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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•11s 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...
1•Brajeshwar•18s ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
1•Brajeshwar•31s ago•0 comments

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

1•dtjb•1m 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•1m ago•0 comments

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

1•buildingwdavid•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•9m ago•0 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•9m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
9•bookofjoe•10m ago•2 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•11m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
1•ilyaizen•12m ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•12m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•13m 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•13m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•13m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A
1•stmw•14m ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/tchoa91/cog-ext
1•tchoa91•15m ago•1 comments

FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways

https://sluongng.substack.com/p/fosdem-26-my-hallway-track-takeaways
1•birdculture•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Env-shelf – Open-source desktop app to manage .env files

https://env-shelf.vercel.app/
1•ivanglpz•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Almostnode – Run Node.js, Next.js, and Express in the Browser

https://almostnode.dev/
1•PetrBrzyBrzek•19m ago•0 comments

Dell support (and hardware) is so bad, I almost sued them

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-02-07-dell-support-lawsuit
1•radeeyate•20m ago•0 comments

Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

https://www.jonmsterling.com/01K7/
1•matt_d•20m ago•0 comments

Styling: Search-Text and Other Highlight-Y Pseudo-Elements

https://css-tricks.com/how-to-style-the-new-search-text-and-other-highlight-pseudo-elements/
1•blenderob•22m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm accidentally sends $40B in Bitcoin to users

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-40-055054321.html
1•CommonGuy•23m ago•0 comments

Magnetic fields can change carbon diffusion in steel

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260125083427.htm
1•fanf2•24m ago•0 comments

Fantasy football that celebrates great games

https://www.silvestar.codes/articles/ultigamemate/
1•blenderob•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animalese

https://animalese.barcoloudly.com/
1•noreplica•24m ago•0 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
3•simonw•25m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

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.