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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
135•yi_wang•4h ago•39 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
56•RebelPotato•4h ago•13 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

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

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
166•surprisetalk•12h ago•158 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

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

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
41•rolph•2h ago•26 comments

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

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
22•robtherobber•4d ago•15 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
66•swah•4d ago•120 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•17h 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/
319•jesperordrup•22h ago•97 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
135•samasblack•14h ago•79 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
67•chwtutha•3h ago•10 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...
17•witnessme•1h ago•6 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
82•momciloo•12h 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/
31•Rygian•2d ago•7 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
63•duxup•2h ago•14 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•23 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/
580•theblazehen•3d ago•211 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•235 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
306•1vuio0pswjnm7•18h ago•486 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•240 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-...
144•josephcsible•10h ago•179 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
904•klaussilveira•1d ago•276 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
34•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
Open in hackernews

JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool

https://justsketch.me
223•surprisetalk•4mo ago

Comments

rspoerri•3mo ago
dont i see it or is it missing inverse kinematics? from my experience people will want this desperately.
HermanMartinus•3mo ago
It is a highly requested feature. I just seem to have painted myself into a corner dev wise, and it's a pretty difficult feature to build without significant re-architecture. It's on my to-do list though.
Ecco•3mo ago
How is this any better than a Blender file with a rigged human model?
yreg•3mo ago
Ease of use.
Ecco•3mo ago
Because of a lack of features? It doesn't even have IK so I would argue Blender is in fact easier to use (as in, will get you to the result faster even if you need a bit more time to learn the interface).
syntaxterror•3mo ago
This has pre-built poses, props and a bunch of other easy to use features. This is classic hacker-news ‘Less intuitive and more complicated X is better because I already know how to use X’
yreg•3mo ago
I must have spent a hundred hours in Blender over the years, and I'm still not competent enough to do even some of the most basic things on my own when I pick it up.

Blender is an amazing project, but I would not suggest it as an alternative to OP's tool if asked by someone who practices drawing and has zero Blender experience or interest.

HermanMartinus•3mo ago
Literally just ease of use. Blender you have to learn to use, whereas JSM is built to be pick-up-and-go for even the least tech-savvy users.
JKCalhoun•3mo ago
And feature-wise, that's all it needs.
wateralien•3mo ago
Try get a non technical artist to pick up Blender and work out a rigged human model.
wiz21c•3mo ago
first question why: where do you get a rigged human models with the same level of detail, for free ?
gh0stcat•3mo ago
haha this was mine as well, would love to see some recommendations where people are getting some nice models to draw from.
engeljohnb•3mo ago
I wanted to use blender for quick pose reference yesterday and I was able to find several good ones and even one great one within 5min. They're around.
Fokamul•3mo ago
Would be cool, if you could upload the scene into image gen. model and it would create picture for you but with hard defined objects from the scene.

You know, for us people who can't draw a ... nothing :)

(I still support creative people though)

HermanMartinus•3mo ago
It's entirely possible to export an image of the scene and upload that to your genAI of choice.
heroprotagonist•3mo ago
Is there an OpenPose format json export option, for use with ControlNet tools? Or is the only option as an image to image reference?
HermanMartinus•3mo ago
Creator of JustSketchMe here! I was very surprised to see this on HackerNews this morning. Very cool to see this doing the rounds 6 years into running this :)
huflungdung•3mo ago
Cute little app, very nice
wateralien•3mo ago
Very nice. Well done :) I could have used this a lot when I was an Art Director in advertising sketching storyboards all day long. I guess these days Art Directors are just asking AI to do it?
gregsadetsky•3mo ago
Incredibly fun to play around with it, and really incredible mobile web support..! Two finger dragging worked without interfering with the browser’s usual handling of it.

Super cool, congrats! I was just reminiscing about the old school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser_(software) software recently, wondering if there were other contenders in the space.

Cheers

HermanMartinus•3mo ago
Thanks, it also runs well as a PWA. It's Threejs under the hood, plus some rendering optimisation to ensure it performs well in mobile browsers.
ChrisMarshallNY•3mo ago
Cool stuff, but I'll bet a lot of folks will use it to act out their Id.
junon•3mo ago
Incredible mobile support. Very well done.
Hexigonz•3mo ago
As someone who is getting into character art again after a very long time, this tool looks amazing. I've bookmarked it, and after I use it for a few references, I'll likely end up getting pro.
neilellis•3mo ago
Be nice to have AI integration for natural language: (i.e. 'show the character running and looking away from camera')
shortrounddev2•3mo ago
For some reason reminds me of making stop motion animation with Garry's mod
kkukshtel•3mo ago
There should be a HN name for posts like this - things that are clearly influenced by what was popular yesterday. The creator of this is the same person that wrote the blog post on being present without phones that was top ranked yesterday. It's clear that someone looked at that post, read about the creator, then posted their other project here.

Not saying it's bad or anything, just funny to see the link-browsing tendency of HN often manifest in such a direct way. It happens more than you would think as well!

CaptainOfCoit•3mo ago
Happens all the time :)

I think it's exaggerated by the automatic upvoting when submitting something that was recently submitted too. So as people discover the same thing, they submit it to HN and each submission upvotes the first submission.

We're all discovering the same things seemingly :)

ge96•3mo ago
Tangent

There is a guy on YT/Japanese Cafe that has real robotic Chobits they use wheels to move around but they have face tracking/digital eyes that look at you and moving arms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LNthFGX4aM

m4rtink•3mo ago
Mashiro (and others) are super cute and the whole project is very interesting, seeing how they improve them incrementally over time. :)
qustrolabe•3mo ago
Inverse kinematics would be nice here, to just move hand in certain position instead of editing several joints.
xnx•3mo ago
Cool. Might be able to get a quick approximate pose for manual finetuning by integrating Mediapipe: https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/vision/pose_l...