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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
50•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
114•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•20 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
49•vinhnx•4h ago•7 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
809•klaussilveira•21h ago•246 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
88•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•99 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1053•xnx•1d ago•599 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
470•theblazehen•2d ago•173 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
196•jesperordrup•11h ago•67 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
8•surprisetalk•58m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
534•nar001•5h ago•248 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...
42•alephnerd•1h ago•14 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
204•alainrk•6h ago•309 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
33•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
25•marklit•5d ago•1 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
63•mellosouls•4h ago•67 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
110•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
67•speckx•4d ago•70 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
21•sandGorgon•2d ago•10 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
271•isitcontent•21h ago•36 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
199•limoce•4d ago•109 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
284•dmpetrov•21h ago•151 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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
553•todsacerdoti•1d ago•267 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
424•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
41•matt_d•4d ago•16 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
348•eljojo•1d ago•214 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
367•vecti•23h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
466•lstoll•1d ago•308 comments
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QA-use-MCP: MCP for E2E testing

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@desplega.ai/qa-use-mcp
34•tarasyarema•4mo ago

Comments

tarasyarema•4mo ago
Hey there, been building an MCP to help discover, automate and run E2Es automatically connected to you Cursor / Claude / Codex / etc.

Funny enough, one of the most challenging things while building it was to be able to remotely control the browser that runs locally (been using https://localtunnel.me/ for it), while making sure that it does not impact the user too much.

Also, I wondered if there's someone that is shipping CLIs with an "mcp" command, as seems that having a normal CLI for the funcionatilitie sof the MCP would make a lot of sense + with the option of running it as an MCP if the user wants to.

Have you seen this pattern?

Also, as there's a lot of buzzwording around MCPs, any of you that been using an MCP as a daily driver? For me it was the github one, specially for code search and stuff like that.

joch•4mo ago
Claude code comes to mind: `claude mcp serve`
tarasyarema•4mo ago
Totally! Actually self hosting the localtunnel was key to improve latency, and it was easy enough to do.

Also about the CLI thing you mention, we had cases where people did not use MCP clients, so I actually wanted to expose a way to interact with the tools directly without the need of the server running!

rgbrgb•4mo ago
> This server integrates with desplega.ai

This is cool! no shade at all to desplega.ai but I would love a version of this that runs locally + does stuff like verifying no tests are flaky. I do this with a few extra steps via claude code + playwright tests. e2e tests are the best way I know for catching UI regressions but they're expensive and annoying to run, so something that looked at a PR and healed / wrote tests in the background as I work on features would be pretty cool.

Why local? Basically I'm just cost sensitive for my own projects and already have this nasty MacBook that only gets like 20% utilization.

tarasyarema•4mo ago
One of the things we used is this algorithm with retries from meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/12/10/developer-tools/probab...

If your challenge is flakiness, this should help initially. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of work in our engine, and a custom system to handle operations that goes beyond vanilla Playwright so running it locally would be quite challenging.

agrnet•4mo ago
Atleast in my industry (highly regulated), I think it would be better if these agentic e2e tools output playwright code instead of keeping it all under the hood, as no risk averse regulated company will use a QA agent which could be nondeterministic when re running the same test
tarasyarema•4mo ago
As I mentioned above, a playwright won’t make the cut for many of the serious test cases we’ve seen, you need a whole system that ensures your tests are run and improved immediately. We created this project in a way that supports on-premise deployments, but you’ll need to run the whole engine and eventually use some SLMs/LLMs at different stages.
agrnet•3mo ago
At the end of the day, is the LLM not just calling Playwright APIs? I’d rather have access to the final set of Playwright API steps that the LLM executed to accomplish a goal, rather than just hoping the LLM will choose the same actions again the second time i run it
tarasyarema•3mo ago
We use PW for the interaction with the browser, but really how we represent what to do is in a custom format (could be executed in other frameworks too). So the PW we could generate would be a subset, where the more interesting parts (custom functions) are not really implemented in PW.

Also part of our format is specially finding deterministic way of running steps, with automatic healing when failed. And we also build the whole system in a way that is self-hostable, so in the cases you mention you could be able to have control over what is run and where.