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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
80•ColinWright•1h ago•43 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
21•surprisetalk•1h ago•19 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
121•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•24 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
105•alephnerd•2h ago•56 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
58•vinhnx•4h ago•7 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
824•klaussilveira•21h ago•248 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
54•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
105•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•123 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1058•xnx•1d ago•608 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
76•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
479•theblazehen•2d ago•175 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
205•jesperordrup•11h ago•69 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
549•nar001•6h ago•253 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
217•alainrk•6h ago•335 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 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
35•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
28•marklit•5d 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
4•momciloo•1h ago•0 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
4•valyala•1h ago•1 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
113•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
4•valyala•1h ago•0 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
73•speckx•4d ago•74 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
68•mellosouls•4h ago•73 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
273•isitcontent•22h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
199•limoce•4d ago•111 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
285•dmpetrov•22h ago•153 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
21•sandGorgon•2d ago•11 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
555•todsacerdoti•1d ago•268 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
43•matt_d•4d ago•18 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Container Use for Agents

https://github.com/dagger/container-use
82•aluzzardi•8mo ago

Comments

steeve•8mo ago
Very cool that this runs as a MCP server, very cool demo
dboreham•8mo ago
Seems odd that the LLM is so clever it can write programs to drive any API. But so dumb that it needs a new special purpose protocol proxy to access anything behind such an API...
sharifhsn•8mo ago
It’s about resilience. LLMs are prone to hallucinations. Although they can be very intelligent, they don’t have 100% correct output unaided. The protocol helps increase the resilience of the output so that there’s more of a guarantee that the LLM will stay within the lines you’ve drawn around it.
beardedwizard•8mo ago
That's really not true. Context is one strategy to keep a models output constrained, and tool calling allows dynamic updates to context. Mcp is a convenience layer around tool calls and the systems they integrate with
nsonha•8mo ago
> LLM is so clever it can write programs to drive any API

It is not, name one software that has a LLM generating code on the fly to call APIs. Why do people have this delusion?

TeMPOraL•8mo ago
Every runtime executing LLMs with support for tools does it, starting with the first update to ChatGPT app/webapp that made use of the earliest version of "function calling"? Even earlier, there were third-party runtimes/apps (including scripts people made for themselves), that used OpenAI models via API with a prompt teaching LLM a syntax it can use to "shell out", which the runtime would scan for.

If you tell a model it can use some syntax, e.g. `:: foo(arg1, arg2) ::`, to cause the runtime to call an API, and then, based on the context of the conversation, the model outputs `:: get_current_weather("Poland/Warsaw")`, that is "generating code on the fly to all APIs". How `:: get_current_weather("Poland/Warsaw")` gets turned into a bunch of cURL invocations against e.g. OpenWeather API, is an implementation detail of the runtime.

ErikBjare•8mo ago
This is basically just function calling?
nsonha•8mo ago
No the person I replied to made the argument that tool calling or MCP is uneccessary because why not just make the LLM generate any code on the fly to do anything instead. They think there should be just one tool: eval.

Surprisingly many people say this. I essentially ask them if they have seen a non-toy product that works like that, because everything is tool calling afak.

shykes•8mo ago
Hi all, we open sourced this live on stage today at AI Engineer World Fair (great event by the way).

If you're interested, here's the keynote recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/U-fMsbY-kHY?t=3400s

rahimnathwani•8mo ago
I'm curious: what do containers add over and above whatever you'd get using worktrees on their own?
shykes•8mo ago
They're complementary. git worktrees isolate file edits; containers isolate execution: building, testing, running dev instances..

container-use combines both forms of isolation: containers and git worktrees in a seamless system that agents can use to get work done.

brunoqc•8mo ago
I would guess isolation/safety.
kamikaz1k•8mo ago
Page is crashing my mobile chrome.
akshayKMR•8mo ago
Freezing for me on Safari desktop. I think the culprit is the SVG based demo in the README.md
shykes•8mo ago
Sorry about that! We'll fix it.
meling•8mo ago
On iPad as well.
lmeyerov•8mo ago
Interesting. I have been doing a simple man's version of multiple git clone folders and 'docker compose -p'. Making that smoother is attractive, esp if can be made opaque for our more junior teammates.

On one end, I have been curious about getting multiple agents to work on the same branch, but realized I can just wait till they do that natively.

More so, all this feels like a dead end. I think OpenAI and github are right to push to remote development, so these don't matter. Eg, mark up a PR or branch in GitHub, and come back as necessary, and do it all from my phone. If I want an IDE, it can be remote ssh.