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Show HN: Open-source LLM playground for VS Code

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mindrig.mindrig
2•kossnocorp•1mo ago
Hey HN!

We made a VS Code extension that allows developers to play with their prompts right in their editor. It uses Oxc and RustPython to parse and detect the prompts in the source code.

Devs can test their prompts against different models and/or variables (models*data matrix). With a CSV dataset, one can test their prompt changes against multiple rows and verify whether the change is good or not. Automated evals are coming soonish.

The request/response JSONs are available to inspect, as well as usage stats with projected cost.

The extension supports hundreds of models thanks to the Vercel Gateway. If you need more provider options (planned but not priority), please let me know. Users without keys will get their requests served by LM Studio running on my PC. Please don't crash my workstation!

It only supports JS/TS and Python for now, but many more languages are coming. Compiling tree-sitter crates to Wasm is PITA, but I'm getting there.

I also work on improving the heuristics so prompt strings can be detected from arrays or when passed as arguments to popular LLM APIs. Now you can use "prompt" in the variable name or put a comment with "@prompt" in front of it.

Pony Alpha: New free 200K context model for coding, reasoning and roleplay

https://ponyalpha.pro
1•qzcanoe•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tunbot – Discord bot for temporary Cloudflare tunnels behind CGNAT

https://github.com/Goofygiraffe06/tunbot
1•g1raffe•5m ago•0 comments

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496
1•vinhnx•10m ago•0 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
1•rolph•15m ago•0 comments

Dexter: Claude-Code-Style Agent for Financial Statements and Valuation

https://github.com/virattt/dexter
1•Lwrless•17m ago•0 comments

Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
1•vermilingua•22m ago•0 comments

Essential CDN: The CDN that lets you do more than JavaScript

https://essentialcdn.fluidity.workers.dev/
1•telui•22m ago•1 comments

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
1•cedel2k1•26m ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
21•chwtutha•26m ago•2 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
2•osnium123•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
2•jeremy_su•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•31m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•37m ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•38m ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•50m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•50m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•52m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
3•cwwc•54m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•55m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•57m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
2•ark296•57m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
2•medbar•59m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•59m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
2•akagusu•1h ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•1h ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•1h ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•1h ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•1h ago•1 comments