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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
28•guerrilla•1h ago•11 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
18•mltvc•1h ago•10 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
141•valyala•5h ago•23 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
69•zdw•3d ago•28 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...
33•gnufx•3h ago•35 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
73•surprisetalk•4h ago•85 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
112•mellosouls•7h ago•214 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
51•vedantnair•1h 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...
23•randycupertino•33m ago•14 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
152•AlexeyBrin•10h ago•28 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
861•klaussilveira•1d ago•263 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
110•vinhnx•8h ago•14 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
10•swah•4d ago•2 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1107•xnx•1d ago•621 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
72•thelok•7h ago•13 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
73•samasblack•7h ago•57 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-...
17•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
249•jesperordrup•15h ago•82 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
153•valyala•5h ago•132 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
527•theblazehen•3d ago•196 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
36•momciloo•5h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
17•languid-photic•3d ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
96•onurkanbkrc•10h ago•5 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
203•1vuio0pswjnm7•11h ago•308 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
41•marklit•5d ago•6 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
51•rbanffy•4d ago•13 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
640•nar001•9h ago•280 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
128•videotopia•4d ago•40 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
266•alainrk•9h ago•444 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
38•sandGorgon•2d ago•17 comments
Open in hackernews

How to see the dead

https://www.asimov.press/p/see-the-dead
97•mailyk•2mo ago

Comments

neuroelectron•2mo ago
Of course, by materializing her memories, they are re-establishing or strengthening the neural pathways that would otherwise wither away with time. It's not necessarily grief-dependent memories when she "revisits" her loved ones but over time, the illusion becomes a weird trap that she would grow more aware of, creating an uncanny valley-like situation.

So not necessarily a "hell" but more like unneeded and distracting kitsch cluttering the shelves; turning your memories into cheap trinkets.

reactordev•2mo ago
The pendulum swings and she no longer wants to revisit and so she see the doctor again to have the implants altered once more.

Or.

She is forever haunted and trapped by her revisits that she loses sense of reality.

bitwize•2mo ago
"Oh, Chew, if only you could see what I have seen... with your eyes."
mrandish•2mo ago
Upvoted for perfectly on-point Blade Runner quote.

(spoken by a Replicant who toured the universe to the Earth-bound creator of his synthetic eyes.)

luxuryballs•2mo ago
I thought this was real at first.
delis-thumbs-7e•2mo ago
Me too. It took me few paragraphs at least. The speed of progress is such and the description of the technology obfuscated enough that I honestly thought: ”Wait, what? We can do what now?”
Mistletoe•2mo ago
Thanks for saying this, I thought it was real. I didn't read the whole thing and didn't see the Fiction tag haha. I thought "Wow, this guy is extremely close to the Blade Runner guy that does eyes. I guess the future is already here more than I thought."

https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Hannibal_Chew

>Batty: Yes!

>[smiles]

>Batty: Questions... Morphology? Longevity? Incept dates?

>Hannibal Chew: Don't know, I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes, ju-, ju-, just eyes... just genetic design, just eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.

>Batty: Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!

chaostheory•2mo ago
Of course, these days you just need a mixed reality face bucket like the Apple Vision Pro to do essentially the same thing
AmbroseBierce•2mo ago
It would help if you spend significant daily time looking at them through such devices while they are still alive, in the sense that it certainly would make it easier to trick your brain into thinking that nothing changed, that they are still around.
bookofjoe•2mo ago
I can't look at Vision Pro Immersive Video I shot of my former beloved (now deceased) cat. It's too painful.
NooneAtAll3•2mo ago
that was addressed

> Aux was excited about the project. He’d done his Master’s thesis on AI recreations of loved ones when that was just taking off. He was disappointed that the enthusiasm that followed their first-gen rollouts faded pretty quickly. His take was that one of the problems with their designs was that they’d actually been overfitted to physical reality, rather than people’s emotional one. “People don’t want to see their loved ones as they actually were; they want to see them as they prefer to remember them. There’s a surprisingly high delta between those two things,” he said.

> The illusion that these digital ghosts were workable replacements for their loved ones quickly evaporated. By the early 2030s, they’d been demoted to another type of deepfake, rather than a compelling memorial.

bobsmooth•2mo ago
I really like the hyperlinks to real research. Makes this feel closer to hard sci-fi.