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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
34•yi_wang•1h ago•13 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
224•valyala•9h ago•43 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
131•surprisetalk•9h ago•139 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
166•mellosouls•12h ago•324 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...
54•gnufx•8h ago•54 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
148•vinhnx•12h ago•16 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
172•AlexeyBrin•15h ago•31 comments

IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/ibm-beam-spring-the-ultimate-retro-keyboard
10•rbanffy•4d ago•1 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
287•jesperordrup•19h ago•93 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
111•samasblack•11h ago•72 comments

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

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84•randycupertino•4h ago•183 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
64•momciloo•9h ago•13 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
93•thelok•11h 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-...
33•mbitsnbites•3d ago•2 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
562•theblazehen•3d ago•206 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
104•zdw•3d ago•52 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
30•swah•4d ago•72 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
270•1vuio0pswjnm7•15h ago•452 comments

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

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113•josephcsible•7h ago•133 comments

Eigen: Building a Workspace

https://reindernijhoff.net/2025/10/eigen-building-a-workspace/
10•todsacerdoti•4d ago•2 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
28•languid-photic•4d ago•9 comments

The silent death of good code

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71•amitprasad•3h ago•73 comments

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

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177•valyala•9h ago•165 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
114•onurkanbkrc•14h ago•5 comments

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https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
138•speckx•4d ago•212 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
896•klaussilveira•1d ago•273 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
223•limoce•4d ago•124 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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583•todsacerdoti•1d ago•283 comments

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

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