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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
379•nar001•3h ago•183 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
111•bookofjoe•1h ago•87 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
421•theblazehen•2d ago•152 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
81•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•15 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
28•vinhnx•2h ago•4 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
774•klaussilveira•19h ago•240 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/
14•thelok•1h ago•0 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
34•samasblack•1h ago•19 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
50•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...
1021•xnx•1d ago•581 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
159•alainrk•4h ago•205 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
160•jesperordrup•9h ago•59 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
11•mellosouls•2h ago•11 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
10•marklit•5d ago•0 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•26 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
17•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

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

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
9•simonw•1h ago•3 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
35•matt_d•4d ago•9 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

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
261•isitcontent•19h ago•33 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
275•dmpetrov•20h ago•145 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
15•sandGorgon•2d ago•3 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
417•ostacke•1d ago•108 comments

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

https://vecti.com
361•vecti•21h ago•161 comments

What Is Ruliology?

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

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
334•eljojo•22h ago•206 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
456•lstoll•1d ago•298 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
371•aktau•1d ago•195 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo
108•tartoran•2h ago•30 comments
Open in hackernews

Adding insular script like it's 1626

https://www.djmurphy.net/blog/clo-gaelach/
91•sollewitt•1mo ago

Comments

dado3212•1mo ago
Love this and was my first introduction to the <ruby> HTML element (this feels like a great expanded use case). Also couldn't agree more re: your point on the resurrection of "old internet" blogs, it's a trend I'm very much enjoying.
rhdunn•1mo ago
Ruby is used extensively for Japanese (hiragana) and Chinese (bopomofo) -- you can see it on wiktionary, e.g. in the definition of manga [1]. The Rules for Simple Placement of Japanese Ruby spec [2] provides various examples of ruby formatting and layout.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manga#English [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/simple-ruby/

thatfunkymunki•1mo ago
really enjoyed reading this and learning about <ruby>.
lelandfe•1mo ago
Extremely cool and niche and what appears to be the blog's inaugural post: https://www.djmurphy.net/blog/

Added to the feed.

> It turns out the <ruby> element does not have defined screenreader behavior yet

"Yet" made me chuckle. It's coming soon!

lelandfe•1mo ago
Also: spot the skyline :)
Y_Y•1mo ago
Maiṫ ṫú, tá ſé ſeo an-ṁaiṫ ⁊ tacaím go hiomlán le hiarrachtaí den ſórt ſeo.

I'm somewhat disappointed that I couldn't find a unicode character corresponding to the "long r". Anyway this is peak typography and delighted to see efforts to put proper clóscríobh on the web. Pairs nicely with an ogham terminal.

edit: I just hadn't been looking hard enough, in Latin Extended-D there is indeed a "small letter insular r": ꞃ