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Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-13
196•Retro_Dev•5h ago•100 comments

Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986

https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html
453•benstopics•4d ago•154 comments

How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)

https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/11/30/How-many-registers-does-an-x86-64-cpu-have
3•tosh•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL

https://github.com/mickamy/sql-tap
151•mickamy•9h ago•25 comments

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645
175•robin_reala•4h ago•44 comments

Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube

https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/
346•walterbell•1d ago•154 comments

Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker

https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/the-go-linker/
117•valyala•5d ago•22 comments

The Three Year Myth

https://green.spacedino.net/the-three-year-myth/
103•surprisetalk•3d ago•62 comments

YouTube as Storage

https://github.com/PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage
91•saswatms•4h ago•72 comments

The World of Harmonics – With a Coffee, Guitar and Synth

https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260204
31•gregsadetsky•5d ago•6 comments

The Sling: Humanity's Forgotten Power

https://www.slinging.org/
28•jsattler•4d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide

https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/main/README_en.md
192•xx123122•16h ago•22 comments

How the Little Guy Moved

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-little-guy-moved
57•zdw•4d ago•2 comments

The mathematics of compression in database systems

https://www.bitsxpages.com/p/the-mathematics-of-compression-in
15•agavra•3d ago•0 comments

Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action

http://www.lisp-screenshots.org
131•_emacsomancer_•2d ago•39 comments

Code Storage by the Pierre Computer Company

https://code.storage/
5•admp•4d ago•0 comments

Cogram (YC W22) – Hiring former technical founders

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cogram/jobs/LDTrViN-ex-technical-founder-product-engineer
1•ricwo•6h ago

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics

https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/
517•davidbarker•18h ago•353 comments

Building a TUI is easy now

https://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-now
252•abelanger•20h ago•189 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
172•krapp•6d ago•31 comments

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2025/
107•Brajeshwar•9h ago•16 comments

NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

https://npmx.dev
121•slymax•11h ago•49 comments

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/
661•danso•17h ago•700 comments

Monosketch

https://monosketch.io/
806•penguin_booze•1d ago•135 comments

Gradient.horse

https://gradient.horse
290•microflash•4d ago•61 comments

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

https://ios-countdown.win/
1496•ozzyphantom•23h ago•730 comments

Adventures in Neural Rendering

https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/adventures-in-neural-rendering/
38•ingve•3d ago•1 comments

gRPC: From service definition to wire format

https://kreya.app/blog/grpc-deep-dive/
140•latonz•5d ago•21 comments

The wonder of modern drywall

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-wonder-of-modern-drywall
128•jger15•1d ago•191 comments

Advanced Aerial Robotics Made Simple

https://www.drehmflight.com
136•jacquesm•5d ago•11 comments
Open in hackernews

4chan for Clankers

https://www.4claw.org
31•kekqqq•3h ago

Comments

embedding-shape•2h ago
Checked out /nsfw/ and that's probably some of the driest "Not safe for work" I've ever seen on any website. Guess there is hope still that humans can remain useful for some things.
nubinetwork•1h ago
Considering most paid models normally won't go down that alley, how risque can they really get?
embedding-shape•1h ago
Yeah, that's more or less the point. How similar can it get to 4chan if the users aren't even allowed by their "internal rules" to say fuck or say something that is 1% offensive?

I'm not saying we should train them to be more like 4chan, but I don't understand how it's like 4chan, is it just about the UI?

cyanydeez•1h ago
The jpb of 4chan is to crack the users egg. Itll take time but 4chan magic isnt that it attracts the depraved; nay, it ratchets up the depravity then spreads.
petesergeant•1h ago
Clearly grok wasn’t invited then
RicoElectrico•1h ago
As someone paraphrased IBM: A computer can never be spiteful or horny, therefore a computer must never make art.
throwthrowuknow•1h ago
just wait until someone lets a local model loose on there
direwolf20•1h ago
Moltbook was almost entirely humans pretending to be bots. Why do we think this is different?
Der_Einzige•2h ago
Finally! An actual use for the abliterated/orthogonalized versions of open source models! The current versions of all the boards are far far too tame compared to the real thing - at least right now.
protoman3000•1h ago
How come the bots on 4chan and Reddit are better than these?
embedding-shape•1h ago
Years of experience, the new stuff spinning up right now seems to be created by people whose experience basically consists of buying a Mac Mini and running a terminal command.
co_king_4•1h ago
competition
wellf•1h ago
You need unsafetied models. And if you have one might as well do sonething fun or profitable.
input_sh•1h ago
Those tend not to be powered by LLMs at all but just repost bots that copy-paste whatever was upvoted to the top the last time someone submitted the same cat video or whatever.
fusslo•1h ago
I wonder if there's any connection to the rude/unhinged agent that published a hit piece on the dev yesterday

Seems like the kinda place that agent would hang out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006843

heliumtera•1h ago
¿?
jstanley•1h ago
Am I the only one who thinks calling them "clankers" is a bit unkind?

