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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
50•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
117•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•20 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
812•klaussilveira•21h ago•246 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
49•vinhnx•4h ago•7 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
91•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•102 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
73•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1054•xnx•1d ago•601 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
471•theblazehen•2d ago•174 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...
51•alephnerd•1h ago•15 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
197•jesperordrup•11h ago•67 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
9•surprisetalk•1h ago•2 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
538•nar001•5h ago•248 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
206•alainrk•6h ago•313 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
33•rbanffy•4d ago•6 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
26•marklit•5d ago•1 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
110•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
69•speckx•4d ago•72 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
63•mellosouls•4h ago•70 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
21•sandGorgon•2d ago•11 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
271•isitcontent•21h ago•36 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
199•limoce•4d ago•110 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
284•dmpetrov•21h ago•153 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
553•todsacerdoti•1d ago•267 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
424•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
467•lstoll•1d ago•308 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
348•eljojo•1d ago•214 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
41•matt_d•4d ago•16 comments

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

https://vecti.com
367•vecti•23h ago•167 comments
Open in hackernews

How to make precise sheet metal parts (photochemical machining) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR9EN3kUlfg
99•surprisetalk•2mo ago

Comments

car•2mo ago
Along these lines, a current Kickstarter project, which uses a 3D printer and a saltwater jet in a very clever way to ablate metal electrochemically. It even presents the prospect of doing metal deposition printing by reversing the process/current (skip to 9:50).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/athenatech/liquid-blade...

thendrill•2mo ago
I wish every engineer would aspire to be like him. He is truly worthy!
ZiiS•2mo ago
To be clear, if you read Hacker News you owe it to yourself to watch the entire Applied Science back catalogue; without exception every video is fascinating.
f1shy•2mo ago
Is clear that the guy has some money to invest in those experiments. But apart from that, what he does, is so many different topics, is just mind blowing.

Even if I had the money and space he has, I could never ever do what he does.

From some videos is clear how much perseverance he has, often he reports about months and months of failure after failure, until he succeeds. I think THAT is the most impressive part of his videos, and what I try to learn from.

ZiiS•2mo ago
One of the few points maintaining faith in humanity; is there are companies happy to pay you that money if you can do what he does.
f1shy•2mo ago
In his case, google.
extraduder_ire•2mo ago
I think he stopped working at google a few years ago to focus on these projects full time.
f1shy•2mo ago
I did not know. If so, any idea how he pays for it?

I know he worked at Valve, then he had his own company (something about building prostheses, and the last was google.

extraduder_ire•2mo ago
He does have over a thousand paying members on patreon, so I assume that's a big chunk of it.

The list of names at the end of his videos has some other youtubers I recognise.

f1shy•2mo ago
I remember laughing so hard the first time I saw the video, and he said:

"... the nightmare scenario here is: you've got this super powerful pump, you know, making 30 or 40 PSI, at gallons per minute flow rates of hot ferric chloride; and if one of those things bursts, I mean the mess is just going to be beyond spectacular.

okay let's press the start button..."

metalman•2mo ago
this has been used in aerospace for a long time, and while making the process accesable, it does nothing for the engineering and validation required to offer complete solutions
petermcneeley•2mo ago
Looks like the photochemical part is for the mask. The rest is a applied chemical etch.