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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
429•nar001•4h ago•203 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
134•bookofjoe•1h ago•112 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
438•theblazehen•2d ago•157 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
26•thelok•1h ago•2 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
86•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
778•klaussilveira•19h ago•241 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
35•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
38•samasblack•2h ago•24 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
19•mellosouls•2h ago•17 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
56•onurkanbkrc•4h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1027•xnx•1d ago•584 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
172•alainrk•4h ago•230 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
168•jesperordrup•10h ago•62 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
24•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
18•simonw•2h ago•15 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
103•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
5•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

72M Points of Interest

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13•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
265•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•42 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
277•dmpetrov•20h ago•147 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
35•matt_d•4d ago•10 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
546•todsacerdoti•1d ago•263 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
418•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
65•helloplanets•4d ago•69 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
364•vecti•22h ago•164 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
338•eljojo•22h ago•207 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
16•sandGorgon•2d ago•4 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
457•lstoll•1d ago•301 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
372•aktau•1d ago•195 comments
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From silicon to Darude – Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-from-silicon-to-darude-sand-storm-breaking-famous-synthesizer-dsps
130•anigbrowl•1mo ago

Comments

iwontberude•1mo ago
One of the most incredible talks and demonstrations. Excellent technical work, great team!
MomsAVoxell•1mo ago
It’s great to see some synth chip hacking at CCC this year .. in fact, the synth DSP hacking scene has been great lately .. since the Motorola 56K is EOL’ed, The Usual Suspects folks built an emulator, and its capable now of running the firmware for many popular synths which used that chip:

https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/

This means you can emulate with full accuracy the Access Virus A, B, C, TI / Clavia Nord Lead 2X, 3, Modular / Waldorf Q, Microwave II / Novation Supernova, Nova .. and they’re starting to target others ..

There are plenty of other 56K DSP apps out there - not just synthesizers - so if this proves effective it could mean a lot to certain folks who still have big deployments of these chips, in terms of product life-cycle.

ubercow13•1mo ago
This talk is by The Usual Suspects, and it's about one of those 'others' that they targeted.
djmips•1mo ago
Their talk from 6 months ago

https://youtu.be/reGeRiCkkNE?t=1521

tecleandor•1mo ago
Oooooh nice. I've been out of the synth hacker/tinkerer thing for some years... Any other interesting projects to check?
MomsAVoxell•1mo ago
Zynthian:

https://zynthian.org/

Monome:

https://monome.org/

Two simply AMAZING synth platforms of the 21st century which push things even further than the mainstream hardware vendors are willing to allow. Note that the third-party clone market for these machines is simply exploding. You can do your own Zynthian easily enough, or Monome too .. or you can find a maker who will build you one for a very nice price very easily too. Both offer 100% open and extremely powerful architectures for synth hacking and the offerings for both platforms are simply astonishing. Worth doing some homework if you’re into it.

DIY more your thing? The FundamentalFrequency LMN-3 might be up your alley:

https://github.com/fundamentalfrequency

Runs JUCE plugins, is kind of a cyberpunks’ Teenage Engineering OP1, without the fuss and nonsense ..

Just off the top of my head. ;) Of course, the impulse to recommend VCVRack is pretty high (https://vcvrack.com/) as is the endlessly amazing vista and extraordinary capabilities of the Eurorack scene, if that’s your thing ..

klaussilveira•1mo ago
Thank you for Zynthian, this is awesome. Any blogs or RSS feeds you track to get in the loop of similar projects?
MomsAVoxell•1mo ago
There are plenty, but CDM is my favourite:

https://cdm.link/

See also, matrixsynth:

https://www.matrixsynth.com/

They both often have the same content, but CDM has a nicer vibe that I feel more comfortable suggesting ..

MomsAVoxell•1mo ago
PS - don’t discount Monome, it has a very different flavor than Zynthian and is in many ways more of a musical instrument. It’s definitely worth investigation if you’re a synth nerd.
tecleandor•1mo ago
Nice! Those look great. Last time I got around some of that kind of stuff was when I got a couple Axoloti boards. I think I still have one around...
MomsAVoxell•1mo ago
Yes Axoloti is pretty fun, and I think the Axoloti environment was ported to Zynthian, actually .. so you might be able to use your patches.
ofalkaed•1mo ago
Is it possible (practical) to reverse engineer a synth that uses a custom and undocumented DSP? The Alesis Micron is probably my favorite synth and I have always wanted it in a little laptop groovebox type of package, considered just repackaging mine but the main PCB is not very suited to what I would want. I also tried to just redesign it from the ground up but it has some tricks for avoiding aliasing and are a major part of its overall sound which I can not figure out.

Assuming this is possible, any resources for learning how to go about it? What little I have found has relied heavily on the DSP being well documented.

Apologies if OP video goes into this, internet is not cooperating right now and steaming is not going to happen. Looking forward to watching it, never pass on anything that might offer even a tiny glimpse into reverse engineering the Micron.

MrScruff•1mo ago
The video covers their approach for reverse engineering the Motorola DSP56300, but it's probably fair to say it was decidedly non-trivial!
boomlinde•1mo ago
The video covers their DSP56300 work briefly in the introduction, but the main topic is that of reverse engineering the undocumented Toshiba DSP used in Roland JP-8000.
boomlinde•1mo ago
> Is it possible (practical) to reverse engineer a synth that uses a custom and undocumented DSP?

Yes, that's what the talk is about. It's probably an interesting watch to you since they actually went through a couple of different approaches to end up with a working emulation.

bjt12345•1mo ago
It's interesting that the Roland DSP does eloquently map to solutions in the z-domain, and allow easy implementation of FIR/IIR filters.

It's not surprising they doubled the clock rate to 88.2kHz to simplify anti-aliasing, but it is curious the choice of the CD audio frequency of 44.1kHz and not the DAT tape frequency of 48kHz.

It's hard not to get nostalgic about the 90s when watching this video.

throwaway2046•1mo ago
It's amazing to see the incredible effort it takes to reverse engineer a synth. While much of the process described in the video went over my head I still found it very interesting to watch. Kudos to the Usual Suspects for not only putting in all that effort but also releasing their findings completely for free.

Side note: does anyone know what the song played at 4:30 is called? It sounds very familiar but I can't remember its name at all.

Edit: I found it, it's "Barthezz - On The Move" but played at a slower BPM.