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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
115•valyala•4h ago•19 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
52•zdw•3d ago•17 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...
28•gnufx•3h ago•22 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
62•surprisetalk•4h ago•72 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
103•mellosouls•7h ago•186 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
3•guerrilla•37m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

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

https://openciv3.org/
855•klaussilveira•1d ago•261 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1097•xnx•1d ago•620 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
71•samasblack•6h ago•51 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-...
10•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
16•vedantnair•39m ago•9 comments

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

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

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
143•valyala•4h ago•119 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
242•jesperordrup•14h ago•81 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
522•theblazehen•3d ago•194 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

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•10 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
193•1vuio0pswjnm7•11h ago•282 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
261•alainrk•9h ago•434 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

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

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
102•speckx•4d ago•124 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
35•sandGorgon•2d ago•16 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
213•limoce•4d ago•119 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
290•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments
Open in hackernews

Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/rubin-platform-ai-supercomputer
55•TSiege•1mo ago

Comments

TSiege•1mo ago
Extreme Codesign Across NVIDIA Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU and Spectrum-6 Ethernet Switch Slashes Training Time and Inference Token Generation Cost

Technical details available here https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-the-nvidia-rubin-pl...

Groxx•1mo ago
... it took a couple searches to figure out that "extreme codesign" wasn't actually code-signing, but "co-design" like "stuff that was designed to work together"
alfalfasprout•1mo ago
same I was so confused
pyuser583•1mo ago
Me too. Good style says to avoid creating words with dashes - it’s Un-American. But clarity matters more than rules.
gilrain•1mo ago
Is there any American style guide that insists hyphens be avoided even when a closed compound would cause ambiguity? I follow Chicago, but I imagine other style guides also already emphasise clarity.
mortehu•1mo ago
Wouldn't "code sign" be two words in English? And "code signing" rather than "code sign"?
Groxx•1mo ago
Mostly yes, and I prefer it that way, but it does get smashed into a single word sometimes. "co-design" I've mostly only seen hyphenated, though I don't see it often enough or in broad enough contexts to really claim anything about the frequency in a general sense.

Maybe it's caused by `codesign` tools? Like `codesign --extreme` which probably requires two signers to sign one thing?

utopiah•1mo ago
Even << "co-design" like "stuff that was designed to work together" >> sound strange to me. Typically when I read about co-design is stuff that was designed together, by more than 1 party.
metalliqaz•1mo ago
Elon's emoji-filled blurb for that press release is the most cringe things I've seen this week.
cinntaile•1mo ago
I find all the blurbs weird, do they usually include that? If not, why now? It doesn't look professional.
bredren•1mo ago
I think it is interesting. Is there any other company in a position today that could put together endorsement quotes from such high ranking people across tech?

Also: Tim Cook / Apple is noticeably absent.

utopiah•1mo ago
That's because of financial links. They are so intertwined propping up the same bubble they are absolutely going to share quotes instantly. FWIW just skimmed through and the TL;DR sounds to me like "Look at the cool kid, we play together, we are cool too!" without obviously any information, anything meaningful or insightful, just boring marketing BS>
mrandish•1mo ago
> They are so intertwined propping up the same bubble they are absolutely going to share quotes instantly.

Reading this line, I had a funny image form of some NVidia PR newbie reflexively reaching out to Lisa Su for a supporting quote and Lisa actually considering it for a few seconds. The AI bubble really has reached a level of "We must all hang together or we'll surely hang separately".

XorNot•1mo ago
Why is that interesting?
bredren•1mo ago
It could be an indicator that Apple is not as leveraged up on NVIDIA as to provide a quote. Cook did make a special one of a kind product for the current POTUS, so he is nothing if not pragmatic.
saaaaaam•1mo ago
Quotes from known names in a boring corporate press release are absolutely standard. It gives journalists a hook to build a story. “Elon Musk says new Nvidia tech is…”
cinntaile•3w ago
You're right they usually do this, I checked some press release from last year. The big difference is that it's now the CEO that had to write the blurb instead of (e.g.) a vice president of product.
saaaaaam•3w ago
Yeah I imagine that when the stakes are as high as they are with Nvidia they pull out the biggest names possible, partly to drive media but also as social proof. “All these important CEOs are prepared to go on the record - not just corporate droids who have to because it’s their job”.
dataking•1mo ago
Because standing out gets attention?
saaaaaam•1mo ago
I wonder what the significance of a green heart is, in Elon-world.
dannersy•1mo ago
Riveting.
codyb•1mo ago
If their new platform reduces inference token cost by 10x, does that play well or not well with the recently updated GPU deprecation schedules companies have been playing with to reduce projected cost outlays?

