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1. I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe:
2. Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS
Local-first microVM sandbox for AI agents on macOS
3. Fix Your Tools
Last week I had to diagnose a bug in an open source library I maintain. The issue was gnarly enough that I couldn’t find it right away, but then I thought: if I set a breakpoint here and fire up the debugger, I will likely find the root cause very soon… and then proceed to mercilessly destroy it! So I rolled up my sleeves, set the breakpoint, fired up the debugger, and… saw the program run to completion without interruptions whatsoever.
4. Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.
5. Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic
Most linux software just work on FreeBSD
6. Spain has blocked access to freedom.gov
7. Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS
Play VoxJong, a free CSS Mahjong Solitaire.
8. What Is a Database Transaction?
What are database transactions and how do SQL databases isolate one transaction from another?
9. Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community
10. Git's Magic Files
Magic files and where to find them: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .mailmap, .git-blame-ignore-revs, .lfsconfig, and more.
11. Write-Only Code
AI may be accelerating software into a world of "write-only" code that forces a rethink of culture, processes, and tools. Heavybit’s Joseph Ruscio explains.
12. Symplex, an open-source protocol semantic negotiation between distributed agents
Symplex Protocol v0.1 — Semantic interoperability layer for AI agents (MCP extension) - olserra/agent-semantic-protocol
13. Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser
Windows 3.11 Emulator - retro computer with working dial-up modem internet with Winsock that lives inside your browser by @levelsio
14. NanoClaw Moved from Apple Containers to Docker
15. Six Math Essentials
16. Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
17. An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia
Speaking at India's AI Impact Summit, Wales went in on the hallucinating pretender to the throne.
18. Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California
This year, state legislators in California believe that with a little state assistance, they want to make 2026 the Year of the Housing Factory.
19. International box-sizing Awareness Day
It's February 1st today, which I've decided to declare International box-sizing Awareness Day. In honor of, you guessed it, the most humble and undersung, yet
20. We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them
BinaryAudit benchmarks AI agents using Ghidra to find backdoors in compiled binaries of real open-source servers, proxies, and network infrastructure.
21. How Taalas "prints" LLM onto a chip?
22. Monkey Patching in VBA
ASF Language Documentation.
23. Black-White Array: fast, ordered and based on with O(log N) memory allocations
Black-White Array: fast, ordered data structure based on arrays with O(log N) memory allocations - dronnix/bwarr
24. What's the best way to learn a new language?
Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.
25. Building a (Bad) Local AI Coding Agent Harness from Scratch
26. Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums
Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.
27. In World Without BlackBerry, Physical Keyboards on Phones Are Making a Comeback
Commentary: You might not even need a new phone to get clicky buttons.
28. Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU
High-efficiency LLM inference engine in C++/CUDA. Run Llama 70B on RTX 3090. - xaskasdf/ntransformer
29. 'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top performers
In an effort to cut costs, some companies are implementing "peanut butter" pay increases. According to experts, it could motivate top performers to leave.
30. Japanese Woodblock Print Search
Searches thousands of Ukiyo-e, Meiji, Shin Hanga, and Sosaku Hanga Japanese prints.