Hacker News on Saturday, 7 February 2026

France's homegrown open source online office suite(github.com)

680 points by nar001 8 months ago | 293 comments

GitHub organization page for La Suite numérique, the French government's set of open-source applications for digital collaboration and teamwork.

We mourn our craft(nolanlawson.com)

634 points by ColinWright 8 months ago | 737 comments

Nolan Lawson's blog post lamenting how AI coding tools are reducing programmers to code reviewers and mourning the loss of the programming craft.

WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system(scitechdaily.com)

420 points by mgh2 8 months ago | 178 comments

SciTechDaily article on KIT researchers warning that WiFi signals could be used to identify and track people, enabling invisible mass surveillance.

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself(jesperordrup.github.io)

394 points by jesperordrup 8 months ago | 125 comments

A web reference guide to singing techniques covering vocal registers, styles, effects, embellishments and dynamics, with examples, how-to tips and tutorial links.

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else(washingtonpost.com)

359 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 months ago | 596 comments

Washington Post article on how the roughly $700 billion AI spending boom is causing shortages of electricians, components, and pricier smartphones elsewhere in the economy.

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)(xorvoid.com)

347 points by valyala 8 months ago | 72 comments

Blog post describing SectorC, a C compiler written in x86-16 assembly that fits in a 512-byte boot sector and supports a usable subset of C.

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used(blog.alaindichiappari.dev)

305 points by alainrk 8 months ago | 492 comments

GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding(github.com)

285 points by ms7892 8 months ago | 73 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment(factory.strongdm.ai)

260 points by mellosouls 8 months ago | 422 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)(jonathanwhiting.com)

233 points by valyala 8 months ago | 250 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development(susam.net)

228 points by vinhnx 8 months ago | 27 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession(forbes.com)

222 points by alephnerd 8 months ago | 174 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode(code.claude.com)

207 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 218 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly(spritely.institute)

204 points by AlexeyBrin 8 months ago | 43 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines(altermag.com)

196 points by trojanalert 8 months ago | 42 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years(bbc.com)

178 points by bookofjoe 8 months ago | 164 comments

First Proof(arxiv.org)

164 points by samasblack 8 months ago | 97 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI(brendangregg.com)

161 points by SerCe 8 months ago | 150 comments

Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?(windowscentral.com)

149 points by josephcsible 8 months ago | 186 comments

Tiny C Compiler(bellard.org)

139 points by guerrilla 8 months ago | 63 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs(fda.gov)

124 points by randycupertino 8 months ago | 255 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version(github.com)

123 points by momciloo 8 months ago | 31 comments

Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines(people.com)

119 points by iancmceachern 8 months ago | 150 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback(rlhfbook.com)

118 points by onurkanbkrc 8 months ago | 5 comments

Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth(soranews24.com)

115 points by zdw 8 months ago | 35 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney(spillhistorie.no)

114 points by thelok 8 months ago | 28 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor(andrewjrod.substack.com)

109 points by ray__ 8 months ago | 54 comments

Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)(essenceofrome.com)

108 points by thomassmith65 8 months ago | 13 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE(bbc.com)

99 points by tartoran 8 months ago | 28 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust(antithesis.com)

92 points by lukastyrychtr 8 months ago | 8 comments

The silent death of good code(amit.prasad.me)

90 points by amitprasad 8 months ago | 87 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions(hpcwire.com)

89 points by gnufx 8 months ago | 65 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged(bbc.co.uk)

64 points by vedantnair 8 months ago | 42 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo(si.edu)

62 points by gmays 8 months ago | 23 comments

You Are Here(brooker.co.za)

55 points by mltvc 8 months ago | 68 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer(github.com)

55 points by oxxoxoxooo 8 months ago | 15 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video](fosdem.org)

47 points by michalpleban 8 months ago | 2 comments

An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller(github.com)

32 points by bri3d 8 months ago | 6 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA(issues.chromium.org)

30 points by denysonique 8 months ago | 6 comments

The Contagious Taste of Cancer(historytoday.com)

29 points by Thevet 8 months ago | 17 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend(blog.buenzli.dev)

29 points by senekor 8 months ago | 9 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code(simonwillison.net)

28 points by simonw 8 months ago | 30 comments

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces(publicdomainreview.org)

28 points by prismatic 8 months ago | 7 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation(gitblack.vercel.app)

25 points by martialg 8 months ago | 4 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)(harpers.org)

25 points by NaOH 8 months ago | 1 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better(github.com)

17 points by neogoose 8 months ago | 10 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone(bbc.com)

15 points by __natty__ 8 months ago | 0 comments

Hello world does not compile(github.com)

15 points by mfiguiere 8 months ago | 1 comments

What Is Stoicism?(stoacentral.com)

13 points by 0xmattf 8 months ago | 6 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait(blog.typeobject.com)

13 points by fintler 8 months ago | 1 comments

Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety(github.com)

7 points by DesoPK 8 months ago | 4 comments

Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts(shkspr.mobi)

6 points by edent 8 months ago | 0 comments