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Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
1•RyanMu•1m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
1•ravenical•4m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
1•rcarmo•5m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
1•gmays•6m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
1•andsoitis•6m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•7m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•9m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•10m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•12m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•13m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•13m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•15m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•23m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
2•zdw•23m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
26•bookofjoe•23m ago•10 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•24m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•26m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•27m ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
1•thelok•27m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•27m ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A
1•stmw•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: COGext – A minimalist, open-source system monitor for Chrome (<550KB)

https://github.com/tchoa91/cog-ext
1•tchoa91•29m ago•1 comments
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ReproZip – reproducible experiments from command-line executions

https://github.com/VIDA-NYU/reprozip
13•mihau•6mo ago

Comments

gnat•6mo ago
> It tracks operating system calls and creates a package that contains all the binaries, files and dependencies required to run a given command on the author's computational environment (packing step). A reviewer can then extract the experiment in his environment to reproduce the results (unpacking step).

Vagrant and Docker behind the scenes. Very cool, and a welcome step up from a tarball.

lorenzohess•6mo ago
Would be cool to have a native integration with Git: - preserve archive integrity - signed archives for security - metadata (commit messages, tags) can associate each experiment with e.g. procedure, methodology, technicians - branches for modified experiments - easy cloud storage
zahlman•6mo ago
Maybe they're just using "experiment" as some kind of data-scientist jargon that I don't understand, but this reads to me like just a way to package Python code, and from the description I don't understand why or when I would prefer this to making an sdist or wheel with standard tools.

Edit: I guess the idea is that this is automatically discovering non-Python system dependencies and attempting to include them as well? Either way, the developers should probably get in touch with the people behind https://pypackaging-native.github.io/ which has been trying to identify and solve problems with using the standard Python ecosystem tools in the "PyData ecosystem". (This effort has led to proposals such as https://peps.python.org/pep-0725/.)

westurner•6mo ago
Does manylinux help with this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43553198 :

> Manylinux requires tools called auditwheel for Linux, delocate for MacOS, and delvewheel for windows; which do something like ldd to list the shared libraries.

From the auditwheel readme: https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel :

> auditwheel show: shows external shared libraries that the wheel depends on (beyond the libraries included in the manylinux policies), and checks the extension modules for the use of versioned symbols that exceed the manylin

> auditwheel repair: copies these external shared libraries into the wheel itself, and automatically modifies the appropriate RPATH entries such that these libraries will be picked up at runtime. This accomplishes a similar result as if the libraries had been statically linked without requiring changes to the build system. Packagers are advised that bundling, like static linking, may implicate copyright concerns

PyInstaller docs: https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/ :

> PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package. The user can run the packaged app without installing a Python interpreter or any modules. PyInstaller supports Python 3.8 and newer, and correctly bundles many major Python packages such as numpy, matplotlib, PyQt, wxPython, and others.

conda/constructor is a tool for creating installers from conda packages: https://github.com/conda/constructor

Grayskull creates conda-forge recipes from PyPI and other packages: https://github.com/conda/grayskull

conda-forge builds for Windows, Max, Linux, amd64, and arm4. and emscripten-forge builds conda packages for WASM WebAssembly.

SBOM tools attempt to discover package metadata, which should include a manifest with per-file checksums. Can dependency auto-discovery discover package metadata relevant to software supply chain security?

dvc is a workflow tool layered on git that supports Experiments: https://dvc.org/doc/start/experiments/experiment-tracking :

> Experiment: A versioned iteration of ML model development. DVC tracks experiments as Git commits that DVC can find but that don't clutter your Git history or branches. Experiments may include code, metrics, parameters, plots, and data and model artifacts.

A sufficient packaging format must have per-file checksums and signatures. https://SLSA.dev/ says any of TUF, Sigstore.dev, and/or OCI containers with signatures suffice.

zahlman•6mo ago
All of these tools definitely help for the people who use them. In particular, the manylinux standard and associated tools are why I can reliably `pip install numpy` without even thinking about whether it will work, and regardless of whether (on Linux) there is a system package for OpenBLAS (which will be disregarded, unless of course you use a system-packaged version of Numpy instead). But there are also definitely still unmet needs.
westurner•6mo ago
`pip install numpy` does not install the most optimal build for a given platform, or e.g. MKL or BLAS -linked packages. `pip install numpy-mkl` is not the official way as those binary wheels are built by a third-party.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37808036 :

> conda-forge maintainer docs > Switching BLAS implementation: https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/knowledge_base.html#...

rattler-build supports CPU levels and CUDA levels. Thus conda-forge packages may be more performant on modern CPUs and GPUs than the average PyPI package: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306658

dimatura•6mo ago
This sounds pretty similar to CDE, which I see they cite in the paper. Back in the pre-docker days I remember using CDE a few times to package some C++ code to run on some servers that didn't have the libraries I needed. Pretty cool tool.