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EVs Are a Failed Experiment

https://spectator.org/evs-are-a-failed-experiment/
1•ArtemZ•6m ago•1 comments

MemAlign: Building Better LLM Judges from Human Feedback with Scalable Memory

https://www.databricks.com/blog/memalign-building-better-llm-judges-human-feedback-scalable-memory
1•superchink•7m ago•0 comments

CCC (Claude's C Compiler) on Compiler Explorer

https://godbolt.org/z/asjc13sa6
1•LiamPowell•9m ago•0 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
2•duxup•12m ago•0 comments

Actors with Tokio (2021)

https://ryhl.io/blog/actors-with-tokio/
1•vinhnx•13m ago•0 comments

Can graph neural networks for biology realistically run on edge devices?

https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8645211/v1
1•swapinvidya•25m ago•1 comments

Deeper into the shareing of one air conditioner for 2 rooms

1•ozzysnaps•27m ago•0 comments

Weatherman introduces fruit-based authentication system to combat deep fakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVbZwJ9gPE
2•savrajsingh•28m ago•0 comments

Why Embedded Models Must Hallucinate: A Boundary Theory (RCC)

http://www.effacermonexistence.com/rcc-hn-1-1
1•formerOpenAI•30m ago•2 comments

A Curated List of ML System Design Case Studies

https://github.com/Engineer1999/A-Curated-List-of-ML-System-Design-Case-Studies
3•tejonutella•33m ago•0 comments

Pony Alpha: New free 200K context model for coding, reasoning and roleplay

https://ponyalpha.pro
1•qzcanoe•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tunbot – Discord bot for temporary Cloudflare tunnels behind CGNAT

https://github.com/Goofygiraffe06/tunbot
1•g1raffe•40m ago•0 comments

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496
2•vinhnx•46m ago•0 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
2•rolph•50m ago•0 comments

Dexter: Claude-Code-Style Agent for Financial Statements and Valuation

https://github.com/virattt/dexter
1•Lwrless•52m ago•0 comments

Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
1•vermilingua•57m ago•0 comments

Essential CDN: The CDN that lets you do more than JavaScript

https://essentialcdn.fluidity.workers.dev/
1•telui•58m ago•1 comments

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
1•cedel2k1•1h ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
34•chwtutha•1h ago•5 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
4•osnium123•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
2•jeremy_su•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•1h ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•1h ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•1h ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
4•thread_id•1h ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•1h ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
3•cwwc•1h ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
2•paladin314159•1h ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: A Standalone/GitHub CLI Extension to Preview GitHub Flavored Markdown

https://github.com/thiagokokada/gh-gfm-preview
29•kokada•9mo ago

Comments

worldsavior•9mo ago
Is using a web browser really necessary for viewing Markdown? Seems a really inefficient way to view a what's supposed to be a small and minimal language.
Jaxkr•9mo ago
Markdown was designed to compile to HTML and web browsers are designed to render HTML. So I’d say a browser is the only reasonable choice.
DistractionRect•9mo ago
Emphasis on "Github flavored", which supports additional extensions to the markdown spec that a TUI can't properly preview. You need some kind of GUI (preferably a browser since it does support some html) in order to properly preview it.
kokada•9mo ago
Yes, exactly. For example Mermaid diagrams (that is supported in this project) can't be rendered in TUI (well, technically you can if you use something like Kitty's image protocol, but I think this is being pendant).
worldsavior•9mo ago
Using a GUI framework over a web browser is still much more efficient.
kokada•9mo ago
As someone said already, Markdown was designed to be compiled to HTML, and browsers are the best HTML renderers we have. While you can technically interpret it semantically and render it without a browser, you would still need to support HTML since Markdown supports embedded HTML (e.g. `<details>` tag is a popular one to hide information). At that point you probably are better off using a browser anyway.

By the way, while browsers can be both CPU and memory hogs, they're not inherently inneficient and it mostly depends on what the website is doing. This project uses minimal JavaScript and no frameworks, and while I didn't measure it I assume this site should be reasonably efficient, both in memory and CPU usage.

swyx•9mo ago
i dont know why its a CLI when it could just be a js library? is there a more minimal version of this that can then be used more flexibly everywhere else?
flysand7•9mo ago
I'm assuming it's because the project isn't meant to "Render" markdown, but provide a preview that works offline. That includes hot reloading when the original file changes, which you can't really do with just a client-side library.

If it was a JS library in addition to providing you a webpage with js in it, it would also need to provide you with a server with a hot reload, and we're back to CLI.

They are using goldmark library with some extensions[0] to render markdown. And there's also GitHub API for rendering markdown[1] if you're curious.

References:

[0]: https://github.com/thiagokokada/gh-gfm-preview/blob/main/int...

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/markdown?apiVersion=2022-11-...

swyx•9mo ago
fwiw there are plenty of webserver cli's with reload capability (https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server or npx serve + chokidar), this is definitely one of those things that can decomposed to single responsibility tools

(nit: hot reload means a specific thing in the js ecosystem and you prob dont mean that)

kokada•9mo ago
Sure, but using Node would mean losing the advantage of this being a single static binary. Not everyone has Node installed already.
frizlab•9mo ago
Cool! I searched for this and never found a suitable option. This one looks like to be checking all of the boxes I need!