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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
64•ColinWright•57m ago•28 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
18•surprisetalk•1h ago•15 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
120•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•23 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...
96•alephnerd•1h ago•44 comments

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

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
53•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/
102•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•118 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1057•xnx•1d ago•608 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
545•nar001•5h ago•252 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
213•alainrk•6h ago•332 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
34•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
27•marklit•5d ago•2 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

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•21h ago•37 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

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

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

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
472•lstoll•1d ago•312 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
348•eljojo•1d ago•215 comments
Open in hackernews

Incant – add magic spells to your code

https://github.com/montyanderson/incant
21•montyanderson•7mo ago

Comments

marcus_holmes•7mo ago
I'm curious how the hallucination-free guarantee works? Does it only guarantee that the output is a subset of the input?

In the case of the male names, if I include a gender-neutral name like "Sam" does that include it because it is a male name, or exclude it because it is a female name? Can I set this to be inclusive or exclusive?

Looks interesting, though. Nice work.

kinduff•7mo ago
There is a filter for `createFilter` [1] and there is a throw if the index of the array doesn't exist for `createSelector` [2]. Maybe this is what the author refers to as hallucination-free, but falls pretty short.

[1]: https://github.com/montyanderson/incant/blob/master/mod.ts#L...

[2]: https://github.com/montyanderson/incant/blob/master/mod.ts#L...

marcus_holmes•7mo ago
Yeah, so it's just guaranteeing that the output is a subset of the inputs, thanks for the clarification.
helloplanets•7mo ago
How does this differ from function calling? For example, the basic enums example for Gemini function calling:

> color_temp: { type: Type.STRING, enum: ['daylight', 'cool', 'warm'], description: 'Color temperature of the light fixture, which can be `daylight`, `cool` or `warm`.', }

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/function-calling?examp...

supermatt•7mo ago
It’s the inverse of function calling. Here the function is calling the LLM, not vice versa.
supermatt•7mo ago
> no hallucinations possible

It can still hallucinate a response that is defined in the filter.

E.g if you have a filter with names of capital cities [“London”, “Paris”, “Madrid”] , and you ask “What is the capital of France” it could respond “Madrid”

ycombinatrix•7mo ago
Is that a hallucination, or is it just plain wrong?
supermatt•7mo ago
An AI hallucination is any response that contains false or misleading information presented as fact. So a wrong answer is an hallucination.
thih9•7mo ago
Note that this is a very simple library and not very efficient. E.g. for the code that filters an array, it would run N prompts[1]:

    `You are a filter agent.\nYour job is to return whether an item matches the criteria: ${criteria}\nRespond only with true or false.`
It's a cool demo, but I wouldn't use that in production; IMO having that code in a separate library offers little benefit and increases the risk of misuse.

[1]: https://github.com/montyanderson/incant/blob/73606e826d6e5b0...

voidUpdate•7mo ago
So this is just asking an LLM to filter or select from an array? Where do the magic spells come in?
jollyllama•7mo ago
vibecoding is a hell of a drug