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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
379•nar001•3h ago•181 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
109•bookofjoe•1h ago•86 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
420•theblazehen•2d ago•152 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
81•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•15 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
28•vinhnx•2h ago•4 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
14•thelok•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
773•klaussilveira•19h ago•240 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
33•samasblack•1h ago•19 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
50•onurkanbkrc•4h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1021•xnx•1d ago•580 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
159•alainrk•4h ago•203 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
160•jesperordrup•9h ago•58 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
11•mellosouls•2h ago•11 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
10•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
103•videotopia•4d ago•26 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
17•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
8•simonw•1h ago•3 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
35•matt_d•4d ago•9 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•42 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
261•isitcontent•19h ago•33 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
275•dmpetrov•20h ago•145 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
15•sandGorgon•2d ago•3 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
545•todsacerdoti•1d ago•263 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
417•ostacke•1d ago•108 comments

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

https://vecti.com
361•vecti•21h ago•161 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
61•helloplanets•4d ago•64 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
333•eljojo•22h ago•206 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
456•lstoll•1d ago•298 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
371•aktau•1d ago•195 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo
106•tartoran•1h ago•29 comments
Open in hackernews

Using Antigravity for Statistical Physics in JavaScript

https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2025/antigravity-stat-mech/
45•ckrapu•2mo ago

Comments

mnky9800n•2mo ago
As each new tool drops it makes me wonder if I should convert. Currently I mostly code in vs code or chat with Claude code but I don’t really mix the two even though I know I can with the Claude add on. My gf uses colab with Gemini and it seems rather spiffy for data science. And now antigravity. I just wonder when it will end and devtools will slow down their development cycle a bit.
TheRoque•2mo ago
Personally, I wonder if I should switch careers
esafak•2mo ago
To what, something regulated?
TheRoque•2mo ago
Idk, something that needs arms and legs, and still a bit technical.
khimaros•2mo ago
look into sustainance farming
Workaccount2•2mo ago
Ironically, the further you get from a keyboard, the less money you get paid.
xnx•2mo ago
For now
UncleOxidant•2mo ago
I'm wondering if I should move to a remote village.
mnky9800n•2mo ago
I’ve been learning how to be a bike mechanic
bn-l•2mo ago
LLMs do take a lot of the joy out of it.
mrbungie•2mo ago
I know what you mean, but LLMs are just a tool. Probably the joy is actually taken out by some form of pressure to use them even when it doesn't make sense, like commercial/leadership pressure.
lnenad•2mo ago
Weird take. For me they let me focus on the things I want to be working on, instead of having to write repetitive boilerplate stuff, so it's the opposite. But also nobody is forcing you to use them.
bn-l•2mo ago
I tried vscode with copilot again after a year of cursor.

It’s faster but the LLM aspect is unusable. The diffing is still slow as molasses and the chat is very slow also. LLM wise it’s a joke vs cursor. But it is less laggy (because cursor is basically vibe coded crapware that they release multiple bug fixes for per day for the errors they introduce into production on every single release)

vanviegen•2mo ago
> The diffing is still slow as molasses

I've seen a lot less of that the last couple of weeks. My understanding is that when the main model spits out a diff that somehow doesn't apply cleanly, a cheap model is invoked to 'intelligently' apply it. So it shouldn't normally happen.

andbberger•2mo ago
this... is not very good for an hour? i would expect an undergrad to be able to cook this up in an hour
webdevver•2mo ago
theyd cook it up in an hour and then spend the next 2 days stuck on some stupid issue. not so with ai tools.
poulpy123•2mo ago
I would not expect someone without a good knowledge of both javascript and the Ising model of ferromagnetism to make that in one hour. Especially now that google search is more and more crap, just looking for info would take longer.
sublinear•2mo ago
Is this not just a cellular automaton? That's well within the usual range of college sophomore lab assignments.

To be honest the student may not necessarily care what the Isling model is, but they don't have to and neither does an LLM. It takes a very modest amount of code to apply some rules and update a grid of pixels. At least when I was in school it was totally normal to expect students to make something like this in an hour.

It's actually kind of ironic that in this case such a simple project now means the opposite of what it did back then. Students got these assignments as a form of encouragement to show that their skills were immediately useful and that more "serious" science need not be so scary.

andbberger•2mo ago
> Is this not just a cellular automaton?

no

dude250711•2mo ago
Such a dumb name for an IDE, damn...
webdevver•2mo ago
jetbrains, hadoop, kafka (kaka!?) mongodb... git... it couldve been worse.
Libidinalecon•2mo ago
"Google Antigravity" makes it worse though. When I first read that I thought it was going to be some kind of quantum computing hype job.

On the other hand, I was thinking the other day what a shitty band name "The Beatles" are in isolation from the music. If the product is good enough it kind of frames the name and makes a bad name completely work.

anticensor•2mo ago
No, it is named Antigravity because it is meant to push you away from itself.
evanb•2mo ago
I think it's a reference to https://xkcd.com/353/
renegade-otter•2mo ago
People now come up with "cool" names, then the actual products/libraries. This is why I ignore most of them.
rckt•2mo ago
For me this feels irrelevant. These tools are marketed for developers for their day-to-day jobs that involve building products. Devs don't look up information on people or build some complex mathematical things daily. They build things that consist of different parts, which in turn can consist of different contexts and can be a combination of other things as well. It can be a straightforward approach or it can be a legacy codebase that also need to incorporate new features with new stacks. The real test is in the real world scenarios. But every time it's about a narrowly scoped thing, the tests, the marketing. And they try to build an image that the combination of these scoped tasks can somehow bring you the ability to build at large scale. They don't say it, but they implicitly mean it with the way they present all this. Computers can compute, they can detect patterns and do analytics part, they can build assumptions based on the data they have. But they need the data, they need parameters, they need not only an operator, they need the source for the material they base their computations and output on. And somehow all the marketing completely ignores this fact. And this is damaging.
poulpy123•2mo ago
I saw antigravity and physics in the title and I was very confused when it was about a cursor-like IDE
nhatcher•2mo ago
As and old physicist and a computer programmer these days, I am so jealous of the things you can build these days "vibe coding". That someone with moderate knowledge of programming can build these things is fascinating.

Now, on the physics part, I would like to "see" the phase transition that you have in 2D. I don't know if that is missing from this simulation or if I am not looking at it with the correct eyes.

endymion-light•2mo ago
I really enjoy using the poem Love and Tensor Algebra as a visualisation benchmark for models. There's something about it that requires a sense of abstract processing.

In my eye, GPT models always perform horribly at this, with Claude and Gemini coming in close second/third.