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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
289•theblazehen•2d ago•95 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
20•alainrk•1h ago•11 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
34•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
15•onurkanbkrc•1h ago•1 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
717•klaussilveira•16h ago•218 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
978•xnx•21h ago•562 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
94•jesperordrup•6h ago•35 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
4•nar001•34m ago•2 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
138•matheusalmeida•2d ago•36 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
74•videotopia•4d ago•11 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
16•matt_d•3d ago•4 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
46•helloplanets•4d ago•46 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
242•isitcontent•16h ago•27 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
242•dmpetrov•16h ago•128 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

https://medium.com/lensesio/cross-region-msk-replication-a-comprehensive-performance-comparison-o...
4•andmarios•4d ago•1 comments

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

https://vecti.com
344•vecti•18h ago•153 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
510•todsacerdoti•1d ago•248 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
393•ostacke•22h ago•101 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
309•eljojo•19h ago•192 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•187 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
437•lstoll•22h ago•286 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
32•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•31 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
73•kmm•5d ago•11 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
26•bikenaga•3d ago•13 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
98•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
278•i5heu•19h ago•227 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...
43•gmays•11h ago•14 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/
1088•cdrnsf•1d ago•469 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
312•surprisetalk•3d ago•45 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
36•romes•4d ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS

https://oshub.org/projects/retros-32/posts/getting-a-webserver-running
102•joexbayer•2mo ago

Comments

roetlich•2mo ago
Very cool! Why was and the entire networking stack straight forward, but not HTTP (and TCP)? Could you take inspiration form other projects for things like DNS?
joexbayer•2mo ago
Up to TCP most protocols are very straight forward, atleast getting them to work semi reliable. But then TCP explodes in complexity with all the state management and possible paths a connection can take.

HTTP is mostly annoying because of all the text parsing :D

sweetjuly•2mo ago
Yeah...HTTP/1 is one of those weird cases where the older protocol is considerably more difficult to implement correctly than the newer ""more complex"" standard. This is especially true if you want your server to work with they myriad of questionably compliant clients out in the world.

HTTP/3 might have been easier, and using QUIC+HTTP/3 in your hobby OS is a fun flex :)

merb•2mo ago
I don’t think that http/3 is easier to implement than http/1.1 especially since h3 is stateful where http/1.1 is not. Especially not when everything should be working correctly and securely because the spec does not always tell about these things. Oh and multiplexing is quite a hard thing to do especially when you are also dealing with a state machine and each of your clients can be malicious.
codys•2mo ago
I can't speak to http/3 (I haven't tried to impl it), but I can say that a bare-bones http/2 is very easy to implement because it doesn't try to pretend to be prose.
kragen•2mo ago
httpdito http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s implements HTTP/1.0 GET in about 320 machine instructions, and I haven't yet found a questionably compliant client that doesn't work with it. Writeup in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/httpdito-readme.
yupyupyups•2mo ago
You should add OpenAPI generation. So that basically the endpoint /openapi.json is auto-generated.
winrid•2mo ago
related - someone should take a stab at actually finishing this :) https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon/issues/988
nesarkvechnep•2mo ago
Like most thing in web development, this is backwards. Applications should be generated from the spec, not the other way around.
yupyupyups•2mo ago
Care to explain the advantage of starting off with the spec rather than with code?
nesarkvechnep•2mo ago
Because, you can iterate on the spec with all the stakeholders without ever writing a line of business logic. There are tools which can create a dummy web server from the specification and you can build clients without implementing business logic. I thought the advantages of spec-first development are obvious but I hope I helped.
yupyupyups•2mo ago
Thanks. The advantages of having a spec is obvious to me as well. I'm just not sure why building business logic that generates the spec (that generates the client) is a bad idea. That way you still have a single source of truth, and a spec.
canyp•2mo ago
Great website, massive rabbit hole I didn't know existed. There's a verified Ada/SPARK OS in there...
Aldipower•2mo ago
"After a long break from working on my hobby operating system, I finally got back into it and finished a very important milestone"

This is a sign of great engineering. Code gets foreign code after some time of not being in it. If you easily can pick it up again, it is a sign that you've written maintainable and understandable code, also for others.