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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
83•yi_wang•3h ago•25 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
36•RebelPotato•2h ago•8 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
239•valyala•10h ago•46 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
150•surprisetalk•10h ago•148 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
183•mellosouls•13h ago•334 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...
68•gnufx•9h ago•55 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
177•AlexeyBrin•16h ago•32 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
159•vinhnx•13h ago•16 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
49•swah•4d ago•94 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
128•samasblack•13h ago•76 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
304•jesperordrup•21h ago•95 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
72•momciloo•10h ago•15 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...
102•randycupertino•6h ago•217 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
98•thelok•12h ago•22 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
41•chwtutha•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents

https://github.com/ujjwalredd/Axiomeer
10•ujjwalreddyks•5d ago•2 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-...
37•mbitsnbites•3d ago•3 comments

Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World with Solar (2009)

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
3•robtherobber•4d ago•0 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
291•1vuio0pswjnm7•17h ago•467 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-...
132•josephcsible•8h ago•160 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
183•valyala•10h ago•165 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
30•languid-photic•4d ago•10 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
227•limoce•4d ago•125 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
899•klaussilveira•1d ago•275 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
113•zdw•3d ago•56 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
146•speckx•4d ago•228 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

The silent death of good code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
83•amitprasad•5h ago•76 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
116•onurkanbkrc•15h ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

Calculating Oil Storage Tank Occupancy with Help of Satellite Imagery

https://medium.com/planet-stories/a-beginners-guide-to-calculating-oil-storage-tank-occupancy-with-help-of-satellite-imagery-e8f387200178
36•marklit•7mo ago

Comments

hkchad•7mo ago
Saw this headline and thought, HA been doing this for YEARS, yea, need to add a (2017) to the headline...
exabrial•7mo ago
ok so like the lid moves up and down on those? How does it seal? How does it keep from tipping sideways or jamming on the walls? fascinating
officeplant•7mo ago
Floating roof tank> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_floating_roof_tank

TL:DR yes there is a seal along the roof edge and alignment poles/rods so things stay flat.

I do fire suppression builds for these tanks, so all of my equipment on the tank lid has to move up and down with it as it gets filled/emptied. So we end up with self coiling cables/hoses that have to collect themselves on the lid as it fills up. Linear heat detection wire goes all the way around the rim of the tank and also along the lid, which melts and signals the alarm/suppression system in the event of a fire. Companies with more money also have us install UV/IR based flame detection.

Same with these usually having a ladder that becomes more or less stairs depending on how full the tank is.

addaon•7mo ago
Seeing people use a spreadsheet as an image measuring tool does sort of explain why there’s a group of people who seem to find so much more value in current AI than I do… if you’re using the wrong tool for the job already, a bad replacement for doing it right might still be an improvement from where you are, I suppose.
actionfromafar•7mo ago
It’s very true on a deep level, too. LLMs etc will smear out technology into places it never occupied before
pests•7mo ago
Definitely did a double take on first read
jduckles•7mo ago
Did this with grain bins in the 2010s to estimate total on-farm storage capacity available in a few states.
whatshisface•7mo ago
What did you do with that information?
fnands•7mo ago
I've heard this story so many times, and I really want to know if anyone is actually using this technique to actually make decisions, or is it just basically the "hello world" of satellite data analysis (along with identifying aeroplanes)?

The company that famously touted they were doing it, Orbital Insights [1], almost went bankrupt, and were sold for cents on the dollar [2]

I'm in the EO industry, and it's a use case you hear a lot, but I am not sure anyone is actually doing this profitably.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/gv-backed-orbital-insights-i... [2] https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-google-backed-i...

fnands•7mo ago
Ursa Space Systems seems to still be providing this as a service (via API). Wonder how they're doing.
blueg3•7mo ago
This was their lead product for a while. I think it had one customer.

Not sure how they're doing post-layoffs.

fnands•7mo ago
Thanks for the info!

Yeah, it seems a bit niche to me. Could be that there might be one or two large clients.

Simulacra•7mo ago
I read that during the Cold War, the CIA employed people they euphemistically referred to as "cratologists", who could look at satellite images of crates and shipping containers, and tell you what's in them.