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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
152•yi_wang•5h ago•48 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
73•RebelPotato•5h ago•18 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

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

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

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
30•robtherobber•4d ago•28 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
207•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/
75•swah•4d ago•130 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...
76•gnufx•11h ago•59 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
176•vinhnx•16h ago•17 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...
30•witnessme•2h ago•7 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
328•jesperordrup•23h ago•98 comments

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

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

First Proof

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

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

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/
35•Rygian•2d ago•9 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
86•momciloo•13h ago•17 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
77•chwtutha•3h ago•20 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
109•thelok•15h ago•24 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
593•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-...
41•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...
114•randycupertino•8h ago•241 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
314•1vuio0pswjnm7•19h ago•502 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

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

https://openciv3.org/
907•klaussilveira•1d ago•277 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
160•speckx•4d ago•244 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
36•languid-photic•4d ago•17 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/
498•lstoll•1d ago•332 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
447•ostacke•1d ago•114 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
314•dmpetrov•1d ago•158 comments
Open in hackernews

Open letter from more than 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies

https://www.mnchamber.com/blog/open-letter-more-60-ceos-minnesota-based-companies
66•SilverElfin•1w ago

Comments

SilverElfin•1w ago
List of companies signing onto this includes 3M, General Mills, Best Buy, Mayo Clinic, Target, and many other well known companies.
ronbenton•1w ago
Hm that is a weird way to ask for the feds to stop shooting innocent people
actionfromafar•1w ago
Reads like a prayer to summon a nostalgic past.
yodon•1w ago
It's hard to imagine a joint letter that says less than this one does.
Arnt•1w ago
Do you have some examples of letters that say more? Some ltter signed by 30 CEOs or more.
dougb5•1w ago
You can tell the message was written by committee, or by a large language model prompted to respect "both sides". No human with a soul could honestly characterize the situation as passively as this: "The recent challenges facing our state have created widespread disruption and tragic loss of life."
baubino•1w ago
It was almost certainly written by lawyers. The letter basically says, “The current situation is disrupting our bottom line. This cannot continue.”
TheAlchemist•1w ago
You could hardly write something more generic - they could maybe add some calls for world peace and universal prosperity...

How is this kind of bullshit upvoted here ?

yodon•1w ago
It's still worth knowing that this letter was written, even if the letter is only significant because of how embarrassingly little it says.
mickle00•1w ago
I appreciate the idea behind this letter, but it just feels so....weak?

"C'mon guys, we're all on the same team here, let's talk it out" /s

sbarre•1w ago
Yeah it has pretty gross "both sides" vibes.. Like they're feeling inconvenienced or something..
actionfromafar•1w ago
"Attention. You are doing fascism too hard right now."
whatever1•1w ago
Why do we expect the companies to do the job of our elected officials ?

Congress does not seem to object to the current practices of federal law enforcement, why corporate CEOs should?

cpgxiii•1w ago
Because the only signal the Trump administration responds to is "market goes down".
dashundchen•1w ago
Only when they are not manipulating it to drop themselves for some nice insider trading
bulbar•1w ago
Not "why should", but "why do they object" is the right question. When big corporations jump in telling you "how you manage the police is bad for us" that's a big sign something's very wrong.
mediaman•1w ago
Some are complaining this letter is weak and generic.

Of course it is. You have 3M, Target, General Mills, Cargill, and US Bancorp on here, among others.

If you are looking for some revolutionary call to action, you're looking in the wrong place. And you're misunderstanding what's happening.

It is a really big deal for these very conservative, large, rich companies to be telling the federal government to cut it out, even if it is written in generic legalese.

The letter is not for you. It is for the administration. And it is extremely clear.

ameliaquining•1w ago
I do think they would likely have used more forceful rhetoric if they were dealing with a more normal administration. The current one is atypically spite-driven and prone to retaliate against critics, so they probably figured that saying anything insufficiently conciliatory-sounding would likely be counterproductive.
foogazi•1w ago
> The current one is atypically spite-driven and prone to retaliate against critics

That’s why they do that

shalmanese•1w ago
Even if that is the instinct, this is a mistaken way to deal with narcissistic bullying.

It’s writing the piece in the first place rather than what you put in it that raises the ire. There’s no way to compromise or mollify the wording in a way that makes them give you like, half the punishment.

What’s more, the attempt to mollify signals weakness that just invites them to feel even more vindictive. Being more forthright and decisive is what earns their grudging respect. China understood this, Zohran Mandani understood this. Meanwhile, Europe and Democratic leadership, universities and large law firms refuse to understand this.

Driver4732•1w ago
You can't have change unless you call out directly who is doing the wrongdoing. In this case, it's the executive branch of the federal government led by Trump. The letter is weak and toothless. Trump and DHS have shown no signs of stopping the ICE invasion, yet these companies call for all parties to come together "to find real solutions." These companies want to look good for the local community but are scared of getting targeted by Trump.
duxup•1w ago
I’d like to know what this “work behind the scenes” really is.