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Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model
Article URL: https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954049 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser
Article URL: https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954136 Points: 59 # Comments: 6
Why /'just prompt better/' doesn't work
Article URL: https://www.bicameral-ai.com/blog/tech-debt-meeting Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954899 Points: 20 # Comments: 4
What functional programmers get wrong about systems
Article URL: https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-09-what-functional-programmers-get-wrong-about-systems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953491 Points: 129 # Comments:...
Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
I built LocalGPT over 4 nights as a Rust reimagining of the OpenClaw assistant pattern (markdown-based persistent memory, autonomous heartbeat tasks, skills system). It compiles to a single ~27MB bina...
Why I Joined OpenAI
Article URL: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920487 Points: 57 # Comments: 45
Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding
Article URL: https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930565 Points: 28 # Comments: 5
The silent death of good code
Article URL: https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46929391 Points: 82 # Comments: 76
I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded
Article URL: https://vespalec.com/blog/tower-of-flaws/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908671 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
Article URL: https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908491 Points: 12 # Comments: 5
Show HN: Calfkit – an SDK to build distributed, event-driven AI agents on Kafka
I think agents should work like real teams, with independent, distinct roles, async communication, and the ability to onboard new teammates or tools without restructuring the whole org. I built backen...
Show HN: Local task classifier and dispatcher on RTX 3080
Hi HN, I am shubham a 3d artist who learned coding in college as an I.T. graduate know logics but not an expert as i just wanna try my hands on to ai So i built Resilient Workflow Sentinel this is of...
As Rocks May Think
Article URL: https://evjang.com/2026/02/04/rocks.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893018 Points: 72 # Comments: 56
OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
Article URL: https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/openclaw-is-what-apple-intelligence-should-have-been Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893970 Points: 192 # Comments: 191
Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server
Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919824 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines
Article URL: https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875228 Points: 161 # Comments: 21
Data centers in space makes no sense
Article URL: https://civai.org/blog/space-data-centers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876105 Points: 330 # Comments: 456
FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention
Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3774934.3786425 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877403 Points: 82 # Comments: 44
Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown
Article URL: https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878338 Points: 204 # Comments: 100
Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)
Article URL: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA157917.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851192 Points: 35 # Comments: 4
Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Article URL: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851548 Points: 365 # Comments: 182
Sparse File LRU Cache
Article URL: http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/01/sparse-file-lru-cache.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842586 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Working example of a Yocto setup without unnecessary complications
Article URL: https://github.com/bootlin/simplest-yocto-setup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842227 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?
Article URL: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/hot-mess-of-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864498 Points: 124 # Comments: 32
Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), run...
AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
Article URL: https://www.blundergoat.com/articles/ai-makes-the-easy-part-easier-and-the-hard-part-harder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939593 Points: 190 # Comments: 155
175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered
Article URL: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/over-175-000-publicly-exposed-ollama-ai-servers-discovered-worldwide-so-fix-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831784 Points:...
ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/ice-protester-says-her-global-entry-was-revoked-after-agent-scanned-her-face/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852073 Point...
Cutting Up Curved Things
Article URL: https://campedersen.com/tessellation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817764 Points: 32 # Comments: 6
Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 6: Mark and Sweep
Article URL: https://minidump.net/writing-a-net-gc-in-c-part-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804615 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/185387 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864517 Points: 64 # Comments: 14
AI found 12 vulnerabilities in OpenSSL
Article URL: https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-discovered-12-out-of-12-openssl-vulnerabilities Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789913 Points: 55 # Comments: 27
Caroline Ellison Former Alameda CEO Released from Prison After 440 Days
Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26450 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740644 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Building Remote Companies the Hard Way
Lessons That Only Appear After Years of Trial and Error Remote work is often marketed as freedom. Freedom from offices, rigid schedules, and geographic limits. What rarely gets discussed is what hap...
