frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
195•nar001•2h ago•104 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
372•theblazehen•2d ago•133 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
63•AlexeyBrin•3h ago•12 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
748•klaussilveira•18h ago•234 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
38•onurkanbkrc•3h ago•2 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
8•samasblack•28m ago•4 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
999•xnx•23h ago•569 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
105•alainrk•2h ago•110 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
132•jesperordrup•8h ago•55 comments

Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop

https://cloudbot-ai.com
5•fainir•55m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
4•vinhnx•1h ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
90•videotopia•4d ago•19 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
30•matt_d•4d ago•6 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
148•matheusalmeida•2d ago•40 comments

Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
6•edent•2h ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
253•isitcontent•18h ago•27 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
6•rbanffy•3d ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
265•dmpetrov•18h ago•142 comments

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

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
529•todsacerdoti•1d ago•255 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
407•ostacke•1d ago•105 comments

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

https://vecti.com
351•vecti•20h ago•159 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
321•eljojo•21h ago•197 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

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

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
54•helloplanets•4d ago•54 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
447•lstoll•1d ago•296 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
365•aktau•1d ago•190 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
290•i5heu•21h ago•246 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
103•quibono•4d ago•29 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...
52•gmays•13h ago•22 comments
Open in hackernews

Rock Paper Scissors Solitaire

https://klezlab.it/rock-paper-scissors-solitaire.html
38•klez•2mo ago

Comments

telesilla•2mo ago
I miss being so bored that you invent such games. I need to pack myself off for a holiday and leave my digital life behind for a few days, maybe where there is a piano and a nice view to paint.
tunesmith•2mo ago
Sometimes I think I'm the only person on the planet that grew up knowing it as "Rock Scissors Paper".

I still defend that as the best name in English. Rock needs to go first. Rock beats Scissors beats Paper. It's the most straightforward order.

chias•2mo ago
I grew up calling it "Paper Scissors Rock"!
deaddodo•2mo ago
If you call it Rock-Paper-Scissors it still follows logically:

Rock loses to Paper loses to Scissors

furyofantares•2mo ago
Or any other ordering
deaddodo•2mo ago
Yes, but I was specifically choosing the one that is by far the most popular one; at least in American English.
tunesmith•2mo ago
Why would you want to describe it as "loses to" rather than "beats"? People want to win, not lose.
tosh•2mo ago
in german it’s

“Schere Stein Papier”

malkia•2mo ago
Is there a niche "endian" humor about this :) - e.g. is this the little endian, or big endian, or "middle" endian of "Rock Paper Scissors" - excuse my really poor attempt at this.
nkrisc•2mo ago
That rings a bell, as in I think I had some classmates as a kid who called it that, and I remember thinking they were weird. I'd guess it was maybe 1:3 in favor of RPS over RSP.
antononcube•2mo ago
Interesting variant. I might program it for some of the «Rock-Paper-Scissors extensions» here:

https://rakuforprediction.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/rock-pape...

Some of the extensions would need polyhedral dices:

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpenDiceRolls/

anthk•2mo ago
Ditto with Snakes and Ladders and the Goose game (juego de la oca in Spanish), with a similar gameplay. And Yahtzee.
kruffalon•2mo ago
Parchís? "¡Oca, oca, tira porque me/te toca!"
anthk•2mo ago
Parchís is Parcheese/Ludo, the four colored, squared racing board game. Here the player can choose between one and four pieces to move once the full set it's outside the 'home'.

With Oca/Snakes and Ladders and such, the outcome it's the same with 0, 1 and N players. You just throw a dice and watch the events.

kruffalon•2mo ago
Ah! Yes, you're right, I think we had one board with Parchís on one side and Oca on the other so we never really named the Oca game (which we almost never played since it's more boring because it lacks player agency).
anthk•2mo ago
Oca could be improved by having to win with two or three tokens and placing 'attacking' items a la Mario Kart in the board. Less randomness for the game at least.

Because even a paper and pen racing game with vectors can be more fun than Oca without any special slots to fall into.

malkia•2mo ago
My grandfather, was a chess-meister, not of huge proportions, but well known in our city. Chess was almost like a diseases (he did not taught my father and his brother in the game, knowing the pain and suffering this would bring later in life)... So one thing he did when he was back home from the local chess club, is to play against himself - replaying old moves, or by the book, or something new, just heard. He would also this with other games - like bridge (or similar). He was truly a genius in his own, and I'm sure he had good time, but he understood really well that it was not good habit long term.

Some people find comfort this way, sometimes it's the only way to get through

kruffalon•2mo ago
This is genius!

I was not expecting such an elegant way to deal with PvP in an analog action solitaire game, excellent!!

fsckboy•2mo ago
>This is genius!

if you don't have dice, use a coin, heads beats whatever you choose, tails loses to it. then, quicker if you don't choose, heads you lose, tails you win.

with the coin you don't get ties, but ties you just shoot again so it hardly disturbs the outcome of the game.

bigger genius.

Unai•2mo ago
If you don't have a dice, you can mentally roll one. Think of a bunch of numbers and add them all together, then add every digit of that number, and so on until you end up with a single digit from 1 to 9. 1, 2 and 3 is rock, 4, 5 and 6 is paper and 7, 8 and 9 is scissors.

For example: 23+42 (or 2+3+4+2 if that's easier for you to do, the result will be the same) = 65 → 6+5 = 11 → 1+1 = 2, rock.

Great to fall asleep, given how boring the game must be. I use that dice system in bed but in a RPG game (1 = "No, and also..."; 2,3,4 = "No"; 5 = "Yes, but..."; 6,7,8 = "Yes"; 9 = "Yes, and also...").