For context, my understanding is that companies have recently moved to mark their expected GPU deprecation cycles from 3 years to as high as 6 which has huge impacts on projected expenditures.

I wonder what the step was for the Blackwell platform from the previous. Is this slower which might indicate that the slower deprecation cycle is warranted, or faster?

m3kw9•1mo ago
but token required for quality generation may increase as much very soon.
codyb•1mo ago
Yea, definitely a good point. Going to be interesting to see how it plays out. I definitely do not have the expertise to answer the question
UltraSane•1mo ago
Companies are playing games with GPU depreciation.
causal•1mo ago
Unsure why you were downvoted; I'm curious to understand this comment. Playing finance and accounting games I presume you mean.
UltraSane•4w ago
Yes they are depreciating GPUs for longer than usual time periods like 6 years.
cmxch•4w ago
The only thing learned from structured finance was to lock regular people out.
drexlspivey•1mo ago
No way you throw away Blackwell GPUs after just 3 years. Google runs 8 year old TPUs still at 100% utilization. Why would you depreciate them in just 3 years?
ryanmcgarvey•1mo ago
The conversation around GPU lifecycles seems to be conflating the various shear rates within the data center. My layman understanding is that the old 3 year replacement cycle had more to do with some component, not necessarily the memory or the processor, going wrong for half of their units by 3 years, at which point GPUs were cheap enough and advancing faster enough that it was more cost effective to upgrade than to fix. However, that calculus changes completely when the GPU and the HBM are orders of magnitude more expensive than the rest of the system. I suspect that we will see repairs being done on on the various brittle bits of the system and the actual core expensive components will continue to operate much longer than 3 years.
Animats•1mo ago
Their own CPU, too - 88 ARM cores.

So it's an all-NVidia solution - CPU, interconnects, AI GPUs.

tibbydudeza•4w ago
Afaik MediaTek helped them with the CPU part.
2OEH8eoCRo0•1mo ago
Rebuild all the data centers!
metalliqaz•1mo ago
lol haven't even started building half the Blackwell datacenters yet
mk_stjames•1mo ago
Whenever I see press on these new 'rack scale' systems, the first thing I think is something along the lines of: "man I hope the BIOS and OS's and whatnot supporting these racks are relatively robust and documented/open sourced enough so that 40 years from now when you can buy an entire rack system for $500, some kid in a garage will be able to boot and run code on these".
wmf•1mo ago
The firmware is UEFI and Vera should have good upstream support. The GPU driver is proprietary though, so you'll have to dig up the last supported version from 2036.
criemen•1mo ago
What's the power hookup to just boot one rack? I'd imagine that's more than you get anywhere in residential areas for a single house.
embedding-shape•1mo ago
Hopefully in 40 years we'll all be running miniature cold fusion power or something, so we can avoid burning the planet to the ground.
MisterTea•1mo ago
Depends on the residence. I have personally seen a large house in Brooklyn with dual 200 amp 120/208 volt three phase services (two meters, each feeding a panel.) I have seen someone setup an old SGI rack scale Origin 3000 systems in their garage. I think they even had an electrician upgrade their service to accommodate it.
wmf•1mo ago
170 kW
pureagave•4w ago
100% this. But don't forget the garden hose running full blast so you can cool it! It's not impossible to get up and running for fun for an hour, but this isn't a run 24/7 kinda setup any more than getting an old mainframe running in one's garage is practical.
exacube•1mo ago
does anyone know how well this 5x petaflop improvement translates to real world performance?

I know that memory bandwidth tends to be a big limiting factor, but I'm trying to understand how this factors into it its overall perf, compared to blackwell.

wmf•1mo ago
The blog post has more technical details and fewer quotes from customers: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-the-nvidia-rubin-pl...
mrandish•4w ago
That link was somewhat clearer, thanks.

As a software guy who follows chip evolution more at a macro level like: new design + process node enabling better cores/tiles/units/clocks + new architecture enabling better caches, busses, I/O == better IPC, bandwidth, latency and throughput at given budget (cost, watts, heat, space) - I've yet to find anything which gives a sense of Rubin's likely lift vs the prior generation that's grounded in macro-but-concrete specs (such as cores, tiles, units, clocks, caches, busses, IPC, bandwidth, latency, throughput).

Edit: I found something a bit closer after scrolling down on a sub-link from the page you linked (https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-the-nvidia-rubin-pl...).

alecco•4w ago
For dev info we'll need to wait for GTC 2026 March 16–19. CES is just hype.
wmf•4w ago
They're intentionally drip-feeding information over time until the actual release.