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

https://openciv3.org/
510•klaussilveira•8h ago•141 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
848•xnx•14h ago•507 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
61•matheusalmeida•1d ago•12 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
168•isitcontent•9h ago•20 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
171•dmpetrov•9h ago•77 comments

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

https://vecti.com
282•vecti•11h ago•127 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
64•quibono•4d ago•11 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
340•aktau•15h ago•165 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
228•eljojo•11h ago•142 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
333•ostacke•14h ago•90 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
425•todsacerdoti•16h ago•221 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
4•videotopia•3d ago•0 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
365•lstoll•15h ago•253 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
35•kmm•4d ago•2 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
11•romes•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
12•denuoweb•1d ago•1 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
85•SerCe•4h ago•66 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
214•i5heu•11h ago•160 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
59•phreda4•8h ago•11 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
35•gfortaine•6h ago•9 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
16•gmays•4h ago•2 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
123•vmatsiiako•13h ago•51 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
160•limoce•3d ago•80 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
258•surprisetalk•3d ago•34 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1022•cdrnsf•18h ago•425 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
53•rescrv•16h ago•17 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
44•lebovic•1d ago•13 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
14•denysonique•5h ago•1 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
98•ray__•5h ago•49 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
81•antves•1d ago•59 comments
Open in hackernews

Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)

http://www.redbook.io/
152•teleforce•1mo ago

Comments

gnabgib•1mo ago
(2015) Popular in:

2020 (225 points, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436647

2017 (247 points, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436647

2015 (189 points, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10694538

WalterGR•1mo ago
Before spidering the site for offline reading, be aware:

“Rather than secure rights to the recommended papers, we have simply provided links to Google Scholar searches that should help the reader locate the relevant papers.”

nine_k•1mo ago
A perfect task for an AI agent, BTW.
sam_lowry_•1mo ago
Why not to Scihub?
xpe•1mo ago
Sci-Hub rules:

    1. You do not talk about Sci-Hub.
    2. You do NOT talk about Sci-Hub.
    3. If a download says "Stop," goes limp,
       or taps out, that download is over. 
    4. Only two tries per mirror. 
    5. One download at a time. 
    6. Shirt and shoes optional. 
    7. Downloads will continue until publicly funded
       research is widely distributed. 
    8. If this is your first time at Sci-Hub, you
       have to download something interesting,
       actually read at least part of it, learn
       something, and then fight ignorance and/or
       stupidity with it.
WalterGR•1mo ago
Then you were successfully beworn.
ctxc•1mo ago
Oh well...

https://ibb.co/BVrzQRWH

testdelacc1•1mo ago
Wonder why. Did they confuse this with Maoist literature (Little Red Book)?
ctxc•1mo ago
Hmm maybe, a blooper on their part

I just switched networks (wifi/mobile) and it worked, only that provider seems to block it

nrhrjrjrjtntbt•1mo ago
Peek:

Readings in Database Systems (commonly known as the "Red Book") has offered readers an opinionated take on both classic and cutting-edge research in the field of data management since 1988. Here, we present the Fifth Edition of the Red Book — the first in over ten years. CHAPTERS Preface [HTML] [PDF] Background introduced by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Traditional RDBMS Systems introduced by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Techniques Everyone Should Know introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] New DBMS Architectures introduced by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Large-Scale Dataflow Engines introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] Weak Isolation and Distribution introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] Query Optimization introduced by Joe Hellerstein [HTML] [PDF] Interactive Analytics introduced by Joe Hellerstein [HTML] [PDF] Languages introduced by Joe Hellerstein [HTML] [PDF] Web Data introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] A Biased Take on a Moving Target: Complex Analytics by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] A Biased Take on a Moving Target: Data Integration by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Complete Book: [HTML] [PDF] Readings Only: [HTML] [PDF] Previous Editions: [HTML]

zingar•1mo ago
How does this stack up in 2025/6?
herodoturtle•1mo ago
redbook.io huh?

Some might argue the Red Book to be “NSA Trusted Networks” a.k.a the ugly red book that won't fit on the shelf.

Crash & Burn <3

layer8•1mo ago
There are a lot of red books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book
hashhar•1mo ago
Redbook is also the Audio CD standard. Lots of redbooks exist.
vvern•1mo ago
About time for the 6th Edition, eh? What would folks include in it?

- Vector databases and hybrid search?

- Object storage for all the things? Lake houses. Parquet and beyond.

- Continuously materialized views? I'm not sure this one has made the splash but I think about Naiad (Materialize) and Noria (Readyset)

- NewSQL went mostly mainstream (Spanner wasn't included in the last one, but there's been more here with things like CockroachDB, TiDB, etc)

B1FF_PSUVM•1mo ago
LLMs as DBs (if you squint hard enough)
kwillets•1mo ago
The object storage stuff is new, but it's mostly confirmed that the older architecture works. MPP with shared (S3) storage and everything above that on local SSD and compute delivers the best performance. Even Snowflake finally came out with "interactive" warehouses with this architecture.

Parquet, Iceberg, and other open formats seem good, but they may hit a complexity wall. There's already some inconsistency between platforms, eg with delete vectors.

Incremental view maintenance interests me as well, and I would like to see it more available on different platforms. It's ironic that people use dbt etc. to test every little edit of their manually coded delta pipelines, but don't look at IVM.

teleforce•1mo ago
Definitely they should include D4M and GraphQL [1],[2].

Not only D4M can cater for structured relational data, it's also suitable for non-structured and sparse data in spreadsheet, matrices and graph. It's essentially a generalization of SQL but for all things data.

There's also integration of D4M with SciDB [3].

[1] D4M: Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model:

https://d4m.mit.edu/

[2] GraphQL:

https://graphql.org/

[3] D4M: Bringing associative arrays to database engines:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07371

rodolphoarruda•1mo ago
Amazing: the website's index page has the book's index in it. While this makes perfect sense, it's a kind of a feature that is becoming rare in today's tech book websites which display all sorts of marketing fluff, social confirmations etc and not the structure of the book itself.