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Offpunk 3.0
Article URL: https://ploum.net/2026-02-09-offpunk3.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943752 Points: 29 # Comments: 2
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Show HN: Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth
We're Tom and Ryan and we teamed up to build an algorithm with Rust and SIMD to exhaustively search for the longest line of sight on the planet. We can confirm that a previously speculated view between Pik Dankova in Kyrgyzstan and the Hindu Kush in
RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)
Article URL: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3092 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934499 Points: 143 # Comments: 41
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Nobody knows how the whole system works
Article URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/nobody-knows-how-the-whole-system-works/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941882 Points: 34 # Comments: 13
A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hunters-are-so-desperate-that-theyre-paying-to-get-recruited-44891ac2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941850 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
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TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/semiconductors-tsmc-japan-taiwan-ai-11256f2bfde73ca23d08331ad138d6d5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941640 Points: 55 # Comments: 19
Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
Article URL: https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941603 Points: 68 # Comments: 18
NanoClaw now supports Claude's Agent Swarms in containers
Article URL: https://twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen/status/2020701159175155874 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941280 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books
I built a desktop Mars colony survival game called Underhill, in homage to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Land on Mars, build solar panels and greenhouses, and try not to pass out during dust storms. Eventually your colonists split into faction
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Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019)
Article URL: https://habr.com/en/articles/446238/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934579 Points: 108 # Comments: 61
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A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please
"There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong."
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In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgn2k285ypo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940511 Points: 37 # Comments: 42
Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord
Article URL: https://odd-lots-books.netlify.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939685 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
Article URL: https://www.blundergoat.com/articles/ai-makes-the-easy-part-easier-and-the-hard-part-harder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939593 Points: 140 # Comments: 121
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Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures
Article URL: https://bobbiec.github.io/cistercian-font.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939312 Points: 13 # Comments: 0