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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
91•guerrilla•2h ago•36 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
22•amitprasad•1h ago•3 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
176•valyala•7h ago•31 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
106•surprisetalk•6h ago•111 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...
41•gnufx•5h ago•43 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
95•zdw•3d ago•44 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
127•mellosouls•9h ago•269 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
876•klaussilveira•1d ago•268 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
165•AlexeyBrin•12h ago•29 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
124•vinhnx•10h ago•15 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...
57•randycupertino•2h ago•63 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
93•samasblack•9h ago•62 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
82•thelok•8h ago•16 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
263•jesperordrup•17h ago•84 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-...
26•mbitsnbites•3d ago•2 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
161•valyala•6h ago•144 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
546•theblazehen•3d ago•201 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
47•momciloo•6h ago•9 comments

Eigen: Building a Workspace

https://reindernijhoff.net/2025/10/eigen-building-a-workspace/
3•todsacerdoti•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Browser based state machine simulator and visualizer

https://svylabs.github.io/smac-viz/
8•sridhar87•4d ago•3 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
239•1vuio0pswjnm7•13h ago•377 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
22•languid-photic•4d ago•6 comments

Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
70•josephcsible•4h ago•97 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
107•onurkanbkrc•11h ago•5 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
137•videotopia•4d ago•43 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
56•rbanffy•4d ago•15 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
119•speckx•4d ago•169 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
299•alainrk•11h ago•473 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
682•nar001•11h ago•293 comments
Open in hackernews

Loongarch Improvements with Box64

https://box86.org/2026/01/new-box64-v0-4-0-released/
66•aaronday•1mo ago

Comments

thesnide•1mo ago
I'm wondering if we'll see some riscv extensions specifically designed to improve x86/amd64 emulation, such as what the M1 and other did.
Findecanor•1mo ago
Some upcoming chips are supposed to support switching individual processes to x86's "TSO" memory model. That might be the most significant extension that Apple has for x86 emulation: it allows eliding all memory fence instructions used to adapt to the weaker memory model.

LoongArch could have instructions that emulate specific x86 behaviour and flags, but there is practically no documentation available.

mort96•1mo ago
Is it just "some upcoming chips" inventing their own extensions? Or is this a standardized ARM extension?

Basically, will writing against these upcoming chips mean writing one implementation for Qualcomm, one implementation for Rockchip, one implementation for Samsung, etc? Or will it just require one implementation for the standard ARM "switch to total store ordering memory model" extension

snvzz•1mo ago
>Is it just "some upcoming chips" inventing their own extensions? Or is this a standardized ARM extension?

RISC-V has an official ratified extension for TSO, and a work-in-progress one for dynamic switching between RISC-V's standard memory model and TSO.

Findecanor•1mo ago
I'm sorry, I meant RISC-V, not ARM. So far the RISC-V standard has specified behaviour under the TSO memory model and a flag in the ELF header for code that has been compiled for TSO. There is not yet any ratified extension for dynamic switching of memory model but I'd expect anything vendor-specific to be wrapped behind a Linux syscall.
snvzz•1mo ago
Why editorialize the title?

Actual title is "New Box64 v0.4.0 released".

I get you're trying to summarize it, but what's most relevant depends on the person reading.