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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
88•valyala•3h ago•61 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...
19•gnufx•1h ago•2 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
49•valyala•3h ago•10 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
164•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•209 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
136•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
5•mooreds•25m ago•2 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
81•vinhnx•6h ago•10 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
843•klaussilveira•23h ago•252 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
58•thelok•5h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1075•xnx•1d ago•615 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
10•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
284•ColinWright•2h ago•332 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
88•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
508•theblazehen•3d ago•187 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-...
29•josephcsible•1h ago•21 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
222•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 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...
227•alephnerd•3h ago•176 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
20•momciloo•3h ago•2 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

72M Points of Interest

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
242•alainrk•7h ago•385 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
592•nar001•7h ago•263 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
42•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
119•videotopia•4d ago•36 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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
87•speckx•4d ago•97 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
205•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
282•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

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

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

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
25•sandGorgon•2d ago•13 comments
Open in hackernews

BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5

https://github.com/amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh
90•rcarmo•3w ago

Comments

swiftcoder•3w ago
How performant is this - are we able to achieve similar speeds as an actual 68k Mac on embedded hardware?
iamflimflam1•3w ago
The P4 is pretty high spec with a 400MHz dual-core RISC-V
cardanome•3w ago
Especially as there is a decent working BasiliskII port for the PlayStation Portable with its 333MHz single-core MIPS CPU.

So this should be much easier.

vardump•3w ago
At 8 MHz, a 68k can execute at most 2M instructions per second. So the answer is going to be yes, if this manages to execute one 68k instruction per ~200 cycles.

I think executing an instruction is going to be closer to 20-50 cycles than 200, so it should be much faster than a real 68k CPU.

I think performance is likely to be in the ballpark of a 68040 @20 MHz, but that's just a guess. This would leave 20 cycles for each emulated instruction. With JIT you could reach 200 MHz+ comparable speeds.

rasz•3w ago
Everything is coming from PSRAM including frame buffer (at 15 fps) so performance is going to be abysmal.
vardump•3w ago
You should be able to cache hot code and data in the SRAM. Although it'd significantly increase complexity.
anthk•3w ago
VMac would be lighter.
bArray•3w ago
Looking at the M5Stack Tab5 IoT Development Kit [1] based on the ESP32-P4 - it's a really nice piece of kit.

[1] https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-tab5-iot-developme...

nottorp•3w ago
Yeah, the first thing I thought of when seeing this was "how long till this tablet thingy will be out of stock everywhere?".
zeckalpha•3w ago
Hoping rePalm ends up there, too! https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm
dmitrygr•3w ago
i am doing MIPS first (for V-tech Helio), but i will eventually
zeckalpha•3w ago
Awesome. I was looking at SASD for my Palm VII just yesterday. :)
jhbadger•3w ago
Pity that this isn't for the Cardputer (a M5Stack device that includes a built in (tiny) screen and keyboard), although it might be impractical on it.
stonogo•3w ago
I note that the vide coding tools managed to keep the license headers in individual files, but the COPYING file containing the GPL2 has not made the transition.