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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
70•guerrilla•2h ago•26 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
155•valyala•6h ago•28 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
84•zdw•3d ago•37 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
90•surprisetalk•5h ago•93 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
122•mellosouls•8h ago•249 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
868•klaussilveira•1d ago•266 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
161•AlexeyBrin•11h ago•29 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
117•vinhnx•9h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Browser based state machine simulator and visualizer

https://svylabs.github.io/smac-viz/
3•sridhar87•4d ago•1 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
42•mltvc•1h ago•52 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-...
24•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
83•samasblack•8h ago•59 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
28•swah•4d ago•30 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
74•thelok•7h ago•14 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
256•jesperordrup•16h ago•83 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...
37•gnufx•4h ago•42 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
157•valyala•6h ago•136 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
7•jbegley•22m ago•1 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
42•momciloo•6h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
19•languid-photic•4d ago•5 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
219•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•338 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-...
58•josephcsible•3h ago•70 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
281•alainrk•10h ago•462 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•42 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
53•rbanffy•4d ago•15 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
659•nar001•10h ago•287 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
41•sandGorgon•2d ago•17 comments
Open in hackernews

8-bit Boléro

https://linusakesson.net/music/bolero/index.php
345•Aissen•1mo ago

Comments

fodmap•1mo ago
That Commodore C64 accordion made me laugh.

Ah it's called The Commodordion https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php

pavel_lishin•1mo ago
It's kind of incredible!

A direct youtube link for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6z5__6rP58

sivers•1mo ago
And don't miss the Qweremin:

https://linusakesson.net/qweremin/

Brilliant.

opello•1mo ago
Wow, there are multiple things like that!

Qweremin: C64 Theremin: https://linusakesson.net/hardware/theremin/index.php

Qwertar: C64 Keytar: https://linusakesson.net/music/glyptodont-live/index.php

Very neat!

kkkqkqkqkqlqlql•1mo ago
> 0 regrets

That's the most important number in stores like this one.

emptybits•1mo ago
Yes! Linus must really burn himself up, conceiving and executing masterworks like this! But saying "0 regrets" hopefully means he hasn't lost motivation for his next crazy project!
lll-o-lll•1mo ago
Had to check the article because I read that as “greater than zero regrets”.

<= 0 regrets

aldousd666•1mo ago
I love projects like this. finally someone found a new use for those dot matrix printers.
ramses0•1mo ago
Radiohead: Nude - https://youtu.be/CgB5DU0uEdg
darkmighty•1mo ago
:´)
thomassmith65•1mo ago

  According to a possibly apocryphal story from the premiere performance, a woman was heard shouting that Ravel was mad. When told about this, Ravel is said to have remarked that she had understood the piece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol%C3%A9ro
mlsu•1mo ago
And, Ravel did eventually go mad. There's a lot of discussion about whether the recurring patterns in the song had something to do with his neurological condition.

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/bolero-ravel-dementia-2/

xxr•1mo ago
“Initially, Ravel was to create a variation on the music of Isaac Albéniz, but copyright laws prevented him from doing so.” [your article]

“[Koji Kondo] had planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the title theme as it perfectly matched its speed, seeing as under Japanese copyright law, music is released into the public domain 50 years after the composer's death. However, Kondo was forced to change it in November 1985, late in the game's development, after learning that it had only been 47 years and 11 months after Ravel's death.”[1]

Funny how things rhyme.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_gam...

ericio•1mo ago
RadioLab did an excellent episode [1] about Bolero, where it asks the question if it was a leading indicator of Ravel’s madness.

