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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
233•theblazehen•2d ago•68 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
694•klaussilveira•15h ago•206 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
6•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•0 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
962•xnx•20h ago•555 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
130•matheusalmeida•2d ago•35 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
67•videotopia•4d ago•6 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
54•jesperordrup•5h ago•24 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
37•kaonwarb•3d ago•27 comments

ga68, the GNU Algol 68 Compiler – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
10•matt_d•3d ago•2 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
236•isitcontent•15h ago•26 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
233•dmpetrov•16h ago•125 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
32•speckx•3d ago•21 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
11•__natty__•3h ago•0 comments

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

https://vecti.com
335•vecti•17h ago•147 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
502•todsacerdoti•23h ago•244 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
386•ostacke•21h ago•97 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
300•eljojo•18h ago•186 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•185 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
425•lstoll•21h ago•282 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
68•kmm•5d ago•10 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
96•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
21•bikenaga•3d ago•11 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
19•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•5 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
265•i5heu•18h ago•216 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
33•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
64•gfortaine•13h ago•28 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/
1076•cdrnsf•1d ago•460 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...
39•gmays•10h ago•13 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
298•surprisetalk•3d ago•44 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
154•vmatsiiako•20h ago•72 comments
Open in hackernews

PgX – Debug Postgres performance in the context of your application code

https://docs.base14.io/blog/introducing-pgx/
38•rshetty•1mo ago

Comments

muteh•4w ago
what does it do? the page doesn't even mention a product until near the end and then...doesn't explain?
chatmasta•4w ago
At this point I’m closing posts after skimming the subheadings that haven’t even been changed from obvious LLM output.
rnjn•4w ago
founder at base14 here, the company that is building Scout. Thanks for the feedback, I will work on bettering my messaging. Scout is an otel-native observability platform (data lake, UI, alerts, analytics, mcp, the works). We are building some specialised explorers (suffix 'X' for explorers) like pgX for postgres. Essentially we are building telemetry readers for components that send relevant metrics and logs through to a telemetry data lake. for each component/domain we find from experts what they look at for analysis and incidents, and bring that to a full stack "unified" dashboard. and we go beyond what a regular prometheus endpoint provides. thanks again.
sublinear•4w ago
> The engineer is forced into manual correlation: jumping between dashboards, aligning timelines by eye, [and] inferring causality from coincidence

I just generate a random UUID in the application and make sure to log it everywhere across the entire stack along with a timestamp.

Any old log aggregator can give me an accurate timeline grouped by request UUID across every backend component all in one dashboard.

It's the very first thing that I have the application do when handling a request. It's injected it at the log handler level. There's nothing to break and nothing to think about.

So, I have no problem knowing precise cause and effect with regard to all logs for a given isolated request, but I agree that there may be blips that affect multiple requests (outages, etc.). We have synthetic tests for outages though.

I too am struggling to understand what this tool does beyond grouping all logs by a unique request identifier.

iaaan•4w ago
If you use OpenTelemetry, it basically does exactly that and you can send traces to some self-hosted FOSS visualizer, like Jaeger. You can also easily get the UUID of the spans/traces and have your logger automatically put them in every log message.
sublinear•4w ago
I have no doubt there are many tools, but I specifically mentioned my solution because it doesn't require any tools at all and just a matter of log hygiene.

They spend the whole page talking about a scenario that I've only seen happen in production when there were no app devs involved and people are allergic to writing a log format string let alone a single line of code.

rnjn•4w ago
founder at base14 here, the company that is building Scout. Thanks for the feedback. we do something similar for tracing as well, but pgX does a bit more than that - engineers should be able to trace (like you mention) and see and analyse the condition of the DB. for eg - correlate query slowdown to locks, vacuums etc. all on one screen, or a couple of clicks. We are building some specialised explorers like pgX for postgres. Essentially we are building telemetry readers for components that send relevant metrics and logs through to a telemetry data lake. for each component/domain we find from experts what they look at for analysis and incidents, and bring that to a full stack "unified" dashboards/mcp.

Scout is our otel-native observability product (data lake, UI, alerts, analytics, mcp, the works). what we call pgX in the blog is an add-on to Scout.

hrimfaxi•4w ago
Looked for a way to install/actually set up something.

> Before configuring pgX, you need to set up PostgreSQL metrics collection:

Click the link.

> Prerequisites > PostgreSQL instance > Scout account and API credentials > Scout Collector installed and configured (see Quick Start)

Multiple clicks to find out I need a separate account somewhere (wth is scout?). That's gonna be a no from me dawg.

At least when places like Datadog do content marketing they provide ways to monitor the services using tools that don't require paying them money.

selcuka•4w ago
> wth is scout?

This is a feature of an observability product called Scout. It's not a standalone tool.

cronelius•4w ago
There is a popular postgres client for Go called pgx. This naming will likely sow confusion
PhilippGille•4w ago
Naming conflict with pgx, a popular Postgres driver for Go: https://github.com/jackc/pgx