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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
125•yi_wang•4h ago•35 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
53•RebelPotato•3h ago•10 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
247•valyala•12h ago•49 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
165•surprisetalk•11h ago•155 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
195•mellosouls•14h ago•350 comments

Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009)

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
18•robtherobber•4d ago•5 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...
73•gnufx•10h ago•59 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
62•swah•4d ago•113 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
180•AlexeyBrin•17h ago•35 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
171•vinhnx•15h ago•17 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
319•jesperordrup•22h ago•97 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
134•samasblack•14h ago•77 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
62•chwtutha•2h ago•10 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
82•momciloo•12h ago•16 comments

Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
31•Rygian•2d ago•7 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...
14•witnessme•1h ago•4 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
104•thelok•13h ago•22 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-...
40•mbitsnbites•3d ago•4 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...
112•randycupertino•7h ago•233 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
577•theblazehen•3d ago•208 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
59•duxup•1h ago•13 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
304•1vuio0pswjnm7•18h ago•482 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
189•valyala•12h ago•173 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-...
144•josephcsible•10h ago•178 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
34•languid-photic•4d ago•15 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

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

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
150•speckx•4d ago•235 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
303•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
118•onurkanbkrc•16h ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows “Black Screen” bug in 2013

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/05/how-i-fixed-the-infamous-basilisk-ii-windows-black-screen-bug-in-2013/
79•zdw•8mo ago

Comments

cardanome•8mo ago
I remember running Basilisk 2 on a PlayStation Portable.

Not sure what the point was but I was happy I could.

MBCook•8mo ago
Allocations moving around sounds a lot like the Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) that was added to Vista as part of the large increase in security hardening MS went through during development.

Great article. I’d love to know why the memory was allocated that way initially.

fredoralive•8mo ago
The two memory allocations makes sense, ROM and RAM are separate chunks of memory, and in the Mac memory map(s) they're non-contiguous, so why not two allocations?

It's only once the C classic of optimising through FUN™ with pointers, and then weird issues with bits of the Mac ROM not liking being mapped into random high memory addresses that we end up with lockups.

rcarmo•8mo ago
This reminds me that I cannot run BasiliskII at a decent resolution under GNOME at 125% - the thing apparently tries to set the window size several times, then goes into a black-bordered resolution mode that is _not_ what I asked for (and I'm used to setting the prefs directly, so I have mag_rate, scale_nearest, etc. all set "correctly"
rcarmo•8mo ago
If anyone lands here from Google, I got it to work by setting scale_nearest and scale_integer to false since GNOME at 125% scaling seems to throw it off.
RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u•8mo ago
Very interesting article, but this stood out to me:

> To re-familiarize myself with this bug [...] I downloaded the broken version [...] and tried it out in some virtual machines. Windows 2000 and XP ran it without any trouble on the first try, but Vista and 7 didn’t [...]

Amazing. Emulating an older system in order to debug emulating an even older system. The amount of compute / memory / storage readily available at our fingertips today is astounding. My first computer was a 68k Mac, and back then, I would never imagine such scenarios would be possible!

electroly•8mo ago
The Windows virtual machines aren't emulated; there's still only the one expensive emulation layer going on here.
bluedino•8mo ago
First web job I had, there were a pair of barely working Dell computers in a dark corner. They were there to test Windows XP and IE6

I virtualized that crap a couple weeks later.

canucker2016•8mo ago
Windows Vista Heap changes:

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-06/BH-US-06-Ma...

https://moflow.org/Presentations/200703%20EuSecWest%20-%20Wi...

canucker2016•8mo ago
Analysis of 32-bit Windows Vista ASLR - https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-07/Whitehouse/P...

  After  the  stack  address  has  been  selected,  the  process 
  heaps are selected.  Each heap is allocated from a range of 
  32  different  locations,  each  separated  by  64kB.    The 
  location  of  the  first  heap  must  be  chosen  to  avoid  the 
  previously placed stack, and each of the following heaps 
  must be allocated to avoid those allocated before it.

  An important result of Vista’s ASLR design is that some 
  address  space  layout  parameters  such  as  PEB,  stack  and 
  heap  locations  are  selected  once  per  program  execution. 
  Other parameters, such as the location of the program code, 
  data  segment,  BSS  segment  and  libraries,  change  only 
  between reboots.

  This paper shows that the stack, heap, image and PEB 
  protected  by  ASLR  on  Microsoft  Windows  Vista  32bit 
  RTM have different frequency distributions. While the stack 
  has near uniform distribution over a very wide range, the 
  heap and PEB, and to a lesser degree the image base have 
  much  smaller  ranges  and  because  of  biases  in  their 
  distributions do not efficiently use this range.  As a result, 
  the protection offered by ASLR under Windows Vista may 
  not be as robust as expected.