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

https://openciv3.org/
475•klaussilveira•7h ago•116 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
813•xnx•12h ago•487 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
33•matheusalmeida•1d ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
157•isitcontent•7h ago•17 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
156•dmpetrov•7h ago•67 comments

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
92•jnord•3d ago•12 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
50•quibono•4d ago•6 comments

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

https://vecti.com
260•vecti•9h ago•123 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
207•eljojo•10h ago•134 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
328•aktau•13h ago•158 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
327•ostacke•13h ago•86 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
411•todsacerdoti•15h ago•219 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
23•kmm•4d ago•1 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
337•lstoll•13h ago•242 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
52•phreda4•6h ago•9 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
4•romes•4d ago•0 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
195•i5heu•10h ago•145 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
115•vmatsiiako•12h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
152•limoce•3d ago•79 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
245•surprisetalk•3d ago•32 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/
996•cdrnsf•16h ago•420 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
26•gfortaine•5h ago•3 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
46•rescrv•15h ago•17 comments

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

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
67•ray__•3h ago•30 comments

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

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
38•lebovic•1d ago•11 comments

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

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
78•antves•1d ago•59 comments

How virtual textures work

https://www.shlom.dev/articles/how-virtual-textures-really-work/
30•betamark•14h ago•28 comments

Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

https://github.com/stablyai/agent-slack
41•nwparker•1d ago•11 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...
7•gmays•2h ago•2 comments

Evolution of car door handles over the decades

https://newatlas.com/automotive/evolution-car-door-handle/
41•andsoitis•3d ago•62 comments
Open in hackernews

Making Magic Leap past Nvidia's secure bootchain and breaking Tesla Autopilots

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/making-the-magic-leap-past-nvidia-s-secure-bootchain-and-breaking-some-tesla-autopilots-along-the-way
82•rguiscard•1mo ago

Comments

cj•4w ago
Huh, I thought Magic Leap went out of business.

Didn't know they were still around!

GenericDev•4w ago
Unfortunately they are. They're a former shell of what they were. I think they're changing their focus to lenses or something. Last I heard they're partnering with Google and it's absolute ass. The company is effectively dead and being carved out for parts by Google is my take.

It's a real bummer because they were the only company I was actually interested in seeing pursue Augmented Reality. Now it's literally the most evil companies Meta, Google, and Apple.

The 90s optimism of future tech is dead and all that's left is whatever this is.

Analemma_•4w ago
Your sympathy is severely misplaced. Magic Leap was Theranos-sized fraud from the beginning: they never had the goods, put out a whole bunch of misleading hype to persuade consumers and gullible investors that they had the goods [0], and eventually it caught up to them. Good riddance.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9r2Z5v_E9o

goldenarm•4w ago
I agree they hyped the product too much, but contrary to Theranos, they did ship two products that actually moved AR tech forward. They just weren't efficient enough and the product market fit wasn't there. Even Apple is failing at AR.
robert_foss•4w ago
Sounds really interesting. CCC is an amazing event.
willk•4w ago
Here is the talk if anyone is interested: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-making-the-magic-leap-past-nvidi...
Graziano_M•4w ago
I hope Nvidia's new offerings (Orin, Thor, etc) don't have the same issue in their bootROM. That would be an incredibly expensive mistake.
userbinator•4w ago
I hope they do, for those who want actual ownership of what they bought.
bigyabai•4w ago
Yeah, I'm sure it sucks for the OEM but my Nintendo Switch would be abandonware if not for Hekate bootloader.
amelius•4w ago
Just curious, how fast can these embedded systems boot?
saidinesh5•4w ago
It really depends on the application.

With the similar/even weaker socs (imx6 etc..), in the automotive domain, we used to target sub 5 second latency.. we had to get rid of things like even init and directly start the application..

Eg: 1.5 seconds here: https://youtu.be/QbEYhQIjlQc

opello•4w ago
There's a popular slide deck[1] with common techniques for paring it back too.

[1] https://bootlin.com/doc/training/boot-time/boot-time-slides....

einsteinx2•4w ago
> The Tegra X2 is an SoC used in devices such as the Magic Leap One, and Tesla's Autopilot 2 & 2.5 promising a secure bootchain.

I guess they didn’t learn from the Tegra X1 which was famously responsible for the boot rom exploit on the original model of the Nintendo Switch.

Kototama•4w ago
They did: "Elise [...] worked in the past on Nintendo Switch hacking"

This was written on the original posted page (before the link was changed) when you commented.

einsteinx2•4w ago
Oh I meant Nvidia didn’t learn from that mistake, not the researcher. If I were Nvidia and had such a high profile hack of a customer’s product, I’d do everything in my power not to repeat it haha.
einsteinx2•4w ago
Here’s the video of the talk. Not sure why the schedule page was linked.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-making-the-magic-leap-past-nvidi...