frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
78•theblazehen•2d ago•16 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
647•klaussilveira•13h ago•189 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
938•xnx•18h ago•549 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
37•helloplanets•4d ago•33 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
116•matheusalmeida•2d ago•28 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
45•videotopia•4d ago•1 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
13•kaonwarb•3d ago•16 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
224•isitcontent•13h ago•25 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
216•dmpetrov•14h ago•108 comments

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

https://vecti.com
325•vecti•15h ago•143 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
377•ostacke•19h ago•94 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
483•todsacerdoti•21h ago•238 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
359•aktau•20h ago•181 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
281•eljojo•16h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
407•lstoll•19h ago•274 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
86•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
18•jesperordrup•3h ago•10 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
58•kmm•5d ago•4 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
28•romes•4d ago•3 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
248•i5heu•16h ago•193 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
14•bikenaga•3d ago•3 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
56•gfortaine•11h ago•23 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1062•cdrnsf•23h ago•438 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
140•SerCe•9h ago•127 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
180•limoce•3d ago•97 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
286•surprisetalk•3d ago•39 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
145•vmatsiiako•18h ago•67 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
70•phreda4•13h ago•14 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
29•gmays•8h ago•12 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
64•rescrv•21h ago•23 comments
Open in hackernews

Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-Loop Agentic Systems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22358
38•fitzn•6mo ago

Comments

munafassaf•6mo ago
https://github.com/microsoft/magentic-ui
justanotherunit•6mo ago
Looks clean and all, but is this “multitask on steroid” actually requested, or is it just another nice demo for how agents can perform tasks etc? I just feel stressed that I have multiple tasks ongoing that I would require to switch context between every time anything needs input or fails to deliver what I fundamentally requested.
gedy•6mo ago
This seems to be the wet dream of mgmt leader types. It's not enough that AI/LLM tools make tasks more efficient, or quicker - it's their people can then be just as busy with these tools.

My feeling is: buzz off, this is like orgs now where the quickest people just get more work piled on for little gain.

I gladly use tools that give me some breathing room, and gives me some time to think about improvements, the future, etc. But will actively drag my feet if mgmt starts mandating these tools be used to shovel more tasks, tickets, or busy work at me.

justanotherunit•6mo ago
Agreed, and I guess we can only pray that I won’t come to that.

I want the tools to enhance my current workflow and make me better/more accurate at what I am good at. I feel that develops me as a person as well.

Edmond•6mo ago
In other words a case for the "Intelligent Workspace":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44627910

In lieu of chatbots as the primary means of working with AI.

This is an approach that is human centered and intended to accommodate a wide array of possible use cases where human interaction/engagement is essential for getting work done.

Integrating human-in-loop tooling: https://youtu.be/srG5Ze7mS7s

olivermuty•6mo ago
Incredibly weak to not seize the opportunity to name this «Mangentic» :D
cadamsdotcom•6mo ago
There’s room in the world for a startup whose tech lets AI agents request tasks be done by a human.

Upon a request being sent, one human from an army of anonymous humans gets given say, access to the agent’s browser that’s stuck, plus a description of what to do (“finish booking this flight, here’s what my user asked of me”). And they do the job and click “completed” which hands back to the agent, then move on to their next assignment (or go idle in a queue)

Dystopian, but bound to happen.

HatchedLake721•6mo ago
AI offloading tasks to Mechanical Turk
adamesque•6mo ago
Much better version of the paper here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/magentic-ui-an...