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NewASM Virtual Machine

https://github.com/bracesoftware/newasm
1•DEntisT_•1m ago•0 comments

Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard

https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a BBS bank with a real working ledger

https://mini-ledger.exe.xyz/
1•simonvc•2m ago•1 comments

The Path to Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-path-to-mojo-1-0
1•tosh•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

https://github.com/voice-of-japan/Virtual-Protest-Protocol/blob/main/README.md
3•sakanakana00•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built Divvy to split restaurant bills from a photo

https://divvyai.app/
3•pieterdy•10m ago•0 comments

Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/
3•Tehnix•11m ago•1 comments

Skim – vibe review your PRs

https://github.com/Haizzz/skim
2•haizzz•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning

https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistant
3•Nive11•12m ago•4 comments

Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America's Technology Long Game

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/260120_EST_Tech_Edge_0.pdf?Version...
2•hunglee2•16m ago•0 comments

Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
2•chartscout•19m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
3•AlexeyBrin•21m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
2•machielrey•23m ago•1 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
3•tablets•27m ago•1 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•32m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•32m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
2•billiob•33m ago•0 comments

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

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•38m 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•44m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•45m ago•1 comments

Slop News - The Front Page right now but it's only Slop

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•50m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•52m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
4•tosh•58m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

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

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

2•InvoxoEU•1h 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
4•goranmoomin•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

4•throwaw12•1h ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
3•senekor•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
2•myk-e•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Smart Beds Helped Them Sleep on a Cloud. Then the Cloud Crashed

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/business/amazon-aws-outage-eight-sleep-mattress.html
22•Animats•3mo ago

Comments

jdenning•3mo ago
https://archive.is/fNNCg
1shooner•3mo ago
>“I still plan to continue to use it,” he said. “The main friction point is, really, the mattress should work even without Wi-Fi.”

I appreciate the drifting semantics of names, but Wi-Fi and AWS are really not the same thing.

HPsquared•3mo ago
No WiFi, no AWS (as far as the mattress is concerned). "Works without WiFi" would be sufficient but not necessary for functioning through the AWS outage.
omnicognate•3mo ago
Right, but during the AWS outage that took these beds out presumably most of the owners had functioning WiFi.
HPsquared•3mo ago
Yeah, "works without any internet connection at all" is perhaps overkill for an AWS outage but I'll allow it.
mcphage•3mo ago
But it should still work without functioning WiFi.
ashwoods•3mo ago
I'd venture to say that the person meant that these kind of devices should be designed to work "locally first".
NoPicklez•3mo ago
I think perhaps they mean it should just run locally, rather than without an internet connection at all
Youden•3mo ago
The architecture of Eight Sleep is that the "Pod" – despite having a full Linux system running – is treated as nothing but a sensor and actuator. Absolutely zero decision-making happens on the device itself; it's all controlled by commands received from the mothership via an AWS service.

My cynical take has always been that this is their justification for charging a subscription fee for features that shouldn't require one (e.g. an alarm clock or the ability to change the temperature on a schedule).

There are a couple of open-source projects around jailbreaking it:

- Probably the original attempt: https://github.com/bobobo1618/ninesleep

- The much more polished and usable application built from that starting point: https://github.com/throwaway31265/free-sleep

The latter is even able to do the signal processing needed for heart rate on-device.

pedalpete•3mo ago
I found this to be a very strange architectural decision.

We work in the neurotech/sleeptech space (https://affectablesleep.com) and have a subscription service as well. We know when your subscription runs out, and have built the device to run completely offline, and even have a buffer of days if it can't connect to check you have a valid subscription.

Say what you will about subscription services, but being actively hostile to your user base because the device can't connect to a service on one night, seems like very poor planning.

I actually quite look up to 8Sleep as one of the better companies in this space, so I'm surprised this happened to them.

buggeryorkshire•3mo ago
"have a buffer of days"

Interesting. So if your product cannot connect to the cloud/subscription, but still works, why is there an issue with it working fully locally?

pedalpete•3mo ago
Yes, our product works without any internet connection. I'm not sure what you mean "why is there an issue"?

I don't think we have an issue, 8Sleep had an issue.

ChrisArchitect•3mo ago
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658056

And update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677351