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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•22h 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

Concurrent Hash Table Designs

https://bluuewhale.github.io/posts/concurrent-hashmap-designs/
87•signa11•1mo ago

Comments

nickmonad•1mo ago
Would love to read this, although I'm seeing some pretty horrific code formatting issues in both Firefox and Chrome.
ramon156•1mo ago
weirdest part is, the initial load looks fine (try refreshing, scroll persists).

firefox's reader view helps too

manwe150•1mo ago
I saw a blog about this yesterday: disable extensions (notably 1Password) to fix formatting inside code tags.
pama•1mo ago
Looks decent on iPhone safari FWIW.
NooneAtAll3•1mo ago
turn off 1password
saghm•1mo ago
More context for those who haven't heard about this: https://www.1password.community/discussions/developers/1pass...
mrkeen•1mo ago

  public V get(Object key) { synchronized (mutex) { ... } }
  public V put(K key, V value) { synchronized (mutex) { ... } }
  public V remove(Object key) { synchronized (mutex) { ... } }
> From a correctness standpoint, this strategy is almost trivial to reason about.

It is indeed trivial to reason about. This design invites users to stumble into the race condition between get and set.

PaulHoule•1mo ago
What a good transactional API is like is an interesting question.

   public void modify(K key, Function<Optional<V>,Optional<V>> modifier)
or something along those lines covers the race of a single value being changed out from under you, but if you want to update one or more keys you might want

   public void modifyMany(Set<K> key, Consumer<Map<K,V>> modifier)
where the modifier gets passed a modifiable view that has just the keys in the set.

There is also the Clojure-style immutable API for maps though I can say I never really enjoyed working with that the way I enjoyed immutable lists (which are Lispier than Lisp: I went through all the stages of grief reading On Lisp and couldn't help think "If he was using Clojure he wouldn't be struggling with nconc)

mrkeen•1mo ago
STM containers does it right.

  lookup :: k -> Map K v -> STM (Maybe v)

  insert :: v -> k -> Map K v -> STM ()
It won't execute until you wrap it with atomically, so you're forced to be explicit about whether these things should happen in one logical step or separately.

https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/stm-containers/d...

eterm•1mo ago
There's a design in the .NET ConcurrentDictionary that is even more inviting:

  GetOrAdd(TKey, Func<Tkey,TValue> )
This lets you specify a key, and a method to run to generate a value to store if the key does not exist.

This is thread-safe, however it is not atomic much to the surprise of many that use it.

If you wrongly assume that the factory method can only execute once, you fall into a trap, since it actually can execute many times before the result is stored.

This can cause a problem if you use it for caching, because you might for example put an expensive calculation you want to cache there, only to find out cache expiration causes a stampede as the factory suddenly executes a lot at once.

the-smug-one•1mo ago
I don't see the problem at all, tbh. Both `get(K); put(K);` and `put(K); get(K);` are valid execution traces on a uniprocessor.
mrkeen•1mo ago
Oh yeah, I'm not sure what an execution trace is, but ConcurrentHashMap is indeed fit-for-purpose for single-threaded use.
leitasat•1mo ago
> 2025 > Java

really

rurban•1mo ago
ConcurrentSwissMap exists for years already: https://github.com/greg7mdp/parallel-hashmap Just in C++, not Java.