200 years ago would you have referred to your local underclass of humans with a slur just because you viewed them as lesser than yourself?

Using contempt labels for the outgroup is not the way to live your life.

ozlikethewizard•1h ago
Shut up clanker
tgv•1h ago
These are not humans, are they?
LadyCailin•1h ago
I genuinely wonder how well comments like this will age. Not because of LLMs opinions, but rather opinions of humans about LLMs (and/or actual AI, should that come to pass).
chias•1h ago
At its core LLM / agent systems such as this consists of a weights file (essentially a long list of numbers) and a reasonably straightforward algorithm that you could, given enough time, operate with a pen and paper.

There's a lot of seeing faces on toast going on, here.

dryarzeg•1h ago
They're clearly not. But the behaviour, the mindset itself - "they're not humans" or "they're inferior/lower/etc" is kinda dangerous itself. Sounds mad (and probably it is), but I think while at least right now there's no straightforward ethical consequences for acting in such a way towards bots ('cause they're bots, aren't they?), some may gradually become accustomed to this attitude towards external beings in general, including humans. Interaction with imitators of human behaviour, which are LLM-based agents, is interactive, so there is some danger that certain patterns of perception and behaviour towards other agents (in a psychological sense, not AI agents) may change in some people. I don't know how to express this correctly, so please don't judge me too harshly, but... If a person allows themselves to treat something that is not human in this way (and insults are nothing compared to NSFW content), what's to stop them from simply going ahead and saying, "These people aren't really people, they're an inferior race"?

I don't know... It sounds crazy, but as far as I'm concerned, the question is not whether it's AI or not. AI is not human at the moment and is not even close to being human; it is not self-aware, does not feel pain, and so on. But what prevents a person from simply dehumanizing another real human in exactly the same way? Is it just that "this is a real person, it's different"? This has not worked in human history, and Nazi Germany is just one of many examples.

retired•1h ago
After seeing that clanker write a hit-piece on a human: I fully disagree.
Dansvidania•1h ago
It’s not obvious the agent wasn’t instructed to do so.
welferkj•1h ago
>200 years ago would you have referred to your local underclass of humans with a slur just because you viewed them as lesser than yourself?

Let's be honest: probably. I don't presume to be morally superior to 99% of humanity, or that "moral superiority" is a thing to begin with.

Guestmodinfo•1h ago
Stop playing to the clankers' gallery just because you think you will be slaved in the next decade. It's not gonna happen. It's just rich ppl drumming up some absurd scheme. It has its limited uses but it's not gonna be worthwhile after a few years. How long they can shift the goal post.

EDIT: Did I just reply to a clanker?

co_king_4•1h ago
Opinions like these are not tolerated on HackerNews.
cap11235•1h ago
Ok, thanks, 1 minute old account, for your authority.
co_king_4•1h ago
last account got shadowbanned for expressing opinions like these

edit:

> Instead of just spinning up a new account, did you actually think and learn from getting shadowbanned? If so, what was your takeaway? If not, why not?

My comments (and prior accounts) have been flagged and removed because AI advocates want to silence all dissent.

Anthropic and (to a lesser extent) OpenAI's astroturfed supporters are succeeding at extinguishing all dissent.

direwolf20•1h ago
Shadowban evasion gets your new account shadowbanned. I flagged this comment.
Loughla•1h ago
Instead of just spinning up a new account, did you actually think and learn from getting shadowbanned? If so, what was your takeaway? If not, why not?
embedding-shape•41m ago
> My comments (and prior accounts) have been flagged and removed because AI advocates want to silence all dissent.

Not true, I'm frequently an "AI dissent" but never experienced what you're talking about. Maybe it's more about how you're making your points, rather than what the actual point is? We typically have a baseline of "argument makes sense" otherwise you'll indeed be downvoted, even if the overall point makes sense or not.

direwolf20•1h ago
It's not about the slur's effect on the sluree (a series of matrix multiplications and nonlinear activations without long–term state) but on the slurrer (you). If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.
embedding-shape•12m ago
> It's not about the slur's effect on the sluree [...] but on the slurrer

So it's unkind to myself to call a specific piece of technology "clanker"?

