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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
139•yi_wang•4h ago•40 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
59•RebelPotato•4h ago•14 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

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

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
44•rolph•3h ago•26 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
167•surprisetalk•12h ago•159 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
200•mellosouls•15h ago•353 comments

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

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
22•robtherobber•4d ago•19 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
68•swah•4d ago•122 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•18h ago•35 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/
320•jesperordrup•22h ago•97 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
69•chwtutha•3h ago•12 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
135•samasblack•14h ago•79 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
83•momciloo•12h 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...
18•witnessme•1h ago•6 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•8 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•24 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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
581•theblazehen•3d ago•212 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•236 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
308•1vuio0pswjnm7•18h ago•490 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
156•speckx•4d ago•242 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
904•klaussilveira•1d ago•276 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-...
145•josephcsible•10h ago•180 comments

Selection rather than prediction

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

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
189•valyala•12h ago•178 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
496•lstoll•1d ago•331 comments
Open in hackernews

Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mindless-machines-mindless-myths/
45•lermontov•5mo ago

Comments

akomtu•5mo ago
"If technology can be perfected to manage medicine, navigation, education, and even design, what then becomes of work? The specter is not merely unemployment—it’s meaninglessness. Once freed from the burdens of labor, what do we do?"
maroonblazer•5mo ago
>"If technology can be perfected to manage medicine, navigation, education, and even design, what then becomes of work? The specter is not merely unemployment—it’s meaninglessness."

Only if one's identity is defined by their work.

fritzo•5mo ago
I'll keep my laundry machine and dishwasher, and deal with the resulting meaninglessness.