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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/
115•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•20 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

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

https://openciv3.org/
811•klaussilveira•21h ago•246 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/
72•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...
1053•xnx•1d ago•600 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
470•theblazehen•2d ago•173 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
196•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

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...
44•alephnerd•1h ago•14 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
204•alainrk•6h ago•310 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

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
63•mellosouls•4h ago•68 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
67•speckx•4d ago•71 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•151 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

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

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

An Update on Heroku

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

Scala

https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
84•onestay42•2mo ago

Comments

packetlost•2mo ago
Not that Scala.
kvakvs•2mo ago
This should have been in the title :)
beefman•2mo ago
This predates that. It's written in Ada.
AdieuToLogic•2mo ago
> This predates that. It's written in Ada.

Does it count if, combining the two, one could infer a musical scale[0] such as:

  Ada (ay-dah), Scala (ska-lah)
Bonus points for Latin aficionados:

  The word "scale" originates from the Latin scala,
  which literally means "ladder".
:-)

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(music)

reactordev•2mo ago
Every Good Boy…

Crazy how these two disciplines are so intertwined.

AdieuToLogic•2mo ago
> Every Good Boy…

  Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do, So Do ... compile please!
:-D

EDIT:

Seriously, though, what both music and fundamentally sound programming languages have in common is math. Elegantly defined versions of both are beautiful expressions of thought.

packetlost•2mo ago
Yes, but the programming languages is much more well known.

Regardless, cool! This is the first project I'm aware of to have been written in Ada

goku12•2mo ago
Do you have any specific restrictions on what a 'project' means here? I have seen Ada used on an extensive scale in aerospace and defense projects, including a simple realtime OS.
packetlost•2mo ago
Most of those projects are pretty locked down/closed, I just mean I can actually see the project to a reasonable degree.
goku12•2mo ago
Fair enough. And yes, it's such a shame that there aren't more public, especially FOSS, projects in Ada.
lucyjojo•2mo ago
Been slowly learning Ada these last few weeks and I regret not having learnt it years ago...

This thing is great.

nickt•2mo ago
Then this one?

https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/05/10/scala-series-its-...

drcursor•2mo ago
And not the Amiga Scala.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(company)

tanin•2mo ago
Took me a few minutes to go from "what is going on?" to "oh this is not the Scala".
anematode•2mo ago
Love Scala! One of my favorite high school memories is putting Scala files into a DAW and hooking it up to an electric piano, so that my piano teacher and I could play around with different tunings.
paulddraper•2mo ago
Should change title to “Scala: software for creating scales”
ChrisArchitect•2mo ago
Not related:

The Origins of Scala (2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090294

LargoLasskhyfv•2mo ago
It's from the future! Says 27 Nov 2026 at the bottom :-)

That aside, the fonts looked very fuzzy, until I scaled to 133% in FF. Then they were perfect, crystal clear. Anybody else had that, too?

ofcrpls•2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21278360 - Submission/dicussion from 2019