 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
99•speckx•4d ago•115 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
33•sandGorgon•2d ago•15 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
211•limoce•4d ago•119 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
288•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
20•brudgers•5d ago•5 comments
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Solving Project Euler: Problem 45

https://loriculus.org/blog/euler-45/
9•wenderen•2mo ago

Comments

marethyu•2mo ago
I attempted the problem myself before reading your solution. My strategy is bit different: for every N>285, I check whether there exists a positive integer solution n to two equations T_N=P_n and T_N=H_n. Using basic algebra and quadratic formula, it boils down to checking whether the quantities 1+12(NN+N) and 1+4(NN+N) are perfect squares. If they are perfect squares, denote their squares by x and y. The next step is to check if 1+x is divisible by 6 and if 1+y is divisible by 4. They are easy using % operator.

    from math import sqrt

    def isPerfectSquare(n):
        sr = int(sqrt(n))
        return sr * sr == n

    for N in range(1, 10000000000):
        foo = 1 + 12*(N*N + N)
        bar = 1 + 4*(N*N + N)
        if isPerfectSquare(foo) and isPerfectSquare(bar):
            x, y = int(sqrt(foo)), int(sqrt(bar))
            if (1+x)%6 == 0 and (1+y)%4 == 0:
                print(f'Candidate found: N={N}, T_N={N*(N+1)/2}')
throwaway81523•2mo ago
I just did a dumb search with lazy lists in Haskell, inspired by the famous problem about Hamming numbers. Runtime was 0.02 seconds. About 2 more seconds to fine the one after that (results: [1,40755,1533776805,57722156241751]).

    import           Data.Ord

    tri n = n*(n+1)`quot`2
    pent n = n*(3*n-1)`quot`2
    hex n = n*(2*n-1)

    fs :: (Integer -> Integer)->[Integer]
    fs f = map f [1..]

    cm aas@(a:as) bbs@(b:bs)
       = case compare a b of
           EQ -> a : cm as bs
           GT -> cm aas bs
           LT -> cm as bbs

    tt = (fs tri) `cm` (fs pent) `cm` (fs hex)

    main = print . take 3 $ tt
Added: the one after that is 2172315626468283465 which took about 6 minutes with the same Haskell program. I'm sure there are faster implementations and better algorithms. I didn't try to search any further.
cbarrick•2mo ago
Same algorithm in Rust finds 2172315626468283465 in about 3 seconds on my M1 Pro.

    $ time cargo run --release
        Finished `release` profile [optimized] target(s) in 0.02s
         Running `target/release/p45`
    0
    1
    40755
    1533776805
    57722156241751
    2172315626468283465
    cargo run --release  2.95s user 0.04s system 98% cpu 3.029 total
Runs on the Rust Playground too: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit...
throwaway81523•2mo ago
Changing the Integer to Int in the Haskell program (use machine integers instead of bignums) speeds the 6 minutes to 35 seconds, fwiw. But that was only ok to do after knowing that the result would fit in a machine int. This is on an i5-3570 which is a bit over half the speed of the M1 Pro (Passmark score 2042 vs 3799). So it scales to around 18 sec on similar hardware. Not too bad given the list-based implementation, I guess.
wenderen•2mo ago
Neat! I translated my code to Rust line-for-line and the iterator approach significantly outperforms it.

Rust newbie q - why use `x.wrapping_sub()` instead of regular old `x - 1`? Seems like we're never going to underflow `usize` for any of the 3 formulae?

throwaway81523•2mo ago
I don't use Rust at all, but if compiler warnings are set to maximum, I'd want subtracting anything from a usize to give a warning unless the compiler can verify that the result is a valid usize. BTW, OEIS A014979 gives a linear recurrence for triangular-pentagonal numbers, so filtering for hexagonals gives a much faster way to do this problem. There may be a recurrence that does all three at once, not sure.
cbarrick•2mo ago
> There may be a recurrence that does all three at once, not sure.

Now that we know the start of the sequence, we can just dump it into OEIS to look up the answer! :)

The sequence is A046180 (https://oeis.org/A046180) titled "Hexagonal pentagonal numbers" with a nice and easy recurrence relation:

    a(n) = 37635*a(n-1) - 37635*a(n-2) + a(n-3).
Also, according to the comments on OEIS, all hexagonal numbers are triangular, so we could have just skipped that requirement entirely.
cbarrick•2mo ago
> why use `x.wrapping_sub()` instead of regular old `x - 1`?

Because I coded it to start at x=0, which will underflow and will panic in debug mode.

moi2388•2mo ago
The mask hides the whole sentence except the answer. Lol.
wenderen•2mo ago
To help debug - which browser are you using and on which OS?
moi2388•2mo ago
iOS Safari