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Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop 36 by threeturn | 12 comments on Hacker News. Dear Hackers, I’m interested in your real-world workflows for using open-source LLMs and open-source coding assistants on your laptop (not just cloud/enterprise SaaS). Specifically: Which model(s) are you running (e.g., Ollama, LM Studio, or others) and which open-source coding assistant/integration (for example, a VS Code plugin) you’re using? What laptop hardware do you have (CPU, GPU/NPU, memory, whether discrete GPU or integrated, OS) and how it performs for your workflow? What kinds of tasks you use it for (code completion, refactoring, debugging, code review) and how reliable it is (what works well / where it falls short). I'm conducting my own investigation, which I will be happy to share as well when over. Thanks! Andrea.

Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations? 12 by breezk0 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Title. I think it is very rude to just install to any "default" directory and not asks the user where he wants it to be installed.

Immutable releases are now generally available on GitHub 21 by fastest963 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Result is all I need 18 by rockyj | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US 87 by Jtsummers | 64 comments on Hacker News.

Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops 6 by birdculture | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated features 26 by haute_cuisine | 3 comments on Hacker News. I was investigating some bug with our voice system and asked support where I can find some debugging information and event logs. They told me where I should go in the interface to see that and reassured that they checked logs and this event exist. It turned out these features and information doesn't exist anywhere in the interface and impossible to retrieve in any way. The support message with hallucinated features is mostly AI written. CEOs tell us AGI is around the corner but in reality it just unreliable information and AI can't even restock the vending machine.

Beyond RaspberryPi: What are all the other SoC vendors up to *summarised* 13 by HeyMeco | 2 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 17 by jjbinx007 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally) 6 by speckx | 0 comments on Hacker News.

How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep 6 by XzetaU8 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Picture gallery: Amiga prototype "Lorraine" at the Amiga 40 event 9 by doener | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Creating an All-Weather Driver 15 by boulos | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions 68 by edwinjm | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Recall for Linux 24 by anticensor | 14 comments on Hacker News.

However small, just start. From zero to hero 7 by roundedge | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins 21 by dxs | 0 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/o1VdeQX The full 4-1/2 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmVHkL0IWk4

NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to Intel, AMD 15 by simojo | 0 comments on Hacker News.

An Efficient Implementation of Self, a Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Langua [pdf] 8 by todsacerdoti | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Tarmageddon: RCE vulnerability highlights challenges of open source abandonware 27 by vsgherzi | 10 comments on Hacker News.

ICC Judge Guillou loses all US IT accounts after MAGA sanctions [FR] 23 by henearkr | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New OSM file format: 30% smaller than PBF, 5x faster to import 9 by raybb | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Electromagnetically Induced Acoustic Noise 9 by aragonite | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Dunkin’ Donuts started as a small Quincy coffee and doughnut shop 14 by bookofjoe | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dollar freefall 25 by perihelions | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors 19 by mike2872 | 13 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I would like to present my project called TOMMY, which turns ESP32 devices into motion sensors that work through walls and obstacles using Wi-Fi sensing. TOMMY started as a project for my own use. I was frustrated with motion sensors that didn't detect stationary presence and left dead zones everywhere. Presence sensors existed but were expensive and needed one per room. I explored echo localization first, but microphones listening 24/7 felt too creepy. Then I discovered Wi-Fi sensing - a huge research topic but nothing production-ready yet. It ticked all the boxes: could theoretically detect stationary presence through breathing/micromovements and worked through walls and furniture so devices could be hidden away. Two years and dozens of research papers later, TOMMY has evolved into software I'm honestly quite proud of. Although it doesn't have statio...

How they clean the balls in a ball pit 23 by surprisetalk | 26 comments on Hacker News.

Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets 4 by nreece | 2 comments on Hacker News.

ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with – up to 32% faster 15 by jrepinc | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss 34 by zerosizedweasle | 16 comments on Hacker News.

