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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
116•ColinWright•1h ago•87 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
22•surprisetalk•1h ago•23 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
121•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•24 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
118•alephnerd•2h ago•77 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
62•vinhnx•5h ago•7 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
828•klaussilveira•21h ago•248 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
55•thelok•3h ago•7 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...
4•gnufx•39m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
108•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•138 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1058•xnx•1d ago•611 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
76•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
484•theblazehen•2d ago•175 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
8•valyala•2h ago•1 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
7•valyala•2h ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
209•jesperordrup•12h ago•70 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
557•nar001•6h ago•256 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
222•alainrk•6h ago•343 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
36•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
29•marklit•5d ago•2 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
114•videotopia•4d ago•31 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
76•speckx•4d ago•75 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
5•momciloo•2h ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
273•isitcontent•22h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
201•limoce•4d ago•111 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
22•sandGorgon•2d ago•11 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
286•dmpetrov•22h ago•153 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
71•mellosouls•4h ago•75 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: OctaneDB – Fast, Open-Source Vector Database for Python

https://github.com/RijinRaju/octanedb
33•rijin_r•5mo ago
OctaneDB is an open-source vector database for Python that focuses on ultra-fast similarity search for high-dimensional data—perfect for AI/ML, semantic search, and large-scale document or embedding retrieval.

What does it do?

Store, index, and search millions of embeddings (text, images, etc.) with sub-millisecond query time.

Supports in-memory and efficient HDF5 persistent storage.

Integrates seamlessly with sentence-transformers for automatic text embedding.

Key Features:

10x faster than Pinecone or ChromaDB for vector search and batch insertions.

Advanced indexing: HNSW (approximate nearest neighbor), FlatIndex

Batch search, advanced metadata filtering, GPU acceleration

Comments

ozgrakkurt•5mo ago
Please stop with these LLM generated readme files. It burns the eyes.

Just take 10 minutes to write something that explains the project.

As soon as I see this README I assume the code is generated(worthless) as well

ImPrajyoth•5mo ago
Someone wise once said

- Don't judge a book by it's cover

mfitzp•5mo ago
Someone even wiser once said:

- Don’t give your book a shit cover because it will put people off.

Bishonen88•5mo ago
Looking at the repo, everything seems too clean and pristine. There's only 5 commits. Not that it matters, but was the whole thing vibe coded? If so, I wonder if mentioning this in the Readme would be helpful to potential users.
rijin_r•5mo ago
Thanks for pointing it out! The README is a first draft—I’ll update it ASAP to better explain what OctaneDB does and cover any AI-generated components.
JSR_FDED•5mo ago
This looks very good, easy to understand. Do you have a sense for how much RAM it uses (not for storing the vectors themselves - those I’ll keep in a file), but when doing a search? I have one use case where it could run on a VPS provided its memory use doesn’t balloon too much.
icemanx•5mo ago
Definitely vibe code, and I agree with the others - please mention it in the README if you want people to use AI generated code. You are not the mind behind it

Update: Looking through your code, I already found within 5 minute flaws, since it is obvious that you have not written it (looking at your past work, I doubt you even understand what it does), I will not even point the issues out.

hmcamp•5mo ago
Hey, I’m curious. How can you tell that it was vibe coded?
brandonasuncion•5mo ago
Claims of being "10x faster performance than existing solutions" using a HNSW written entirely in Python is enough to raise alarm bells, vibecoded or not.
rf15•5mo ago
Looking at your code, I don't think you understand any of the regular DB requirements, let alone how to implement a vector database that is actually fast. Because, let me tell you: this isn't it.

Please get more experience and use AI less. It's not a good look, and if it's vibe coded it's not your code anyway, it's just you asking somebody else to do it (at best). You don't want to be an expert in asking others to do your work.

Best of luck on your turn around.

dikei•5mo ago
Big claims with not a single benchmark to back them up
redskyluan•5mo ago
Curious—why the shift from a Milvus-compatible API to a Chroma-compatible one? And of course, something in Python… because that’s obviously the fastest way to conquer the world.