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Apple confirms Gemini-powered Siri will use Private Cloud

https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/29/apple-confirms-gemini-powered-siri-will-use-private-cloud-compute/
1•alwillis•1m ago•0 comments

We Should Eradicate the Empty String – Here's Why

https://www.cnpp.dev/blog/practical-type-system/eradicate-empty-string/index.html
1•welfareleech•4m ago•0 comments

ArcaOS is a proprietary operating system based on OS/2

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

A Simple Method for Accelerating Grokking

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/38RcAQezS2AEcaEGv/a-simple-method-for-accelerating-grokking
1•vuciv•4m ago•0 comments

Voice Censorship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2hE9wT569E
1•barrister•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Language – A messenger for language learners

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vibe-language/id6755855488
1•osd2030•6m ago•0 comments

9front OS

https://9front.org/
2•doener•7m ago•0 comments

Turn meeting notes into Beautiful professional docs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLlSEBSLWV4
1•0nabilbk•7m ago•2 comments

Peter H. Duesberg, 89, Renowned Biologist Turned HIV Denialist, Dies

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/science/peter-duesberg-dead.html
3•bookofjoe•7m ago•1 comments

HamClock has reached end-of-life

https://clearskyinstitute.com/ham/HamClock/
1•austinallegro•8m ago•0 comments

Pull Request Stacks [Preview]

https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/1218
1•bewuethr•8m ago•0 comments

KolibriOS is a tiny yet powerful and fast operating system

https://kolibrios.org/en
1•doener•9m ago•0 comments

OpenSSL v3.6.1

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-3.6.1
1•alasr•10m ago•0 comments

Not all ultra-processed foods are created equal: a review

https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2026/01/05/bmjnph-2025-001358
1•hhs•10m ago•0 comments

Open-Source Alternative to Claude Cowork Desktop App

https://github.com/kuse-ai/kuse_cowork
1•blackcat201•10m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent systems that learn

https://git.new/agno
1•ashpreetagno•11m ago•0 comments

Waymo Approved to Begin Passenger Service at SFO

https://www.flysfo.com/about/media/press-releases/waymo-approved-begin-passenger-service-sfo
1•JaakkoP•11m ago•0 comments

A Paradigm Shift in Microbial Protein Manufacturing

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/16/1/129
1•PaulHoule•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sarab – Expose localhost to the internet using Cloudflare Tunnels

https://github.com/meedoomostafa/sarab
1•meedoomostafa•16m ago•0 comments

The Joy of Clothes

https://dynkarken.substack.com/p/the-joy-of-wearing-pretty-clothes
1•thinkingaboutit•19m ago•0 comments

The K-Shaped Future of Software Engineering

https://www.ian.so/writing/k-shaped-future-software-engineering
2•ian_dot_so•21m ago•0 comments

Body Censorship

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

AI diagram looks great and nobody will read it

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/your-ai-diagram-looks-great-and-nobody-will-read-it-f1e34fe9c8f1
2•birdculture•22m ago•0 comments

Nvidia helped DeepSeek hone AI models later used by China's military

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-helped-deepseek-hone-ai-models-later-used-by-chinas-mi...
3•DustinEchoes•25m ago•0 comments

Major grid operator for Pa., East Coast predicts energy shortfall by mid-2027

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/01/pjm-grid-short-fall-power-plants-data-centers-environment/
1•bikenaga•27m ago•0 comments

A Mild Take on Coding Agents

https://meelo.substack.com/p/a-mild-take-on-coding-agents
2•milowata•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A constraints based IaC decision tool

https://whichiac.com
1•batemanchris•28m ago•1 comments

Common Lisp Extension for Zed

https://github.com/etyurkin/zed-cl
1•mike_ivanov•29m ago•0 comments

The K-Shaped Future of Software Engineering

https://twitter.com/ian_dot_so/status/2013316676637294890
1•mji•30m ago•0 comments

Claude Code hacks its way to success

https://www.theeggeadventure.com/2026/01/recovering-ssh-on-a-headless-raspberry-pi-through-a-priv...
2•brother_corp•34m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Grid: Forever free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer

https://grid.space/stem/
53•cyrusradfar•1h ago

Comments

cyrusradfar•1h ago
Surprised this hasn't been shared here before.

Built by my former colleague, Stewart Allen (Co-Founder/CTO of WebMethods, CTO of AddThis, Co-Founder/CPO of IonQ, et al.).

What caught my attention:

- 100% free, no subscriptions, no accounts, no cloud

- Local-first: all slicing and toolpath generation runs on your machine

- Works in any browser, even offline once loaded

- Supports FDM/SLA, CNC milling, laser cutting, wire EDM

- Fully open source: github.com/GridSpace/grid-apps

Refreshing to see a tool that isn't trying to lock you into a subscription or harvest your data.

WJW•44m ago
Am I weird in not being too surprised? It don't have experience with wire EDM but every toolpath generator or slicer I've ever used was just local software.
pests•6m ago
Bambu Labs ~recently had some drama around requiring an account / harvesting data for their machines. Might be what that's about.
reactordev•1h ago
Now if we can only get an offline printer…
observationist•1h ago
Elegoo printers can be offline - you can run everything from the machine itself, as long as you have your model/s on a thumb drive. Or is that not what you mean?
reactordev•54m ago
https://youtu.be/kS-9ISzMhBM

They’re trying to introduce legislation that would require 3D printers to be online so that if you try to print a firearm, it won’t let you…

Granted, today, you can print offline.

