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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
59•guerrilla•1h ago•22 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
151•valyala•5h ago•25 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
81•zdw•3d ago•32 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
86•surprisetalk•5h ago•91 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
26•swah•4d ago•19 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
19•martialg•58m ago•3 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
120•mellosouls•8h ago•236 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
159•AlexeyBrin•11h ago•28 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
866•klaussilveira•1d ago•266 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
115•vinhnx•8h ago•14 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...
33•randycupertino•1h ago•33 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
73•thelok•7h ago•13 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-...
22•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
76•samasblack•8h ago•57 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
157•valyala•5h ago•136 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
253•jesperordrup•15h ago•82 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...
36•gnufx•4h ago•41 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
535•theblazehen•3d ago•197 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
100•onurkanbkrc•10h ago•5 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
39•momciloo•5h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
19•languid-photic•4d ago•5 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
213•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•325 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
42•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
276•alainrk•10h ago•454 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
129•videotopia•4d ago•41 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
52•rbanffy•4d ago•14 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-...
52•josephcsible•3h ago•67 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
650•nar001•9h ago•284 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
41•sandGorgon•2d ago•17 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
109•speckx•4d ago•149 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Cogitator – A Python Toolkit for Chain-of-Thought Prompting

https://github.com/habedi/cogitator
54•habedi0•8mo ago
Hi everyone,

I made an open-source Python toolkit/library, named Cogitator, to make it easier to try and use different chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning methods. The project is at the beta stage, but it supports using models provided by OpenAI and Ollama. It includes implementations for Cot strategies and frameworks like Self-Consistency, Tree of Thoughts, and Graph of Thoughts.

GitHub link of the project: https://github.com/habedi/cogitator

Comments

nico•8mo ago
Very interesting. I saw the examples and would have loved to see the results, maybe some text showing the whole process or a little gif/video

Great work

habedi0•8mo ago
Sounds like a great idea. In the next release, I'll add a visualization for how things work and related to each other, and possibly also include some benchmark results.
nico•8mo ago
Cool, yes benchmark results are great to show

Also, are you using this tool as part of another project? It’d be interesting to see what the main applications of CoT prompting are (the examples are great but a little basic)

habedi0•8mo ago
I'm not using it in a larger project at the moment. The examples right now are mainly included to help people get started quickly. About the applications, they are somewhat context-dependent, but I might add one or two larger examples later if I have the time.

I guess CoT prompting could be used for ARC Prize (https://arcprize.org)

tomaytotomato•8mo ago
Very nice, will there be support for other models in the future?

This technology is not heretical, praise the Omnissiah!

habedi0•8mo ago
Lol. No. Not heretical at all.

I might add support for other model providers (like Google and Azure) in the future. Although I'm trying to keep the scope of the project very small because it's easier for me to maintain it.

Anyway, I think adding new LLM providers is pretty straightforward if you want to do it yourself. You just need to implement the API of the BaseLLM (see the `cogitator/model/base.py` file) for your provider. After that, you just use it like how you use OllamaLLM or OpenAILLM.

manifoldgeo•8mo ago
Will there be a follow-up toolkit for Artificial General Intelligence called Agitator?

Dumb jokes aside, I took a look at your GitHub page, and this is exactly what I've been looking for when I do local LLM work. Cogitator seems like a nice, pythonic approach vs. using the raw `ollama run` command, esp. given the focus on chain of thought. I think I'll start using this tool. Nice work!

habedi0•8mo ago
Thanks.