fp.

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt

68•yi_wang•2h ago•23 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

233•valyala•10h ago•45 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding

25•RebelPotato•2h ago•4 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode

144•surprisetalk•10h ago•146 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

176•mellosouls•13h ago•333 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...

62•gnufx•9h ago•55 comments

IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/ibm-beam-spring-the-ultimate-retro-keyboard

19•rbanffy•4d ago•4 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

173•AlexeyBrin•15h ago•32 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html

152•vinhnx•13h ago•16 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/

41•swah•4d ago•91 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

125•samasblack•12h ago•75 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/

298•jesperordrup•20h ago•95 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path

69•momciloo•10h ago•13 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...

96•randycupertino•5h ago•212 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/

98•thelok•12h ago•21 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...

35•mbitsnbites•3d ago•3 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

566•theblazehen•3d ago•206 comments

Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents

https://github.com/ujjwalredd/Axiomeer

7•ujjwalreddyks•5d ago•2 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349

35•chwtutha•1h ago•5 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/

286•1vuio0pswjnm7•16h ago•465 comments

Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...

127•josephcsible•8h ago•155 comments

The silent death of good code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code

81•amitprasad•4h ago•76 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/

29•languid-photic•4d ago•9 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/

180•valyala•10h ago•165 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/

899•klaussilveira•1d ago•275 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en

225•limoce•4d ago•125 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/

115•onurkanbkrc•15h ago•5 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline

141•speckx•4d ago•224 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/

143•videotopia•4d ago•48 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo

299•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments

Open in hackernews

How Silica Gel Took over the World

https://www.scopeofwork.net/silica-gel/

28•NaOH•10mo ago

Comments

freemoney•10mo ago

this is a piece of knowledge I didn't know I needed

robertlagrant•10mo ago

> Thanks to Brad Avenson for suggesting (facetiously) that we fill our products & packaging with “dry, inert gas,”

This is what we do with crisp packets. Noble gases don't let the crisps go rancid.

pfdietz•10mo ago

Surely nitrogen is cheaper than noble gases?

robertlagrant•10mo ago

Oh yes also nitrogen.

NaOH•10mo ago

This appears to have reached the second-chance pool even though another submission of the same article generated ample discussion a couple days ago.

How Silica Gel Took Over the World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550556 - April 2025 (171 comment)