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79•awaaz•2h ago•12 comments

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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
217•yi_wang•8h ago•90 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
110•RebelPotato•7h ago•30 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
300•valyala•16h ago•58 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
113•swah•4d ago•202 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
231•mellosouls•18h ago•390 comments

Moroccan sardine prices to stabilise via new measures: officials

https://maghrebi.org/2026/01/27/moroccan-sardine-prices-to-stabilise-via-new-measures-officials/
29•mooreds•5d ago•2 comments

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

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html
27•grep_it•5d ago•3 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
185•surprisetalk•15h ago•189 comments

Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos

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

LineageOS 23.2

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-31/
56•pentagrama•4h ago•10 comments

Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-shawshank-redemption-1994
31•monero-xmr•4h ago•31 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
194•AlexeyBrin•21h ago•36 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
200•vinhnx•19h ago•21 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...
80•gnufx•14h ago•64 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
365•jesperordrup•1d ago•108 comments

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

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
52•Rygian•3d ago•21 comments

uLauncher

https://github.com/jrpie/launcher
24•dtj1123•4d ago•6 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...
58•witnessme•5h ago•22 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
148•samasblack•18h ago•90 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
104•momciloo•16h ago•24 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
610•theblazehen•3d ago•219 comments

LLMs as Language Compilers: Lessons from Fortran for the Future of Coding

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
5•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
113•thelok•17h ago•25 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
343•1vuio0pswjnm7•22h ago•556 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
921•klaussilveira•1d ago•280 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-...
44•mbitsnbites•3d ago•7 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
178•speckx•4d ago•264 comments

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script.html
11•todsacerdoti•7h ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
311•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments
Open in hackernews

Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)

http://www.redbook.io/
152•teleforce•1mo ago

Comments

gnabgib•1mo ago
(2015) Popular in:

2020 (225 points, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436647

2017 (247 points, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436647

2015 (189 points, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10694538

WalterGR•1mo ago
Before spidering the site for offline reading, be aware:

“Rather than secure rights to the recommended papers, we have simply provided links to Google Scholar searches that should help the reader locate the relevant papers.”

nine_k•1mo ago
A perfect task for an AI agent, BTW.
sam_lowry_•1mo ago
Why not to Scihub?
xpe•1mo ago
Sci-Hub rules:

    1. You do not talk about Sci-Hub.
    2. You do NOT talk about Sci-Hub.
    3. If a download says "Stop," goes limp,
       or taps out, that download is over. 
    4. Only two tries per mirror. 
    5. One download at a time. 
    6. Shirt and shoes optional. 
    7. Downloads will continue until publicly funded
       research is widely distributed. 
    8. If this is your first time at Sci-Hub, you
       have to download something interesting,
       actually read at least part of it, learn
       something, and then fight ignorance and/or
       stupidity with it.
WalterGR•1mo ago
Then you were successfully beworn.
ctxc•1mo ago
Oh well...

https://ibb.co/BVrzQRWH

testdelacc1•1mo ago
Wonder why. Did they confuse this with Maoist literature (Little Red Book)?
ctxc•1mo ago
Hmm maybe, a blooper on their part

I just switched networks (wifi/mobile) and it worked, only that provider seems to block it

nrhrjrjrjtntbt•1mo ago
Peek:

Readings in Database Systems (commonly known as the "Red Book") has offered readers an opinionated take on both classic and cutting-edge research in the field of data management since 1988. Here, we present the Fifth Edition of the Red Book — the first in over ten years. CHAPTERS Preface [HTML] [PDF] Background introduced by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Traditional RDBMS Systems introduced by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Techniques Everyone Should Know introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] New DBMS Architectures introduced by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Large-Scale Dataflow Engines introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] Weak Isolation and Distribution introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] Query Optimization introduced by Joe Hellerstein [HTML] [PDF] Interactive Analytics introduced by Joe Hellerstein [HTML] [PDF] Languages introduced by Joe Hellerstein [HTML] [PDF] Web Data introduced by Peter Bailis [HTML] [PDF] A Biased Take on a Moving Target: Complex Analytics by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] A Biased Take on a Moving Target: Data Integration by Michael Stonebraker [HTML] [PDF] Complete Book: [HTML] [PDF] Readings Only: [HTML] [PDF] Previous Editions: [HTML]

zingar•1mo ago
How does this stack up in 2025/6?
herodoturtle•1mo ago
redbook.io huh?

Some might argue the Red Book to be “NSA Trusted Networks” a.k.a the ugly red book that won't fit on the shelf.

Crash & Burn <3

layer8•1mo ago
There are a lot of red books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book
hashhar•1mo ago
Redbook is also the Audio CD standard. Lots of redbooks exist.
vvern•1mo ago
About time for the 6th Edition, eh? What would folks include in it?

- Vector databases and hybrid search?

- Object storage for all the things? Lake houses. Parquet and beyond.

- Continuously materialized views? I'm not sure this one has made the splash but I think about Naiad (Materialize) and Noria (Readyset)

- NewSQL went mostly mainstream (Spanner wasn't included in the last one, but there's been more here with things like CockroachDB, TiDB, etc)

B1FF_PSUVM•1mo ago
LLMs as DBs (if you squint hard enough)
kwillets•1mo ago
The object storage stuff is new, but it's mostly confirmed that the older architecture works. MPP with shared (S3) storage and everything above that on local SSD and compute delivers the best performance. Even Snowflake finally came out with "interactive" warehouses with this architecture.

Parquet, Iceberg, and other open formats seem good, but they may hit a complexity wall. There's already some inconsistency between platforms, eg with delete vectors.

Incremental view maintenance interests me as well, and I would like to see it more available on different platforms. It's ironic that people use dbt etc. to test every little edit of their manually coded delta pipelines, but don't look at IVM.

teleforce•1mo ago
Definitely they should include D4M and GraphQL [1],[2].

Not only D4M can cater for structured relational data, it's also suitable for non-structured and sparse data in spreadsheet, matrices and graph. It's essentially a generalization of SQL but for all things data.

There's also integration of D4M with SciDB [3].

[1] D4M: Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model:

https://d4m.mit.edu/

[2] GraphQL:

https://graphql.org/

[3] D4M: Bringing associative arrays to database engines:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07371

rodolphoarruda•1mo ago
Amazing: the website's index page has the book's index in it. While this makes perfect sense, it's a kind of a feature that is becoming rare in today's tech book websites which display all sorts of marketing fluff, social confirmations etc and not the structure of the book itself.