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79•awaaz•2h ago•12 comments

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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
217•yi_wang•8h ago•90 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
109•RebelPotato•7h ago•30 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
300•valyala•16h ago•58 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
113•swah•4d ago•202 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
230•mellosouls•18h ago•390 comments

Moroccan sardine prices to stabilise via new measures: officials

https://maghrebi.org/2026/01/27/moroccan-sardine-prices-to-stabilise-via-new-measures-officials/
29•mooreds•5d ago•2 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html
27•grep_it•5d ago•3 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
185•surprisetalk•15h ago•188 comments

Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-modern-and-antique-technologies-reveal-a-dynamic-cosmos-20260202/
4•sohkamyung•5d ago•0 comments

LineageOS 23.2

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-31/
56•pentagrama•4h ago•10 comments

Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-shawshank-redemption-1994
31•monero-xmr•4h ago•31 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
194•AlexeyBrin•21h ago•36 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
200•vinhnx•19h ago•21 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...
80•gnufx•14h ago•64 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
365•jesperordrup•1d ago•108 comments

Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
51•Rygian•3d ago•21 comments

uLauncher

https://github.com/jrpie/launcher
24•dtj1123•4d ago•6 comments

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-pho...
58•witnessme•5h ago•22 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
148•samasblack•18h ago•90 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
104•momciloo•16h ago•24 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
610•theblazehen•3d ago•219 comments

LLMs as Language Compilers: Lessons from Fortran for the Future of Coding

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
5•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
113•thelok•17h ago•25 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
343•1vuio0pswjnm7•22h ago•555 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
921•klaussilveira•1d ago•280 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-...
44•mbitsnbites•3d ago•7 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
178•speckx•4d ago•264 comments

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script.html
11•todsacerdoti•7h ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
311•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments
Open in hackernews

Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptomining/major-bitcoin-mining-firm-pivoting-to-ai-plans-to-fully-abandon-crypto-mining-by-2027-bitfarm-to-leverage-341-megawatt-capacity-for-ai-following-usd46-million-q3-loss
22•heresie-dabord•2mo ago

Comments

pr337h4m•2mo ago
CoreWeave did this with Ethereum in preparation for the proof-of-stake transition.
rdl•2mo ago
Almost all of the larger commercial miners (especially public companies) are looking at this. There are a bunch of issues (I have a conference talk last week at one of the big mining conferences on the topic, and have met with a bunch of miners on this.)

Probably long term the solution will be hybrid — mining gets done using any spare power. AI training generally requires protected power even beyond firm power and few miners have this for their mining operations, and also most of the mining facilities aren’t in the ISO 5 or 6 facilities we (I insure miners and AI) want to see for $500mm worth of mining hardware. Usually the mining companies don’t want to make the upfront capital outlay for these, so a lot of the time they do partnerships where part of their PPA is shared.

mhb•2mo ago
People have spent $500M for hardware to mine crypto?
sshine•2mo ago
More. In 2024, Bitcoin mining companies collectively spent over $3.6 billion on hardware, data centers, and infrastructure to maintain and expand their operations.

https://arb365.net/en/articles/majnery-vlozhili-36-mlrd-v-in...

rdl•2mo ago
I insure like >$3B worth actively I think (which includes some additional power equipment, hvac, etc. below the scale of main site transformers, etc.). If you count former equipment which has been removed from service over the years it is probably about $5-10B for Bitcoin in total? (Not pulling the BDX to look at specific breakdown of miners vs AI)
trollbridge•2mo ago
Couldn't foundational model training (one of the most expensive aspects of AI) be done with spare power?
rdl•2mo ago
One $4mm cabinet of GB300 can generate maybe 10-20x the power/hvac cost per hour so it doesn't make sense to ever have it idle. Vs. $100K worth of miners for the same 40KW conditioned or 100KW raw power.
hastamelo•2mo ago
aren't the new huge ai data centers being built without power redundancy/backups, because speed to market is critical?

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-tel...

rdl•2mo ago
No one I've seen does without at least battery backup/conditioning/etc. Some may have less than 100% redundancy on generators, but that's mainly because some of them are running with e.g. a 200MW grid feed and 20x10MW gensets and ALSO running about 10-15 of the "backup" gensets as prime power. It's possible corners are cut during commissioning (like they use modular structures during buildout of the tilt-up ISO 5 permanent structure), but substanially no one would do this as their long-term design goal.
l1n•2mo ago
Was the talk recorded? Couldn't find a link.