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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
364•nar001•3h ago•180 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
96•bookofjoe•1h ago•79 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
414•theblazehen•2d ago•152 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
77•AlexeyBrin•4h ago•15 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
10•thelok•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
770•klaussilveira•19h ago•240 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
33•samasblack•1h ago•18 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
49•onurkanbkrc•4h ago•3 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
25•vinhnx•2h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1019•xnx•1d ago•580 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
156•alainrk•4h ago•191 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
158•jesperordrup•9h ago•57 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
9•marklit•5d ago•0 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
16•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
10•mellosouls•2h ago•8 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
102•videotopia•4d ago•26 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
8•simonw•1h ago•1 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•41 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
261•isitcontent•19h ago•33 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo
99•tartoran•1h ago•28 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
273•dmpetrov•19h ago•145 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
34•matt_d•4d ago•9 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
15•sandGorgon•2d ago•3 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
545•todsacerdoti•1d ago•262 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
416•ostacke•1d ago•108 comments

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

https://vecti.com
361•vecti•21h ago•161 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
61•helloplanets•4d ago•64 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
332•eljojo•22h ago•206 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
456•lstoll•1d ago•298 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
370•aktau•1d ago•194 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Local LLM Notepad – run a GPT-style model from a USB stick

https://github.com/runzhouye/Local_LLM_Notepad
40•davidye324•7mo ago
What it is A single 45 MB Windows .exe that embeds llama.cpp and a minimal Tk UI. Copy it (plus any .gguf model) to a flash drive, double-click on any Windows PC, and you’re chatting with an LLM—no admin rights, Cloud, or network.

Why I built it Existing “local LLM” GUIs assume you can pip install, pass long CLI flags, or download GBs of extras.

I wanted something my less-technical colleagues could run during a client visit by literally plugging in a USB drive.

How it works PyInstaller one-file build → bundles Python runtime, llama_cpp_python, and the UI into a single PE.

On first launch, it memory-maps the .gguf; subsequent prompts stream at ~20 tok/s on an i7-10750H with gemma-3-1b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf (0.8 GB).

Tick-driven render loop keeps the UI responsive while llama.cpp crunches.

A parser bold-underlines every token that originated in the prompt; Ctrl+click pops a “source viewer” to trace facts. (Helps spot hallucinations fast.)

Comments

ge96•7mo ago
Wonder if you can use/interface with those coral accelerator boards
gxonatano•7mo ago
> walk up to any computer

Windows users seem to think their OS is ubiquitous. But in fact for most hackers reading this site, using Windows is a huge step backwards in productivity and capability.

Zetaphor•7mo ago
Surely you're hinting at Linux, in which case this runs fine with WINE
jaggs•7mo ago
However the facts speak otherwise? Windows at 70%+ versus 4.1% for Linux globally. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
thebitstick•7mo ago
> But in fact for most hackers reading this site

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-operating-...

hereme888•7mo ago
idk... I gave up years of trying to switch to Linux as my main OS after the obvious difference in stability, support, ecosystem, and...yes even responsiveness in many apps.
ensocode•7mo ago
Interesting, will definitely try it. What can be expected? What other models do perform ok with this?
exe34•7mo ago
Why not llamafile? Runs on everything from toothbrushes to toasters...
romperstomper•7mo ago
Seconded for Llamafile, here is a link for references https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile . It indeed is working on all major platforms and its tooling allows easy creating of new llamafiles with new models. The only caveat is Windows where there is a limit 4Gb for executable files so just a llamafile launcher and the gguf file itself must be used. But this approach will work anywhere anyway.