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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
1•beardyw•16s ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•26s ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•2m 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•2m 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•3m 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•3m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•4m 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•5m 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
1•obscurette•5m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•6m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•7m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•9m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•10m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•11m 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•11m ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•12m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•12m ago•0 comments

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

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•14m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•14m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•14m 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•14m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•15m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•18m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•19m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•20m 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•21m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•23m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•25m 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•25m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: A local, open-source personal database with AI powers

https://superego.dev/
5•pscanf•3mo ago
Hello Hacker News!

For the past few months I've been developing Superego: an open-source _personal_ database where you can store everything you want about your life. Literally. Whatever data you have, you can put it in the app.

On top of the database, Superego gives you:

1. An AI assistant that you can use to collect and explore your data.

2. A platform to build small personal applications that use that data.

-- Try it

https://demo.superego.dev/ No login required; runs entirely in your browser¹.

Same deal when you download the app (macOS-only for now): everything is local, no accounts, no servers.

Well, aside from the inference service. You can use Ollama / LM Studio if you have the GPU power, but realistically it requires an external provider. That's just the state at we're at.

-- Why am I building it

1. Because I'm tired of having my data scattered and locked in tens of apps. I want to own my data, and I want to own my apps.²

2. Because it's incredibly useful to have an AI assistant that knows you.

3. Because my dad keeps asking me for apps to keep track of the oddest things. (I'm only half-joking.)

-- Plans for the future

Too many to list, but some cool features in the pipeline:

- Connecting your emails, so every time you get an email you can parse it with the AI and extract any important piece of data.

- More data connectors in general. Right now it can sync data from Strava, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts, but I want to make connectors for other fitness apps, finance APIs...

- Making the assistant multimodal (photos, simple files) so you can just drop a CSV in a chat and it imports everything it contains.

-- Request for feedback

I only have friends-and-family users right now, so I haven't gotten much feedback yet. I do have an overall vision for the product, but I'm hoping for more voices to better understand which features are killers and which are just niceties. So please, drop a comment here or on GitHub (https://github.com/superegodev/superego).

Cheers!

¹ The AI assistant uses a shared, rate-limited API. I don't log anything, but still don't send it any private data. You can also BYO api url+key, so you can bypass rate limits.

² I wrote a short essay on this back in March about this https://pscanf.com/s/340/, where I detail my vision for Superego.