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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
103•yi_wang•3h ago•29 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
16•rolph•1h ago•5 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
244•valyala•11h ago•46 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
46•RebelPotato•3h ago•9 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
159•surprisetalk•11h ago•150 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
190•mellosouls•14h ago•335 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
34•duxup•1h ago•6 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•10h ago•56 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
58•swah•4d ago•105 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
178•AlexeyBrin•16h ago•34 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
168•vinhnx•14h ago•17 comments

Why there is no official statement from Substack about the data leak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-pho...
8•witnessme•35m ago•1 comments

First Proof

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
308•jesperordrup•21h ago•96 comments

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

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
11•robtherobber•4d 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
75•momciloo•11h ago•16 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
49•chwtutha•2h ago•8 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...
111•randycupertino•6h ago•229 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
100•thelok•13h ago•22 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
574•theblazehen•3d ago•207 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•4 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
299•1vuio0pswjnm7•17h ago•475 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-...
139•josephcsible•9h ago•166 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
31•languid-photic•4d ago•12 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
185•valyala•11h ago•168 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

The silent death of good code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
89•amitprasad•5h ago•81 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
900•klaussilveira•1d ago•276 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
147•speckx•4d ago•229 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
Open in hackernews

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)

https://www.crypto101.io/
236•pona-a•7mo ago

Comments

teleforce•7mo ago
Thanks for the link.

You can download this entire Handbook of Applied Cryptography for free [1].

Recently the authors also provided online course and video namely:

- Cryptography 101: Building Blocks (fundamental cryptographic primitives) [2]

- Cryptography 101: Real-World Deployments (PKI, TLS, Bluetooth, AWS, Signal) [3]

Other courses and video includes:

- The Mathematics of Lattice-Based Cryptography (introductory course)

- Kyber and Dilithium (standardized lattice-based cryptosystems)

- Hash-based signature schemes (LMS, XMSS, SPHINCS+)

- Error-Correcting Codes (linear, Hamming, Golay, cyclic, BCH, Reed-Solomon codes

[1] Handbook of Applied Cryptography:

https://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

[2] Crypto 101: Building Blocks:

https://cryptography101.ca/crypto101-building-blocks/

[3] Crypto 101: Real-World Deployments:

https://cryptography101.ca/crypto101-deployments/

xavdid•7mo ago
I don't remember if it links to it, but this pairs well with https://cryptopals.com/, which are practical examples of many of these theories.
anorphirith•7mo ago
this is the type of crypto i like
physix•7mo ago
This looks to be really well written. After 25 odd pages, I'm saying to myself, can't wait to read the whole book.
mac-monet•7mo ago
About to finish reading "Real World Cryptograhy" by David Wong, would highly recommend for anyone curious about this subject.
baxtr•7mo ago
>Fortunately, we donʼt have an algorithm that can factor such large numbers in reasonable time. Unfortunately, we also havenʼt proven it doesnʼt exist. Even more unfortunate is that there is a theoretical algorithm, called Shorʼs algorithm, that would be able to factor such a number in reasonable time on a quantum computer. Right now, quantum computers are far from practical, but it does appear that if someone in the future manages to build one thatʼs sufficiently large, RSA becomes ineffective.

Can anyone comment on how close we are to having Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer? Is feasible like the moon landing was in 1962 when Kennedy announced that "We choose to go to the Moon" (hard, but possible with a lot of money).

Or is it still something that we have no clue how to get to?

ctz•7mo ago
https://pqcrypto2025.iis.sinica.edu.tw/slides/Invited3.pdf

edit: video if you prefer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJxENYdsB6c

baxtr•7mo ago
So it’s not like the moon landing since the horizon is much longer than a decade.
z3phyr•7mo ago
I think cryptanalysis as a discipline is not massively funded. All of the cryptography is only as strong as the collective failure of all human intelligence so far to break it.

Most people consider cryptography as a "solved" problem, but I don't think it is. I am sure if enough cryptologists try algorithmic methods and are well compensated for it, they will likely find algorithmic weaknesses (and invent new kinds of mathematics) that can bring down complexity of solving such schemes, even before we have real and functional Shor machines.

thaumasiotes•7mo ago
> I think cryptanalysis as a discipline is not massively funded.

Really? That would be a change.

z3phyr•7mo ago
I guess massively is the relative word. But I will stand by the claim that we can discover/invent new mathematical methods that can aid in cryptanalysis, if not directly by cryptographers, then by some adjacent field.
pythops•7mo ago
Looks great, thanks for sharing