The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls 9 by chmaynard | 0 comments on Hacker News.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney 67 by ilamont | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Binary Retrieval-Augmented Reward Mitigates Hallucinations 12 by MarlonPro | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Old Is Gold: Optimizing Single-Threaded Applications with Exgen-Malloc 4 by todsacerdoti | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down 75 by helloguillecl | 38 comments on Hacker News.

The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win 6 by mooreds | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children 9 by JumpCrisscross | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Automate all the things with Swift Subprocess 5 by jakey_bakey | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Calculating legally compliant rent late fees across U.S. states 19 by hrgdevBuilds | 3 comments on Hacker News.

What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert? 8 by derbOac | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Pebble is officially back on iOS and Android 12 by vlod | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Space junk falls on Western Australian minesite 6 by dabiged | 1 comments on Hacker News.

EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers 11 by robinhouston | 6 comments on Hacker News.

The rise and fall of the powered wig 4 by andsoitis | 2 comments on Hacker News.

US falls out of 10 most powerful passports list for first time in 20 yrs 18 by teleforce | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Cruz Godar Generative Art Gallery 3 by bookofjoe | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch" 21 by bundie | 12 comments on Hacker News.

The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method (and Unix-Smalltalk Unification) [pdf] 13 by pcfwik | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Accidentally Made a Zig Dotenv Parser 4 by fuvlebia | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Microwave technique allows energy-efficient chemical reactions 7 by rolph | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Launch HN: Inkeep (YC W23) – Agent builder that works both visually and in code 45 by engomez | 39 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I'm Nick from Inkeep. We built an agent builder with true 2-way sync between code and a drag-and-drop visual editor, so devs and non-devs can collaborate on the same agents. Here’s a demo video: https://ift.tt/pGiIMNx . As a developer, the flow is: 1) Build AI Chat Assistants or AI Workflows with the TypeScript SDK 2) Run `inkeep push` from your CLI to publish 3)Edit agents in the visual builder (or hand off to non-technical teams) 4) Run `inkeep pull to edit in code again. We built this because we wanted the accessibility of no-code workflow builders (n8n, Zapier), but the flexibility and devex of code-based agent frameworks (LangGraph, Mastra). We also wanted first-class support for chat assistants with interactive UIs, not just workflows. OpenAI got close, but you can only do a one-time export from visual builder to code and there’s vendor lock-in...

Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA 13 by ksec | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Looking at kmalloc() and the SLUB Memory Allocator (2019) 4 by signa11 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low 4 by saubeidl | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ally Petitt: Youngest OSCP at 16yo. Over 11 CVEs by 18 13 by nullbyte808 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking 234 by _tk_ | 39 comments on Hacker News.

AppLovin Nonconsensual Installs 28 by jhap | 1 comments on Hacker News.

CRISPR-like tools that finally can edit mitochondria DNA could be revolutionary 14 by ck2 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

All in on MatMul? Don’t Put All Your Tensors in One Basket! 7 by matt_d | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Accidentally Made a Zig Dotenv Parser 5 by ibobev | 0 comments on Hacker News.

KTX – npx for Kotlin and JVM to install jars or Kotlin scripts 3 by TheWiggles | 0 comments on Hacker News.

A debate about AI plays out on the subway walls 11 by anigbrowl | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Despite what's happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally 4 by pseudolus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Wall Street is worried the private credit bubble will burst 28 by zerosizedweasle | 10 comments on Hacker News.

Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice 4 by todsacerdoti | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 11 by PKop | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Django: One ORM to rule all databases 18 by pauloxnet | 12 comments on Hacker News.

Datastar response to allegations 45 by alvaroflm | 6 comments on Hacker News.

All-New Next Gen of UniFi Storage 3 by ycombinete | 0 comments on Hacker News.

What Is Going on with All This Radioactive Shrimp? 9 by riffraff | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley 7 by RyanShook | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art 24 by breadislove | 14 comments on Hacker News.

