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The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification
268•oldnetguy•1h ago•207 comments

Ladybird Browser adopts Rust

https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/
583•adius•4h ago•297 comments

The peculiar case of Japanese web design

https://sabrinas.space
82•montenegrohugo•1h ago•27 comments

Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/elsevier-shuts-down-its-finance-journal
339•qsi•7h ago•62 comments

Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-lidar-microvision-adas
251•mhb•3d ago•328 comments

Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

https://magicalmushroom.com/index
178•microflash•8h ago•63 comments

I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

https://hawksley.org/2026/02/17/timeframe.html
1342•saeedesmaili•20h ago•323 comments

0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix

https://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-release-28-boiorix/
229•jonbaer•3d ago•80 comments

femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
43•tosh•3h ago•6 comments

Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations

https://terezi.pyrope.net/ccgoto/
8•usually•3d ago•0 comments

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade5a7
47•tosh•6h ago•6 comments

Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"

https://prql-lang.org/
44•dmit•2d ago•28 comments

Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go

https://github.com/puzpuzpuz/go-concurrent-map-bench
8•platzhirsch•21h ago•0 comments

Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

https://joinloops.org/
514•Gooblebrai•21h ago•341 comments

Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

https://cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev/
416•MilkMp•19h ago•86 comments

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Interns in AI for Summer 2026 in Austria

https://bitmovin.com/careers/8023403002/
1•slederer•9h ago

Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026

https://www.coinerella.com/dont-host-email-yourself-your-reminder-in-2026/
34•willy__•4h ago•35 comments

What Is a Centipawn Advantage?

https://win-vector.com/2026/02/19/what-is-a-centipawn-advantage/
25•jmount•3d ago•6 comments

Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)

https://llm-timeline.com/
42•ai_bot•6h ago•28 comments

Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope-leo-xiv-tells-priests-to-use-their-brains-not-ai-to-write-h...
388•josephcsible•8h ago•322 comments

Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1rce0lf/hetzner_european_hosting_provider_to_increase/
324•doener•4h ago•270 comments

Microspeak: Escrow

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260217-00/?p=112067
8•ibobev•3d ago•3 comments

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8m6AM5qtPMjgTkEeD/my-journey-to-the-microwave-alternate-timeline
305•jstanley•4d ago•132 comments

QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021)

http://www.theresistornetwork.com/2021/03/qrtape-audio-playback-from-paper-tape.html
25•austinallegro•6h ago•13 comments

Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025

https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/crawler.html
88•pseudolus•12h ago•24 comments

Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums

https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/
366•Brajeshwar•1d ago•200 comments

How in the Hell Did Joann Fabrics Die While Best Buy Survived? It Wasn't Amazon

https://www.governance.fyi/p/how-in-the-hell-did-joann-fabrics
8•crescit_eundo•2h ago•10 comments

VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]

https://pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev/VTT_CR_00092_26.pdf
72•sagyam•2h ago•59 comments

Six Math Essentials

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/six-math-essentials/
276•digital55•20h ago•57 comments

Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/account-restricted-without-warning-google-ai-ultra-oauth-via-open...
728•srigi•16h ago•619 comments
Open in hackernews

femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
42•tosh•3h ago

Comments

borodi•1h ago
Fun fact, Julia's parser and part of its compiler are implemented in femtolisp, and you can access it using a not so secret option in the Julia CLI.
eigenspace•1h ago
We are slowly moving on replacing this stuff with implementations written in pure julia.

Currently the femtolisp parser is only used during bootstrapping the core systems so that we can parse the pure-julia parser and then we switch over to the julia parser. The same process is now happening with the femtolisp implementation of the lowering pass.

tokai•57m ago
So Julia will no longer be a LISP? :'(
eigenspace•20m ago
Having some components written in lisp was never the lispy part of julia. The thing that makes julia lispy is its semantics and features.
tokai•7m ago
I agree. Was trying a tongue in cheek comment about how the Julia/LISP discussion over the years often would have someone point to julia --lisp as an argument for Julia being a LISP dialect.
markkitti•50m ago

    $ julia --lisp
    ;  _
    ; |_ _ _ |_ _ |  . _ _
    ; | (-||||_(_)|__|_)|_)
    ;-------------------|-----    ------------------------------    -----------------------
    > (+ 1 2)
    3