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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•331 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...
93•randycupertino•5h ago•204 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
37•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•3 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•46m ago•5 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

Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool

https://airmass.org/
58•NKosmatos•3w ago

Comments

lanthade•2w ago
Interesting tool, would probably be super useful if I had more knowledge of the things floating around out there. I'm usually just concerned with photographing the galactic core on dark nights. I didn't have enough domain knowledge to figure that out with this tool though. I use PhotoPils on my iOS devices for astrophotography planning and that works great for my limited level of knowledge.
dylan604•2w ago
Don’t let lack of familiarity keep you from exploring. More and more tools/apps are available like TFA that lets you find things without knowing about them before hand. There’s no better way to learn than diving into the new to you object you just images all night. Don’t let some one tell you that you have to know an object intimately before imaging. How you progress through your journey in astronomy is up to you. Keep looking up!
salezred•2w ago
The funny thing is that I personally have ended up creating a "large" google sheet with all the Messier objects which my rig could image, and added a column for "when" to image (i.e., spring, etc). It's served me quite well.

As I said in another comment, a true killer feature would be to image my yard, with all the obstacles blocking the sky, and intersecting the available sky space with the trajectories of those objects, and use that info to actually tell me what I can image.

dylan604•2w ago
You don't need to image your yard. That would be pretty overkill and would limit the use of the app from allowing its use if you took your gear to a new location.

Instead, you should just figure out what the degrees of the top of your blocking items are and set that as a limit. If the tops of trees mean something needs to be at least 30° above the horizon, then use that value. If your neighbor's house means it needs to be 60°, then use that value. Being allowed to say 30° to the east, 60° to the west, etc would be even better. Imaging your yard and having to decipher all of that would be way overkill and totally unnecessary.

maxnoe•2w ago
If you are more into doing this locally than using a Webservice, have a look at astroplan based on astropy.

https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

bhouston•2w ago
This reminds me of this submission to Hacker News recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330012

blackhaz•2w ago
Very nice tool. If you don't mind, I've linked to it from our observatory: https://www.alnitakobs.com/telescope/

A widget version would be nice!

anotherpaulg•2w ago
Once you’ve confirmed when your target is visible, this site provides a handy forecast of atmospheric viewing conditions.

https://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/

salezred•2w ago
If you're the author or if anyone knows a program that can do this, it would be great to have a way to take a photoshphere or a 360 degree pano and see what is actually viewable from a particular location.

I've done this in stellarium to some degree but i am still not very happy with it because I still can't quite get an accurate estimate without a tremendous amount of manual work, so someone actually actively working on this would be amazing.