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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
52•guerrilla•1h ago•20 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
37•mltvc•1h ago•32 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
148•valyala•5h ago•25 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
76•zdw•3d ago•31 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
82•surprisetalk•5h ago•89 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
19•swah•4d ago•12 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
119•mellosouls•8h ago•232 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
157•AlexeyBrin•11h ago•28 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
864•klaussilveira•1d ago•264 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
113•vinhnx•8h ago•14 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
17•martialg•50m ago•3 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
29•randycupertino•58m ago•29 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
21•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
73•thelok•7h ago•13 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
75•samasblack•7h ago•57 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
36•gnufx•4h ago•40 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
253•jesperordrup•15h ago•82 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
156•valyala•5h ago•136 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
532•theblazehen•3d ago•197 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
38•momciloo•5h ago•5 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
68•vedantnair•1h ago•54 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
98•onurkanbkrc•10h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
19•languid-photic•3d ago•5 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
212•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•323 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
42•marklit•5d ago•6 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
52•rbanffy•4d ago•14 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
273•alainrk•10h ago•452 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
129•videotopia•4d ago•40 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
648•nar001•9h ago•284 comments

Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
51•josephcsible•3h ago•67 comments
Open in hackernews

Latency Profiling in Python: From Code Bottlenecks to Observability

https://quant.engineering/latency-profiling-in-python.html
45•rundef•2mo ago

Comments

Veserv•2mo ago
Why even bother with sampling profilers in Python? You can do full function traces for literally all of your code in production at ~1-10% overhead with efficient instrumentation.
hansvm•2mo ago
That depends on the code you're profiling. Even good line profilers can add 2-5x overhead on programs not optimized for them, and you're in a bit of a pickle because the programs least optimized for line profiling are those which are already "optimized" (fast results for a given task when written in Python).
Veserv•2mo ago
It does not, those are just very inefficient tracing profilers. You can literally trace C programs in 10-30% overhead. For Python you should only accept low single-digit overhead on average with 10% overhead only in degenerate cases with large numbers of tiny functions [1]. Anything more means your tracer is inefficient.

[1] https://functiontrace.com/

hansvm•2mo ago
That's... intriguing. I just tested out functiontrace and saw 20-30% overhead. I didn't expect it to be anywhere near that low.
ajb•2mo ago
Interesting, but "FunctionTrace is opensourced under the Prosperity Public License 3.0 license."

"This license allows you to use and share this software for noncommercial purposes for free and to try this software for commercial purposes for thirty days."

This is not an open source license. "Open Source" is a trademarked term meaning without restrictions of this kind; it is not a generic term meaning "source accessible".

You can also just use perf, but it does require an extra package from the python build (which uv frustratingly doesn't supply)

Veserv•2mo ago
perf is a sampling profiler, not a function tracing profiler, so that fails the criteria I presented.

I used FunctionTrace as a example and evidence for my position that tracing Python is low overhead with proper design to bypass claims like: “You can not make it that low overhead or someone would have done it already, thus proving the negative.” I am not the author or in any way related to it, so you can bring that up with them.

abhashanand1501•2mo ago
> The trading system reports an average latency of 10ms

Python is a bad choice for a system with such latency requirements. Isn't C++/Rust preferred language for algorithmic trading shops?

alfalfasprout•2mo ago
Depends... not all kinds of trading are THAT latency sensitive.
Quothling•2mo ago
Why is Python automatically a bad choice? We've build some turbodbc + pandas which beats Go when dealing with a logic azure sql server for massive analtyic flows. I'm not sure if it's faster or slower than Rust, but it's basically C++ fast, though it obviously uses a lot more memory. Fortunately we live in a world where "a lot more" is like $5 a year.

I don't disagree with you that Python might be a wrong choice for algorithmic trading, but I do think it depends. We did our stuff with turbodbc rather than pyodbc which is used everywhere else, specifically because we analysed our bottlenecks.

KeplerBoy•2mo ago
What a weird AI generated blog.

What's the point of hosting a blog with a series of superficial posts? There's no promotion of anything, no personal brand, no advertising, just mediocre writing and AI graphics with no actual benchmarks or code.

irisflower95•2mo ago
This looks awfully AI-Generated