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Pebble Production: February Update

https://repebble.com/blog/february-pebble-production-and-software-updates
67•smig0•1h ago•17 comments

C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/02/18/cpp26-std_is_within_lifetime
22•ibobev•47m ago•4 comments

Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails

https://royapakzad.substack.com/p/multilingual-llm-evaluation-to-guardrails
107•benbreen•2d ago•30 comments

Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app

https://github.com/fjrevoredo/mini-diarium
61•holyknight•2h ago•38 comments

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf
60•SteveHawk27•2h ago•9 comments

Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban

https://oban.pro/articles/bridging-with-oban
47•sorentwo•3h ago•5 comments

Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves

https://kodiak64.co.uk/blog/seawolves-technical-tricks
24•atan2•2h ago•3 comments

The Mongol Khans of Medieval France

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/mongol-khans-medieval-france
52•Thevet•2d ago•13 comments

Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia

https://makie.org/website/blogposts/raytracing/
55•simondanisch•3h ago•23 comments

Sizing chaos

https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/
690•zdw•17h ago•373 comments

-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html
12•thefilmore•3d ago•10 comments

27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1r8900z/macos_which_officially_supports_27_year_old/
389•surprisetalk•17h ago•221 comments

Famous Signatures Through History

https://signatory.app/#famous-signatures
9•elliotbnvl•44m ago•5 comments

Voith Schneider Propeller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller
39•Luc•3d ago•9 comments

Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?

12•jensmtg•29m ago•2 comments

15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern

https://nicolasdickenmann.com/blog/the-great-fp64-divide.html
151•fp64enjoyer•12h ago•53 comments

Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)

http://singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/old-school-effects-cloud-tank.html
53•exvi•7h ago•7 comments

DOGE Track

https://dogetrack.info/
113•donohoe•2h ago•38 comments

Cosmologically Unique IDs

https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/
430•jfantl•19h ago•129 comments

Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed

https://static.stepfun.com/blog/step-3.5-flash/
144•kristianp•12h ago•55 comments

Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell

https://lilush.link/
32•ksymph•2d ago•5 comments

Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available

https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-ga
435•sz4kerto•21h ago•214 comments

Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance
487•theahura•11h ago•587 comments

Virgins, Unicorns and Medieval Literature (2017)

https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/11/virgins-unicorns-and-medieval-literature.html
6•mooreds•2d ago•4 comments

UK to force social media to remove abusive pics in 48 hours

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/uk_intimate_images_online/
33•beardyw•2h ago•25 comments

Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
354•idoxer•22h ago•200 comments

How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing

https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/how-to-choose-between-hm-and-bidir/
120•thunderseethe•3d ago•38 comments

Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024)

https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/6-arm64/
57•userbinator•3d ago•11 comments

ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory

https://github.com/sstraust/shannonmax
19•sammy0910•3h ago•3 comments

A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts

https://tempus-word.de/en/index
72•muzzy19•2d ago•36 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: LatentScore – Type a mood, get procedural/ambient music (open source)

https://latentscore.com/demo
16•prabal97•2h ago
Hey HN,

I've used Generative.fm for years and love it, but I always wanted to just describe what I was in the mood for instead of scrolling through presets. So I built this.

You type a text description of anything - from "mountain sunrise" to "neon city" - and it generates a procedural/ambient stream matching that mood. It runs locally, no account, no tracking, no ads.

Under the hood it's a custom synthesizer driven by sentence embeddings, not a generative AI model (although you can choose to use one!) — so there's no GPU, no API calls, and it starts playing almost instantly. The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/prabal-rje/latentscore

If you're a developer and want to use it programmatically it's also a Python library - pip install latentscore — one line to render audio. But honestly I just use the web player myself when I'm working.

Fair warning: it's still alpha and the synth has limits, so please don't expect full songs or vocals. It's ambient/procedural only. But for focus music or background atmosphere, I think it's pretty good.

Would love to know what vibes you try and whether they land!

- Prabal

Comments

blasphemous_dev•2h ago
I kinda liked how well you can fine-tune parameters of the music. Could be useful as dynamic soundtracks for games in low resource settings
prabal97•2h ago
Yeah! That's one of the reasons I've exposed the Python SDK ... you could, in theory, even attach some sort of DAW that manipulates the music in real-time.
thunfischtoast•25m ago
Thats pretty cool! Some games like Gothic had dynamic composing of existing sound themes. It would be interesting to research how these could fit together
saranshmahajan•1h ago
Really elegant approach - mapping sentence embeddings to a deterministic synth feels more like building an instrument than generating content, and the instant playback makes it great for flow.

Would love to know if the same prompt always yields the same sound (reproducibility could be powerful), and whether you’ve considered semantic morphing between two moods over time.

prabal97•1h ago
Thanks!

The same prompt yields largely the same song because the 'Fast' (default) mode retrieves the synth parameters from a pre-existing library.

But if you use the 'Custom LLM' model, it can generate new and creative music every time you play something - even for the same input!

hackingonempty•1h ago
I get clicks and pops every few seconds, using Librewolf.

But otherwise very cool!

prabal97•1h ago
Yeah ... that's a bit of an issue - it's because I built a custom simple synthesizer that's not quite as good as a full blown one. Thank you for the feedback! This is something I intend to tackle in upcoming releases.
lorenzohess•1h ago
Same, on Vanadium. Very cool nonetheless
prabal97•58m ago
Thank you!!!
cprecioso•1h ago
Server is down :(
prabal97•58m ago
Could you try again, please? Just redeployed with a tiny change. Should work now!
regenschutz•50m ago
The Fast demo model is already very impressive. It was way better than expected, but still required being a bit verbose since it didn't seem to understand rarer words ("sauna" didn't get me anything pleasant, "hot sauna" did).

The generated palette seem to be a great indicator of whether the model understood the prompt or not.

I Haven't checked out the Python SDK yet, but it seems very interesting!

I'm curious to know if there is any reason for why you picked Gemma 1B for the Expressive model. Did it generate more cohesive parameters than other 1B models? Or was it just the first one you picked?

prabal97•46m ago
BTW - we used Gemma 270m model - not the 1B model. It's sheerly the size - I wanted to see if I could get a really, really tiny LLM to generate coherent music. Tbh, it didn't quite work as well as I expected. It barely beats a randomly generated track.

In fact, the 'fast' model (literally embedding lookup over a pre-generated library of music ... generated using Best-of-N on Gemini Flash) beats nearly everything - including Gemini Flash, Claude Opus, Gemma models.