I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

206 saeedesmaili 2026-02-22 19:31:33 UTC hawksley.org Llama Share 57

The user built a custom family dashboard system called Timeframe, combining calendar, weather, and smart home data, to create a healthy relationship with technology in their home. After several prototypes and iterations, they settled on a real-time e-paper display system using a Boox Mira Pro and Home Assistant as the primary data source.

Attention Media ≠ Social Networks

469 susam 2026-02-22 13:31:33 UTC susam.net Llama Share 207

The author describes how social networks changed from genuine social platforms to attention media, with manipulative notifications and irrelevant content. They found Mastodon, a platform that still feels like the original social networks, with genuine updates and no bogus notifications.

Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS

53 harshdoesdev 2026-02-22 19:31:33 UTC shuru.run Full Share 14

Features Every run starts from a clean rootfs. Install anything, break anything. Nothing persists unless you save it. Save disk state as named snapshots. Restore, branch, and iterate. Like git commits for your environment. CLI

Fix your tools

149 vinhnx 2026-02-22 16:31:33 UTC ochagavia.nl Llama Share 54

A programmer encountered a bug in an open source library they maintained. They initially tried to debug the issue but realized they needed to fix their debugger first, which led to solving the problem.

Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

29 Gooblebrai 2026-02-22 19:31:33 UTC joinloops.org Llama Share 8

Loops is a federated, open-source social media platform giving power back to creators and communities. It offers a chronological feed, creator tools, and community features without ads or invasive tracking.

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

36 vermaden 2026-02-22 19:31:33 UTC hayzam.com Llama Share 15

User uses Visual Studio Code on FreeBSD but was limited by lack of ARM64 laptops. They tried Remote SSH extension with Linuxulator and a custom setup, achieving a fast and smooth remote development experience.

Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS

76 rofko 2026-02-22 16:31:33 UTC voxjong.com Full Share 39

Play VoxJong, a free CSS Mahjong Solitaire.

Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community

34 dargscisyhp 2026-02-22 18:31:33 UTC orgmode.org Llama Share 7

Org-mode is a powerful tool for organizing life with plain-text files, integrating notes, TODO lists, and schedules. It's part of Emacs, available on GNU-Linux, Windows, and Mac, with extensive documentation and a community of users.

What is a database transaction?

184 0x54MUR41 2026-02-22 12:31:33 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 39

Transactions in SQL databases allow multiple queries to execute simultaneously without interfering with each other. They can be rolled back or committed, and databases like MySQL and Postgres use different methods to achieve consistent reads and handle conflicts.

Six Math Essentials

11 digital55 2026-02-22 19:31:33 UTC terrytao.wordpress.com Llama Share 1

You're working with Quanta Books on "Six Math Essentials" covering fundamental math concepts, scheduled for Oct 27, with preorder available. The book is expected for readers of various ages, with sample pages to be released after proofing and design.

Music Discovery

3 eriatarka 2026-02-22 21:07:33 UTC secondtrack.co Full Share 2

AI-powered record discovery. Describe a vibe, name a record you love, or tell us how you're feeling — the clerk will dig through the crates for you.

Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work

47 frehu 2026-02-22 18:31:33 UTC github.com/frehu Llama Share 14

Fresh File Explorer is a VS Code extension that helps you find and manage files in your workspace by showing uncommitted changes, modified files, and deleted files in a tree view with customizable time periods and filters. It also includes features like pinning files, creating notes, and searching for files with a powerful search mechanism that respects your current filters and time window.

Global Intelligence Crisis

4 tin7in 2026-02-22 20:57:33 UTC citriniresearch.com Prefix Share 1

What if our AI bullishness continues to be right...and what if that’s actually bearish? What follows is a scenario, not a prediction. This isn’t bear porn or AI doomer fan-fiction. The sole intent of this piece is modeling a scenario that’s been relatively underexplored. Our friend Alap Shah posed the question, and together we brainstormed the answer. We wrote this part, and he’s written two ...

Write-Only Code

13 PretzelFisch 2026-02-22 19:31:33 UTC heavybit.com Llama Share 10

The future of software development involves AI writing code that is never read by humans, requiring a shift in the role of human engineers from code reviewers to system designers. This change demands new primitives for trust, accountability, and control to ensure software remains correct and resilient.

Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map

102 unstyledcontent 2026-02-22 15:31:33 UTC live.xweather.com Llama Share 23

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Git's Magic Files

82 chmaynard 2026-02-22 14:31:33 UTC nesbitt.io Llama Share 21

Git repositories have several special committed files that control behavior, including .gitignore, .gitattributes, .mailmap, and .gitmodules. These files configure ignore patterns, file handling, author identities, and submodule settings.

Spain has blocked access to freedom.gov

64 akyuu 2026-02-22 20:31:33 UTC twitter.com/pirat_nation Full Share 46

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Symplex, an open-source protocol semantic negotiation between distributed agents

9 olserra 2026-02-22 19:31:33 UTC github.com/olserra Prefix Share 6

Semantic Interoperability Layer for AI Agents — a lightweight extension of MCP (Model Context Protocol) built for the era of agentic AI meshes. Status: Active development — v0.1 core is stable. See docs/plans/ for the current implementation roadmap. Agent Semantic Protocol enables AI agents to communicate by meaning, not schema. Instead of exchanging rigid JSON tool calls, agents share ...

Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser

17 jalev 2026-02-22 18:31:33 UTC pieter.com Full Share 9

Windows 3.11 Emulator - retro computer with working dial-up modem internet with Winsock that lives inside your browser by @levelsio

NanoClaw Moved from Apple Containers to Docker

61 simplesort 2026-02-22 19:31:33 UTC twitter.com/gavriel_cohen Full Share 42

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Back to FreeBSD: Part 1

185 enz 2026-02-22 07:31:33 UTC hypha.pub Full Share 86

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Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California

27 PaulHoule 2026-02-22 20:31:33 UTC latimes.com Llama Share 29

California lawmakers are pushing for factory-built housing to address the national housing shortage, with a focus on reducing construction costs and increasing efficiency. The goal is to make factory-built housing a regular feature of the industry, following the success of Sweden where nearly half of residential construction takes place in a factory.

How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?

378 beAroundHere 2026-02-22 02:31:33 UTC anuragk.com Llama Share 227

Taalas released an ASIC chip running Llama 3.1 8B at 17,000 tokens per second, 10x cheaper and 10x less electricity than GPU based systems. The chip hardwires model weights, sidestepping memory bandwidth bottlenecks and using a "magic multiplier" for efficient multiplication.

International box-sizing Awareness Day (2014)

27 hisamafahri 2026-02-22 18:31:33 UTC css-tricks.com Llama Share 1

International box-sizing Awareness Day is declared on February 1st to promote the useful CSS property that makes width calculations easier. Box-sizing: border-box makes padding and borders part of the element's width, simplifying layout calculations.

We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them

183 jakozaur 2026-02-22 15:31:33 UTC quesma.com Llama Share 79

Researchers partnered with a reverse engineering expert to create a benchmark for AI agents to detect backdoors in binary executables without source code. The AI agents were able to detect some hidden backdoors in binaries, but the approach is not ready for production due to a high false positive rate and limited detection rate.

Monkey Patching in VBA

39 n013 2026-02-22 14:31:33 UTC ecp-solutions.github.io Llama Share 4

ASF is a JavaScript-like scripting language for Office applications, providing modern features and seamless interaction with Office objects. It offers optional variable declaration, module system, and COM object extension, with a permissive open-source license.

Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games

305 msuniverse2026 2026-02-22 01:31:33 UTC gamedate.org Full Share 45

Schedule sessions for dead games, niche mods, and retro netplay. No account needed.

Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks

15 alx-net 2026-02-22 18:31:33 UTC github.com/dataspren-analytics Llama Share 0

DataStudio is a browser-based data tool that runs locally, using WebAssembly and DuckDB, with no server or upload required. It allows quick data exploration and multi-cell notebooks with Python, SQL, and Markdown cells.

What's the best way to learn a new language?

70 1659447091 2026-02-22 07:31:33 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 65

A woman named Krupa Padhy learns Portuguese and Mandarin through an experiment at Lancaster University's Language Learning Lab, using her brain's cross-situational learning skills to pick up patterns in the languages. The results show she has a good ear for language and can recognize recurring patterns, but achieving fluency requires sustained exposure and interaction over many months or years.

An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia

54 rbanffy 2026-02-22 19:31:33 UTC gizmodo.com Llama Share 30

Wikipedia remains a bastion of free, accurate information despite corporate greed and rival AI-powered encyclopedias like Grokipedia. Wikipedia's human editors and volunteer base ensure its accuracy, unlike AI models prone to "hallucination" and errors.