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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
160•yi_wang•5h ago•48 comments

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics
36•treetalker•11m ago•6 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
77•RebelPotato•5h ago•19 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
269•valyala•13h ago•51 comments

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

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
33•robtherobber•4d ago•33 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
208•mellosouls•16h ago•358 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
172•surprisetalk•13h ago•163 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
75•swah•4d ago•137 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
184•AlexeyBrin•18h ago•35 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...
76•gnufx•12h ago•60 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
176•vinhnx•16h ago•18 comments

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-pho...
31•witnessme•2h ago•8 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
328•jesperordrup•23h ago•98 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
138•samasblack•15h ago•81 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html
8•grep_it•5d ago•0 comments

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

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
35•Rygian•2d 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
86•momciloo•13h ago•18 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
78•chwtutha•4h ago•21 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
109•thelok•15h ago•24 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
593•theblazehen•3d ago•213 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-...
41•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...
115•randycupertino•8h ago•243 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
315•1vuio0pswjnm7•19h ago•505 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
907•klaussilveira•1d ago•277 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
161•speckx•4d ago•245 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
36•languid-photic•4d ago•17 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

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
314•dmpetrov•1d ago•158 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
149•videotopia•4d ago•48 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-...
149•josephcsible•11h ago•186 comments
Open in hackernews

Hand-picked selection of articles on AI fundamentals/concepts

https://aman.ai/primers/ai/
214•vinhnx•6mo ago

Comments

willvarfar•6mo ago
Kudos to the author, a very very nice overview of things!

I was just at a big conference where there was now a lot of AI talk and papers etc and, as that hasn't been my area, I've been catching up. Have been hearing so much about GNN and ensembles and things that I haven't had to think about before. So now I'm going through this and looking up new-to-me terms. Sweet.

Now it's just to work out how to save it as an epub to browse on the beach.

xenophonf•6mo ago
It's obviously machine-generated from the linked source materials, and while I'm grateful for the bibliography, I wish I didn't have to click through a million pages to get from the blogspam to the actual content.
hengheng•6mo ago
Surprised to see something on hackernews that isn't an AI picked selection of articles :-)

/s

nativeit•6mo ago
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/
humanono•6mo ago
The author doesn't understand how much money is in the it industry and free market.

It doesn't matter if companies next to Google, Ms, meta make it.

Google does ai sustainable enough alone.

jonfw•6mo ago
The whole article seems to hinge on the idea that cursor is unsustainable and a large driver of revenue for AI companies. It seems to think that if cursor dies, so does the revenue.

I don't see that- cursor will die by losing market share, not by the death of the market. Agentic coding as a market will continue to grow and if Claude remains competitive then Anthropic will do just fine.

tasn•6mo ago
I was curious what the AI would include if promoted to create a similar list. I prefer the human version.

Ref: https://chatgpt.com/s/t_689a00f83f7c8191b70d07912a092f86

93po•6mo ago
if im a below average web developer of 15 years and wanted to transition to entry level ML/AI engineer of any sort, how much time would you guess it would take to become a competitive candidate if i worked at it full time? i'm intelligent but just completely declined to apply myself more to web dev, which is why i sucked at it.

i've been unemployed for two years and it's hard to find anything i can do with my background that isn't "software engineer". entry level stuff for adjacent things like project or product management simply aren't available. exploring options like data science seems to show that area is also extremely competitive and the job market is terrible.

i really do not want to grind leetcode for the sake of yet another job plumbing CRUD apps together, but i could see myself learning a new domain and following through with that because the end result would be worth it/interesting

mumbisChungo•6mo ago
AI/ML dev is just boring old SWE but now you've got some new ingredients in the mix.
93po•6mo ago
i think my hope is that interviews for ML engineering would focus on domain knowledge specific to ML and not intricate questions about using typescript and react, which is the sort of stuff i simply cannot bring myself to care about enough to memorize well enough to discuss well in an interview
skydhash•6mo ago
The premise is a basic understanding of matrices and stats. Then go through a course on machine learning (supervized, unsupervised, deep and reinforcement learning). That’s for the theory. Easy if you know your math and python.

The practical side is endless tweaking of the data and the models. And keeping yourself informed about new models and techniques (throug scientific papers)

93po•6mo ago
thanks! i think i understand the nature of the job okay, i think its more my ability to realistically get there in 6-12 months is what i'm concerned about
imsaw•6mo ago
Exploring Kaggle and participating in ML competitions is an excellent way of getting hands on experience.
bertman•6mo ago
At first, I was confused because I didn't get why they would call it "hand-picked" when literally every single "article" on that site is attributed to the site itself.

And then I clicked a random page and, well, it's slop:

>By amplifying the signal from minority class data and leveraging the diversity of models, these methods enhance prediction accuracy and fairness across all classes. When paired with complementary techniques such as resampling, adjusting class weights, or generating synthetic data, ensemble methods can yield even more robust results in handling imbalanced datasets.

lrei•6mo ago
Warning: This is AI generated, probably a low end model as some of the content is outright nonsense eg: """ concept of MoE is quite prevalent (refer Outrageously Large Neural Networks: the Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer), with Langchain’s high-level implementation of an LLMRouterChain, and notable low-level integrated examples """
fragmede•6mo ago
The paper itself is fairly popular, with several thousand citations.

Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer

Noam Shazeer, Azalia Mirhoseini, Krzysztof Maziarz, Andy Davis, Quoc Le, Geoffrey Hinton, Jeff Dean

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538

kafkaesque•6mo ago
Is it possible to label/tag these submissions as containing content that is AI-generated? I think the HN community would appreciate that
brownriceowl•6mo ago
Yes, it would be appreciated.

No, it is not possible.