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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
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LangExtract: Python library for extracting structured data from language models

https://github.com/google/langextract
166•simonpure•6mo ago

Comments

constantinum•6mo ago
There is also Unstract(open-source) that helps process structured data extraction. Key differences:

1. Unstract has a Pre-processing layer(OCR). Which converts documents into LLM readable formats.(helps improve accuracy, and control costs)

2. Unstract also connects to your existing data sources, making it an out-of-the-box ETL tool.

https://github.com/Zipstack/unstract

oriettaxx•6mo ago
impressive, really
fudged71•6mo ago
Any idea how it compares with docetl?
ttul•6mo ago
I’d throw a vote in the column for Unstract. Making the code AGPL is a first class move for a company that is trying to make money from the hosted version of the same software.
hm-nah•6mo ago
Oly Chit! This is a BIG deal! Sub-page citations…in-context RAG…built-in HTML UI…this is like the holy grail of deterministic text extraction. I’m trying this ASAP Rocky.
wodenokoto•6mo ago
It’s not extracting data _from_ the model it is using the model to extract structured data from the input.
Noumenon72•6mo ago
In the example, if `extraction_class` can be any string, how does it know that "relationship" implies it should have attributes "character_1" and "character_2" when your example data didn't?
ramkumarkb•6mo ago
Does this work with other open-source LLMs like Qwen3 or other OpenAI compatible LLM Apis?
simonw•6mo ago
The README says:

> For developers using local LLMs, LangExtract offers built-in support for Ollama and can be extended to other third-party APIs by updating the inference endpoints.

If you look in the code they currently have classes for Gemini and Ollama: https://github.com/google/langextract/blob/main/langextract/...

If you want to do structured data extraction with a wider variety of libraries I'm going to promote my LLM library and tool, which supports dozens of models for this via the plugins mechanism: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/schemas.html

andrewrn•6mo ago
You could use this to generate character graphs from big novels. Make an app that allows you to input a page number so the model only extracts characters you've encountered thus far.
simonw•6mo ago
I implemented a similar pattern in my LLM tool and Python library back in February: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/28/llm-schemas/

My version works with Pydantic models or JSON schema in Python code, or with JSON schema or a weird DSL I invented on the command-line:

  curl https://news.ycombinator.com/ | \
    llm --schema-multi 'headline,url,votes int' \
    -m gpt-4.1 --system 'all links'
Result: https://gist.github.com/simonw/f8143836cae0f058f059e1b8fc2d9...
ttul•6mo ago
The use case that immediately comes to mind is analysis of legal documents. Lawyers spend a lot of time going through piles of contracts during due diligence for any kind of investment or acquisition transaction, painstakingly identifying concepts that need to be addressed in various ways. LLMs are decent at doing this kind of work, but error-prone (as are humans, by the way). Having a way to visualize the results could be helpful in speeding up the review process of the LLM’s work.
brokensegue•6mo ago
wiring this to wikidata would be great
albert_e•6mo ago
For complex business documents -- one approach was to use Named Entity Recognition to identify all entities and use that to build a knowledge graph to serve as a complementary repository of knowledge (in addition to the vector embeddings of semantic chunks) to aid RAG workflows.

Does this proposed approach complement this or supercede the need for NER / Knowledge Graph. Just wondering aloud. Appreciate any insights here.