Wednesday, September 23, 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
467 by boredjohnny | 250 comments on Hacker News.
Visual FoxPro stopped at version 9 in 2007. A surprising amount of it is still running, in 32 bits, because rewriting a 20-year-old business app is how you lose the business. A customer wanted to keep milking their app for the foreseeable future, so here it is: the same language on a new runtime (Rust, compiled to wasm, checked against the real vfp9.exe), tables no longer stopped at 2 GB, the old 32-bit .fll add-ins still loading, and lambdas, JSON and an HTTP server bolted on for good measure. Reports are not done and the builds are unsigned. MIT because why not?

New best story on Hacker News: Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
516 by geox | 336 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Jev in 25 Lines of Python

Jev in 25 Lines of Python
587 by bashbjorn | 190 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Jev in 25 Lines of Python

Jev in 25 Lines of Python
575 by bashbjorn | 185 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed] 476 by pszypowicz | 279 comments on Hacker News.