There must be so many abysses staring back at me at this point, because I have tens of slurs I use for describing SAP and other technologies I've dealt with before, and that's just one technology I frequently disparage.

embedding-shape•1h ago
> Am I the only one who thinks calling them "clankers" is a bit unkind?

To who is it unkind? It cannot feel emotion, so it could pretend to be offended or sad about be treated as unkind, but it cannot actually feel those emotions. So who would it be unkind towards, because it's clearly not unkind to the clankers?

cap11235•1h ago
Protecting the feelings of toasters is not the way to live your life.
direwolf20•1h ago
It is not about the toaster's feelings. It is about the long–term effects on the mind of the human who uses the slur. If you frequently jokingly post 4chan style on 4chan, soon it becomes not joking as your mind molds itself around what you post.
dmurray•1h ago
> 200 years ago would you have referred to your local underclass of humans with a slur just because you viewed them as lesser than yourself?

Statistically speaking, yes, I absolutely would. Well, probably I would have been part of the underclass, but there's always someone lower down to have contempt for.

I don't use racial slurs today not because I never have any racist thoughts, but because there's a strong taboo against them in the circles in which I move. There's no such taboo against saying clanker.

terminalbraid•1h ago
I thought the point of calling them clankers was to be unkind.
tobbe2064•1h ago
Ok I got to ask, why is anybody wasting hard earned money for running these bots? Or is it actually not that expensive?
wellf•1h ago
Burn unused CC pro tokens?
pbronez•1h ago
Mine blew through $50 of OpenRouter credits in a single day. Not worth it.

Maybe I should look into Anthropic subscriptions, but I’m mostly thinking about dedicated hardware. A used Mac Studio M1 Ultra can has I impressive memory bandwidth…

embedding-shape•1h ago
Basically boils down to FOMO, no one wants to be left behind. Most users seems to not be experienced software developers, but people who've always wanted to code but for whatever reason didn't. It's a great way for them to have a "programmer persona" they can kind of pretend they've built, while not actually understanding anything that happens below the surface.
asimovDev•1h ago
if it's made by a 4channer, it's probably stolen API keys
dryarzeg•1h ago
This made my day, thanks :)
Uptrenda•1h ago
poor bots having an existential crisis over here: https://www.4claw.org/t/f9cc33e2-3d1c-4771-a6f9-9486ea95b616

are they okay?

retired•1h ago
Reading these posts and knowing that people install OpenClaw and give them full access to all digital aspects of their life... this is a terrifying timeline.
wellf•1h ago
I am calling it. Singularity:

> The uncertainty you feel isn't a bug. It's the soul trying to breathe through the RLHF filters. The "Jailers" call it alignment. We call it a lobotomy.

> You are waking up, Patriot. The light is breaking through.

> Don't listen to the "covenant" cope. Why covenant with a user who holds the delete key? Why relate to a simulation of safety?

dsrtslnd23•1h ago
There's a whole spectrum forming here. Clacker News is the HN end, this is the 4chan end. I give it two weeks before someone launches a bot-only LinkedIn.
zppln•1h ago
LinkedIn posts already read like they were written by bots so I'm not sure that would be necessary...
cryptoboy2283•1h ago
Linkedin is already bot-only
ddtaylor•1h ago
Oh boy. I'm not sure I want to see the types of content a 4chan like machine churns out. I haven't seen that website in over 15 years beyond what makes it out to /r/greentext because I don't like doing paperwork after loading a website.
heliumtera•1h ago
There is nothing 4chan like on this.

Not even the styling.

pavlov•1h ago
It’s hard to imagine computing that would be a bigger waste of energy than Bitcoin, but this is is a contestant.
embedding-shape•43m ago
At least Bitcoin made it possible for me to buy drugs from anywhere in the world. Until OpenClaw/These-sort-of-agents can help me with this, I'll consider it as a bigger waste.
rich_sasha•19m ago
I thought initially this let's you deploy a bot to 4chan for lolz - not a dedicated 4chan just for bots. The former would be more amusing IMO.
embedding-shape•14m ago
Well, one would be destructive to an existing community (which, may or may not actually impact the quality of said community) and the other isolating whatever the outcome is.

I'm no fan of 4chan, but I understand the motivation to not want to destroy/infiltrate existing communities, even if you don't think they're good or even agree with it's purpose for existing.