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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
134•yi_wang•4h ago•38 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
56•RebelPotato•4h ago•12 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
253•valyala•12h ago•51 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
166•surprisetalk•11h ago•158 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
199•mellosouls•15h ago•351 comments

Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009)

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
20•robtherobber•4d ago•10 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
66•swah•4d ago•118 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...
73•gnufx•11h ago•59 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
180•AlexeyBrin•17h ago•35 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
39•rolph•2h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
172•vinhnx•15h ago•17 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
319•jesperordrup•22h ago•97 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...
17•witnessme•1h ago•4 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
134•samasblack•14h ago•79 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
64•chwtutha•2h ago•10 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
82•momciloo•12h ago•16 comments

Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
31•Rygian•2d 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/
105•thelok•14h ago•23 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
61•duxup•2h ago•13 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-...
40•mbitsnbites•3d ago•5 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...
112•randycupertino•7h ago•234 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
580•theblazehen•3d ago•209 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
305•1vuio0pswjnm7•18h ago•485 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
156•speckx•4d ago•239 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
233•limoce•4d ago•125 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-...
144•josephcsible•10h ago•179 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
34•languid-photic•4d ago•16 comments

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

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

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
189•valyala•12h ago•177 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
304•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments
Open in hackernews

Scientists have recreated the Universe's first molecule

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250803011840.htm
29•LAsteNERD•6mo ago

Comments

LAsteNERD•6mo ago
So does helium hydride just not exist naturally anymore? Wondering why they had to recreate it.
rcxdude•6mo ago
Not in an easily accessible way. It's an extremely fragile and reactive molecule that more or less falls apart as soon as it touches anything else. It only naturally exists nowadays in the interstellar medium.
terminalbraid•6mo ago
It's too reactive to exist in meaningful quantities on earth. The title is also stretching the bounds of credibility as helium hydride has been studied in a lab for about 100 years. What's novel about this experiment is studying reaction rates with deuterium at low temperatures to feed into early universe models.
pytness•6mo ago
From the wiki[0]: "It is believed to be the first compound to have formed in the universe"

They created the molecule under space conditions:

"The experiment was carried out at the Cryogenic Storage Ring (CSR) at the MPIK in Heidelberg — a globally unique instrument for investigating molecular and atomic reactions under space-like conditions [...] They found that, contrary to earlier predictions, the rate at which this reaction proceeds does not slow down with decreasing temperature [...] Since the concentrations of molecules such as HeH⁺ and molecular hydrogen (H2 or HD) played an important role in the formation of the first stars, this result brings us closer to solving the mystery of their formation."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_hydride_ion#Interstella...

HeliumHydride•6mo ago
Helium hydride doesn't exist naturally because it will protonate anything it comes into contact with.
throwanem•6mo ago
Yet here you are. Protonating everything, no doubt.
QuesnayJr•6mo ago
The Wikipedia article on helium hydride has the most hardcore sentence I've ever seen on the site: "Since HeH+ reacts with every substance, it cannot be stored in any container." It sounds like something out of a comic book.
lloeki•6mo ago
Later down:

> In fact, HeH+ is the strongest known acid, with a proton affinity of 177.8 kJ/mol, or a pKa of −63

Long time I didn't do chemistry but that pKa made me jump off of my chair.

For comparison hydrochloric acid is ~10.

Since it's a charged molecule one could maybe contain it in an EM field to have some ready-to-use "eat anything" material.

Almost - but not quite - as scary as FOOF:

> Dioxygen difluoride reacts vigorously with nearly every chemical it encounters (including ordinary ice) leading to its onomatopoeic nickname FOOF (a play on its chemical structure and its explosive tendencies)

"vigorously" being quite an understatement.

perching_aix•6mo ago
I guess maybe via magnetic confinement it should still be possible to store?
diggernet•6mo ago
Looking forward to Derek Lowe's take on this.
amelius•6mo ago
I suppose that is ... progress?