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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
165•yi_wang•5h ago•51 comments

OpenClaw Is Changing My Life

https://reorx.com/blog/openclaw-is-changing-my-life/
8•novoreorx•1h ago•4 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
81•RebelPotato•5h ago•19 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
270•valyala•13h ago•51 comments

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

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
33•robtherobber•4d ago•37 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
209•mellosouls•16h ago•360 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
77•swah•4d ago•140 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
172•surprisetalk•13h ago•165 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
184•AlexeyBrin•19h ago•35 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...
76•gnufx•12h ago•60 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html
10•grep_it•5d ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
177•vinhnx•16h ago•18 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
331•jesperordrup•23h ago•99 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
139•samasblack•15h ago•81 comments

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-pho...
32•witnessme•2h ago•9 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
87•momciloo•13h ago•18 comments

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

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
36•Rygian•2d ago•11 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
81•chwtutha•4h ago•22 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
109•thelok•15h ago•24 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
593•theblazehen•3d ago•214 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-...
42•mbitsnbites•3d ago•5 comments

LineageOS 23.2

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-31/
6•pentagrama•1h ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
316•1vuio0pswjnm7•20h ago•514 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...
116•randycupertino•8h ago•243 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
908•klaussilveira•1d ago•277 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
162•speckx•4d ago•245 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
36•languid-photic•4d ago•18 comments

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

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

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
314•dmpetrov•1d ago•159 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
149•videotopia•4d ago•49 comments
Open in hackernews

Open Problems in Computational geometry

https://topp.openproblem.net/
92•nill0•8mo ago

Comments

wrsh07•8mo ago
Does anyone know if this is still up-to-date?

All three authors are large contributors to the field (the book _discrete and computational geometry_ by O'Rourke & Devadoss is excellent), Demaine has some origami in the collection at MoMA NYC^, Mitchell found a ptas for euclidian tsp (Google it - the paper is readable and there is another good write up of his vs Arora's)

^ https://erikdemaine.org/curved/MoMA/

yorwba•8mo ago
Last update to mark a problem as solved was in December last year: https://github.com/edemaine/topp/pull/10
rurban•8mo ago
You just need to file a simple PR to mark a problem as solved though. I cannot get much simplier
jll29•8mo ago
Thanks for the pointer, I just saw the 2nd edition of Discrete and Computational Geometry will be coming out in July: https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Discrete-Computational-Geometry-... (I preordered a copy)
boxfire•8mo ago
Definitely out of date, e.g. the 3SUM subquadratic conjecture (probably 11) has been solved and improved on [1].

If it's not been already there's immediate application, e.g. problem 41.

[1]:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00453-015-0079-6

mazsa•8mo ago
Are there any solutions similar to those found at https://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/100/ ?
ogogmad•8mo ago
Is any of the new machine learning tech promising here? I recall some new invariants of minimal surfaces were discovered only a few years ago by a DeepMind-made AI - and that's before LLMs. I'm wondering if AI can invent notions as powerful as homology groups: It could go about this by constructing lossy compressors whose outputs can still be used to accurately predict properties of geometric objects. That is what homology groups and the like are for.
jebarker•8mo ago
This does seem like one math domain where there's some potential for program synthesis approaches like the recent AlphaEvolve and others. I say that because some of these problems you could feasibly write automatic evaluation code and solve them by the LLM spitting out a constructor for solutions and then doing hill climbing. That's not true in many areas of math though. There's also problems here that require a proof and maybe would be approachable eventually using automated theorem proving. But there's also problems that don't obviously fit into either of those categories.
bubblyworld•8mo ago
A technicality is that those compressors need to provably predict properties of said geometric objects to be interesting to mathematicans (a statement which itself needs appropriate encoding in mathematical language - what exactly you want probably depends on the problem you hope to solve). Something that superficially looks good but works as a black box wouldn't cut it.

My understanding of ML interpretability research at the moment is that it's very early days - too early, perhaps, to hope for a general purpose compressor algorithm that produces proofs of it's own workings (that seems like the holy grail). But of course I would love to be wrong!

jll29•8mo ago
It's a great idea to collect open problems, to give them a name and unique number, to collect status updates, and to provide related literature references. It would be good to keep this open for submitting new problems also, and I'd like to see similar activities for all sub-areas of mathematics and computer science.

Mathematicians led by Terence Tao are keen to explore new ways for mathematicians to collaborate remotely and online to tackle all open problems together in an open and technology-supported way. I think problem inventories should be part of that, together with proof collections, existing datasets such as the great On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS, at https://oeis.org), and perhaps Jupyter-type notebooks that utilize symbolic algebra systems, theorem provers etc.

lordfrito•8mo ago
Was hoping for some pretty pictures.... since there are none this article isn't for me I guess.
rurban•8mo ago
Indeed. With more pictures such as at https://topp.openproblem.net/p59 I foresee that there will be much more solutions. You don't need to be an expert to solve most, but they hide themselves behind expert language