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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•3m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•3m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•5m 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•5m 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•6m 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•6m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•7m 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•7m 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•8m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•9m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•10m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•12m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•13m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•13m 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•14m ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•15m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•15m ago•0 comments

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

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•16m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•16m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•17m 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•17m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•18m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•20m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•21m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•23m 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•24m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•25m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•28m 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•28m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Skald – open-source context layer API that runs in your VPC

https://www.useskald.com/
5•yakkomajuri•1mo ago
Hey HN! We built an open source context layer to power AI agents and apps even in air-gapped infra setups.

TL;DR: Use our API (or one of the 6 SDKs) to push context into the Skald platform, and get semantic search and AI chat out of the box.

We’ve seen companies spend months building a context layer system internally, only for it to have subpar performance and require active maintenance.

Skald gives you the plumbing to get started really fast when building context-aware agents and AI apps (customers have gone to prod in a day with us) but is still highly extensible and configurable to fit individual needs.

Our core is entirely MIT-licensed and you can even run it with a fully self-hosted stack (document parsing, chunking, vector search, LLM, etc) in your VPC. We think solutions in this space must be open source, and not just “open source but bring 6 API keys to get started”.

Our customers have used Skald to quickly build features for their own users, as well as for internal tooling.

The self-hosted MIT version is completely fully-featured, so much so that it’s what we run on our Cloud offering today. We do also have an enterprise license for larger customers that runs on their infra and has a few enterprise-focused features on top of the MIT version.

Keen to hear your feedback and I’ll be around to answer questions!

GitHub: https://github.com/skaldlabs/skald

Comments

marcushyett•1mo ago
Have you thought about deeper integrations with systems where people keep their unstructured data?
yakkomajuri•1mo ago
This is definitely something we're considering. The initial use cases we saw were people using Skald to build AI features into their own apps based on content that was generated within their application, but we're now seeing more interest from companies wanting to import data that exists somewhere else into Skald, so this certainly would make sense to build!