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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
165•yi_wang•5h ago•51 comments

OpenClaw Is Changing My Life

https://reorx.com/blog/openclaw-is-changing-my-life/
8•novoreorx•1h ago•4 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
81•RebelPotato•5h ago•19 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
270•valyala•13h ago•51 comments

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

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
33•robtherobber•4d ago•37 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
209•mellosouls•16h ago•360 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
77•swah•4d ago•140 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
172•surprisetalk•13h ago•165 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
184•AlexeyBrin•19h ago•35 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...
76•gnufx•12h ago•60 comments

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

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html
10•grep_it•5d ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
177•vinhnx•16h ago•18 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
331•jesperordrup•23h ago•99 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
139•samasblack•15h ago•81 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...
32•witnessme•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
87•momciloo•13h ago•18 comments

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

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
36•Rygian•2d ago•11 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
81•chwtutha•4h ago•22 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
109•thelok•15h ago•24 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
593•theblazehen•3d ago•214 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-...
42•mbitsnbites•3d ago•5 comments

LineageOS 23.2

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-31/
6•pentagrama•1h ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
316•1vuio0pswjnm7•20h ago•514 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...
116•randycupertino•8h ago•243 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
908•klaussilveira•1d ago•277 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
162•speckx•4d ago•245 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
36•languid-photic•4d ago•18 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

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
314•dmpetrov•1d ago•159 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
149•videotopia•4d ago•49 comments
Open in hackernews

Six Big Bets

https://www.jerry.wtf/posts/six-big-bets/
23•personjerry•1mo ago

Comments

tptacek•1mo ago
There's an uncanny element to the writing here, but my bigger thing is that it's presenting a sort linear progression to stages of life and startup operating, and saying 36-42 are strong ages for doing startup work, but 42 is the last of those years and 51 is past it: no? An unsupported claim? There are ways in which it is much harder to do a startup at 36 than 51.

It seems clear why 20-somethings have advantages, but extrapolating that out is I think a mistake.

I also think subheds like "Naive Conviction" and "Capitalized Execution" and "Durable Craft" are going to set people off, and as a bit of writing advice I'd avoid them, along with constructions like "It's not X. It's Y." or "X isn't Z. Y is." It's also kind of not-great writing? It starts to sound like something written for Bill Shatner to read.

teekert•1mo ago
Hmm, yes seems a bit one-sided. At 30 life was distinctly family oriented, now mid forty there is a lot more room again, I suspect there will be even more room at 55. I myself was kinda clueless 18-30.

I work a lot for/with a couple of retirees (pensionados?) with a startup in drug repurposing: Huge network, crazy deep knowledge, authority, no need for a salary so they have very low cost. Basically I line up high quality information for them and built infra as needed. They move quite quickly tbh.

clickety_clack•1mo ago
It reads like someone in their early 20s wrote it. There’s no way anyone who’s been around longer than that would think life progresses so definitely and neatly.
personjerry•1mo ago
I should've been more clear, I feel like at 51 a better leverage of impact is no longer the startup but writing (essays, blogs, books) or other forms of influence (e.g. teaching)

I appreciate the feedback on the writing!

akerl_•1mo ago
But why? What about being 51 vs younger means writing is “better leverage”.
personjerry•1mo ago
At 51 you don't have the energy and time to compete on "grinding" which is often the "advantage" in the early days of a startup before a moat has solidified
akerl_•1mo ago
Presumably at 60 the right move is to surrender one’s body for science, as you’ve passed all the milestones of usefulness.
tptacek•1mo ago
You appear from your published CV to be much, much younger than 51. I'm not 51, but I'm much closer to it than you are, and at an age where many people in my social circle at past that. What on earth gives you the confidence to say something like "at 51 you don't have the energy to compete"?

Also, at 51, you probably have more time to compete than a 36 year old.

I think you're way off on this.

kasey_junk•1mo ago
I certainly had much more time & energy for startup shenanigans in my mid 40s than I did in my mid 30s. But even with that experience I’d be very hesitant to extrapolate about any age because of how different everyone’s lives are.
akerl_•1mo ago
I don't want to speculate too wildly, but I think it may be possible that everybody's life and energy levels and motivation and interests are not tracked on the same fixed linear path.

Though I guess it would be nice as somebody in my 20s to picture that my future is an established track to follow.

Esophagus4•1mo ago
Or at the very least, to be able to say to yourself, “You’re doing fine. You’re beating yourself up because you haven’t started a company in your 20s, but that’s ok. Because you haven’t aged out of being a founder, and you can still do what drives you.”
wglb•1mo ago
I'm not convinced of the linearity of this. Consider that Ray Kroc started McDonalds when he was 50.