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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
70•guerrilla•2h ago•26 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
155•valyala•6h ago•29 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
84•zdw•3d ago•37 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
90•surprisetalk•5h ago•94 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
122•mellosouls•8h ago•249 comments

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

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

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
161•AlexeyBrin•11h ago•29 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
117•vinhnx•9h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Browser based state machine simulator and visualizer

https://svylabs.github.io/smac-viz/
4•sridhar87•4d ago•2 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...
39•randycupertino•1h ago•41 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
42•mltvc•1h 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-...
24•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
83•samasblack•8h ago•59 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
28•swah•4d ago•31 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
74•thelok•7h ago•14 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
256•jesperordrup•16h ago•83 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
157•valyala•6h ago•136 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...
37•gnufx•4h ago•43 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
539•theblazehen•3d ago•197 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
42•momciloo•6h ago•5 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
8•jbegley•23m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
100•onurkanbkrc•10h 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/
220•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•339 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-...
58•josephcsible•3h ago•71 comments

72M Points of Interest

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

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
281•alainrk•10h ago•462 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•42 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
54•rbanffy•4d ago•15 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
659•nar001•10h ago•287 comments
Open in hackernews

CSS Optical Illusions

https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68091/css-optical-illusions
224•ulrischa•2w ago

Comments

moralestapia•2w ago
Wow, this is great!

I want to put some of them in my UIs.

herpdyderp•2w ago
I've often run into these unintentionally messing up my UIs!
encom•2w ago
These are all super dark, for some reason.
christophilus•2w ago
You have to actually run them. Otherwise, they're just a dark CodePen preview.
encom•2w ago
Why the extra step of having to click each one? Only a few of them are interactive.
d-us-vb•2w ago
Because codepens can run javascript. And if a page has 50 of them, it might make the page load time much longer. I know that all these examples are pure CSS, and maybe there is a setting in codepen to disable the "Run" button and automatically run it. Still, getting to decide is generally a better pattern than presuming that that's what the user wants, especially when the fact that the code is inside a codepen makes it explicitly not an integral function of the page. "I thought this was just a blog, and now you want me to run all this javascript??" -- some JS hater, probably.

I appreciate getting to choose as much as possible when code runs.

zamadatix•2w ago
Somewhat ironically, Codepen ended up introducing the JS execution requirement to view the content.
sandpaper26•2w ago
This is cool, but more as a demonstration of interesting CSS techniques than optical illusions in my opinion.

Also, interestingly, I seem to be able to force myself to "see through" all of these illusions except for induced gradients, which I can't stop seeing unless I cover part of the screen.

nilslindemann•2w ago
33 - color fan: There is another interesting optical illusion here: The fan seems to rotate faster when not directly looking at it.
myfonj•2w ago
These "dots appearing only while (not) focused" are known as "extinction illusions", namely

    "25 - Appearing Dots"
is "McAnany's type" [1], and

    "26 - Disappearing Dots"
is known as "Ninio's type" [2], according Akiyoshi Kitaoka's materials. (I have recreated them too few years ago [3][4], before getting to the source.)

[1] https://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/kieru3e.html#:~:text...

[2] https://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/kieru3e.html#:~:text...

[3] https://codepen.io/myf/full/XjdmJy ( scintillation warning)

[4] https://codepen.io/myf/full/jMqoMW ( scintillation warning)

layer8•2w ago
Heh, I used to do these in Excel.
eulgro•2w ago
They could make capchas out of these.
hiccuphippo•2w ago
"Please select the dancers spinning to the right"
brandon_bot•2w ago
Cool!

I did something similar for my personal favorite illusion, the Ames window illusion. Recreated with CSS: https://brandondong.github.io/blog/ames_window/

aj7•2w ago
What would be most interesting is using optical illusions to help decode how brain visual processing is done.
smusamashah•2w ago
This coca cola illusion is my favourite one https://gagadget.com/en/446542-a-photo-of-a-coca-cola-can-th...

Coca cola appears red when no red at all is used in whole image

flexagoon•2w ago
This is a great illusion, though I often see that people try to explain this (and a similar image of strawberries) as "our brain knows this object is supposed to be red so it fills in red", which is not what's happening - it's based on color contrast like many other optical illusions
mediumsmart•2w ago
The background on the can is a very light red. I know from painting murals that a light color close up looks darker from some distance.
hinkley•2w ago
I thought this was going to go the other way.

Worked on a project that wanted to make everything a different grayscale color. It was out of control already when someone one day complained that two pieces of text were a different color.

They weren’t. They were identical. But they were on two different background colors which make the optical illusion that they weren’t. And I reminded them for the twentieth time that we were using too goddamned much gray.

andredurao•2w ago
On #4 (White's Illusion) it looks like for me that the gray bar that is surrounded by black is brighter than the one surrounded by white instead of darker :#