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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
115•valyala•4h ago•19 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
52•zdw•3d ago•17 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...
28•gnufx•3h ago•23 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
4•guerrilla•37m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

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

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
103•mellosouls•7h ago•186 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
147•AlexeyBrin•10h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
104•vinhnx•7h ago•14 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
855•klaussilveira•1d ago•261 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1097•xnx•1d ago•620 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
71•samasblack•6h ago•51 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-...
10•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
65•thelok•6h ago•12 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
143•valyala•4h ago•119 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
16•vedantnair•40m ago•9 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
242•jesperordrup•14h ago•81 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
522•theblazehen•3d ago•194 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
34•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
95•onurkanbkrc•9h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
39•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•10 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
194•1vuio0pswjnm7•11h ago•283 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
261•alainrk•9h ago•434 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
619•nar001•8h ago•277 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
102•speckx•4d ago•126 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
35•sandGorgon•2d ago•16 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
213•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
290•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments
Open in hackernews

Marble Springs (1993)

https://www.eastgate.com/MS/Title_184.html
32•prismatic•2mo ago

Comments

teddyh•2mo ago
This is a pretty weak HTML conversion; Client-side image maps have been a feature in HTML since 1996.
jstanley•2mo ago
So, not available until 3 years after the site was made?
teddyh•2mo ago
I thought the original Hypercard deck was made in 1993, but the HTML site was made much later.
marstall•2mo ago
this captures the early of excitement of hypertext in a cool way. seeing the technology through Deena Larsen's eyes is a trip. To her it was a way to be more experimental in expressing her research, and a new way of writing poetry. Must have been quite exciting to make Marble Springs in 1993.
IAmBroom•2mo ago
Sarah McLachlann on her (IIRC) Mirrorball CD released an interactive piece of graphic art that led to Easter Eggs like an extra song and some behind-the-scenes video. From it I learned that The Most Important Part of hyperlinks was that your cursor changes shape when hovering over them - because her page didn't do that.

God that page was hell. Click, move a half-inch, click...