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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
39•thelok•2h ago•3 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
101•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•18 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
52•samasblack•3h ago•39 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
789•klaussilveira•20h ago•243 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
39•vinhnx•3h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1040•xnx•1d ago•587 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
464•theblazehen•2d ago•165 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
510•nar001•5h ago•235 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
184•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
51•mellosouls•3h ago•52 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
63•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•60 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
189•alainrk•5h ago•282 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
27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
19•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
108•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
59•speckx•4d ago•62 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
268•isitcontent•21h ago•34 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
198•limoce•4d ago•107 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
281•dmpetrov•21h ago•150 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•47 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
169•bookofjoe•2h ago•153 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
549•todsacerdoti•1d ago•266 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
422•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
39•matt_d•4d ago•14 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•23h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
465•lstoll•1d ago•305 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
342•eljojo•23h ago•210 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
66•helloplanets•4d ago•70 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
18•sandGorgon•2d ago•8 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Update to my meta glasses API "Hey Meta send a message to ChatGPT"

https://github.com/dcrebbin/meta-vision-api
19•devon_c•8mo ago
v1.0.0: https://github.com/dcrebbin/meta-vision-api/releases/tag/1.0...

The previous implementation was very very hacky and used a bookmarklet alongside uglified messenger classes from 2 years ago to monitor a chat, it was also only for image messages.

The new release is a browser extension for chrome & firefox that you run on an alt facebook account on messenger that can monitor for new chat & image messages + video monitoring if in a call.

You can create a group chat and use a special method (instructions in the readme) to force the Glasses to be aware of the new group which allows for Hey Meta send a message/photo to _____ (ChatGPT, Perplexity or whatever you name the chat)

There are settings in the UI to change the AI chat provider, model and whether or not to generate and send audio via a text to speech provider (OpenAI, 11labs or Minimax)

I've also added video monitoring: you call the group chat and can have the extension to monitor the video output and send a photo to one of the providers every second (or a custom internal)

With the original project I did get an interview with the Reality Labs team but I ended up rescinding from the process for various reasons.

But, let me know what you think!

Planned features are listed under issues with the feature prefix: https://github.com/dcrebbin/meta-vision-api/issues

Comments

stavros•8mo ago
This is fantastic! I've been wanting this, I'll try it very soon. If I'm understanding this correctly, it's an extension that monitors the FB account just to read the messages, right? Is there no API integration with FB messenger (or WhatsApp/Instagram/something easier than running a browser all the time)?
devon_c•8mo ago
I did research into messenger bots quite awhile ago but stopped for some reason. It might of been that I couldn't trigger it with Hey Meta, but that's before I learnt how to force a friend/groupchat sync. (so might be different now)

It would definitely be better as it's quite a pain for daily use or out and about and more of a tech demo in its current state.

cco•8mo ago
Hah, this is great. So many amazing use cases are being hidden behind walls.

I love my Meta Ray Bans but frankly Llama is not best in class and it also isn't plugged into the rest of my data, phone, etc. I know they won't, but I wish Facebook would let us choose which AI model we wanted.

Frustratingly they of course work as bluetooth input, so if you manually trigger a conversation with ChatGPT you can chat away with it via your Ray Bans of course.

devon_c•8mo ago
I use ChatGPT voice mode all the time and when I did have my glasses (lost or stolen now) I called it all the time, reducing the friction for calling would be a great quality of life feature

I also have no idea they don't have location tracking like find my iPhone/airpods, seems trivial to add

dkobia•8mo ago
Nice work!

The Meta Raybans are a fantastic device hobbled by a weak LLM and supported by a bad actor - Meta [1]. Frankly I feel dirty for running any Meta software on my phone. I can talk to ChatGPT or Claude using the glasses but unfortunately I can’t show them what I’m looking at which is what the OP has built.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are...

devon_c•8mo ago
I really wish Reality Labs would open up their API but with meta ai and llama I doubt that'll happen.

For open source glasses there's a few potential options, I think omi.me has an open smart glasses project.

I'm surprised no one has found a way to properly jailbreak them, it's a bit out of my wheelhouse but would be fun to try one day.

lostmsu•8mo ago
How do you talk to Claude? Maybe you meant Gemini?

P.S. I'm working on Android app to talk to any LLM ( iOS one is already out: Roxy Voice: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6737482921?pt=12710... ) using an OpenAI-compatible completions endpoint.