Toyota aims to launch the ' first' all-solid-state EV batteries 9 by thelastgallon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Parallelizing Cellular Automata with WebGPU Compute Shaders 5 by ibobev | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Power of Three: Ternary Logic, Triolectics, and Three Sided Football 3 by thomasjb | 0 comments on Hacker News.

LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions 21 by nought | 14 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/JzfnN94

Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle 15 by jbredeche | 15 comments on Hacker News.

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size 74 by meetpateltech | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Download all of your GitHub data 13 by jcbhmr | 0 comments on Hacker News.

California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing 53 by thm | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Recall: Give Claude perfect memory with Redis-backed persistent context 24 by elfenleid | 18 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! I'm José, and I built Recall to solve a problem that was driving me crazy. The Problem: I use Claude for coding daily, but every conversation starts from scratch. I'd explain my architecture, coding standards, past decisions... then hit the context limit and lose everything. Next session? Start over. The Solution: Recall is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives Claude persistent memory using Redis + semantic search. Think of it as long-term memory that survives context limits and session restarts. How it works: - Claude stores important context as "memories" during conversations - Memories are embedded (OpenAI) and stored in Redis with metadata - Semantic search retrieves relevant memories automatically - Works across sessions, projects, even machines (if you use cloud Redis) Key Features: - Global memories: Share contex...

Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after sales allegedly plummet 243 by baobun | 160 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally 31 by mholt | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Stress test for parallel disk i/o using git and pnpm 46 by robin_reala | 37 comments on Hacker News.

Like Vercel, but open source and for all language 23 by el_hacker | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target 3 by sohkamyung | 0 comments on Hacker News.

One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day 21 by af78 | 14 comments on Hacker News.

Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works 28 by eambutu | 12 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! We built Grapevine ( https://getgrapevine.ai ), a knowledge search system for AI agents that connects Slack, GDrive, Notion, codebases, and more. Our first app is a company GPT that significantly outperforms existing alternatives. Anyone can setup a Grapevine Slack bot and have it respond to and optionally proactively answer questions that require company context. Here’s a demo video with examples: https://youtu.be/_nrfbZzvxU8 We built Grapevine because we were interested in a ChatGPT that fully understands your company. We'd tried many of the existing tools (including expensive enterprise ones), but while they were good at answering “what is X team’s Q4 goal,” they weren’t good at the day-to-day questions that actually blocked people. So, our founders and early engineers created a set of 100+ representative questions, from hard technical questions to company-spec...

Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line 7 by welovebunnies | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Callbacks in C++ Using Template Functors – Rich Hickey (1994) 8 by zengid | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Small Nuclear Reactors Will Not Save the Day 6 by PaulHoule | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Binary Formats Gallery 15 by vitalnodo | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Tesla Cybertruck Isn't Allowed in Germany, Not Even the US Army Can Change That 9 by rntn | 0 comments on Hacker News.

LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles 20 by thm | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Apple removes ICEBlock, won't allow apps that report locations of ICE agents 31 by AdmiralAsshat | 3 comments on Hacker News.

PyOCI – Publish and install private Python packages using OCI/Docker registries 8 by robinhoodexe | 0 comments on Hacker News.

How I block all 26M of your curl requests 52 by foxmoss | 11 comments on Hacker News.

The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh 29 by penetralium | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal 122 by ohjeez | 56 comments on Hacker News.

Y'all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments 7 by bobbiechen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

In C++ modules globally unique module names seem to be unavoidable 6 by signa11 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work 113 by rntn | 68 comments on Hacker News.

Jane Goodall Dies at 91 153 by jaredwiener | 13 comments on Hacker News.

Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods 35 by prossercj | 25 comments on Hacker News.

Self-hosting email in 2025 is easy actually (apart from M365) 24 by prettymuchnoone | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Register allocation in the Go compiler (2024) 10 by elvis70 | 1 comments on Hacker News.