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Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-03-10
229•Retro_Dev•8h ago•74 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
336•ppew•4h ago•184 comments

Building a TB-303 from Scratch

https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/tb303-from-scratch
28•stagas•3d ago•4 comments

U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth

https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html
307•cokernel_hacker•11h ago•31 comments

Cloudflare crawl endpoint

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/
310•jeffpalmer•11h ago•118 comments

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

https://www.hume.ai/blog/opensource-tada
41•smusamashah•4h ago•6 comments

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

https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail
72•TheWiggles•3d ago•7 comments

AutoKernel: Autoresearch for GPU Kernels

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

Tony Hoare has died

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
1793•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...
474•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
332•aray07•15h ago•363 comments

RISC-V Is Sloooow

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/03/10/risc-v-is-sloooow/
245•todsacerdoti•14h ago•236 comments

SSH Secret Menu

https://twitter.com/rebane2001/status/2031037389347406054
207•piccirello•1d ago•77 comments

Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/text-editor
106•todsacerdoti•8h ago•29 comments

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

https://markmhendrickson.com/posts/when-the-chain-becomes-the-product/
4•mhendric•3d ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/rcli
214•sanchitmonga22•16h ago•130 comments

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/
331•jwilk•19h ago•253 comments

Levels of Agentic Engineering

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

Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/02/universal-vaccine.html
257•phony-account•11h ago•83 comments

Standardizing source maps

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

Mesh over Bluetooth LE, TCP, or Reticulum

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

Surpassing vLLM with a Generated Inference Stack

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

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

https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw
34•rcarmo•2h ago•28 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•153 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
187•steelbrain•15h ago•59 comments

Meta acquires Moltbook

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
499•mmayberry•19h ago•335 comments

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

71•rosasalberto•19h ago•59 comments

EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/business/eqt-eyes-potential-6-billion-sale-linux-pioneer-suse-sources-say...
55•shscs911•1d ago•22 comments
Open in hackernews

What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential?

https://nicole.express/2026/the-apple-that-wasnt.html
99•zdw•2d ago

Comments

dlcarrier•2d ago
Does anyone know why they call it artifact colors? It creates a valid colorburst signal, so the colors are exactly as expected. It's high-resolution black-and-white imagery that's more of an artifact.
dn3500•2d ago
It's a specific technique where you deliberately modulate the signal so as to interfere with the color subcarrier. This can be used to produce colors that are otherwise not available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_artifact_colors

Dwedit•2d ago
Because they're square waves and not proper modulated signals.
dzdt•2d ago
Guessing not knowledge but I expect it was called that from the accidental occurence of color on broadcast TV wben the image includes something with black-and-white stripes at the right spacing. So the name predates the intentional usage by the comphter system.
rayiner•2d ago
> But we are saving the lives of ~3 million people so who’s to say what is bad

Korea’s GDP per capita in 1950 was similar to that of Bangladesh around the same time: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/GDP-.... In the alternate timeline where there isn’t a capitalist south korea, the Korean peninsula has 100 million+ people living in poverty and squalor, like Bangladesh today. The cost of that is tens of millions of lost lives resulting from higher infant and child mortality rates.

nicole_express•2d ago
Interesting that your takeaway is "capitalist South Korea doesn't exist" when I also said the 38th parallel held?

Also I guess now we're discussing the Repugnant Conclusion, which is a bit out of scope

CamperBob2•2d ago
See also the arguments that more Koreans would be alive and well today if MacArthur's plans to nuke the Norks had been greenlighted by Truman.
kryptiskt•2d ago
The simplest way to have no Korean war is if Kim Il-Sung decides that an invasion is too risky and concentrates on internal matters.
keybored•1d ago
In the altnerate timeline where there isn’t a Nazi Germany, the US might not have been such a powerhouse post-WWII on the account of so many other nations not being a pile of rubble. Really the South Koreans should thank Nazi Germany for saving it from Communism.
rayiner•19h ago
The U.S. was already a powerhouse before World War II. It had the highest per-capita GDP in the world (excluding some blips during the gold rush in Australia) by the late 1880s. The gap in per capita GDP between the U.S. and western europe shrunk between then and the late 20th century.
Zak•2d ago
I had a camera with a field-sequential electronic viewfinder. Because it relies on persistence of vision to mix RGB colors, it could be pretty distracting if I moved my eye quickly, breaking the illusion, and I think it would be similarly annoying on a TV or computer display.
CamperBob2•2d ago
Tektronix built a lot of test equipment based on color-shutter CRTs in the 1990s. It was simultaneously nifty and awful. They could render rich, well-defined color waveforms, but as soon as you moved your eyes, the illusion would break apart into rainbow-colored fragments. It was like watching a movie on a DLP projector, only much worse.

Meanwhile, HP OEM'ed a bunch of Trinitron monitors from Sony and called it a day.

Animats•2d ago
Right. Field sequential display means heavy flicker. Do not want.
thought_alarm•2d ago
Hypothetical question:

Let's say that back in 1930s when they were assigning frequencies for the broadcast television channels, they allocated enough extra bandwidth for a future color (chroma) signal, apart from the existing monochrome (luma) signal.

If the bandwidth was available, would it have been possible to include separate chroma and luma components in the broadcast signal without the two interfering with each other, thereby producing a much cleaner color image while maintaining backward compatibility with the original B&W TV sets?

badlibrarian•2d ago
You could argue that if extra bandwidth were available it might be better allocated elsewhere for improved picture quality. But yes. It would've reduced lots of engineering complexity and probably would've looked very much like PALplus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PALplus

tlb•2d ago
Isn't that essentially what happened? In the 1930s, the channels were allocated at 6 MHz spacing, but only needed about 3 MHz of bandwidth for the luma channel. There might have been some foresight involved, but the gaps between channels also allowed for cheaper, less precise tuners. Then in the 1950s they added a 1 MHz chroma signal on a 3.58 MHz upper sideband, expanding the channel bandwidth to just under 6 MHz.
badlibrarian•2d ago
6 MHz was there from the start. If it wasn't, the CBS field-sequential might have won. Both government (FCC) and industry (RCA) were pushing for a backward compatible system and there was enough bandwidth to pull it off. OP asks what would've happened had chroma been given its own separate, non-overlapping band. That was not possible while maintaining compatibility.
dzdt•2d ago
I think in this alternate universe the Apple-II analog would be the first cheap computer that could run a spreadsheet. That really takes a 40 column display. So I think it would have waited for the 2mhz 6502 to handle the doubled line frequency.
jrdres•2d ago
The CBS field-sequential color system did have one application after the 1950's: it was the system used for color transmissions from the Apollo moon landings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_TV_camera#Westinghouse_...

If you watch footage of the Apollo 17 LEM liftoff from the moon, you can see color artifacts in the burst of fragments off the platform. Their motion is too fast to stay in the same color band.

juliangamble•2d ago
But would it have run Shufflepuck Cafe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128631