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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
143•yi_wang•5h ago•43 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

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

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
47•rolph•3h ago•31 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
258•valyala•12h ago•51 comments

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

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
26•robtherobber•4d ago•20 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
168•surprisetalk•12h ago•159 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
202•mellosouls•15h ago•354 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
69•swah•4d ago•123 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...
73•gnufx•11h ago•59 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
172•vinhnx•15h ago•17 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
322•jesperordrup•22h ago•97 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
135•samasblack•15h ago•80 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...
20•witnessme•1h ago•6 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
72•chwtutha•3h ago•16 comments

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

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
32•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
83•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/
105•thelok•14h ago•24 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
585•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/
309•1vuio0pswjnm7•19h ago•491 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
156•speckx•4d ago•242 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
904•klaussilveira•1d ago•276 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•182 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

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

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
189•valyala•12h ago•179 comments

An Update on Heroku

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

The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I'm Ignoring the Prophets of Doom

https://codingismycraft.blog/index.php/2026/01/23/the-ai-revolution-in-coding-why-im-ignoring-the-prophets-of-doom/
18•mmphosis•1w ago

Comments

tadfisher•1w ago
Three bullet points, each starting with a phrase in bold: instantly gives the game away.

Maybe AI will augment coding, but it's not doing blog writing any favors.

sidrag22•1w ago
ya idk, structure screams AI and its a generic take, but i see no reason to assume anything beyond AI assistance especially in regards to the styling.

Personally I'd avoid a 2nd to last topic anywhere near resembling "reality check" into a clearly marked "final thoughts"... Even if i followed that sorta structure i would avoid # Reality Check style formatting simply because of the implication it gives off.

pretty much im hesitant to dismiss something as AI just because of bullet points.

cwnyth•1w ago
It's not any one thing, it's all of it combined. Very middling language, bold keywords, simple tricolon throughout, unnecessary em-dashes... If it's not AI, it's still mediocre writing with no substance behind it.
karmakurtisaani•1w ago
"Not only x, it's y" is an obvious tell as well.

> Software development isn’t just about outputting lines of code; it’s about solving human problems

esseph•1w ago
You've found me, it's the guy that has been using this style that AI probably learned things from.
laurentiurad•1w ago
And the Final Thoughts heading. LLMs love that as well.
UncleEntity•1w ago
Yeah... I had to quit reading after seeing the No True Scotsman argument about who can and can't form an opinion on the state of the robots. I don't have any professional experience but feel like I can see enough, through experimentation using the daffy robots, to see what's happening but my only formal software education was when I was in high school in the 80s so I don't count.

And why do all these conversations center around web apps and whatnot? I don't work on anything like that but probably know a lot more about virtual machines and compiler theory than your average web programmer.

laurentiurad•1w ago
Sorry but this is clearly written by an LLM.
egamirorrim•1w ago
So impressed by your eye, I didn't see this
mikert89•1w ago
its not even a prediction anymore, meaningful amounts of software engineering are already automated. really dont understand the point of these posts. its just people that are bad at using the tooling
ageedizzle•1w ago
> its not even a prediction anymore, meaningful amounts of software engineering are already automated.

I hear claims like this a lot, but I never see anything to back it up. Do you have any evidence that this is actually the case?

OutThisLife•1w ago
It's probably his 3am vibe coding sessions
djoldman•1w ago
> Medical AI: In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton—the “father of modern AI”—predicted that radiologists would be replaced within five years. We are now a decade past that prediction, and radiologists are as essential as ever.

This one is instructive. State of the art radiology image classification models match or exceed the performance of expert human radiologists.

But radiologists haven't been replaced... why?

The simplest answer is that classifying images is not all a radiologist does, and therefore cannot be replaced completely by a computer.

Radiologists serve as the human-in-the-loop to blame if something goes wrong. Also, there are myriad regulations in healthcare that slow or prevent the adoption of tools like this: FDA regs on medical devices, insurance stuff, professional associations, etc.

Like much of the tech world, the problem often isn't the tech, it's the context.

reify•1w ago
A classic case of denial

Denial is a defense mechanism in which an individual refuses to recognize or acknowledge objective facts or experiences. It’s an unconscious process that serves to protect the person from discomfort or anxiety.

Denial unconsciously protects the ego from discomfort and distress by rejecting aspects of reality itself.

signs of denial

You find ways to justify your behavior. You blame other people or outside forces for causing the problem. You persist in a behavior despite negative consequences. You avoid thinking about the problem.

AnimalMuppet•1w ago
Labeling it "denial" does not refute any of the article. Would you care to actually address the content?