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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
59•yi_wang•2h ago•22 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
231•valyala•10h ago•44 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
19•RebelPotato•2h ago•3 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
141•surprisetalk•9h ago•144 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
174•mellosouls•12h ago•332 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...
59•gnufx•8h ago•55 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
172•AlexeyBrin•15h ago•31 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
121•samasblack•12h ago•74 comments

IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
296•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
68•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...
94•randycupertino•5h ago•206 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
38•swah•4d ago•80 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
96•thelok•12h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents

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

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
565•theblazehen•3d ago•206 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-...
34•mbitsnbites•3d ago•2 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
283•1vuio0pswjnm7•16h ago•462 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
25•martialg•5h ago•4 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-...
122•josephcsible•8h ago•153 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
32•chwtutha•48m ago•6 comments

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

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

The silent death of good code

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

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
108•zdw•3d ago•54 comments

Selection rather than prediction

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

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
115•onurkanbkrc•15h ago•5 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
224•limoce•4d ago•124 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
140•speckx•4d ago•218 comments
Open in hackernews

Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale

https://tailscale.com/blog/chat-tails-terminal-chat
103•nulbyte•1mo ago

Comments

misterthp•1mo ago
this reminds me of gopher chats
lorenzo95•1mo ago
I'm gonna need an app for that . No, I just tried it. Works as advertised. Thank you for the dockerfile. Using putty, the formatting is messed up.on the banner/help. Must be some dynamic end of line thing. Still works so.
jmole•1mo ago
This is great, I've been looking for an easy to use local chat app for me and my kids, and Adium on Bonjour has been flaky with my VLAN setup at home. Will have to give this a try...
bigiain•1mo ago
Looking forward to hearing Tailscale getting forced to do age verification and banning use of this to people under 16 years old in Australia under their new social media rules...
wkat4242•1mo ago
Don't worry, VPNs are next in line to be banned anyway due to their big evasion potential of all this age verification nonsense
wkat4242•1mo ago
ps just as I wrote this the English had to prove my point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294780
subscribed•1mo ago
Ssh and ssl/tls without licence will be next :)
wkat4242•1mo ago
Personally, I think they will go for the endpoint instead. This is part of the UK proposal now. Only allow "trusted" endpoints to access services, something which is kinda in place in the mobile world already. Many things are blocked if you are running an unsanctioned build of Android.

Then once they have that in place they can just do all the monitoring through the screen of the device itself, since all content has to pass through there.

It's much easier to do that than to try to mandate a backdoor to every service in the world. Of coruse it is even more disastrous to user privacy but I honestly think that's the goal not the bug.

nickdothutton•1mo ago
Not being able to control the endpoint, like an operator can with a mobile phone, infuriates the police and politicians here. I don't want to go "full Stallman" here but although they do not use exactly these words... the idea of a general purpose computer you own and can program bothers them. Ironically at the same time they want a tech industry and tech jobs and young people entering the workforce with "tech skills". Keep in mind though that until relatively recently they though "tech skills" was being able to us MS Word. Thankfully the RPI helped a bit with that.
LeoPanthera•1mo ago
Things like this make me wish there was a sort of public version of Tailscale where everyone got a routable IP address to everyone else no matter what kind of firewall they were behind. Like the old days of the internet, I guess.
c45y•1mo ago
https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ for the most part enables this - otherwise I2P and Tor for the most part facilitate this with the bonus encryption element.

We might one day have it natively with ipv6 adoption increasing.

VikingCoder•1mo ago
I think Tailscale shares is what we currently are supposed to use?

You share some "semi-public" host with all of your friends...

And then you're not necessarily chatting with famous people, but you can have a near-and-dear-social network of people you actually know...

theknarf•1mo ago
https://veilid.com/
dmd•1mo ago
You may also enjoy https://typeto.me/ (discussed 15 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916453 ), a web version of talk/ntalk/ytalk
jwrallie•1mo ago
When I was a kid people were either there willing to communicate or AFK, the dynamic was completely different, and so were the expectations.

I enjoyed messaging much more although it would be impractical for me nowadays due to moving to a different time zone.

asim•1mo ago
Kept trying to build it in a variety of ways. Ultimately its a Dev niche thing which maybe in the hands of tailscale will gain adoption but really struggled otherwise. There's definitely room for private ephemeral conversations but I think that can also be a more public utility. Who knows, maybe it lays the foundation for that.
cl3misch•1mo ago
I don't want to be that guy, but I have to ask: this is ephemeral, unauthenticated chat for a handful of people over netcat. Why does it pull >1GB of dependencies?
kunley•1mo ago
Looking at the go.mod, tailscale lib seems to be the offender
pmdr•1mo ago
So IRC, but with easier to set up severs?
theknarf•1mo ago
Looks fun, but couldn't you just host an actual IRC server behind Tailscale?
webdevver•1mo ago
irc has a very low return on investment. crazy amount of tinkering for what is ascii characters vaguely thrown in your direction. it clearly has cultural staying power (and it does act as a strong filter for technically-minded people), but a oneliner chatroom in your terminal is a fun option for both newbies who get easily intimidated, and pros who dont have much free time anymore.
acheong08•1mo ago
IRC with Ergo + Soju is pretty easy and pleasant. Barely spent 20 minutes setting up a server, bridge, and bouncer. Has been really helpful where bandwidth was an issue (I am writing as I stay in a city with only 500kbps internet where Discord and other heavy webapps straight up refuse to load)