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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...
12•randycupertino•16m ago•3 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
17•guerrilla•55m ago•2 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
132•valyala•5h ago•22 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
63•zdw•3d ago•22 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...
29•gnufx•3h ago•26 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
67•surprisetalk•4h ago•83 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
108•mellosouls•7h ago•203 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
7•mltvc•52m ago•1 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
150•AlexeyBrin•10h ago•26 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
856•klaussilveira•1d ago•263 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
108•vinhnx•7h ago•14 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
32•vedantnair•57m ago•18 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1104•xnx•1d ago•619 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
151•valyala•4h ago•125 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
71•samasblack•7h ago•53 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-...
16•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
70•thelok•6h ago•13 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
526•theblazehen•3d ago•196 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
4•swah•4d ago•0 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
35•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
198•1vuio0pswjnm7•11h ago•294 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
40•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
51•rbanffy•4d ago•12 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
265•alainrk•9h ago•438 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
631•nar001•9h ago•278 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
105•speckx•4d ago•132 comments
Open in hackernews

John Updike wrote it all down

https://newrepublic.com/article/201598/john-updike-wrote
32•samclemens•2mo ago

Comments

dang•1mo ago
I can't remember how I ran across it (some link in a newsletter maybe?) but this is a hilarious review of the same book: https://freebeacon.com/culture/getting-intimate-with-updike/.

Here's a sample:

One of the great American stylists, [Updike] nevertheless managed to write sex scenes that were unbearably cringe-making. The meticulous, magical gift for poetic physical description that led him (for instance) to describe a snowfall at night as "an immense whispering" was misapplied to the mysteries of sex. A year before his death in 2009, the British magazine Literary Review, famous for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction competition, simply threw up its hands and gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.

And yet it would be a mistake to call him the horniest writer of his time. It was quite a time.

bryanrasmussen•1mo ago
I think part of the problem for Updike where sex is concerned is his protagonists are often thinly veiled stand ins for Updike, imagining Updike having sex would have been like imagining your parents, for that generation, and then he keeps talking about it. Now it's more like your grandparents. It's like when granny tells you she got a tongue piercing because it really helps with fellatio, that stuff really increases the cringe factor.
IAmBroom•1mo ago
Your grandmother ... single?
bryanrasmussen•1mo ago
cremated.

but maybe you two would hit it off.

cafard•1mo ago
Florence King wrote that "Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors."
dang•1mo ago
Wow!