Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 7, 2026. Featuring: France's homegrown open source online office suite, British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years, Start all of your commands with a comma (2009), Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly, First Proof, and more.
Stories covered:
1. France's homegrown open source online office suite
https://github.com/suitenumerique
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923736
2. British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924813
3. Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890814
4. Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923254
5. First Proof
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924591
6. OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
https://openciv3.org/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918612
7. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923463
8. Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924264
9. The Waymo World Model
https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914785
10. Coding agents have replaced every framework I used
https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923543
