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

https://openciv3.org/
411•klaussilveira•5h ago•93 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
765•xnx•10h ago•464 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
29•SerCe•1h ago•24 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
136•isitcontent•5h ago•14 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
128•dmpetrov•6h ago•53 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
35•quibono•4d ago•2 comments

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

https://vecti.com
240•vecti•7h ago•114 comments

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
61•jnord•3d ago•4 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
307•aktau•12h ago•152 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
308•ostacke•11h ago•84 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
167•eljojo•8h ago•123 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
384•todsacerdoti•13h ago•217 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
313•lstoll•11h ago•230 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
47•phreda4•5h ago•8 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
103•vmatsiiako•10h ago•34 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
177•i5heu•8h ago•128 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
13•gfortaine•3h ago•0 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
231•surprisetalk•3d ago•30 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/
968•cdrnsf•15h ago•414 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
139•limoce•3d ago•79 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
39•rescrv•13h ago•17 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
34•lebovic•1d ago•11 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
7•kmm•4d ago•0 comments

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

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
76•antves•1d ago•56 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
34•ray__•2h ago•10 comments

The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch into Art

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-31/oklahoma-architect-bruce-goff-s-wild-home-desi...
17•MarlonPro•3d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

https://github.com/stablyai/agent-slack
38•nwparker•1d ago•8 comments

Claude Composer

https://www.josh.ing/blog/claude-composer
101•coloneltcb•2d ago•69 comments

How virtual textures work

https://www.shlom.dev/articles/how-virtual-textures-really-work/
25•betamark•12h ago•23 comments

The Beauty of Slag

https://mag.uchicago.edu/science-medicine/beauty-slag
31•sohkamyung•3d ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

$5 PlanetScale is live

https://planetscale.com/blog/5-dollar-planetscale-is-here
49•e2e4•2mo ago

Comments

gnabgib•2mo ago
Related: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases (233 points, 16 days ago, 169 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761027
kikkia•2mo ago
Hearing a $5 tier on planetscale was cool and I was thinking about using it for a future project, but those specs are just way too low to be worth it for $5/mo. I think I will just get a $5/mo vps with 32x the CPU (probably more as this is 2 x86 cpu cores vs 1/16 arm) and 8x the ram for the same price. The stats, insights and dashboards are cool, but for hobbyist projects that's too steep for the specs you get in my opinion.
7moritz7•2mo ago
5 bucks gets you 8gb ram 4 vcpu 75gb nvme at contabo actually

i know this is apples and oranges but that's 16 times the ram

znpy•2mo ago
you get all of those resources execpt what you need: a managed postgresql.

the difference in price is really the value added by having someone else managing postgresql for you.

_zoltan_•2mo ago
what is there to manage on a single instance, single VM...
saxenaabhi•2mo ago
pitr, setting up a replica, observability, performance reports etc
matt-p•2mo ago
I think in fairness it's an apples to oranges comparison.

How long will it take you to setup postgres on a VM and sort out and pay for somewhere to put backups? Let's say only a hour, and your time is worth say $30/hour you've just spent 6 months of planetscale fees and you've still got to pay your VPS and backup provider.

threatofrain•2mo ago
If you want apples to apples then Planetscale is compared to the ergonomics, pricing, and performance of the bests. If you want to compare you don’t analyze things in isolation by looking at your own expenses.
8n4vidtmkvmk•2mo ago
That's one way to look at it. I personally think it's worth burning a few hours to learn how to do something yourself even if you don't immediately get value out of it.
matt-p•2mo ago
I already know how to do it, I just don't see the value in it.
normie3000•2mo ago
What is planetscale? A postgres PaaS?
7moritz7•2mo ago
They got big with mysql with optimizations (maybe mariadb?). neon would be postgres aas
fastball•2mo ago
Vitess (sharded MySQL) is how they became relevant. But broadly they've spent a lot of time making a great DaaS. There plan is to do the same with Postgres.
cloudflare728•2mo ago
Can someone explain to me the neon pricing?

5 minutes of inactivity makes it idle.

If I get one query every 5 minutes and each query takes 100ms for whole month, do I get changed for 720 hours or for 14 minutes (total compute time)?

cloudflare728•2mo ago
update: It's 720 hours of compute cost. Not really serverless. It's just managed database service and it can scale to zero. That's it.
DeathArrow•2mo ago
What are the limitations of the $5 Postgres instances?
0xCAP•2mo ago
Sometimes nothing is better than something. $5 for 512mb of RAM is something I regret witnessing.
matt-p•2mo ago
1/16 of a CPU is admittedly more terrifying, I remember wayyy back in the days of shared hosting we didn't give less than 1/5th a CPU, we had all sorts of issues at absolutely anything higher than that.
xeornet•2mo ago
Have we forgotten they promised free forever then flipped? I’ll pass on this, thanks.
deaux•2mo ago
But but the CEO was completely unaware of this until someone pointed it out to him recently! And they never could've predicted the free tier would be "unsustainable" after spending huge on "indie hacker influencer" marketing squarely aimed at exactly the type of dev to use only a free tier! These are some very hard calculations and unforeseen circumstances, please understand.
didgeoridoo•2mo ago
laughs bitterly in Heroku
crossroadsguy•2mo ago
I think this one’s from the CEO or an employee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45767872
sunaookami•2mo ago
Wow what a rude behaviour. And yes he is the CEO according to his HN profile.
ksec•2mo ago
Thanks to 20 years of Google, we now have people believing something could really be free forever.

I guess it is also worth changing marketing tactics for new demographics.

dzonga•2mo ago
is hosting a db really that difficult ? been doing that since college

put that on a hertzner, do, lightsail server etc n you have 16x of the compute at the same price n 8x the memory.

pgdumball etc, mysql is even easier but I don't use it.

nicolaslem•2mo ago
Just yesterday I turned off the server for a pet project I had. Postgres had been running unattended for 7 years on Linode. pgdumpall to Backblaze B2 on a nightly crontab, that is it.