Stunnel
Article URL: https://www.stunnel.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726916 Points: 34 # Comments: 7
Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son
Article URL: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/single/lick-theft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787521 Points: 221 # Comments: 51
Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/improving-usability-of-c-libraries-in-swift/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726526 Points: 67 # Comments: 2
We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable
Article URL: https://eclypsium.com/blog/xray-counterfeit-usb-cable/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749053 Points: 87 # Comments: 26
Convert potentially dangerous PDFs to safe PDFs
Article URL: https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712815 Points: 108 # Comments: 41
Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
Article URL: https://github.com/davidbeesley/claude-chill Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699072 Points: 112 # Comments: 59
Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Article URL: https://www.jamf.com/blog/threat-actors-expand-abuse-of-visual-studio-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713526 Points: 39 # Comments: 20
The Code-Only Agent
Article URL: https://rijnard.com/blog/the-code-only-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46674416 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Architecture for Disposable Systems
Article URL: https://tuananh.net/2026/01/15/architecture-for-disposable-systems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657141 Points: 19 # Comments: 4
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
Article URL: https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657122 Points: 136 # Comments: 16
Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity
Article URL: https://github.com/trasta298/keifu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654085 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
Article URL: https://github.com/kip-dili/kip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661897 Points: 70 # Comments: 16
Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases
ChunkHound’s goal is simple: local-first codebase intelligence that helps you pull deep, core-dev-level insights on demand, generate always-up-to-date docs, and scale from small repos to enterprise mo...
My Gripes with Prolog
Article URL: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/my-gripes-with-prolog/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641348 Points: 36 # Comments: 19
Show HN: Gambit, an open-source agent harness for building reliable AI agents
Hey HN! Wanted to show our open source agent harness called Gambit. If you’re not familiar, agent harnesses are sort of like an operating system for an agent... they handle tool calling, planning, con...
Show HN: Reversing YouTube’s “Most Replayed” Graph
Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the Most Replayed heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious about why they were ther...
Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
Article URL: https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/01/16/internet-voting-is-insecure-and-should-not-be-used-in-public-elections/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713924 Points: 282...
Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files
Article URL: https://patrickmccanna.net/a-better-way-to-limit-claude-code-and-other-coding-agents-access-to-secrets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626836 Points: 13 # Comments:...
Exa-d: How to store the web in S3
exa-d is our internal data processing framework that stores the web in S3. It helps deal with the complexity of data at (web) scale using specific design decisions like declarative typed dependencies...
Show HN: Cachekit – High performance caching policies library in Rust
Article URL: https://github.com/OxidizeLabs/cachekit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611548 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Crafting Interpreters
Article URL: https://craftinginterpreters.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624658 Points: 21 # Comments: 5
An archaeology of tracking on government websites
Article URL: https://www.flux.utah.edu/paper/singh-pets26 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608802 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Owners, not renters: Mozilla's open source AI strategy
Mozilla's open-source AI strategy focuses on enhancing developer experience and promoting decentralized, user-controlled AI systems. The article highlights how open-source frameworks can improve usability and integration, making AI development more accessible and beneficial for all stakeholders.
Running Lean at Scale
Article URL: https://harmonic.fun/news#blog-post-lean Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608731 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk
Article URL: https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/signal-president-and-vp-warn-agentic-ai-is-insecure-unreliable-and-a-surveillance-nightmare/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605...
Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
The article discusses a critical incident where DigitalOcean's managed PostgreSQL update disrupted private VPC connectivity to managed Kubernetes, highlighting a Cilium bug. It emphasizes the trade-offs of using managed services, revealing that they can introduce new failure modes that are beyond user control.
A 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap
Article URL: https://questdb.com/blog/jvm-current-thread-user-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609630 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Code is cheap now, but software isn't
The article discusses the shift from traditional SaaS to personal, disposable software driven by advancements in LLM tools. It emphasizes that while code generation has become cheaper, the complexities of software maintenance and architecture still require skilled engineers to ensure robust, scalable solutions.
Show HN: An LLM-optimized programming language
The article presents a novel programming language optimized for large language models (LLMs), emphasizing its unique features that enhance code generation and comprehension. It discusses the implications of LLM integration in programming paradigms and offers insights into potential use cases and performance improvements.
A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project
The article provides a comprehensive overview of the advancements made in the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) project over the past year, highlighting key milestones such as the development of Rust libraries for package handling and cryptographic verification. It emphasizes a library-first approach, enabling better integration and participation in the Arch Linux ecosystem.
My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
The article details a personal experience with the rapid degradation of buried fiber optic cables, hypothesizing causes such as hydrolysis and solvent exposure. It emphasizes the importance of proper installation and maintenance practices in home networking setups to prevent similar failures.
Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework
Ripple is a compiler-first TypeScript UI framework designed for building reactive applications with minimal boilerplate. It emphasizes simplicity and performance through features like fine-grained reactivity, automatic dependency tracking, and scoped CSS, making it a compelling choice for modern frontend development.
Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
Ferrite is a lightweight Markdown editor built in Rust, featuring native Mermaid diagram rendering. The article details its development process, AI-assisted coding, and extensive functionalities like syntax highlighting and multi-format support, making it a valuable tool for developers.
Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load
VAM Seek is a lightweight JavaScript library that replaces traditional 1D video seek bars with a 2D thumbnail grid, enabling users to navigate videos visually. It operates entirely client-side, ensuring zero server load and enhanced privacy by extracting frames directly in the browser using the Canvas API.
Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude
The article introduces 'oh-my-claude-sisyphus', a multi-agent orchestration system for Claude Code, featuring intelligent model routing based on task complexity. It details installation methods, agent functionalities, and a structured approach to task management, enhancing user productivity through specialized agents.
The Concise TypeScript Book
The Concise TypeScript Book offers a thorough exploration of TypeScript's features, from its type system to advanced programming concepts. It serves as both a comprehensive guide and a reference for developers at all levels, enhancing their proficiency in TypeScript development.
The Death of Software Development
Article URL: https://mike.tech/blog/death-of-software-development Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661936 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes
This article introduces an innovative tool that allows Markdown files to be executed like shell scripts using Unix pipes, enhancing automation workflows. By leveraging Claude Code for AI-driven tasks, it enables users to create auditable and composable scripts that integrate seamlessly with traditional shell commands.
Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
This article presents an in-depth analysis of kernel bugs, revealing that their average lifespan before discovery is 2.1 years, with some persisting for over 20 years. It discusses the author's methodology for mining historical bug data from the Linux kernel, highlighting trends in bug discovery and the effectiveness of modern tools in improving detection rates.
Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C
The Musashi project provides a comprehensive Motorola 680x0 emulator implemented in C, focusing on portability and speed. It details configuration, interrupt handling, and CPU context management, making it a valuable resource for developers interested in low-level emulation and retro computing.
The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)
The article introduces the virtual AmigaOS runtime, a project aimed at running Amiga applications on modern systems using Wine-like technology. It provides insights into the architecture and implementation details, making it a valuable resource for developers interested in cross-platform compatibility and retro computing.
Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification
This article explores the development of an electronic nose system designed for the detection and identification of indoor mold. It discusses the underlying technology, including sensor arrays and machine learning algorithms, highlighting its potential applications in improving indoor air quality.
Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit
The article details a user's experience with a Snapdragon Dev Kit running Windows 11, highlighting issues stemming from a failed security update that led to system instability. It emphasizes the lack of recovery options for unsupported hardware, advocating for proactive measures like creating system images to mitigate future failures.
PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases
The article introduces PassSeeds, a novel approach leveraging passkeys for broader cryptographic applications beyond traditional authentication. It details the technical mechanisms of PassSeed generation and recovery, emphasizing the potential for secure, user-friendly cryptographic key management.
C Is Best
The article discusses why SQLite is implemented in C, emphasizing performance, compatibility, low dependency, and stability. It argues against using object-oriented or 'safe' languages, citing potential drawbacks and the historical context of language development.
Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities
Prism.Tools offers a suite of client-side developer utilities designed with privacy in mind, ensuring that user data remains within the browser. The collection includes various tools for formatting, parsing, and security, making it a valuable resource for developers seeking efficient and secure solutions.
System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language
The article details the SYSTEM framework for remote Mac automation using natural language commands. It leverages Cloudflare Workers for intelligent scheduling and integrates with various tools like AppleScript and Raycast, ensuring secure and efficient task management.
Why German Strings Are Everywhere?
The article introduces 'German Strings', a novel string implementation optimized for data processing in database systems. It discusses the advantages of immutability, reduced memory overhead, and specific use cases, while also addressing trade-offs and the importance of string lifetime management.
Go 1.26 Interactive Tour
Article URL: https://antonz.org/go-1-26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686972 Points: 17 # Comments: 0
Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety
I wrote a short position paper arguing that current agentic AI safety failures are the confused deputy problem on repeat. We are handing agents ambient authority and trying to contain it with soft con...
Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954920 Points: 43 # Comments: 16
What's at the Other End of 8.8.8.8?
Article URL: https://blog.nono.io/post/8.8.8.8/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908662 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)
Article URL: https://samuelhewitt.com/blog/2018-06-05-time-machine-style-backups-with-rsync Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850709 Points: 41 # Comments: 14
Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)
Article URL: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/04/stonebraker-on-cap-theorem-and-databases/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831592 Points: 46 # Comments: 14