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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
83•yi_wang•3h ago•25 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
36•RebelPotato•2h ago•8 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
239•valyala•10h ago•46 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
150•surprisetalk•10h ago•148 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
183•mellosouls•13h ago•334 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...
68•gnufx•9h ago•55 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
177•AlexeyBrin•16h ago•32 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
159•vinhnx•13h ago•16 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
49•swah•4d ago•94 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
128•samasblack•13h ago•76 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
304•jesperordrup•21h ago•95 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
72•momciloo•10h ago•15 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...
102•randycupertino•6h ago•217 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
98•thelok•12h ago•22 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
41•chwtutha•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents

https://github.com/ujjwalredd/Axiomeer
10•ujjwalreddyks•5d ago•2 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-...
37•mbitsnbites•3d ago•3 comments

Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World with Solar (2009)

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
3•robtherobber•4d ago•0 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
570•theblazehen•3d ago•206 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
291•1vuio0pswjnm7•17h ago•467 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-...
132•josephcsible•8h ago•160 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
183•valyala•10h ago•165 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
30•languid-photic•4d ago•10 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
227•limoce•4d ago•125 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
899•klaussilveira•1d ago•275 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
113•zdw•3d ago•56 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
146•speckx•4d ago•228 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
145•videotopia•4d ago•48 comments

The silent death of good code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
83•amitprasad•5h ago•76 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
116•onurkanbkrc•15h ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

Max Number of Simultaneous Key-Press (N-Key Rollover, NKRO, Ghosting) (2010)

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_n-key_rollover_key_ghosting.html
31•behnamoh•3mo ago

Comments

Insanity•2mo ago
I will just go on a tangential rant. I have the HHKB pro 2 as my daily driver, and my one gripe is the low polling rate. So when I press shift to make a character upper case, it sometimes uppercases two. Never had that on other keyboards yet both HHKB I own have this behaviour, making me think it is a combination of low polling rate of 125hz and Bluetooth.

Besides that, it is my favourite of many keyboards for any non-gaming thing. the Poker II is my go-to for gaming and I highly recommend that one as well, if 60% is your thing.

sedatk•2mo ago
> it sometimes uppercases two

> I highly recommend that one

I'm glad that you still like it, but it's strange to me that someone would buy a mechanical keyboard because of its reliability and immaculately accurate and fast typing experience caused by precise and unmistakable feedback mechanism of a mechanical switch, and then they are suddenly okay with occasional random ghost keypresses? That's like buying a Breitling SuperQuartz watch that just lags behind a minute a day, isn't it?

You might like it for other reasons of course, but registering keypresses accurately is the minimum I expect from a keyboard, let alone a mechnical one.

Insanity•2mo ago
The keyboard feels good to type on, it's quiet enough to not make me self-conscious when using it in the office, and I enjoy the layout (lower 'backspace' key and smaller form factor).

Plenty of things to like - the ghosting happens occasionally but not enough for it to be a dealbreaker. Although I did change my vim keybinds so `:wq` and `:WQ` both save & quit lol.

sedatk•2mo ago
Fair enough :)
SyzygyRhythm•2mo ago
I've found that quite a lot of cheap keyboards cannot register a T when shift-R are being pressed. If I always used the standard QWERTY finger positioning, this wouldn't be a problem, because my index finger could not be on both R and T at the same time. But when typing a word like (all-caps) SMART, I tend to use middle-index to quickly type the RT, and R is still depressed when I hit the T. So the T does not register.

Most decent keyboards don't do this, but even there I've seen exceptions. Very annoying.

krbaccord94f•2mo ago
A work, by being a work, makes space for that spaciousness. "To make space for" means here especially to liberate the free space of the open region and to establish it in its structure. This installing occurs through the errecting mentioned earlier. The work as work sets up a world. The work holds open the open region of the world. But the setting up of a world is only the first essential feature in the work-being to be referred to here."

Heidegger, Martin "Origin of the Work of Art."

thro1•2mo ago
There are diodeless (no matrix) split keyboards (https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/1dh9o8k/...) like Cantor: https://github.com/diepala/cantor .

They use chips similar to that one: XIAO ESP32S3 nRF52840 Sense Plus - wireless, energy efficient, with 20 pins GPIO or more - one pin for one key - https://thepihut.com/products/xiao-nrf52840-sense-plus (there was an option of 16 pins extra using expander https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/io_expander_for_xiao/ - which is not made anymore, but you can use same chip MCP23017 to get that effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq6jbXaX4oQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74DgM2nAeLo , up to 128 I/O pins: https://resinchemtech.blogspot.com/2023/10/IO-expander.html - in that case - 36 simultaneous inputs by hand) - and with Hall sensor keys or similar we are soon talking about _easy_ having ~40+

.. simultaneus muiltiple ANALOG inputs in "keyboards" - like in Mitt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj7HfcdJhi8 - or XBOX Controller Mods: Analog WASD Gaming Keyboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwDImE0DU4 .

thro1•2mo ago
Edit: nRF52840 chip can have 12 Analog Inputs, ESP32S3 20 - e.g. ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 - but XIAO ESP32S3 and XIAO nRF52840 have 6 only, there are others with more pins (AFAIR up to ~128, not all analog) but more functions too - what's overkill regarding price and energy waste - not so cool. (BTW. of A beginner tries PCB assembly (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32549736 )
animal531•2mo ago
And that was why games back in the day came with a little key-binding tool that helped you figure out what keys could be pressed together, or not.

Of course back then it was a different hardware interface and the problem was usually the buffer size, arrow/keypad keys had much longer codes and locked up a lot more often.