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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt

106•yi_wang•3h ago•29 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/

20•rolph•1h ago•11 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

245•valyala•11h ago•47 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding

47•RebelPotato•3h ago•9 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit

46•duxup•1h ago•10 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode

161•surprisetalk•11h ago•152 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

192•mellosouls•14h ago•342 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...

70•gnufx•10h ago•57 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/

58•swah•4d ago•106 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

179•AlexeyBrin•17h ago•34 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html

169•vinhnx•14h ago•17 comments

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

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127

13•robtherobber•4d ago•3 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/

313•jesperordrup•21h ago•97 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

130•samasblack•13h ago•76 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...

8•witnessme•45m ago•1 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349

52•chwtutha•2h ago•9 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

76•momciloo•11h ago•16 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...

111•randycupertino•6h ago•231 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/

101•thelok•13h ago•22 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

575•theblazehen•3d ago•208 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•4 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/

301•1vuio0pswjnm7•17h ago•476 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-...

139•josephcsible•9h ago•167 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/

31•languid-photic•4d ago•13 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en

231•limoce•4d ago•125 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/

903•klaussilveira•1d ago•276 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline

147•speckx•4d ago•231 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/

185•valyala•11h ago•169 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/

146•videotopia•4d ago•48 comments

The silent death of good code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code

89•amitprasad•5h ago•86 comments

Open in hackernews

OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution

https://algorithmicsuperintelligence.ai/blog/openevolve-overview/index.html

53•codelion•2mo ago

Comments

jasonjmcghee•2mo ago

It doesn't mention it in the article, but guessing this is based on / inspired by AlphaEvolve?

Though I'm not sure the public can access AlphaEvolve yet.

(https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131)

gerdesj•2mo ago

If AlphaEvolve is: "a quality-diversity search framework for algorithm discovery" then maybe.

At the moment I'm mildly skeptical and uncertain of whether to twist or stick.

jasonb05•1mo ago

Agreed, not mentioned.

Nevertheless, I see a link to github for the OpenEvolve project [1] that in turn states:

> Open-source implementation of AlphaEvolve

[1] https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve

DoctorOetker•2mo ago

Very interesting that the LLM weights are co-evolved and reasoning skills improve!

viraptor•1mo ago

What do you mean by this? I can't find anything there about modifying the used LLMs and the hosted ones wouldn't be possible to change. Do I misunderstand the convolved part you mentioned?

DoctorOetker•1mo ago

you are correct, on re-reading they only evolved the prompts ...

N_Lens•2mo ago

Some cool optimisations here: MAP elites, island models to prevent premature convergence & fast rejection of bad candidates.

What's particularly interesting is the meta level insight: The system discovered scipy.optimize.SLSQP for circle packing - a completely different algorithmic paradigm than it started with. It's genuinely discovering new approaches, not just parameter-tuning.

quantbagel•2mo ago

Sakana.ai improved on this by honing in on sample efficiency iirc with shinkaevolve (which is open source and not an ai slop project)

jasonb05•1mo ago

Yep, ShinkaEvolve described here: https://sakana.ai/shinka-evolve/ and available here: https://github.com/SakanaAI/ShinkaEvolve