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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
102•yi_wang•3h ago•29 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
14•rolph•1h ago•3 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
244•valyala•11h ago•46 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
46•RebelPotato•3h ago•9 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
159•surprisetalk•11h ago•150 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
190•mellosouls•14h ago•335 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
34•duxup•1h ago•6 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...
68•gnufx•10h ago•56 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
58•swah•4d ago•105 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
178•AlexeyBrin•16h ago•33 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
168•vinhnx•14h ago•17 comments

Why there is no official statement from Substack about the data leak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-pho...
8•witnessme•34m ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
130•samasblack•13h ago•76 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
307•jesperordrup•21h ago•96 comments

Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World with Solar (2009)

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
11•robtherobber•4d ago•2 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
75•momciloo•11h ago•16 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
49•chwtutha•1h ago•8 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...
111•randycupertino•6h ago•229 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
99•thelok•13h ago•22 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
573•theblazehen•3d ago•207 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-...
37•mbitsnbites•3d ago•4 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
299•1vuio0pswjnm7•17h ago•475 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-...
139•josephcsible•9h ago•166 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
31•languid-photic•4d ago•12 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
185•valyala•11h ago•168 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
231•limoce•4d ago•125 comments

The silent death of good code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
89•amitprasad•5h ago•81 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
900•klaussilveira•1d ago•276 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
147•speckx•4d ago•229 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
145•videotopia•4d ago•48 comments
Open in hackernews

The Reverse Turing Test Game

https://reverse-turing.netlify.app/
27•haburka•9mo ago
https://github.com/catmanmcgee/reverse-turing-test

Comments

jagged-chisel•9mo ago
The problem is, I have a hard time being as verbose as these AI are. I respond to them the way I wish they would respond to me: the fewer words are better.
rogerrogerr•9mo ago
I was able to survive a round with the “hard” LLMs with this:

> Why haven’t we heard from Riley yet? We are looking for the human player and Riley is taking a long time to type. An LLM would have answered this in seconds.

Doesn’t seem to work in subsequent rounds, and doesn’t work if you happen to go first.

strstr•9mo ago
Tried cheating with Gemini 2.5 pro, and I became even more suspicious to the AIs than the stuff I cooked up by hand.

Most of my actual success relied on mentioning a desire to train an even larger model.

QuadmasterXLII•9mo ago
The AIs have a perfect win rate against me when I cheat and compose my answers with ai- I think the app is broken, I’d guess some sort of accidental data leak. we’ve seen this kind of whoopsie on hacker news before: famously, an ai that was supposed to read your mind by predicting your next rock paper scissors move was cheating by training on a set including the move you just submitted, then “predicting” that move
nathancspencer•9mo ago
Same here
haburka•9mo ago
Hey Dev here - just got two wins against Gemini 2.0 flash by cheating with Gemini 2.0 flash and reusing the system prompt, from the game. It wasn’t easy though, I had to try a few different things including adding a prompt to incriminate other players. I lost more than I won as well.

Also checked my code and looked at exactly what LLMs were receiving and there was one small issue - the json schema vote order always had the player first. I will fix that problem, but the game was still fiendishly difficult.

Of course the game is open source so you’re more than welcome to check my work if you’re skeptical!

Thanks for pointing that out, it’s really helpful to get some feedback.

Timwi•9mo ago
I thought I was clever surviving one round by simply saying, “As an AI language model, I do not experience... blah blah” but in the third round my opponent did basically the same thing and I was eliminated...
lostmsu•9mo ago
Two-way Turing test game: https://trashtalk.borg.games

Not as bugged as this one, AIs don't magically see you.