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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
34•yi_wang•1h ago•13 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
224•valyala•9h ago•43 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
131•surprisetalk•9h ago•139 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
166•mellosouls•12h ago•325 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...
54•gnufx•8h ago•54 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
148•vinhnx•12h ago•16 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/ibm-beam-spring-the-ultimate-retro-keyboard
10•rbanffy•4d ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
112•samasblack•11h ago•72 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
287•jesperordrup•19h ago•93 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...
84•randycupertino•4h ago•183 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
64•momciloo•9h ago•13 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
93•thelok•11h 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-...
33•mbitsnbites•3d ago•2 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
104•zdw•3d ago•52 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
30•swah•4d ago•72 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
5•chwtutha•11m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
271•1vuio0pswjnm7•15h ago•452 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-...
113•josephcsible•7h ago•133 comments

Eigen: Building a Workspace

https://reindernijhoff.net/2025/10/eigen-building-a-workspace/
10•todsacerdoti•4d ago•2 comments

Selection rather than prediction

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

The silent death of good code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
71•amitprasad•3h ago•73 comments

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
177•valyala•9h ago•165 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
114•onurkanbkrc•14h ago•5 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
138•speckx•4d ago•212 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
896•klaussilveira•1d ago•273 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
223•limoce•4d ago•124 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
583•todsacerdoti•1d ago•283 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps

https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-Cloud
68•ianseyler•3w ago

Comments

bflesch•3w ago
Sorry this might be an extremely stupid question, but can you please explain the benefits of this and what other (larger?) alternatives are?

I understand that this "exokernel" provides more performant hardware access for software and it seems to be written from scratch in assembler.

Does this mean that one should expect a lot of security and robustness issues, which means it should only be used for internal services and never be exposed to untrusted networks?

heliumtera•3w ago
If one decides to boot an arbitrary system, pointing at whatever would be the latest version of exec.asm, it doesn't even matter what the project is today and whatever the setup script is doing. If one chooses to use this, one decides to handover the virtual machine ownership. Your system is whatever OP decides, now or in the future.

Edit: made a clear mistake here. One would clearly not be booting on lates version of exec.asm. It would be libBareMetal.asm instead.

Sorry for confusion guys, totally safe and effective

if [ -x "$(command -v curl)" ]; then curl -s -o libBareMetal.asm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal/m... else wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal/m... fi

awesomeMilou•3w ago
One thing that comes to mind is latency in a HPC context.

If you can fit your entire software stack into L3 cache, you never have to access memory and benefit from insanely good latency.

This was a thing in HFT like ~5-7 years ago, where you might have bought a 28 core Xeon, disable all but one or two cores and benefit from ~30mb L3 cache, which can fit an entire Linux Kernel, an SSH server and your trading software.

yjftsjthsd-h•3w ago
Given that this is (AFAICT) a way to efficiently run exactly one program on a machine (probably a VM), I would have liked to see more time spent on the particulars of getting a program running on it. Like, can you easily run existing software on BareMetal? Could you compile nginx to run on it? Or does software have to be written specifically for this environment? And either way, how exactly do you actually build your software for/into(?) the image?
cestith•3w ago
You can’t run most Unix/Linux apps without porting.

https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-Examples/blob/ma...

ianseyler•3w ago
The plan is to get existing *nix programs ported over, yes. That will require some more work (ideally a compatibility layer/library).
tracker1•3w ago
I would think that with a bit of work, it should be possible to implement a baseline for a language like Rust or Go to target that environment with a "bare" application that may or may not have a direct filesystem interface to use.

Which could be pretty nice. Just Enough OS, so to speak.

messe•3w ago
Wow, that's some nostalgia for me. I remember encountering BareMetalOS and its bootloader Pure64 back when I still lurked the OSDev.org forums, probably more than 15 years ago at this point. Glad to see you're still at it!
gforce_de•3w ago
Does look alien. When Going to http://baremetal.returninfinity.com/ one can only see some b0rken plaintext in the browser:

  GET / HTTP/1HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
  Server: BareMetal
  Content-type: text/html
  
  <!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
   <head>
    <title>404</title>
   </head>
   <body>
    <p>404 - Not found</p>
   </boGET / HTTP/1
awesomeMilou•3w ago
Could you provide a link to a libc equivalent for this?

I was hoping for some documentation on how to get networking but I can't find anything immediately in the README

ianseyler•3w ago
Newlib has been ported: https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-newlib4
awesomeMilou•3w ago
Is there a system call reference somewhere?