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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•5m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•6m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•8m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•8m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•8m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
1•pseudolus•9m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•9m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•10m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•10m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
2•obscurette•11m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•16m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•18m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•18m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•19m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•19m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•20m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•21m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•23m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•24m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•26m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
1•geox•27m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•28m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•30m ago•2 comments

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-delays-mars-plans-to-focus-on-moon-66d5c542
1•BostonFern•31m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: RealTimeX – Local‑first private AI agents

https://realtimex.ai
1•realtimex•4mo ago
Hi HN — we’re building RealTimeX, a way to run private, always‑on AI agents with a local‑first approach. The core idea: minimize cost by running models on your own machine (or office server) and only call out to cloud when you explicitly choose to. That also keeps more data in your control.

Why we built it?

Cloud‑only AI can mean unpredictable spend, tail latency, and privacy headaches. Consumer hardware (laptops with NPUs/GPUs; small edge boxes) is now good enough for many real tasks. We want agents that get work done, keep sensitive work local by default, and are easy to govern.

What it is (today) - A desktop/runtime that can run models locally and optionally connect to remote backends you allow - Models (30 providers): OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, NVIDIA NIM, Hugging Face, Together, Mistral, Perplexity, OpenRouter, Cohere, DeepSeek, plus local engines like Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, KoboldCPP, RealTimeX - Native Search (opt‑in): Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Startpage, Tavily, SearXNG, Brave Search - RAG sources: PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, Markdown, and websites - MCP tools/servers: Remote and local (Model Context Protocol) - An agent workbench to design tool‑using agents with tracing/evals

What’s different - Local‑first to minimize cost (use hardware you already own) - You choose the backend per agent or per step (local by default; cloud when you need powerful LLMs) - Data stays put when you need it to (in‑device or in‑region) - Agents, not just chat: build flows that run tasks end‑to‑end and post results

How it works (short) - Install RealTimeX.ai from the website https://realtimex.ai. - Connect what you allow: choose the model provider (local + remote), enable optional search tools, add RAG sources (file/web). You can attach MCP tools/servers to extend functionality. - Choose where each step runs: set a default backend (usually local); heavy steps will automatically switch to your selected remote provider. - Create and run agents: Drag & Drop or chat with the Assistant to build an “agentic flow.” Create inside the app → run inside the app.

What feedback would help most - Backend selection UX (defaults, per‑step overrides) - Agent ergonomics (drag‑drop vs. chat‑to‑build) - Observability: which traces/metrics make you trust agents running real work?

Who we are / how to reach us I’m Trung Le (founder). Happy to answer anything here.