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Optical context compression is just (bad) autoencoding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03643
21•unclefuzzy•2mo ago

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gcr•1mo ago
Academic papers should be neutral when dissing previous work imo.

"[Previous work] is just bad [previous other work]" isn't a professional way to talk about the merits and drawbacks of competing approaches, but boy does it get tiktok views!

Better work stands on its own merits. No need to explicitly shit on the competition in the title/abstract.

DoNotNotify is now Open Source

https://donotnotify.com/opensource.html
168•awaaz•3h ago•29 comments

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
14•pacod•2h ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
240•yi_wang•9h ago•116 comments

Matchlock: Linux-based sandboxing for AI agents

https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock
27•jingkai_he•3h ago•2 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
134•RebelPotato•9h ago•40 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
318•valyala•17h ago•62 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
133•swah•5d ago•234 comments

Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos

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

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

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html
43•grep_it•5d ago•7 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
238•mellosouls•20h ago•397 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
195•surprisetalk•17h ago•198 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
197•AlexeyBrin•23h ago•36 comments

LineageOS 23.2

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-31/
75•pentagrama•5h ago•17 comments

uLauncher

https://github.com/jrpie/launcher
37•dtj1123•4d ago•8 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
209•vinhnx•20h ago•24 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...
83•gnufx•16h ago•66 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
373•jesperordrup•1d ago•112 comments

In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/australian-outback-nuclear-tests-listening-warramunga-faci...
15•defrost•1h ago•2 comments

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

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
56•Rygian•3d ago•27 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
115•momciloo•17h ago•24 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
155•samasblack•19h ago•94 comments

Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser (JS)

https://rabbitear.org/book/origami.html
4•molszanski•3d ago•2 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
620•theblazehen•3d ago•223 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...
72•witnessme•6h ago•30 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
114•thelok•19h ago•25 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
355•1vuio0pswjnm7•1d ago•587 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
194•speckx•4d ago•286 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
929•klaussilveira•1d ago•283 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
313•isitcontent•1d ago•40 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-...
52•mbitsnbites•4d ago•7 comments