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Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
54•guerrilla•1h ago•20 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
149•valyala•5h ago•25 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
79•zdw•3d ago•31 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
39•mltvc•1h ago•37 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
83•surprisetalk•5h ago•90 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
24•swah•4d ago•15 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
120•mellosouls•8h ago•234 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
866•klaussilveira•1d ago•264 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
157•AlexeyBrin•11h ago•28 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
114•vinhnx•8h ago•14 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
17•martialg•54m ago•3 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...
30•randycupertino•1h ago•30 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-...
22•mbitsnbites•3d ago•1 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
73•thelok•7h ago•13 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
75•samasblack•8h ago•57 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...
36•gnufx•4h ago•40 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
253•jesperordrup•15h ago•82 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
156•valyala•5h ago•136 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
534•theblazehen•3d ago•197 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
39•momciloo•5h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
99•onurkanbkrc•10h ago•5 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
19•languid-photic•3d ago•5 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
73•vedantnair•1h ago•55 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
213•1vuio0pswjnm7•12h ago•324 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
42•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
275•alainrk•10h ago•453 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
52•rbanffy•4d ago•14 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
129•videotopia•4d ago•40 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-...
52•josephcsible•3h ago•67 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
650•nar001•9h ago•284 comments
Open in hackernews

ApeRAG: Production-ready GraphRAG with multi-modal indexing and K8s deployment

https://github.com/apecloud/ApeRAG
32•earayu•5mo ago

Comments

GloriousMEEPT•4mo ago
> bash ./02-install-database.sh # Deploys PostgreSQL, Redis, Qdrant, Elasticsearch

geez

sorry but, how much SHIT is it going to take to make AI good?

cpursley•4mo ago
What’s funny is Postgres alone can handle this entire workload decently well.
CuriouslyC•4mo ago
Postgres isn't a replacement for elastic. You CAN get full text search working in postgres, and for very basic use cases it's good enough, but it's vastly inferior to elastic in terms of features and performance.
freakynit•4mo ago
Exactly. These "extensions".. they are good, but, far from being replacements for dedicated products, the quality of which customers have come to expect.
popalchemist•4mo ago
This is a very typical, and pretty bare-bones stack. Almost any production grade webapp above a minimal threshold of complexity will have database, cache, and search.
fishmicrowaver•4mo ago
This is just one of a million other wrappers around AI that will be forgotten in a few months.
popalchemist•4mo ago
Yes, and that doesn't change the fact that the stack is typical.
earayu•4mo ago
Maintaining databases is painful, so ApeRAG uses kubeblocks for all these databases.
davidcox143•4mo ago
Congrats on the launch. How does it compare to HelixDB?

https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db

CharlesW•4mo ago
HelixDB is a database. ApeRAG is an application that uses multiple databases (but that not particular one). Hypothetically, you could fork ApeRAG and modify it to use that database.
cipherself•4mo ago
In the list of features, it mentions:

> vision-based search for comprehensive document understanding

but it's not clear to me what this means, is it just vector embeddings for each image in every document via a CLIP-like model?

In addition, I'd be curious what's the rationale behind using the plethora of databases, given the docs on running it in production spins them all up, I assume they're all required, for instance I'd be curious on the trade-offs between using postgres with something like pg_search (for bm25 support, which vanilla postgres FTS doesn't have) vs using both postgres and ElasticSearch.

The docs are also very minimal, I'd have loved to see at least 1 example of usage.

srameshc•4mo ago
> ApeRAG requires PostgreSQL, Redis, Qdrant, and Elasticsearch. You have two options:

> bash ./02-install-database.sh # Deploys PostgreSQL, Redis, Qdrant, Elasticsearch

Is this built on top of all databases ? I am just trying to understand.

earayu•4mo ago
Yes, ApeRAG uses all these databases.
spott•4mo ago
What does it use for the graph part? Elasticsearch? A Postgres plugin?