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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
38•thelok•2h ago•3 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
101•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•18 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
51•samasblack•3h ago•37 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
789•klaussilveira•20h ago•242 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
38•vinhnx•3h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
462•theblazehen•2d ago•165 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1040•xnx•1d ago•587 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
506•nar001•4h ago•234 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
48•mellosouls•3h ago•49 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
183•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
63•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•59 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
186•alainrk•5h ago•280 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
27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
15•0xmattf•2h ago•7 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
19•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
108•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
58•speckx•4d ago•62 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
268•isitcontent•20h ago•34 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
169•bookofjoe•2h ago•152 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
197•limoce•4d ago•107 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
281•dmpetrov•21h ago•150 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•47 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
548•todsacerdoti•1d ago•266 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
422•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
37•matt_d•4d ago•13 comments

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

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•23h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
465•lstoll•1d ago•305 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
341•eljojo•23h ago•209 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
66•helloplanets•4d ago•70 comments
Open in hackernews

I'd tell you a UDP joke…

https://www.codepuns.com/post/805294580859879424/i-would-tell-you-a-udp-joke-but-you-might-not-get
188•redmattred•3w ago

Comments

senthil_rajasek•3w ago
Here is an ICMP joke,

- Knock Knock

- Who's there?

- Thank you

redmattred•3w ago
If you want to hear a great ICMP joke just ping me
burnt-resistor•3w ago
Failed to shout it loud enough to make an echo. It TTL'ed 3 hops away.
blorenz•3w ago
This was out of order.
redmattred•3w ago
Well played
damnitbuilds•3w ago
Did I get it ?

Ulster says NO! :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Democratic_Party

https://youtu.be/M1sCNdfMMZA?t=19

travisd•3w ago
packets udp bar walk a into
kachapopopow•3w ago
ok this might sound crazy, but at first I completely missed the joke because it automatically rearranged the entire sentance into udp packets walked into a bar. I wonder how that works psychologically.
lostlogin•3w ago
> I completely missed the joke because it automatically rearranged the entire sentance into udp packets walked into a bar.

Same here.

jbotz•3w ago
You don't read a word at a time... every typical line of text is taken in with 2 or 3 eye focal points and the meaning of each group of words is determined in a single chunk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade#Reading
bitwize•3w ago
2 FORTH PROGRAMMERS BAR INTO WALK
memset•3w ago
In the same vein, here are some goodies:

- Jon Skeet facts: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact...

- Chuck Norris facts: http://www.betterprogramming.com/chuck-norris-programming-fa...

wizzwizz4•3w ago
Bruce Schneier Facts: https://www.schneierfacts.com/
mlhpdx•3w ago
There are two kinds of people when it comes to UDP.
lucb1e•3w ago
Which are those?

Btw, it reminds me of "10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don't"

d34th0rl1f3•3w ago
those who get it, and ...
lucb1e•3w ago
Ah, right! :D
fragmede•3w ago
There are 11 kinds of people that understand binary. Those that understand binary, those that don't understand binary, and those that understand grey code.
Gibbon1•3w ago
ght get it liYou mike this though
MarkusWandel•3w ago
"get not you might it but"
blacklion•3w ago
There was list of such jokes for 40+ protocols, past and present, but I cannot find it anymore, only small part on different blogs and forums :(
zamadatix•3w ago
This may not be the exact one you were thinking of but very similar kind of collection: https://attrition.org/misc/ee/protolol.txt
burnt-resistor•3w ago
Put a cork in it.
Polizeiposaune•3w ago
IP UDP we all P for TCP
DonHopkins•3w ago
IBM, UBM, we all BM for IBM!
irishcoffee•3w ago
I think I prefer the punchline “I don’t expect you to get it, and it’s not a big deal if you don’t, happens to everyone”
divbzero•3w ago
Or alternatively:

> I would UDP joke tell you a… but you get it might not.

Neywiny•3w ago
Or alternatively:

> I would UDP joke tell you a… but you get it might not.

kuekacang•3w ago
> A UDP joke I would tell you... but you might get it not
LeoPanthera•3w ago
"Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"OK, I'll tell you a TCP joke."

"Ok, I will hear a TCP joke."

"Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke."

"Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline."

"Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline."

"I'm sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"

Izmaki•3w ago
This one is the only one among the 10+ I browsed through on the website and read in the comments that actually made me laugh. Good one! Thanks for sharing. :)
karmakurtisaani•3w ago
Yeah most of those "jokes" boil down to taking a common programming keyword and using it in a sentence.
CPLX•3w ago
I'd share my joke about HTTP here, but it makes me feel insecure.
lsc4719•3w ago
Mix it with TLS joke
layer8•3w ago
200 OK
dmurray•3w ago
I was asked in an interview to explain the difference between TCP and UDP.

I knew about enough to fill an index card: enough for an adequate interview answer, but not enough that I would relish getting follow-up questions.

While deciding what to say I started with this joke. The interviewer laughed and moved on to the next question. I got the job offer.

charcircuit•3w ago
You can't guarantee delivery of any message. This is the basis of the 2 generals problem.
bigstrat2003•3w ago
I can tell you a DNS joke, but be aware that it might take 8 hours for everyone to get it.
cylemons•3w ago
DNS is slow? or you mean domain updates
w-ll•3w ago
I've updated the joke, refresh on your end.
omoikane•3w ago
This looks like a tumblr site, which means you can get all the content on one page instead of having to page through them one at a time:

https://www.codepuns.com/archive

redmattred•3w ago
That’s correct
ericcumbee•3w ago
An SQL Query walks into a bar and sees two table....he says "Mind if I join you?"
spiffytech•3w ago
I used this during a "geeky jokes" icebreaker at work. No one got the joke so I just sounded condescending. Lesson learned.
kmoser•3w ago
What did one broke programmer say to the other?

"Hey, buddy, can you paradigm?"

Zobat•3w ago
There's two hard problems in programming. Naming things, cache invalidation and off by one errors.
yencabulator•3w ago
The great thing about TLS jokes is that you can tell if it's not original.
yencabulator•3w ago
The bad thing about reliable multicast jokes is that you're asked to repeat them.
0ldblu3•3w ago
The wording I use is "I have a great UDP joke I could tell you... but I don't know if you'll get it".
effnorwood•3w ago
but ICMP took my beer