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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
89•valyala•4h ago•16 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
40•zdw•3d ago•6 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...
23•gnufx•2h ago•17 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
52•surprisetalk•3h ago•54 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
93•mellosouls•6h ago•172 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
99•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
143•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
136•valyala•4h ago•106 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
850•klaussilveira•1d ago•257 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-...
6•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
68•samasblack•6h ago•51 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1093•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
64•thelok•6h ago•10 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
235•jesperordrup•14h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
518•theblazehen•3d ago•191 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
94•onurkanbkrc•9h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
13•languid-photic•3d ago•4 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
30•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
254•alainrk•8h ago•421 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
185•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•260 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
48•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
342•ColinWright•3h ago•409 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
614•nar001•8h ago•271 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
35•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
124•videotopia•4d ago•39 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
97•speckx•4d ago•112 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
211•limoce•4d ago•118 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
20•brudgers•5d ago•5 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
287•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
32•sandGorgon•2d ago•15 comments
Open in hackernews

The Mysterious Realm of JavaScriptCore (2021)

https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/the-mysterious-realm-of-javascriptcore
35•program•2mo ago

Comments

epolanski•2mo ago
I've often thought about the possibility of implementing a language that can compile directly to optimized byte code (either for V8 or JSC), in order to get "hot code" that does not need runtime optimization, has anybody explored this idea?
pizlonator•1mo ago
That won't work for JS because you need runtime profiling to be able to do any meaningful optimizations
astrange•1mo ago
That's WebAssembly / asm.js. Well, that's the target, you could still design a language for it.
gsf_emergency_6•1mo ago
Author's talk from around that time (Apr 2021)

https://youtu.be/7qyKZOjhg94

[Finding] JS bugs in JSC with CodeQL

N_Lens•1mo ago
Author used CodeQL to rediscover a CVE in JSC that was exploited by Pwn2Own in 2018. Very interesting. I guess now with increasing automation we'll see more CVE discovery through such tools.
pizlonator•1mo ago
A lot more details here: https://webkit.org/blog/10308/speculation-in-javascriptcore/