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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
185•ColinWright•1h ago•168 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
22•valyala•2h ago•6 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
124•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•24 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
17•valyala•2h ago•1 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
65•vinhnx•5h ago•9 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...
155•alephnerd•2h ago•106 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
833•klaussilveira•22h ago•250 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
119•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•149 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
57•thelok•4h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1061•xnx•1d ago•613 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
79•onurkanbkrc•7h ago•5 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...
4•gnufx•57m ago•1 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
489•theblazehen•3d ago•177 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
212•jesperordrup•12h ago•72 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
567•nar001•6h ago•259 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
226•alainrk•6h ago•354 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
40•rbanffy•4d ago•7 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
10•momciloo•2h ago•0 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
29•marklit•5d ago•3 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
114•videotopia•4d ago•33 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
77•speckx•4d ago•82 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
275•isitcontent•22h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
201•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
288•dmpetrov•22h ago•155 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
22•sandGorgon•2d ago•12 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
557•todsacerdoti•1d ago•269 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

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
427•ostacke•1d ago•111 comments
Open in hackernews

Microsoft: "30% of Our Code Is AI." Also Microsoft: "Windows Is Broken."

https://michael-dev-tech.github.io/Website/broken.html
23•f0r3st•1mo ago

Comments

downrightmike•1mo ago
Stage 2 of what happens when you fire all your QA engineers
f0r3st•1mo ago
would be fun to see an AI who take care of another AI who write a code
khelavastr•1mo ago
And leave PMs who personally specialize in people-management and product design to be the backstop for reported product QA.
rocmcd•1mo ago
QA? What's that? /s

In all seriousness, it's been a long time since I've seen a dedicated QA position instead of just assuming that devs will test as they go.

forwardandback•1mo ago
> Connect the dots. They fired the humans, let a hallucinating chatbot write the kernel, and then shipped the beta to us.

No, that's a hypothesis, one amongst many, with no evidence provided.

codeddesign•1mo ago
> Connect the dots. They fired American workers, brought in H1B’s from India while also increasing their offices in India. AI didn’t break Windows, cheaper labor and the effort to increase bottom line did.
msla•1mo ago
This would be more convincing if I hadn't lived through BSOD... I mean Windows 95.

Hey, they fixed the BSODs eventually. That screen's black now.

esfandia•1mo ago
So it's still a BSOD!
tapoxi•1mo ago
It blows my mind that on Linux I can pin the taskbar to the left side and it works out of the box. Windows, aside from somehow losing that basic functionality, won't even install because it requires an internet connection and doesn't even have drivers to use my wifi or Ethernet that the installer can use.

How did this happen? How did Linux, of all things, become easier?

renegade-otter•1mo ago
I just don't know what's going on there anymore. Every update is a technical and a PR disaster.

There is no rhyme or reason to Windows UI anymore. I thought I was drinking too much when trying to network my Windows file server with a Mac, and running into the same settings in what looked like three different themed-UIs.

Right-click menu? Would you like more options? Here they are, in what looks like a 2005 version of Windows. What is this?

Don't get me started on AI. Their new Quick Recovery feature was basically not tested and forced me to re-install:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/10/windows-updat...

You know what that did? Today I removed Steam from my Windows partition. I am gaming on Mint now. Imagine being so bad at YOUR ONE JOB that even gaming, the ultimate Microsoft forte, is being eaten away at.

lousken•1mo ago
Because they don't have a vision for the entire OS apart from sticking a copilot button in every app. Current windows has so many features that I am sure even current MS employees have little idea about, and because of that, have been rewritten many times over. Sometimes I wonder if they even have any idea about what's going on in registries or how are you supposed to figure out certain policies in hybrid mode - between defender/intune and GPOs. Good luck figuring out windows hello vs convenience pin, or when defender goes haywire and starts blocking stuff etc etc.

In windows you have 5 versions of apps for each era of windows, in m365 you have 5 different dashboards showing same information just a little bit differently so you have to know all of them if you need info A and B.

But at least in admin.microsoft you have Copilot and Agents above Users and Groups, because ef'in up your muscle memory is important ...

rayiner•1mo ago
Microsoft is such an unmitigated disaster. The stock is doing fine now, but in a decade Nadella is going to be remembered like Jack Welch—a CEO who corroded the company from the inside trying to chase quarterly numbers.
renegade-otter•1mo ago
Once the managers and not the engineers drive innovation at an engineering company, it's basically over. "Innovation". These companies take a while to bleed, but they bleed.

I have to say, tough - we can point at GE and Boeing, but that was a true slow burn. Even by today's crazy pace of, well, everything, Nadella seems to have taken the express lane to ruin.

stogot•1mo ago
I don’t understand why the department of defense Chooses this insecure incompetence