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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
96•valyala•4h ago•16 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
43•zdw•3d ago•7 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...
23•gnufx•2h ago•19 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
55•surprisetalk•3h ago•54 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
97•mellosouls•6h ago•174 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
100•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
143•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
850•klaussilveira•1d ago•258 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
138•valyala•4h ago•109 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
68•samasblack•6h ago•52 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-...
7•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1093•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
64•thelok•6h ago•10 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
235•jesperordrup•14h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
519•theblazehen•3d ago•191 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
94•onurkanbkrc•9h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
13•languid-photic•3d ago•4 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
30•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
258•alainrk•8h ago•425 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
186•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•264 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
48•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
614•nar001•8h ago•272 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
36•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
347•ColinWright•3h ago•412 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
124•videotopia•4d ago•39 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
99•speckx•4d ago•115 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
33•sandGorgon•2d ago•15 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
211•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
288•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
20•brudgers•5d ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

We Gave Our Browser Agent a 3MB Data Warehouse

https://100x.bot/a/we-gave-our-browser-agent-a-3mb-data-warehouse
37•shardullavekar•3w ago

Comments

kbdiaz•3w ago
Yeah, this is the natural next step. We're currently combining LLMs and compute -- mostly in the form of giving agents tools, then terminal access and now most recently sandboxes. The most logical next step is to give them specialized compute engines and frameworks for their tasks.

I've been building SQL agents recently, and nothing is better than just giving it access to Trino.

charcircuit•3w ago
>You import heavy libraries just to do fuzzy string matching.

So instead of a heavy library for string matching you use a heavy library for a whole SQL engine which includes fuzzy string matching?

odo1242•3w ago
Instead of having the AI write JavaScript code that does fuzzy string matching operations, they have it write SQL.
smithclay•3w ago
This is an emerging pattern that’s surprisingly powerful: thick clients that embed wasm query engines (pglite, duckdb) and do powerful analytics (with or without AI agents writing the queries).

Below are two examples using duckdb under the hood for similar purposes. Like the author, excited for this type of architecture making semi-advanced analytics more attainable if you’re not a data engineer.

- https://pandas-ai.com/ - https://marimo.io/

kristianp•3w ago
There's no explanation of what 3MB in the title means.
arjunchint•2w ago
We actually got around this by just using Google Sheets as a memory layer, this solves the underlying problem and has other benefits:

- its free

- its remote, so no local resource use and persists

- user can check results after as well as share

Quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sas8iWMCBA4