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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
40•valyala•2h ago•17 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
221•ColinWright•1h ago•235 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
28•valyala•2h ago•3 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
128•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 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...
7•gnufx•1h ago•1 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
71•vinhnx•5h ago•9 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
836•klaussilveira•22h ago•251 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
127•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•159 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
178•alephnerd•2h ago•122 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
57•thelok•4h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1063•xnx•1d ago•613 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
85•onurkanbkrc•7h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
493•theblazehen•3d ago•178 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
215•jesperordrup•12h ago•77 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
14•momciloo•2h ago•0 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
231•alainrk•7h ago•364 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
575•nar001•6h ago•261 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
41•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
30•marklit•5d ago•3 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
114•videotopia•4d ago•35 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
80•speckx•4d ago•89 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
278•isitcontent•22h ago•38 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
289•dmpetrov•23h ago•156 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
201•limoce•4d ago•112 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-...
6•josephcsible•27m ago•1 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
558•todsacerdoti•1d ago•272 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
22•sandGorgon•2d ago•12 comments
Open in hackernews

AI Econ Seminar

https://cameron.stream/blog/econ-seminar/
8•forthwall•1mo ago

Comments

clbrmbr•4w ago
Can you make the presenter have a spine?
cpfiffer•3w ago
Probably, yeah. I was considering working with the agent to go have a sabbatical and come back as a mighty tenured professor.
BugsJustFindMe•4w ago
I feel like I need to flag this because this whole thing is 100% just "I instructed one LLM to be a moron and another one to be an asshole and you'll never guess what happened next!". Slop about slop about slop.

Also, in addition to it being another "look at this wacky LLM output" post, many of OP's summaries of what the agents did are egregious caricatures of the actual output if you bother to look at the actual linked details.

Compare...

OP's summary says:

> Dr. Chen: "If 16% of entry-level jobs disappeared, why is labor force participation only down 0.3%?

vs

https://cameron.stream/docs/econ-seminar/seminar-1-ai-labor/... says...

> "You've documented displacement in specific occupations and entry-level hiring patterns, but where's the aggregate labor market story? If AI genuinely reduces entry-level hiring in exposed sectors, are these 22-25 year-olds reallocating to non-exposed industries, or does your data suggest actual structural unemployment—and if so, shouldn't we see that reflected in your own aggregate wage and employment figures rather than the modest changes you cite?"

Neither the thesis evidence nor the actual agent output claim that "16% of entry-level jobs disappeared". That's only in OP's caricature summary.

> Dr. Roberts: "If AI complements experienced workers, their wages should be rising.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. *SNORT*. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Sorry, sorry. Now compare that vs:

https://cameron.stream/docs/econ-seminar/seminar-1-ai-labor/...

> "If AI truly is substituting for entry-level labor in high-wage occupations while complementing experienced workers, then by basic microeconomic theory—shifting the relative marginal products—we should observe wages for experienced workers in those occupations rising faster than wages for new entrants elsewhere. Yet your own evidence shows within-occupation wage inequality declined in AI-exposed fields. What's the theoretical mechanism that reconciles selective displacement of entry-level workers with flat or compressed wage differentials?"

Anyway.

cpfiffer•3w ago
Eh, it was a fun thing to fuck around with while I was testing something technical. If you think I am being rigorous in any way, you are sorely mistaken.
BugsJustFindMe•3w ago
> If you think I am being rigorous

I said the opposite.

petermcneeley•4w ago
An economist is to economy as to what an alchemist is to chemistry.
cpfiffer•3w ago
Noted