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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
142•yi_wang•5h ago•43 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
62•RebelPotato•4h ago•16 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
46•rolph•3h ago•31 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

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

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

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

Speed up responses with fast mode

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

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
202•mellosouls•15h ago•354 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
69•swah•4d ago•123 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/
181•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/
322•jesperordrup•22h ago•97 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
135•samasblack•15h ago•80 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...
19•witnessme•1h ago•6 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
71•chwtutha•3h 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/
32•Rygian•2d ago•8 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

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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
585•theblazehen•3d ago•212 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•8h ago•237 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
309•1vuio0pswjnm7•19h ago•491 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-...
147•josephcsible•10h ago•181 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

Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1036916/2b10f1356b7ab0e7/
22•chmaynard•4mo ago

Comments

OutOfHere•4mo ago
This has to be the dumbest argument for Rust that I have ever seen. It doesn't belong on LWN.
pharrington•4mo ago
Do you disagree that its easy to cross compile and create static binaries with?
OutOfHere•4mo ago
It is, but Go is easier, and various other languages also have this property. It is not a sufficient argument for Rust. In fact, large Rust projects are well known to take a very long time to recompile.
userbinator•4mo ago
I suspect it's there because it ticks a bunch of virtue-signaling boxes. DEI, Rust, some "safety and security" boogeyman.
kelvinjps•4mo ago
I found the whole thing inspirational
Esophagus4•4mo ago
I love seeing stories of people building things to make the world better, rather than “Juicero but make it AI.”

I didn’t pick up on it from the article, but why local binaries over a SaaS? It seems like that app would be the ideal candidate for a client server model… she wouldn’t need to worry about old Windows machines or firewalls or installing it on non-technical users’ machines, as long as they had a browser.

They mentioned something about “locked down enterprise environments” but I don’t know what that means.

Edit: oh, maybe “locked down environments + firewalls” means these machines have no internet egress so you would have to poke holes in a firewall to reach the internet?

pharrington•4mo ago
Strict chain of custody requirements prohibit this kind of thing from being SaaS.
Esophagus4•4mo ago
Could you elaborate a bit?

Don’t mean to dig in on this, but I googled for some chain of custody / evidence tracking SaaS and found: QueTel, SAFE by Tracker Products, CustodyChain, and BlazeStack.

Just curious. I probably have to read up on what chain of custody really entails.