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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
88•valyala•3h ago•61 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...
19•gnufx•1h ago•2 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
49•valyala•3h ago•10 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
164•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•209 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
136•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
5•mooreds•25m ago•2 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
81•vinhnx•6h ago•10 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
843•klaussilveira•23h ago•252 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
58•thelok•5h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1075•xnx•1d ago•615 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
10•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
284•ColinWright•2h ago•332 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
88•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
508•theblazehen•3d ago•187 comments

Microsoft Account bugs locked me out of Notepad – are Thin Clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
29•josephcsible•1h ago•21 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
222•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
227•alephnerd•3h ago•176 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
20•momciloo•3h ago•2 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

72M Points of Interest

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
242•alainrk•7h ago•385 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
592•nar001•7h ago•263 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
42•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
119•videotopia•4d ago•36 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
87•speckx•4d ago•97 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
205•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
282•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
292•dmpetrov•23h ago•156 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
25•sandGorgon•2d ago•13 comments
Open in hackernews

I made a downdetector for downdetector's downdetector's downdetector

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com
89•halgir•2mo ago

Comments

donkey_brains•2mo ago
Ok, this is getting ridiculous…
mikeve•2mo ago
This downdetector seems to be down. We might need another downdetector.
squigz•2mo ago
This isn't funny anymore. Go to reddit to do this.
bartekpacia•2mo ago
It is funny, go complain on reddit
sam0x17•2mo ago
We watch the watchers that watch the watchers
user_7832•2mo ago
But who watches the watchers that watch the watchers that watch the watchers?
Joker_vD•2mo ago
Do we really need more than two down-detectors? Just point them at each other...
cmos•2mo ago
A good start, but let's see more.
invalidstring•2mo ago
What is Benoit B. Mandelbrot's middle name? Benoit B. Mandelbrot.
2gremlin181•2mo ago
The next step: Point downdector to downdector's downdector's downdector and create a cyclic dependency
korse•2mo ago
Trace buster buster buster
charles_f•2mo ago
This seems more valuable than one level down. Or is it up? Or in?
cactusplant7374•2mo ago
This seems really useful.
perrygeo•2mo ago
I love the joke. The thing is, it's not so funny when companies actually try to do this on their own systems. I've never seen a 4x deep observability stack. But I have seen 3x, an entire project team dedicated to building a system that watches the watchers. It gets absurd.