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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
70•ColinWright•1h ago•41 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
21•surprisetalk•1h ago•17 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
121•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•24 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...
99•alephnerd•2h ago•52 comments

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

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
56•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/
103•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/
76•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
547•nar001•5h ago•253 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
215•alainrk•6h ago•334 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
35•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
28•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•38 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

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

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
43•matt_d•4d ago•18 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/
473•lstoll•1d ago•313 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

Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/former-mt-gox-ceo-mark-karpeles-reveals-details-of-2014-collapse-and-japanese-detention
86•giuliomagnifico•1mo ago

Comments

optimalsolver•1mo ago
"So you're telling me there's a financial exchange for Magic The Gathering players? How do I put all my money in this?"

-Someone in 2010

djaouen•1mo ago
Don't joke: I once knew a kid who invested all his savings in a company because he liked computer games; that company was Nvidia!
versavolt•1mo ago
Indeed, obscene wealth is never funny
mistrial9•1mo ago
bet he won't return your phone call now !
djaouen•1mo ago
We fell out of contact long before Nvidia blew up: hope he's doing OK!
ekropotin•1mo ago
That’s cool, but kids usually don’t have a lot of savings.
mothballed•1mo ago
Passing KYC for a brokerage is also a challenge nowadays, especially if your parents have the paperwork.

When I was a kid I walked into a bank, opened an account with no ID and no parent permission, and that was that (I encouraged a friend to do it as well, their overbearing dad raged at the bank after he found out but even then it wasn't closed). Can't imagine that's even possible anymore.

Of course it wasn't that long ago there were bearer shares. You could just hand a kid a physical piece of paper, and that was that, they owned part of the company. Bearer shares were another thing eliminated after the FATF went on their sadistic attack on privacy and self custody of many forms of financial instruments, eliminating one of the easiest ways for kids to handle investments directly in their hands.

lifestyleguru•1mo ago
Nowadays you cannot even digitally transfer 15k EUR from your own bank account to your own brokerage without answering invasive questions, 15k EUR which had been taxed at least once already. Oligarchs, dictators, high figure politicians, and white collar criminals don't seem to have problems with money transfers though.
AlotOfReading•1mo ago
As one of those people, the original meaning behind the name wasn't widely known. Plus, the dozen or so bitcoins I bought at <$1-10/coin were probably going to end up worthless, so preventing their loss wasn't a particularly big concern.
le-mark•1mo ago
This was exactly the thought process too. If I could send 8 characters back in time to myself they’d be “BTC 100K”.
Loughla•1mo ago
Dear Loughla,

Keep the Bitcoin. The pot you'll buy with all 10 of them is mostly seeds and stems.

From, Very upset future Loughla

mcculley•1mo ago
A lot of people seem to still use the service that was first hosted at airbedandbreakfast.com despite an unwillingness to rent an airbed.
ggambetta•1mo ago
I want my 5 Bitcoin back :_(
wmf•1mo ago
I think this article undersells his criminality; "falsifying records" is a pretty kind way of saying he covered up insolvency and massively manipulated the Bitcoin market.
pimlottc•1mo ago
It’s a complete puff piece. Poor guy, surrounded by crooked and incompetent people. 80,000 bitcoin just disappeared somehow! Oops! Fortunately he’s sleeping better and shredded now. Love a story with a happy ending!
Analemma_•1mo ago
PR campaigns to rehabilitate white-collar criminals so they can resume their activities are an old practice, but have been supercharged by the internet and the ability to use oppositional culture war framing to get people on your side. Elizabeth Holmes and Martin Shkreli are both out of prison and running big rehab campaigns, and Sam Bankman-Fried is clearly angling for a Trump pardon (see his mom's big open letter and all the submarine stories lately about how "nobody actually lost any money at FTX! what was the crime??")

It's especially big in crypto because the whole community has a conspiratorial "the System is against us" mindset, and if you can successfully tap into that and convince people "I was targeted by The Man, man" all your crimes can be washed away.

Chris2048•1mo ago
AFAIK Elizabeth Holmes is still in prison?
mkl•1mo ago
Elizabeth Holmes is still incarcerated. https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-fo...
mvkel•1mo ago
Time heals all wounds, even self-inflicted ones. I don't sense much remorse from this guy.
ilamont•1mo ago
The article mentions he was convicted of falsifying records. Kind of surprised Japan lets foreigners with criminal records stay in the country.

And:

At shells.com, his personal cloud computing platform, he’s quietly developing an unreleased AI agent system that hands artificial intelligence full control over a virtual machine: installing software, managing emails, and even handling purchases with a planned credit card integration. “What I’m doing with shells is giving AI a whole computer and free rein on the computer”, a brilliant idea, really. AI agents on steroids.

Like managing other people's crypto, it seems like an idea that could actually blow up your face.

my_throwaway23•1mo ago
Over 10 years of providing details and documents, but still waiting for my 0.75 BTC.
stavros•1mo ago
Didn't you get it back? They sent me a portion of mine last year.
edfletcher_t137•1mo ago
Working with Andrew Lee on vp.net, who maliciously imploded Freenode some years ago. Birds of a feather...
rpcope1•1mo ago
Oh he's the one that caused the Libera split? How am I not surprised.
kbenson•1mo ago
Small nitpick with the title, because I still find it humorous all these years later, but it's not "Mt. Gox" like Mount Gox, it's MTGOX, which stands for Magic The Gathering Online Exchange, as it started out as a trading platform for that, and adopted bitcoin early as a way to facilitate trades of the cards without cash.
anonymous908213•1mo ago
It was literally branded Mt. Gox. In the logo and everything. Also, he had already shuttered the MTG project and simply re-used the dormant mtgox domain.
gruez•1mo ago
The Wikipedia page agrees with you as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
anonnon•1mo ago
There's some discussion about potential Citogenesis here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mt._Gox#Possible_citogene...
pessimizer•1mo ago
> More importantly, McCaleb replied to my email. In response to my question "Did anyone ever actually trade card for card or money for card on Mtgox.com?", he replied "yeah they did". I've asked him some followup questions on dates & volumes & closure reason, but I guess that settles that... Does anyone recall the OTRS procedure for storing emails from primary sources? It's been years since I've last done it. --Gwern (contribs) 20:36 17 February 2014 (GMT)
rpcope1•1mo ago
I like how this paints Karpeles, the Ripple guy and Roger Ver as seemingly upstanding individuals who didn't do anything wrong.
mrkramer•1mo ago
The guy was running hosting company which sold web domain to the Silk Road guy and then the Russian dude who run BTC-e exchange hacked his exchange(which was by the way sold to him by the Ripple founder). This is like some cheesy crime movie. Tell me about Bitcoin's circular economy and his bad luck or to be more precise incompetence. This guy basically blew away billions of dollars of people's money not knowing what the hell he was actually doing or who he was dealing with.