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Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-03-10
233•Retro_Dev•9h ago•78 comments

Building a TB-303 from Scratch

https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/tb303-from-scratch
34•stagas•3d ago•7 comments

Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/11/running-69-agents.html
345•ppew•4h ago•189 comments

U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth

https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html
311•cokernel_hacker•11h ago•32 comments

Cloudflare crawl endpoint

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/
314•jeffpalmer•12h ago•119 comments

TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization

https://www.hume.ai/blog/opensource-tada
44•smusamashah•4h ago•8 comments

AutoKernel: Autoresearch for GPU Kernels

https://github.com/RightNow-AI/autokernel
28•frozenseven•2h ago•3 comments

Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider

https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail
74•TheWiggles•3d ago•8 comments

Tony Hoare has died

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
1798•speckx•19h ago•230 comments

Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world

https://www.wired.com/story/yann-lecun-raises-dollar1-billion-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-ph...
476•helloplanets•1d ago•384 comments

Agents that run while I sleep

https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleep
335•aray07•15h ago•367 comments

RISC-V Is Sloooow

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/03/10/risc-v-is-sloooow/
246•todsacerdoti•14h ago•246 comments

SSH Secret Menu

https://twitter.com/rebane2001/status/2031037389347406054
213•piccirello•1d ago•79 comments

Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/text-editor
110•todsacerdoti•8h ago•30 comments

When the chain becomes the product: Seven years inside a token-funded venture

https://markmhendrickson.com/posts/when-the-chain-becomes-the-product/
6•mhendric•3d ago•1 comments

Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/rcli
215•sanchitmonga22•17h ago•130 comments

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/
334•jwilk•19h ago•254 comments

Levels of Agentic Engineering

https://www.bassimeledath.com/blog/levels-of-agentic-engineering
192•bombastic311•1d ago•88 comments

Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/02/universal-vaccine.html
259•phony-account•11h ago•84 comments

Mesh over Bluetooth LE, TCP, or Reticulum

https://github.com/torlando-tech/columba
98•khimaros•15h ago•10 comments

Standardizing source maps

https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/standardizing-source-maps/
34•Timothee•5h ago•4 comments

Surpassing vLLM with a Generated Inference Stack

https://infinity.inc/case-studies/qwen3-optimization
38•lukebechtel•19h ago•14 comments

Google to Provide Pentagon with AI Agents

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/google-to-provide-pentagon-with-ai-agents-for-...
13•1vuio0pswjnm7•57m ago•4 comments

Roblox is minting teen millionaires

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/roblox-s-teen-millionaires-are-disrupting-the-...
141•petethomas•3d ago•157 comments

I'm going to build my own OpenClaw, with blackjack and bun

https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw
35•rcarmo•2h ago•29 comments

Support for Aquantia AQC113 and AQC113C Ethernet Controllers on FreeBSD

https://github.com/Aquantia/aqtion-freebsd/issues/32
8•justinclift•4d ago•6 comments

Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit

https://tomjohnell.com/pike-solving-the-should-we-stop-here-or-gamble-on-the-next-exit-problem/
24•dnw•2d ago•3 comments

FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

https://github.com/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip
191•steelbrain•16h ago•59 comments

Meta acquires Moltbook

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
500•mmayberry•19h ago•337 comments

Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification

71•rosasalberto•19h ago•60 comments
Open in hackernews

Z80 Sans – a disassembler in a font (2024)

https://github.com/nevesnunes/z80-sans
151•pabs3•6d ago

Comments

tgv•2d ago
This made me smile. What an astonishing combination. The oddball application of a font as a disassembler works like a wonderful practical joke to me. Merging parsing, processing and rendering into a single step feels mad genius.
notglossy•2d ago
Man... I'm lucky if the fonts I'm using even have tabular figures as alternates. This is on a whole other level.
userbinator•2d ago
Not too surprising given that a font maps bytes into glyphs, and an instruction set maps them to instructions. I suspect a 6502 or 8051 version would be much simpler.
dhosek•2d ago
Definitely. I wrote an incomplete z80 disassembler as a high school student back in the 80s, but never got to the 2-byte opcodes. 6502 has none of those so would be much easier to manage.
ilaksh•2d ago
I guess it would be cheating, but he actually could have just written it in Rust, since OpenType can execute web assembly. People have abused that to embed things like Tetris and even an LLM inside of fonts.

