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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

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

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
43•zdw•3d ago•11 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
56•surprisetalk•3h ago•55 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
98•mellosouls•6h ago•176 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

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

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

I write games in C (yes, C)

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

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
69•samasblack•6h ago•52 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1094•xnx•1d ago•618 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

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

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
31•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
259•alainrk•8h ago•425 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
49•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
187•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•268 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
615•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/
348•ColinWright•3h ago•416 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
99•speckx•4d ago•117 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

Bluementhals letter about ICE memo justifying entry into homes without warrant [pdf]

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026-01-21-Letter-from-Blumenthal-to-DHS-ICE.pdf
70•rawgabbit•2w ago

Comments

Johnny_Bonk•2w ago
What/who is bluementhals?
nerdsniper•2w ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Blumenthal

The letter linked by this post is signed by the U.S. Senator.

> Richard Blumenthal

> Ranking Member

> Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

chiengineer•2w ago
This is 2026 in a nutshell

"Uggh chat gpt can you get these illegal kkk badge wearing nazis out of my house wtf man "

tom_•2w ago
Myself assumes they're point is that their should be some apostrophe's.
trhway•2w ago
20+ years ago it was torture memo. Similar principle of responsibility laundering - some government lawyer writes a memo that it is ok do to that thing (even when it is an obviously illegal thing), and the government agents go full speed ahead, and nobody held responsible after that.
chiengineer•2w ago
It wasnt just some rando totally unknown gov lawyer

He was south Korean and proud to sign it for bush and said so in multiple interviews he would do it all over again

John yoo

trhway•2w ago
>proud to sign it for bush and said so in multiple interviews he would do it all over again

why not if you can't be held responsible.

kccoder•2w ago
Morals, ethics, empathy, humanity, …
trhway•2w ago
well, we see time and time again what's left of "Morals, ethics, empathy, humanity, …" once the threat of consequences is removed.
dc396•2w ago
Yep, the "Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley." (perhaps ironically given the reputation of Berkeley).
nerdsniper•2w ago
From a tech perspective, I do find myself occasionally having interesting discussions with co-founders about what it means to be operating our business in a legal environment where the rule of law is diminished. Startups have often had to contend with variance in enforcement and interpretation.

Some of my favorite historical examples of startups who had to worry about uncertain rule of law are:

- Aereo[0]: Who tried their very best to follow the law diligently but got slapped down anyways.

- Uber[1]: Who blatantly broke the law so callously that they relied on gaps in the rule of law to enable their business model.

- Kim Dotcom[2]: A German-born citizen who had never set foot inside USA's jurisdiction found himself arrested by the FBI in helicopters storming his home in New Zealand. This emphasized that any founder needs to follow US law, no matter where they are operating.

In each case, it seemed that whoever had more money tended to win, rather than who had the letter of the law on their side.

0: https://archive.md/PJHhD

1: https://archive.md/tqk3W

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom

metalcrow•2w ago
I agree with your overall point, but for Kim's case, it seems it was actually NZ police who arrested him, no? NZ just decided to enforce US law because of mutual treaties.
nerdsniper•2w ago
Ah, you’re right. The reporting[0] at the time seemed to imply that a handful of FBI agents were present among the NZ officers during what was reported to be a "US-led raid". FBI agents evidently[1] left the country with physical evidence from the raid that NZ was supposed to keep custody of.

0: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/96384/fbi-agents-continu...

1: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/fbi-committed-illegal-ac...

spwa4•2w ago
So it was NZ choosing to violate it's own laws under pressure, just not quite as dramatically as reported?

Doesn't NZ have laws about not having a death penalty, and therefore it is impossible to extradite anyone that has 0.01% chance to get the death penalty?

nmfisher•2w ago
To clarify, Kim Dotcom was arrested by NZ police and is making his way through the NZ court system. It wasn't a Maduro situation. I'm not sure he's even been extradited yet (though that's the most likely outcome).
Bender•2w ago
Kim was operating a large amount of servers in the US at Equinix in Ashburn, VA. Apparently he had a presence in multiple countries that had legal relationships with the USA. Perhaps he could have chosen hosting in countries that do not cooperate with the USA but I don't know which those would have been for that scale of operation.
bayarearefugee•2w ago
It is completely unsurprising that this is happening.

It will be completely unsurprising that despite a "strongly worded letter" it will continue to happen and there will be no consequences despite the unconstitutionality.

The US Government and the very idea of a rule of law here are hopelessly broken and there is no obvious peaceful path to ever fixing it.

hshdhdhj4444•2w ago
The problem is that either a majority, or a large enough minority that due to how the U.S. constitution distributes power, of voters are absolutely fine with this.
bayarearefugee•2w ago
That is one of the major problems, yes.

Other problems include:

too many Americans just don't vote or pay attention to politics at all

the 3 branch system of government used in the US never foresaw or planned for a situation in which two of the branches would just simply abdicate their own power

ChrisArchitect•2w ago
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712279