1. https://radiolab.org/podcast/unraveling-bolero

layer8•1mo ago
It’s probably not a coincidence that the climax starts at 13:37.
Centigonal•1mo ago
0% chance that's a coincidence coming from lft
teddyh•1mo ago
If I recall correctly, Boléro (the music piece) has a special meaning in the very early Swedish hacker scene, often used as a sort-of in-joke.
Snild•1mo ago
Sounds interesting. Tell me more?
drivers99•1mo ago
Listened to this exact video this morning when it was among the newest videos in my YouTube subscriptions. I've had it stuck in my head since then.
Eupolemos•1mo ago
Did you hear his "A mind is born"? It is amazing outright, IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8

drivers99•1mo ago
I forgot he was the same person who did that! I was somewhat obsessed with it earlier this year. I had found a version you can type into BASIC that pokes it into a block of memory and jumps to it, since I have access to a C64 at a hackerspace that doesn't have a floppy drive, so I've run it at least once on real hardware. (I have a new C64 Ultimate on the way as well.)
jfvinueza•1mo ago
so good
abetusk•1mo ago
For anyone wanting to know, the keyboard layout is that of a chromatic button accordian [0] [1].

I guess there's a C64 "executable" that he's made available but no source so I don't know what the exact keymapping is. I did find a few different resources that show the layout in action [2] [3].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwsZ41pA_Vo&t=58s

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_button_accordion

[2] https://okathira-dev.github.io/client-web-api-sandbox/button...

[3] https://www.rmwinslow.com/tones/

YesBox•1mo ago
Beautifully done! What more can I say?

Those disc drive sounds are so cool

ramses0•1mo ago
Radiohead: Nude - https://youtu.be/CgB5DU0uEdg
Tcepsa•1mo ago
I am so happy that people make things like this <3
consumer451•1mo ago
Ha! I almost posted this here but I thought maybe I was posting too many music videos on HN.

I am part of the LOAD "*", 8, 1 generation, and this is really freaking cool.

One of the funniest things in the video is the variety of neck tie configurations, one for each part.

jachee•1mo ago

    LOADING. . .
    READY
    > RUN
ageitgey•1mo ago
This guy's other video where he covers Clowncore's 'Computers' on computers is one of the most impressive, incredibly niche things I've ever seen on YouTube. He's a serious talent.
arthurdenture•1mo ago
This is way more pleasant than the kazoo version by famous children's author Sandra Boynton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U14IBek-wNU
themadturk•1mo ago
Though when things really break out into harmony after the 12 minute mark, it's almost pretty.

(Sandra Boynton is amazing, no matter what she does.)

Rochus•1mo ago
Great music survives everything ;-)

That's such a good idea with this old equipment. And you can see that the guy tried hard not to laugh. And surprisingly, the arrangement sounds great. Hilarious.

tantalor•1mo ago
Several mentions of "the automaton" but no idea what that is. It's a bit vague.

The photo of "the automaton" appears to be a melamine white particleboard panel.

https://www.linusakesson.net/music/bolero/boxes-large.jpg

Sharlin•1mo ago
It's the "percussion section" https://linusakesson.net/music/bolero/automaton-large.jpg
temp0826•1mo ago
Linus never fails to impress. A true virtuoso
nebula8804•1mo ago
He has come a long way since Craft. What a total rock star. In that time I have done nothing as awesome with my life (other than enjoying his productions). Heres to 17 more years of awesomeness!
LanceH•1mo ago
I miss dynamic range in music.
nrhrjrjrjtntbt•1mo ago
Nostalgic for Torvill and Dean too
disqard•1mo ago
Amazing! Thanks for sharing.
codezero•1mo ago
This is my favorite song, and I'm delighted to hear it as a chiptune! amazing work!
B1FF_PSUVM•1mo ago
Why do I get reminded of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells?

(Yes, I've heard the Ravel before, I mean the presentation style, e.g. Oldfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMtqKZ6GrY )

guenthert•1mo ago
I too was waiting for the 'grand together' announcement.
timfsu•1mo ago
Possibly best thing ever on Hacker News. There is something quite appealing about the simplicity of Boléro
kpilars•1mo ago
If you like bolero look at this f guy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5Ve3338-E
swiftcoder•1mo ago
The theremin built out of a bar clamp is delightful
chris_st•1mo ago
Thanks, that absolutely made my day!