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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
102•guerrilla•3h ago•44 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
186•valyala•7h ago•34 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
110•surprisetalk•7h ago•116 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...
43•gnufx•6h ago•45 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
130•mellosouls•10h ago•280 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
880•klaussilveira•1d ago•269 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
129•vinhnx•10h ago•15 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
97•zdw•3d ago•46 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...
60•randycupertino•2h ago•90 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
96•samasblack•9h ago•63 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
265•jesperordrup•17h ago•86 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
167•valyala•7h ago•148 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
85•thelok•9h ago•18 comments

Eigen: Building a Workspace

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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
549•theblazehen•3d ago•203 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
49•momciloo•7h ago•9 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

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
48•amitprasad•1h ago•47 comments

Selection rather than prediction

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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
246•1vuio0pswjnm7•13h ago•388 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-...
80•josephcsible•5h ago•107 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
108•onurkanbkrc•12h ago•5 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
138•videotopia•4d ago•44 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
57•rbanffy•4d ago•17 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
215•limoce•4d ago•123 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
303•alainrk•12h ago•482 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
48•marklit•5d ago•9 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
121•speckx•4d ago•185 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
294•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments
Open in hackernews

Tux Paint

https://tuxpaint.org/
58•1317•4w ago

Comments

manbart•4w ago
Not sure if it’s relevant to anyone else, but my kids love this software and have been using it for years
jryan49•4w ago
My kids also have been using it for years on a regular basis and love it. They made tons of "movies".
bobowzki•3w ago
I use this with my daughter who is 4.5 and she loves it!
sevensor•3w ago
My kids have fond memories of TuxPaint as it was included in GCompris. All of GCompris is worth a look, although I think they liked TuxPaint best.
raudette•3w ago
Story to share - my kids are well into her their teens now, but my youngest, in particular, loved Tux Paint, and used it long before she could read, she'd just click away.

One day, she's playing in Tux Paint, and a print out of her image falls from the sky. We had a desk with shelving. Two shelves above the monitor was our printer. She'd clicked on the print button, without knowing what it would do, or for that matter, even knowing what a printer was or that we had one.

She was SO excited, "look, look, what I was drawing came out on paper from the ceiling"

hxbsbdgd•3w ago
That's adorable:)
olivierestsage•3w ago
This and GCompris are worth a look for any parent!
sliken•3w ago
I set up my kid, I think she was 3 or so, she started out with stamps of butterflies and the like. After awhile she looked at her hand, then mouse, then me, stared at me and said "ouch". I got a "travel" mouse that was half size or so, perfect for her hand and she loved using tux paint.

Don't forget to setup sound, preferably in stereo.

She used the hell out of it for years. One time on a call she was fascinated by fish. I printed out one of her drawings remotely while we were on the phone and she loved it.

sliken•3w ago
Not that I have to tell this crowd. Tuxpaint is free, get it from tuxpaint.org, do not buy it, do not download it as part of a "desktop". I was talking to the author, apparently it's sadly often used to trick people into buying or downloading malware.