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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
64•ColinWright•57m ago•28 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
18•surprisetalk•1h ago•15 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
120•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•23 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...
96•alephnerd•1h ago•44 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
823•klaussilveira•21h ago•248 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
53•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
102•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•118 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1057•xnx•1d ago•608 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
75•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
476•theblazehen•2d ago•175 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
202•jesperordrup•11h ago•69 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
545•nar001•5h ago•252 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
213•alainrk•6h ago•332 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 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
34•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
27•marklit•5d ago•2 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
113•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
73•speckx•4d ago•74 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
68•mellosouls•4h ago•73 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
273•isitcontent•21h ago•37 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
199•limoce•4d ago•111 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
285•dmpetrov•22h ago•153 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

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

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
43•matt_d•4d ago•18 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
555•todsacerdoti•1d ago•268 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
424•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
472•lstoll•1d ago•312 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
348•eljojo•1d ago•215 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Spotify Wrapped but for LeetCode

https://github.com/collinboler/leetcodewrapped
28•collinboler2•2mo ago

Comments

embedding-shape•2mo ago
Do people use LeetCode all year round? I thought it was something people fresh out of school did because they thought it helped them be better at FANG interviews, but seems I've missed how they seemingly grew in scope.

> I was hesitant to implement this because I obviously people wouldn't trust inputting a cookie into a form, but if this repo gets lots of stars I'll make a chrome extension that gets around this.

Fun how it goes the opposite compared to the real security implications. Sending one exact cookie you can see to one site VS giving an unknown entity access to * permissions on your computer, and the entity can change at any time + update in the background by their own wishes.

collinboler2•2mo ago
Yup, it’s essentially a daily habit for many devs these days, I think they've added more gamification (streaks, badges, contests) combined with a UI update that makes it feel less like "prep." (example: https://leetcode.com/quest/)

> Fun how it goes the opposite compared to the real security implications.

You're spot on, it is pretty interesting. I suggested the extension purely to bridge that trust gap, especially if it's verified by the Chrome Web Store. If the extension is designed to strictly avoid calling any external APIs (other than leetcode graphql), it makes exfiltration impossible, ensuring the cookie never leaves the user's browser

embedding-shape•2mo ago
> Yup, it’s essentially a daily habit for many devs these days

Beyond students/juniors? I don't think I've ever seen any of my colleagues or friends either talk about it or using it recreationally, but maybe I live in a different bubble.

collinboler2•2mo ago
I'm a student right now so I am certainly biased, but one senior dev (late 20s) from I company I interned at used it quite religiously despite being happily employed. I think some people feel it's a nice insurance policy to stay sharp
twosdai•2mo ago
I think for some people, they treat it like the daily crossword. For seniors, I've known a few that would do problems in a different language so they can get some basic exposure to it. Eg. If you program node js all day, you'd do the daily problem in kotlin or rust.
naet•2mo ago
I do both crosswords and frequently look at the daily leetcode problem. I don't always do it if the problem doesn't interest me. But sometimes I learn something new, other times I just hammer out a solution in 2-5 min for a little brain stimulation.

Making a habit of doing small puzzles like that can compound a lot over time. I am self taught and did not study algorithms in school, but I would consider myself stronger on the topic than most of my coworkers just from my learning to solve puzzles (and enjoying it). I am currently the senior / lead dev of my team.

I also love Advent of Code and look forwards to it all year.

I do both in languages that aren't what I primarily use at work.

embedding-shape•2mo ago
> For seniors, I've known a few that would do problems in a different language so they can get some basic exposure to it.

Everyone including myself who does similar things of experimenting with different languages, do so with "real" (not sure what else to call it) programs on our machines for some purpose. Maybe recreate something else we did recently, or try it for that one specific use case we saw it potentially good for. Not doing random exercises on some online platform. I don't doubt some people find it satisfying, just interesting I don't find those people around me I guess.

throwaway150•2mo ago
There are large communities on the internet for solving competitive programming problems. Checkout Topcoder, Codeforces, etc. They have their own subculture and the regular winners are celebrities in that subculture. These people aren't solving these problems to get a job or interview with FANG or anything. They just do it as a sport. Like playing Chess or Scrabble.
ls-a•2mo ago
They need to keep practicing FANG interviews because they switch companies
naet•2mo ago
Leetcode already has a feature like this, it just hasn't released for 2025 yet. Usually comes out closer to the end of the year.

Here is last years: https://leetcode.com/rewind/2024/

The OPs seems to be more cumulative lifetime stats rather than just this past year, for a lot of the slides.

collinboler2•2mo ago
That's interesting, didn't know that. Bummer you can't replay it once "the event has ended."

> The OPs seems to be more cumulative lifetime stats rather than just this past year, for a lot of the slides.

I disclose that the last 5 slides are lifetime stats in my readme:

"Note: The last 5 slides are not necessarily specific to 2025 because of leetcode's graphql api only allows querying up to 20 of the latest submissions from an unauthenticated user.

However, if you pass a LEETCODE_SESSION cookie (obtained from leetcode.com, open dev tools -> application -> cookies) with your request you can query all of your accounts submissions. You could also use the calendar endpoint query all of your submissions in the past year, and thus create a much more nuanced leetcode wrapped. (ex: You struggled with this problem the most in 2025.)"

I may try to tackle this via an extension with no server side logic if I have some free time later this week, would certainly be a cooler final product. Only caveat is users would have to manually install the extension from a github repo (too scary for most people) or the chrome web store, which may add too much friction for most people.