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What did we learn from the AI Village in 2025?

https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-we-learned-2025
1•mrkO99•28s ago•0 comments

An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller

https://github.com/lowobservable/oec
1•bri3d•2m ago•0 comments

The P in PGP isn't for pain: encrypting emails in the browser

https://ckardaris.github.io/blog/2026/02/07/encrypted-email.html
2•ckardaris•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mirror Parliament where users vote on top of politicians and draft laws

https://github.com/fokdelafons/lustra
1•fokdelafons•5m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?

1•Chance-Device•7m ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
1•ColinWright•9m ago•0 comments

Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

https://robotsandstartups.substack.com/p/humanoids-platform-urdf-kitchen-nvidias
1•robotlaunch•13m ago•0 comments

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck with My Dad

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/
1•HotGarbage•13m ago•0 comments

AI UX Playground: Real-world examples of AI interaction design

https://www.aiuxplayground.com/
1•javiercr•14m ago•0 comments

The Field Guide to Design Futures

https://designfutures.guide/
1•andyjohnson0•14m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•16m ago•0 comments

AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
3•sohimaster•18m ago•1 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
3•harshalone•18m ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
2•PaulHoule•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•24m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•25m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
2•Brajeshwar•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•27m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•27m ago•1 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
11•c420•27m ago•1 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•28m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
3•HotGarbage•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•28m ago•1 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•30m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
5•surprisetalk•33m ago•1 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
4•TheCraiggers•34m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•35m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
14•doener•36m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•37m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Julie update – local LLMs, CUA, installers and perf gains

https://tryjulie.vercel.app/
8•luthiraabeykoon•1mo ago
The biggest shift is that Julie now supports fully local LLMs and agentic workflows. It’s no longer limited to answering questions about what’s on screen. It can now run writing and coding agents, and optionally take concrete actions on your computer under supervision.

What’s new:

- Local LLM support. Julie can now run entirely on-device,

- Agentic computer use. I added a computer-use mode with demos showing multi-step actions like clicking, typing, and navigation.

- Writing and coding agents. Draft, refactor, and iterate in-place without moving into a separate workspace.

- Installers are now available, so setup is a lot simpler.

- Significant performance improvements across startup time, memory usage, and latency.

I also wrote a full walkthrough and demos covering how the agents work and where the boundaries are: https://tryjulie.vercel.app/

Repo + installers: https://github.com/Luthiraa/julie

Thanks for all the support and feedback. From the bottom of my heart, I really appreciate it. I’ve loved building this, and it’s been one of the fastest things I’ve taken from idea to something real that people are actually using. I really love this community.

If you enjoyed checking it out, a star on the repo would mean a lot and helps more people find it.

Comments

luthiraabeykoon•1mo ago
One small note: I’m finally at a place where I’m genuinely happy with where this landed, so I’ll probably pause active development for a bit.

That said, I’m excited to see how people use it, and I’ll still be around to answer questions and fix issues if they come up.

llamatheollama•1mo ago
This is a really thoughtful direction. The “overlay instead of another workspace” idea resonates a lot, especially the screen-as-context inversion.

Curious about one thing: where local LLMs feel “good enough” today vs where you still fall back to remote models

The perf work + installers make this feel way more real than most agent demos. Nice job shipping something people can actually try.

luthiraabeykoon•1mo ago
Good question. Local LLMs are already “good enough” for most in-context work: short-to-medium writing, refactors, reasoning over what’s on screen, and multi-step agent plans where latency and privacy matter more than raw IQ.

I still fall back to remote models for very long-context tasks, heavier code synthesis, or when you want best possible reasoning over large codebases, the goal is to default local, then escalate only when it actually adds value.

moderngamer•1mo ago
what llm do you recommend using locally?
luthiraabeykoon•1mo ago
i use qwen3-8B for text and qwen3-vl-4B for vision