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Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•1m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
1•pastage•1m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
1•billiob•2m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
1•birdculture•7m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•13m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•14m ago•1 comments

I replaced the front page with AI slop and honestly it's an improvement

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•19m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•21m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
2•tosh•27m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
3•oxxoxoxooo•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•31m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•35m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•36m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•37m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•40m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
3•myk-e•42m ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•43m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•45m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•47m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•49m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•52m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•57m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•58m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•1h ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•1h ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•1h ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Lumo – a tiny fluffy virtual pet you can play with in the browser

https://www.youware.com/project/lumo-r05knsgeb5?enter_from=share&invite_code=TEPFRUN9IH&screen_status=1
4•rand_num_gen•5mo ago
This is Lumo, a tiny fluffy virtual pet that lives in your browser.

You can feed it, tickle it, or just say hi — it reacts naturally, more like a living toy than a game character.

Play here: https://yw.app/ujtA8IZ

## Why I made this

I wanted to experiment with combining AI-generated assets (image-to-video via Google Flow) and a lightweight state machine in JavaScript to simulate natural pet-like behaviors. Instead of giving direct commands, you just interact — and Lumo reacts.

## How it works

- Assets were generated with image-to-video (idle, happy, annoyed, etc.). To make the animations feel more natural, I used the Frames-to-Video mode — for example, I set both the start and end frames to the idle state, so transitions between different behaviors look smoother.

- A JS state machine switches animations and reactions. For example, the default state is the idle animation. If you touch Lumo once, it becomes curious and shows the corresponding behavior (animation). If you touch it again, it turns happy.

- Everything runs client-side in the browser.

## What’s next

This is just a small experiment right now. I’d love to hear feedback:

- What feels fun or missing in the interaction?

- What other “pet-like” behaviors could make it more alive?

- Anyone else here experimenting with AI video assets for interactive projects?

Thanks for checking it out

Comments

southwindcg•5mo ago
This is adorable. You might get swamped in search results by Proton's new AI cat chatbot, though.

https://lumo.proton.me/guest

rand_num_gen•5mo ago
Thanks for the reminder!!

Mainly doing a funny experiment this time and seeing if I can get some feedback on HN.

The indexing speed of HN by Google is amazing... just searching "Lumo pet" brings up the post. I hadn’t thought of that before.