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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
124•valyala•4h ago•22 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
9•guerrilla•47m ago•2 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
57•zdw•3d ago•21 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...
29•gnufx•3h ago•24 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
3•randycupertino•7m ago•1 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
65•surprisetalk•4h ago•79 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
104•mellosouls•7h ago•198 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
147•AlexeyBrin•10h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
107•vinhnx•7h ago•14 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
856•klaussilveira•1d ago•262 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
5•mltvc•43m ago•1 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
23•vedantnair•49m ago•14 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1101•xnx•1d ago•619 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
71•samasblack•7h ago•51 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
246•jesperordrup•14h ago•82 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
67•thelok•6h ago•12 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
12•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
146•valyala•4h ago•122 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
524•theblazehen•3d ago•195 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
34•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
95•onurkanbkrc•9h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
15•languid-photic•3d ago•5 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
39•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
198•1vuio0pswjnm7•11h ago•289 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
51•rbanffy•4d ago•11 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
627•nar001•8h ago•277 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
263•alainrk•9h ago•437 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
126•videotopia•4d ago•40 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
103•speckx•4d ago•129 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
37•sandGorgon•2d ago•17 comments
Open in hackernews

SQLNet A social network that looks like Twitter but you write SQL to do anything

https://sqlnet.cc
60•colinbartlett•1mo ago

Comments

_boffin_•1mo ago
Beautiful. Love the weirdness of it.
lenvl•1mo ago
Thanks!
somat•1mo ago
Here is my take on the subject, in my case I was more curious what a shared public postgres server would feel like.

https://www.public.outband.net

It's a bit rough and lives on an old router in my closet so be gentle.

cbdevidal•1mo ago
Broken link
somat•1mo ago
Unfortunately the whole thing is ip6 only. A side effect of how I wired everything up. I run the whole thing from my closet over an free he ip6 tunnel.
x______________•1mo ago
try https://web.archive.org/web/20250224200029/https://www.publi...
arjie•1mo ago
This is fun. I thought at first it was my TERMINFO (xcolor-ghostty) but it's actually that it just takes a short while to load in the SSH public key before you can login.

Sadly I can't see anyone else's databases. I thought that's where the fun would be! Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Anyway, look in prespecialize.public.messages for a message!

I tried putting something at https://www.public.outband.net/home/prespecialize/index.html but I must have the permissions wrong, alas! Anyway, fun project :)

I thought it was clever you used IPv6. Places a tiny little barrier to entry.

somat•1mo ago
Every person gets their own postgres schema, sort of a namespace, other peoples tables will be under name.table but they have to grant access. something like "grant usage on schema myname to public_user; grant select on best_books to public_user;" or use row level security to grant controlled updates. create policy book_mod on best_books using (uid = current_user); grant insert(book, review) on best_books to public_user; grant update(book, review) on best_books to public_user;

an example is foregoer.collab_data

It looks like I left a bad public_html link in new accounts home directory the path is actually /var/www/(user_name)/ a fix could be "rm public_html; ln -s /var/www/${LOGNAME} public_html but I will probably go through and fix them administrativly

insomniacity•1mo ago
ERROR: timeout exceeded

:(

lenvl•1mo ago
Sorry, I was asleep. Just realized I got a ton of users overnight. Looking into :)
lenvl•1mo ago
Hey, this is the author of SQLnet. Feel free to ask me anything about this project.
victorbjorklund•1mo ago
This is so funny! Love it.
pseudocomposer•1mo ago
Neat! Missed opportunity to name it “SQLer” (squealer) though.
wolttam•1mo ago
I suggest updating the login form's "query" to:

  SELECT token, user_id FROM users
  WHERE username = '____'
  AND password = HASH('____')
  -- Or maybe: AND password_verify(password, '____')
  LIMIT 1;
I assume you are already hashing passwords, but the current login form's 'UI query' is enough to raise questions
lenvl•1mo ago
Sounds good. I'm currently offline, due to migration to a different env. But I'll add this.
lenvl•1mo ago
Back online. Proudly hosted on Raspberry PI, lol
datancoffee•1mo ago
Name sounded familiar. Read the post, loved the weirdness of it. Then, flashback. Oracle sqlnet! The original distributed processing framework of the greybeards and Oak Table knights. Anyone remember Oak Table?
lenvl•1mo ago
Lol, I didn't know about Oracle sqlnet at that moment