Tomorrow? A firmware update might just brick it the next time it goes online or won’t be able to read the grbl

dheera•38m ago
Bleh, just wire into the steppers and extruder directly, not that hard.

To be clear I have no desire to print firearms but I do not want my tools online and getting bricked when the company who made it goes out of business.

reactordev•34m ago
Right to repair.

Right to use.

I don’t think a company should have a say in what you do with their product after you have purchased it. Whether you intend to print firearms or not. The acts of the few should not withhold liberty of the many.

xcf_seetan•5m ago
I would add right to build. I have built my 3D printers and i control the firmware. No need to go online.
mikestorrent•37m ago
How would it know what is a firearm and what isn't? Seems trivial to defeat for someone who knows CAD, no?
reactordev•32m ago
That’s the tricky part of this whole mess. Online servers would have to mesh and volume your model and determine if it matches a likeness of any known models. So much for printing NERF.

I don’t think this will pass as is but it shows you where lawmakers heads are. They would rather brick your capability than do actual policing.

Gigachad•22m ago
What gets me is this doesn’t even seem to be the most effective way to regulate this. 3D printed guns require a lot of non 3D printed gun parts. You can’t 3D print bullets for example.

The is really just a US specific issue where 90% what you need for a gun can be purchased easily, but the non functional handle requires registration, etc.

They could just make buying gun parts as strict as buying a whole gun

observationist•24m ago
They'll just run it through BigBrotherGPT, a CAD aware multimodal censorship bot specially trained to recognize Bad Things that must not be printed. And while this is sarcastic, it also occurs to me that it's also really, really achievable. OpenAI could probably whip one up in a weekend office hackathon.
observationist•27m ago
These people are so ridiculous. It'll fail on 1A and 2A grounds, not to mention challenges implicit from 4A and 5A considerations. They can't ban arbitrary information, even dangerous information, and there's a presumption of regularity - you're presumed innocent of wrongdoing absent evidence, so they can't legislate the assumption of criminality by default. They can't ban private creation of firearms and weapons, so long as other aspects of the law are being followed. They can't assert control over private property and mandate being online, this is equivalent to a warrantless search of private home activity. Arbitrary compliance costs and increased prices can amount to violations of 5A takings clause, and you can't bake in a violation of your right to refuse to incriminate yourself, especially with the vague, subjective nature of the proposed legislation. There's also 5A due process concerns, with the legislation being overbroad and arbitrary. 14A presents equal protections and lays the basis for discrimination between hobbyists and manufacturers and interstate commerce concerns.

The whole notion is about as anti-American and authoritarian as laws get, I don't see it as anything more than political grandstanding, and even if Washington passes it with statewide, unanimous endorsement, it won't last a year before 9th circuit court strikes it down on purely 2A grounds.

snapetom•53m ago
Same with Bambu's. They include microSD slots.
dheera•39m ago
Prusas are easily offline, pop an SD card or USB in and print
SethTro•58m ago
I've used kiri:moto for several simple CNC projects!

This probably won't scroll to the correct place on the page but there's some images of my project at https://hcc.haus/propmania/#2024-palm-torches and https://static.cloudygo.com/static/Prop%20Making/2024%20Palm...

I used it instead of the terrible closed source Easel App for a CARVEY hobby CNC. For metal milling I find Fusion 360 is necessary.

cyrusradfar•39m ago
Curious if you can elaborate on what's missing or failing, to require Fusion 360?
s0a•21m ago
probably adaptive milling, which will be in an upcoming release. sharp path changes in harder metals can wear or break tools if you don't go slow, which has other issues.
bsimpson•55m ago
More open source, browser-accessible tools is a good thing.

That said, aren't Prusa/Orca/etc. all already open-source (and part of the same lineage)?

s0a•42m ago
no shared lineage. Cura and Kiri started around the same time (2011/2012), but as completely separate projects. Cura is a C++ desktop app and Kiri has always been 100% browser-based (no cloud, all computation in the browser sandbox). the licenses are different, too. Cura/Prusa/Orca are GPL based and Kiri is MIT.
eseymour•37m ago
This looks great. I was hoping it would have been a good OrcaSlicer replacement for my FDM printer, but unfortunately it didn't generate any top surfaces (except for the topmost one) for a model I imported in. I didn't know if it was the printer profile (Creality.Ender3) or something else, but it seems I'm still using OrcaSlicer for the time being.
s0a•27m ago
this does look like a bug in the default Ender 3 profile. easily fixable.
danfunk•34m ago
Great tool for a Makerspace - really appreciate the ability to use the same tool for laser cutting, 3d printing, and CNC. These are big jumps for people typically - having a familiar tool would help people transition from one area to another.
abdullahkhalids•3m ago
OT: Why is that Alphabet, Mozilla, Apple, etc can get together to create web standards that allow anyone to create software that works cross-platform - only a browser is needed, but Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Canonical, etc can't get together to create standards that allow anyone to create software that works cross-platform?