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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
66•yi_wang•2h ago•23 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
233•valyala•10h ago•45 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
24•RebelPotato•2h ago•4 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
144•surprisetalk•10h ago•146 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
175•mellosouls•13h ago•333 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...
62•gnufx•9h ago•55 comments

IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/ibm-beam-spring-the-ultimate-retro-keyboard
19•rbanffy•4d ago•4 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
172•AlexeyBrin•15h ago•32 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
41•swah•4d ago•90 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
125•samasblack•12h ago•75 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
298•jesperordrup•20h 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
69•momciloo•10h ago•13 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...
96•randycupertino•5h ago•212 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•21 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-...
35•mbitsnbites•3d ago•3 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents

https://github.com/ujjwalredd/Axiomeer
7•ujjwalreddyks•5d ago•2 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
286•1vuio0pswjnm7•16h ago•464 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-...
126•josephcsible•8h ago•155 comments

The silent death of good code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
81•amitprasad•4h ago•76 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
29•languid-photic•4d ago•9 comments

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

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

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

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

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
115•onurkanbkrc•15h ago•5 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
111•zdw•3d ago•55 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
141•speckx•4d ago•224 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
34•chwtutha•1h ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

Context: Odin’s Most Misunderstood Feature

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/12/15/odins-most-misunderstood-feature-context/
46•davikr•1mo ago

Comments

dustbunny•1mo ago
Seems totally pointless to throw his own community under the bus with the initial paragraph. The first paragraph serves no purpose other than illuminate that ginger bill didn't want to write this, and is only writing it because we are too stupid to read his documentation.
travisa•1mo ago
The linked documentation in the first paragraph is confusing. It sets things in `context`, then calls `supertramp()`, which doesn't even use `context.user_index` or `my_custom_allocator()` specifically, which is not defined in the example? Are we to assume that `new()` somehow makes use of `context.allocator` and `context.user_index`? It goes on to explain that new(x) is also `new(x, context.allocator)`, but never explains the relevance of `context.user_index` No wonder people "misunderstand"
brabel•1mo ago
The implicit idea is that new will always use a context allocator to create the thing. Not its own allocator that you cannot control. But yes that does not seem obvious to the guy trying to learn the language.
gingerBill•1mo ago
The code example is more to show the scoped copy-on-write behaviour of `context` more than how it is used in practice. I agree it might be a bit confusing and thus needs to be made clearer that is what the code example is meant to show. However, I don't there is any code example that could show "correct usage" of `context` without it defeating the point of it. As I say in the article, it makes more sense to leave it "confusing" because then people will ignore it.

The Overview is just that, an "Overview" and it's not meant be either a spec, a heavily detailed tutorial, nor an explanation of why a language construct is designed the way it is and/or why it exists. The latter of which would probably be as long as the Overview for each construct that exists if that.

gingerBill•1mo ago
There is sadly a habit which is not bound to any "community", and I've seen a lot of cases where people will just rant a lot about something they don't understand when that rant could have been easily prevented by either reading the documentation/manual or asking someone in the first place. In the case of Odin, this is usually reading the Overview, the FAQ, or even just asking a question politely on the Discord/Forum/email. The implicit `context` system is one of those specific cases which is more likely to bring up an "uninformed rant". A lot of people seem to think you can figure everything out without reading a manual or rely on the veracity of what an LLM produces, and sadly this is not going to work for a lot of things in life. Most of the cases for explaining the existence of `context` (the thing the rant usually happens about) is usually solved by copying and pasting the two paragraphs from the Overview, explaining that it is for third-party interception. Sometimes it requires a longer explanation and thus I resorted to writing this article.

I don't like writing articles in general, since I am not a very good writer either, which is why I didn't want to write it; not because of the topic in itself. I could rephrase that first sentence/paragraph to not sound as "harsh" but when working on an open project, I would like people to at least read some form of documentation or just ask a question directly before they complain/rant.