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

https://openciv3.org/
586•klaussilveira•11h ago•168 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
892•xnx•16h ago•542 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
19•helloplanets•4d ago•11 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
91•matheusalmeida•1d ago•22 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
197•isitcontent•11h ago•24 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
199•dmpetrov•11h ago•91 comments

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

https://vecti.com
310•vecti•13h ago•136 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
352•aktau•17h ago•176 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
353•ostacke•17h ago•92 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
454•todsacerdoti•19h ago•228 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
80•quibono•4d ago•18 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
20•romes•4d ago•2 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
255•eljojo•14h ago•154 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
53•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
389•lstoll•17h ago•263 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
5•bikenaga•3d ago•1 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
231•i5heu•14h ago•176 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
118•SerCe•7h ago•96 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
68•phreda4•10h ago•12 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
12•neogoose•3h ago•7 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
136•vmatsiiako•16h ago•59 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...
24•gmays•6h ago•7 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
44•gfortaine•9h ago•13 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
271•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 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/
1040•cdrnsf•20h ago•431 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
170•limoce•3d ago•89 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
60•rescrv•19h ago•22 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
89•antves•1d ago•64 comments
Open in hackernews

Schubfach: The smallest floating point double-to-string impleme

https://vitaut.net/posts/2025/smallest-dtoa/
33•fanf2•2mo ago

Comments

jeffbee•2mo ago
The performance is very competitive and considering how small it is, it could be better on balance in large systems, if it occupies less i-cache. But, that would depend on whether its binary representation is small in proportion to its source representation.
stephencanon•2mo ago
Schubfach's table is quite large compared to some alternatives with similar performance characteristics. swiftDtoa's code and tables combined are smaller than just Schubfach's table in the linked implementation. Ryu and Dragonbox are larger than swiftDtoa, but also use smaller tables than Schubfach, IIRC.

If I$ is all you care about, then table size may not matter, but for constrained systems, other algorithms in general, and swiftDtoa in particular, may be better choices.

vitaut•2mo ago
Tables are ~10k but it's possible to compress them to hundreds of bytes using the method from the Dragonbox paper (https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/blob/a6e871e39b835e5f87c5f5627...) at the cost of some performance.