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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
59•guerrilla•1h ago•22 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
151•valyala•5h ago•25 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
81•zdw•3d ago•32 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
86•surprisetalk•5h ago•91 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
26•swah•4d ago•19 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
19•martialg•58m ago•3 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
120•mellosouls•8h ago•237 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...
35•randycupertino•1h ago•33 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
160•AlexeyBrin•11h ago•28 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
866•klaussilveira•1d ago•266 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
116•vinhnx•8h ago•14 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
78•samasblack•8h ago•57 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
73•thelok•7h ago•13 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-...
22•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
157•valyala•5h ago•136 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
253•jesperordrup•15h ago•82 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...
36•gnufx•4h ago•41 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
535•theblazehen•3d ago•197 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
100•onurkanbkrc•10h ago•5 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
39•momciloo•5h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
19•languid-photic•4d ago•5 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
213•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•326 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-...
54•josephcsible•3h ago•67 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
276•alainrk•10h ago•454 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
129•videotopia•4d ago•41 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
52•rbanffy•4d ago•14 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
650•nar001•9h ago•284 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
41•sandGorgon•2d ago•17 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
109•speckx•4d ago•149 comments
Open in hackernews

All your OpenCodes belong to us

https://johncodes.com/archive/2026/01-18-all-your-opencodes/
43•jpmcb•2w ago

Comments

geoffmanning•2w ago
The one thing here confusing to me is the past tense used throughout. This CVE seems presented as both past and present, yet the present evidence isn't... Presented.
jpmcb•2w ago
True: but technically the CVE was mitigated by OpenCode by after 1.1.10

* Not running the server by default * Patched the wide open CORS policy which left the server open to execution by any page you visited.

The server is still there but you have to explicitly enable it via `opencode serve`

The original disclosure has a table of fixes that have landed: https://cy.md/opencode-rce/

kachapopopow•2w ago
I don't know if I missed something, but this CVE isn't that major as it was suggested to be? For one it had to originate from app.opencode.com and even if it didn't most (good) browsers block websites from probing localhost. Yes it is still a pretty bad CVE, but not as critical as some might suggest.
rafram•2w ago
> For one it had to originate from app.opencode.com

No, that was the initial mitigation! Before the vulnerability was reported, the server was accessible to the entire world with a wide-open CORS policy.

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/commit/7d2d87fa2c44e32...

ofrzeta•2w ago
How is it wide open? Does everything go through a localhost proxy?
rafram•2w ago
Not sure what you mean by that, but before they implemented any mitigations, it had a CORS policy that allowed requests from any origin. As far as I know, Chromium is the only browser platform that has blocked sites from connecting to localhost, so users of other browsers would be vulnerable, and so would Chrome users if they could be convinced to allow a localhost connection.
keyle•2w ago
Great write up.

These local agents that you spawn and give access to your drive are kind of insane to me.

It's at the level of

     /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://somescriptofftheinternet
which you cannot inspect, and may be well different every time you interact with it!

As per usual, being at the forefront of the tech world is leaving behind privacy and security in the dust... until something bad happens.

add-sub-mul-div•2w ago
Historically at least there have been some established high trust projects for which curl | bash made sense. But with AI the scene is full of grifters and vibe coders so we can't have nice things.
globular-toast•2w ago
Not for me. I was running these things in sandboxes from the start. Couldn't believe people were running this stuff straight up.
CoolCold•2w ago
> a RCE vulnerability is the type of thing that nation state actors in Russia and North Korea dream of

Does this mean other state actors are beyond needs of RCE vulns as their tools belt and North Korea and Russia lagging behind? Some other interpretation from security-involved practitioners here - like, I don't know - we already have Pegasus, phew on OpenCode RCE?

jpmcb•2w ago
> Does this mean other state actors are beyond needs of RCE vulns

No, from experience, any nation state actor would love to take advantage of a RCE vuln: this was painted from the perspective of Bottlerocket which is in use by DoD, NSA, etc.

Const-me•2w ago
I have a hypothesis why issues like that are so widespread. That AI infrastructure is mostly developed by large companies; their business model is selling software as a service at scale. Hence containers, micro-services, TCP/IP in between. That approach is reasonable for data centres because these made of multiple servers i.e. need networking, and they have private virtual networks just to connect servers so the security consequences aren’t too bad.

If they were designing these infrastructure pieces primarily for consumer use, they would have used named pipes, Unix domain sockets, or some other local-only IPC method instead of TCP/IP.

notnullorvoid•2w ago
Wild that people don't run these kind of AI agent tools in isolated containers. They seem crazy dangerous even without CVEs.