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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
145•yi_wang•5h ago•45 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
67•RebelPotato•4h ago•16 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
262•valyala•13h ago•51 comments

Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009)

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
29•robtherobber•4d ago•21 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
206•mellosouls•15h ago•355 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
170•surprisetalk•12h ago•163 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
73•swah•4d ago•125 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
51•rolph•3h ago•39 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...
74•gnufx•11h ago•59 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
182•AlexeyBrin•18h ago•35 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
175•vinhnx•16h ago•17 comments

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

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html
7•grep_it•5d ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
325•jesperordrup•23h ago•97 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
136•samasblack•15h ago•81 comments

Why there is no official statement from Substack about the data leak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-pho...
25•witnessme•2h ago•6 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
74•chwtutha•3h ago•18 comments

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

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
33•Rygian•2d ago•8 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
85•momciloo•12h ago•17 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
108•thelok•14h ago•24 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
587•theblazehen•3d ago•212 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-...
40•mbitsnbites•3d ago•5 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...
112•randycupertino•8h ago•238 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
311•1vuio0pswjnm7•19h ago•494 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
158•speckx•4d ago•243 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
906•klaussilveira•1d ago•277 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-...
147•josephcsible•10h ago•186 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
35•languid-photic•4d ago•16 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
304•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
497•lstoll•1d ago•331 comments
Open in hackernews

The Alignment Game (2023)

https://dmvaldman.github.io/alignment-game/
55•dmvaldman•3w ago
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BYh9ZtEv4k7xoSXmtf1q...

Comments

kayo_20211030•3w ago
Maybe. It could be true. But, in the interest of folks who just want a summary with an opportunity to dig in deeper, this piece would have benefited from the addition of a worked example in the text; simply as an explanation and a teaser. I spend enough time with spreadsheets.
nonethewiser•2w ago
Took me about 5 seconds to grok it looking at the google sheet. Didn't really read the article.
Nevermark•3w ago
My takeaway: get people to independently create an artifact representing their priorities, share the results, discuss the differences, come to a consensus informed by everyone's insights.

Whatever artifact makes sense. Maybe a spreadsheet list. Maybe a one page, or half page, serious coherent characterization from each person.

How people independently see priorities before collective discussion, being as important as how they rate them, I would go with one page thoughtful summaries.

Having experienced partially-aligned organizations, I would want key contributors to a discussion like this to come from every major part of an organization. Emphasis on very different roles, especially important leaf roles, not just top leaders. Otherwise you get high bubble-at-the-top alignment. Top-only strong alignment is like concrete, perniciously inflexible. Which is what I experienced. End-to-end insight and discovery of alignment is needed to get adaptable, in-touch, actually effective alignment.

And as is hammered so well in "Creativity, Inc" by Ed Catmull, alignment isn't just about coordinating efforts. It is about continuously identifying and removing friction, of any kind, anywhere, for anyone, as individuals make their very different contributions in service to the common direction.

teeray•3w ago
> get people to independently create an artifact representing their priorities

Except trying to get most stakeholders to be alone with their thoughts to be condensed upon a blank document before them causes them to violently open outlook and schedule a meeting with everyone instead.

Nevermark•3w ago
Pre-alignment-meeting alignment! A good thing to explicitly exclude.

Definitely need a healthy culture when asking for honesty and openness about what people think, including they see as unclear, unknown, inconsistent with others, and/or outside the existing box.

thedudeabides5•3w ago
what happens when you have three players, and three options that do not have a stable equilibrium?

aka Arrow's impossibility theorem?

Goofy_Coyote•3w ago
Interesting question.

Maybe we can break out of it by giving who ever is taking accountability if that thing goes wrong a tie breaker vote, or have their votes weigh a bit more?

thedudeabides5•2w ago
yes, the classic solution to a hung democracy...appoint a dictator!

(kidding)

funkyfiddler69•2w ago
find a 4th player or create a game to find/build/grow an independent one within the constraints of the system. make sure it's 'fair enough' as in "no sabotage".