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

https://ponyalpha.pro
1•qzcanoe•43s ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/Goofygiraffe06/tunbot
1•g1raffe•3m ago•0 comments

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496
1•vinhnx•8m ago•0 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
1•rolph•13m ago•0 comments

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

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Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
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Essential CDN: The CDN that lets you do more than JavaScript

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They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
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Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
19•chwtutha•24m ago•1 comments

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

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2•osnium123•25m ago•1 comments

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

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

https://recap.studio/
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Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

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Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
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Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•48m ago•1 comments

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

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2•thread_id•48m ago•1 comments

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

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•50m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
3•cwwc•52m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

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List of Musical Genres

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1•omosubi•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
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University of Waterloo Webring

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Large tech companies don't need heroes

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Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

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Game of Trees (Got)

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Human Systems Research Submolt

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The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

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Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

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Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•1h ago•1 comments
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Show HN: Light like the Terminal – Meet GTK LLM Chat Front End

https://github.com/icarito/gtk-llm-chat/
35•icarito•9mo ago
Author here. I wanted to keep my conversation with #Gemini about code handy while discussing something creative with #ChatGPT and using #DeepSeek in another window. I think it's a waste to have Electron apps and so wanted to chat with LLMs on my own terms. When I discovered the llm CLI tool I really wanted to have convenient and pretty looking access to my conversations, and so I wrote gtk-llm-chat - a plugin for llm that provides an applet and a simple window to interact with LLM models.

Make sure you've configure llm first (https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/)

I'd love to get feedback, PRs and who knows, perhaps a coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/icarito

Comments

Gracana•9mo ago
This looks quite nice. I would like to see the system prompt and inference parameters exposed in the UI, because those are things I'm used to fiddling with in other UIs. Is that something that the llm library supports?
icarito•9mo ago
Yeah absolutely, I've just got to point where I'm happy with the architecture so I'll continue to add UI. I've just added support for fragments and I've thought to add them as if they were attached documents. I've in the radar to switch models in mid conversation and perhaps the ability to rollback a conversation or remove some messages. But yeah, system prompt and parameters would be nice to move too! Thanks for the suggestions!
Gracana•9mo ago
Awesome. It would be great to see a nice gtk-based open source competitor to lm-studio and the like.
guessmyname•9mo ago
It’d be better if it was written in C or at least Vala. With Python, you have to wait a couple hundred milliseconds for the interpreter to start, which makes it feel less native than it can be. That said, the latency of the LLM responses is higher than the UI, so I guess the slowness of Python doesn’t matter.
icarito•9mo ago
Yeah I agree, I've been thinking about using Rust. But ultimately it's a problem with GTK3 vs GTK4 too because if we could reuse the Python interpreter from the applet that would speed things up but GTK4 doesn't have support for AppIndicator icons(!).

I've been pondering whether to backport to GTK3 for this sole purpose. I find that after the initial delay to startup the app, its speed is okay...

Porting to Rust is not really planned because I'd loose the llm-python base - but still something that triggers my curiosity.

cma•9mo ago
What's the startup time now with 9950X3D, after a prior start so the pyc's are cached in RAM?
icarito•9mo ago
I wonder! In my more modest setup, it takes a couple of seconds perhaps. After that it's quite usable.
cma•9mo ago
With a laptop 7735HS, using WSL2, I get 15ms for the interpreter to start and exit without any imports.
icarito•9mo ago
I've got a i5-10210U CPU @ 1.60GHz.

You triggered my curiosity. The chat window takes consistently 2.28s to start. The python interpreter takes roughly 30ms to start. I'll be doing some profiling.

icarito•9mo ago
Hey I felt bad that there was a longer delay and by making sure to lazy-load everything I could, I managed to bring down the startup time from 2.2 seconds to 0.6 on my machine! Massive improvement! Thanks for the challenge!
cma•9mo ago
nice that's a huge difference
indigodaddy•9mo ago
Does this work on Mac or Linux only?
icarito•9mo ago
I'd truly like to know! But I've no access to a Mac to try. If you can, try it and let me know? If it does, please send a screenshot!
tough•9mo ago
Confirm it works with mac!

gtk-chat at least, having some issues with the notif lib for gtk-applet

screenshot: https://postimg.cc/KKxQNdG6