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OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzGDAoNOZc
1•schwentkerr•3m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
1•blenderob•4m ago•0 comments

AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
1•gmays•5m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
1•gurjeet•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•7m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•8m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•10m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•10m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•10m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
2•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•12m ago•1 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•12m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•13m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•16m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•16m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•17m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•17m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•18m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•18m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•19m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•22m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•22m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
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Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•23m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•24m ago•1 comments
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Ask HN: New Libraries in the Age of LLMs?

2•woodpanel•4mo ago
What do you think should a library look like if LLMs give us immediate summaries of every page stored in them?

Should libraries focus on preserving physical books, on the experience of reading originals (or physical copies of them)? Or on enabling customers to improve the model of the LLM used? Or even on creating own ones?

Is there even a future role for them, outside of physical backups?

Comments

leakycap•4mo ago
> if LLMs give us immediate summaries of every page stored in them

I assume very few people go to the library currently to read a summary, why would this change in the future?

The premise of all your questions assume others agree with you that books will be replaced.

The web has been "replacing" books for a long time. Books still exist.

I think LLMs will make knowledge in older books much more accessible via modernization and reinterpretations of now-Copyright-free stories from the past.

woodpanel•4mo ago
> The premise of all your questions assume others agree with you that books will be replaced.

Huh? Did I say books will disappear? Libraries and books are a separate thing.

> few people go to the library currently to read a summary

Enlighten me: what do people go to a library for these days?

Saving money? Ok. Not having to buy is a great reason.

Books that are unavailable online to buy? Get stolen eventually if secondary market exists.

So I assume a lot of it is for researching reasons, which is exactly what LLMs can provide.

leakycap•4mo ago
> Enlighten me: what do people go to a library for these days?

Go to a library and look around and ask librarians - this varies extremely by community. Libraries are very local, and your questions tell me you have not spent much time in yours.

apothegm•4mo ago
Not everything important from a page is conveyed in a summary.

People who read fiction don’t want summaries.

LLMs hallucinate.

Libraries do more than house books. Librarians do FAR more than shelve books.

woodpanel•4mo ago
Fiction is of course a good reason to go into a library and not just research but also read the thing.

> Libraries do more than house books. Librarians do FAR more than shelve books.

I know a couple of librarians and 100% of them say that their their job is irrelevant.

As well as their institutions which is in part why I was posting this.