What he did was more impressive in a way.

erk__•2d ago
It's not OpenType that can execute wasm it's a experimental extension in HarfBuzz so compared to this it does not work online since it is not enabled for the HarfBuzz builds in Chrome or Firefox. Which makes this more cool to show of online.

(disclaimer, I made the Tetris font)

Averave•2d ago
You can do a lot of crazy things with fonts. Just off the top of my head:

Tetris Font - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737294

A font which is also an LLM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791

And in the same vein:

Tetris in a PDF - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645218

Doom in a PDF - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678754

pwnfunction•2d ago
next is to build a disassembled inside a pdf
aa-jv•1d ago
Alchemist Owl got there already:

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

POC||GTFO is one of those things that, once you dive in, you will never regret taking the effort to fully grok.

...

AI-Generated summary of issues relating to disassembly:

PoC||GTFO 0x10 (pocorgtfo10.pdf, January 2016): Titled around "IN THE THEATER OF LITERATE DISASSEMBLY," this entire issue focuses on reverse engineering and disassembly. It includes articles and examples involving disassembly of various systems (e.g., mentions of built-in monitors and naive disassemblers like in Apple ][ contexts, along with reverse engineering hood-lifting). It heavily features disassembly as a theme, with likely code listings and explanations that effectively serve as or demonstrate disassembler usage/output.

PoC||GTFO 0x21 (pocorgtfo21.pdf, February 2022): This issue explicitly mentions a "Notebook of Altera NIOS Disassembly" in its content/description. Articles cover disassembly (e.g., of Altera NIOS soft-core processor code), and one notes that while focused on disassembly, full target plugins would include an assembler, disassembler, code analysis, etc. This strongly indicates the PDF contains disassembly examples, outputs, or even PoC implementations/discussions of disassembler functionality for that architecture.

Other issues occasionally include disassembly snippets or references (e.g., 0x11, 0x13, 0x15 show snippets like disassembled code blocks for specific exploits or systems), but they are more incidental rather than centered on a disassembler tool or example.

anthk•2d ago
get zmachine.ps and you could play zork i-iii, Tristam Island and tons of z3 zmachine games (search for calypso.z3 too) without cheating as the PDF format implements an ad-hoc JS interpreter where not all viewers parse it.
california-og•2d ago
I made a syntax highlighting font (also mentioned as an inspiration to Z80 sans):

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...

aa-jv•1d ago
>You can do a lot of crazy things with fonts.

My favourite crazy font thing is Chartwell - a font which can be used to add many sophisticated chart types to your document, using discretionary / rare ligatures:

https://www.vectrotype.com/chartwell

(User manual here: https://assets.vectrotype.com/specimens/Chartwell-Manual-24-...)

I've used this to rapidly add charting functionality to various apps over the years - it can be used to produce amazing-looking, dynamic charts, within minutes!

I have, for years, wanted to dissect Chartwell and understand it better .. there are many other fonts which use rare ligatures for interesting purposes, too ..

iberator•2d ago
Ha ha this is the best thing I have seen today in hacker news!

So clever and funny

billforsternz•2d ago
I thought my Z80 project (https://github.com/billforsternz/retro-sargon) was close to the whimsical end of the practical to just for fun spectrum but this takes things to a whole new level, kudos.
localhost•1d ago
i had gpt-5.4 write a 6502 font version of this font [1] in between working on other things. super fun and learned a lot by watching it do its thing.

[1] https://github.com/jflam/6502-sans