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

https://openciv3.org/
530•klaussilveira•9h ago•146 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
860•xnx•15h ago•519 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
72•matheusalmeida•1d ago•13 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
180•isitcontent•9h ago•21 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
182•dmpetrov•10h ago•80 comments

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

https://vecti.com
294•vecti•11h ago•130 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
70•quibono•4d ago•13 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
343•aktau•16h ago•168 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
339•ostacke•15h ago•90 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
434•todsacerdoti•17h ago•226 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
237•eljojo•12h ago•147 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
373•lstoll•16h ago•252 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
13•romes•4d ago•2 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
6•videotopia•3d ago•0 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
41•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
220•i5heu•12h ago•162 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
91•SerCe•5h ago•75 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
62•phreda4•9h ago•11 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
162•limoce•3d ago•82 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
38•gfortaine•7h ago•11 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
127•vmatsiiako•14h ago•53 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
18•gmays•4h ago•2 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
261•surprisetalk•3d ago•35 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/
1029•cdrnsf•19h ago•428 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
55•rescrv•17h ago•18 comments

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

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
83•antves•1d ago•60 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
18•denysonique•6h ago•2 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
5•neogoose•2h ago•1 comments

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

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
109•ray__•6h ago•54 comments
Open in hackernews

Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview

https://stevejobsarchive.com/stories/pixar-early-days
183•sanj•2mo ago

Comments

disillusioned•2mo ago
Steve's comments around merging the culture of creatives and technologists, and how hard it is to attract and _retain_ the kind of world-changing talent that was necessary to invent a new category are interesting: "the very best creative people will only go to work at a few places, Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks,"... "in the same sense, the very best computer scientists and computer graphics people will only go work in a few places, and Pixar is one of those..." "I think Pixar is the only place in the world that can hire the best from both of these areas."

It feels like there are some obvious parallels to what we're seeing in AI hiring, where you have a firm like Anthropic that openly acknowledges that they're not going to try to compete on comp but on culture, compared to Meta which is basically saying "we'll give you more money than god if you join our efforts to throw things at the wall and be part of this," and watching as people churn out even though the opportunity cost on the surface may be unfathomable.

Put another way: Steve truly understood the virtue and value of that cultural component to not just attract but _retain_ that kind of world-class talent, and _that's_ what he attributes Pixar's success to. He goes on to talk about how getting those disparate talent worlds to stick together for a decade, and how valuable that is.

no_wizard•2mo ago
To be absolutely clear though, Pixar had very good compensation in addition to all this. It was never about either or. They had both
cma•2mo ago
And apparently wage fixing with competitors
hunterjrj•2mo ago
> Steve truly understood the virtue and value of that cultural component to not just attract but _retain_ that kind of world-class talent, and _that's_ what he attributes Pixar's success to.

Both Jobs and Pixar’s Ed Catmull believed this so strongly that they took illegal measures to protect it:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/ed-catmull-on-wage-...

hnthrowaway0315•2mo ago
I think "The Soul of the New Machine" definitely captures the idea -- I don't have the exact words, but it's like playing pinball -- you win and you get to play the next one. The reward of completing a tough job is a tougher job.

I really love this kind of culture. Life is grey without being challenged to the limit.

djmips•2mo ago
As Steve Jobs muses that Snow white was enjoyed 60 years after it's release but computers go to the sedimentary layer. While it's true that you can't re-release the 1984 Mac debut to fanfare and profit 40 years later - a small group of dedicated enthusiasts are still running their original Macs and others in emulation - so they arent' completely fossilized!
ayaros•2mo ago
Amen!
Wowfunhappy•2mo ago
But are they using it as the bicycle for the mind it was intended to be—to get work done, or at least be creative and express ideas—or are they just playing some games and seeing what they can get running?
popalchemist•2mo ago
The value of Snow White is not diminished with time, though. Whereas the value of the original Mac is very linked to its time, and diminishes with each passing day.
muglug•2mo ago
It does diminish slightly though? Snow White is not a Disney tentpole the way it was in the 50s or even in the 80s.

How many 8-year-olds could pick out Snow White in a line-up?

petercooper•2mo ago
The remake of Snow White was only released earlier this year, so quite a few, if you mean the broad character.
brians•2mo ago
…all of them. Which is why the scene in Ralph Breaks the Internet works. And why some of the Shrek jokes work.
beowulfey•2mo ago
If you visit Disneyland regularly, Snow White is just as popular for costumes as any other princess and has been for a long time!
alt227•2mo ago
> How many 8-year-olds could pick out Snow White in a line-up?

Literally all of them. You obviously dont have kids!

simondotau•2mo ago
All films diminish with time; only a minuscule number of films have cultural relevance that spans decades. Though it can be misleading to look to Disney films here, because they spend buttloads of money keeping successful films in their archive perennially relevant — through lavishly marketed home releases and, more recently, remakes.
famouswaffles•2mo ago
The remakes are primarily a way to bank on the sustained relevance of some movies, not to keep them. Remakes of movies that are no longer relevant flop or heavily underperform and release to little fanfare.
popalchemist•2mo ago
Yes, the existence of the remakes is proof in favor of the continued relevance, not the opposite. Companies like Disney don't invest hundreds of millions (or more, if you count ancillary merchandising) in something they don't know to have an audience. Even when the films bomb theatrically, they make money in the long run through the "long tail" (VOD / home video purchases) and merchandising. So, yeah, the remakes are indicative of a continued relevance. Furthermore the original Snow White has a particular longevity since it was the first Walt Disney animated feature -- and the first animated feature in color. On top of that, it is based on the Grimm fairy tale which, though published in 1812, was likely in existence for hundreds of years prior to that publication. Per Joseph Campbell, stories like that have a continued relevance because they are expressing archetypal concerns; their value is not rooted in time, but in the unchanging aspects of the human psyche that remain relevant hundreds of years later.

So... yeah. Though there is a slight diminishment in the sense of its aesthetics, it objectively continues to be relevant, seeing as it was literally in theaters this year.

nobody_nothing•2mo ago
Direct link to the interview: https://youtu.be/R0XmBKsRJF8

(I was locked out of the embedded player on suspicion of being a bot)

wslh•2mo ago
Spoiler Alert: I love the part where he says "It Is the Story Stupid" beyond all the sophisticated artifacts to represent stories.
joezydeco•2mo ago
This seems like a nice gloss of varnish over a really rocky history for this company. Lucas needed money and sold the the fledgling graphics company division, who then pivoted a few times from making hardware to making rendering software to making shorts (to promote the hardware and software) and then TV commercials to keep the lights on.
ljsocal•2mo ago
In 1999, Jobs received an award from the Silicon Valley Alum of Harvard Business School for his Pixar work. In his thank you remarks, he said he had no illusions about there being many people who’d be booting up their Power Mac G4 in 50 years but he was dead certain that millions would still be watching Toy Story. Twenty five years in, his prediction holds.