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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
60•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•33 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

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

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
19•martialg•59m ago•3 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
120•mellosouls•8h ago•239 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...
36•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

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
26•swah•4d ago•19 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
53•rbanffy•4d ago•14 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
651•nar001•9h ago•285 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

Is it worth it? (2021)

https://griffin.com/blog/is-it-worth-it
21•todsacerdoti•1w ago

Comments

Archelaos•1w ago
Reminds me of the Info-Dialogue-Box I removed from an application last year. This saved perhaps 1 second to click it away each time it was shown. I estimated that it shows up about 3,000 times a month in the company. This means 36,000 times a year, or 180,000 times in 5 years, that is equivalent to 50 hours. -- It took me perhaps 10 minutes to remove it, including tests. With average labour costs of 50 Euros per hours for the users, the company is going to save about 2,500 Euros over a period of 5 years.
Cthulhu_•1w ago
Possibly related, the other day I removed a few dozen iOS simulators, but each one triggered a confirmation popup (they stacked, lol). But I noticed that with this version of MacOS, each one animates away, and the animation has to be finished before the next one disappears. Disabling animations / reducing motion makes these dialog appear / disappear animations go away and the interactions a lot snappier.

I wanted to reduce the animation time of switching screens / workspaces as well but reducing motion just changes it from a swipe to a fade animation, which wasn't any better for me.

dissent•1w ago
The conclusion of the article is "yes", because you usually end up saving more time in the long run than you think.

But there's an even better reason. Consistency, encapsulation of process, and a form of self documentation. This is the real goal - the time savings are a bonus.

Cyan488•1w ago
One of my first visible actions when working at a new company is to recommend the search software Voidtools Everything, and to set a 30 minute meeting to teach people how to use it.

For the next 6-12 months I get so much positive feedback about all the time that is saved while navigating the network drives.

I joke that the efficiency gains from its introduction organization-wide alone pay my salary!

xnx•1w ago
Can't be emphasized enough how useful this tool is and how insane it is that it is not native to Windows (even after 40 years).

I wish Everything that head easier search bookmarking and/or tabbed interface.

RetroTechie•1w ago
> A company of 100 engineers should probably have 10-20% of the team allocated to just internal tools and making things go faster.

But beware of Jevons paradox.

Say that eg. a software project has 10 developers, and each build takes ~15 minutes. Most developers would take at least some care to check their patches, understand how they work etc, before submitting. And then discuss follow-on steps with their team over a coffee.

Now imagine near-instant builds. A developer could copy-paste a fix & hit "submit", see "oh that doesn't work, let's try something else", and repeat. You'll agree that probably wouldn't help to improve the codebase quality. It would just increase the # of non-functional patches that can be tested & rejected in a given time span.

In other words: be careful what you wish for.

TrudosKudos•1w ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828492

Thank you for sharing! I was inspired by the source material and created an interactive version of the formula mentioned in the source.