I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

255 saeedesmaili 2026-02-22 19:52:21 UTC hawksley.org Llama Share 69

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.

Global Intelligence Crisis

21 tin7in 2026-02-22 20:58:21 UTC citriniresearch.com Llama Share 5

The Global Intelligence Crisis led to a negative feedback loop where AI capabilities improved, companies laid off workers, and displaced workers spent less, causing a structural impairment in white-collar earnings and a subsequent economic downturn. The crisis accelerated as AI agents disrupted the consumer economy, intermediation layer, and white-collar services, leading to a deflationary ...

Attention Media ≠ Social Networks

475 susam 2026-02-22 12:52:21 UTC susam.net Llama Share 210

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.

Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

51 Gooblebrai 2026-02-22 19:52:21 UTC joinloops.org Llama Share 19

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.

Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS

67 harshdoesdev 2026-02-22 18:52:21 UTC shuru.run Full Share 18

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

158 vinhnx 2026-02-22 16:52:21 UTC ochagavia.nl Llama Share 56

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.

Six Math Essentials

26 digital55 2026-02-22 19:52:21 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.

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

41 vermaden 2026-02-22 18:52:21 UTC hayzam.com Llama Share 19

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.

Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community

39 dargscisyhp 2026-02-22 17:52:21 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.

Music Discovery

9 eriatarka 2026-02-22 21:08:21 UTC secondtrack.co Full Share 5

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.

Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS

78 rofko 2026-02-22 16:52:21 UTC voxjong.com Full Share 39

Play VoxJong, a free CSS Mahjong Solitaire.

What is a database transaction?

185 0x54MUR41 2026-02-22 12:52:21 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 45

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.

Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work

49 frehu 2026-02-22 18:52:21 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.

Write-Only Code

18 PretzelFisch 2026-02-22 19:52:21 UTC heavybit.com Llama Share 18

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

105 unstyledcontent 2026-02-22 15:52:21 UTC live.xweather.com Llama Share 24

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Git's Magic Files

85 chmaynard 2026-02-22 14:52:21 UTC nesbitt.io Llama Share 24

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.

Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser

19 jalev 2026-02-22 17:52:21 UTC pieter.com Full Share 12

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

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

9 olserra 2026-02-22 19:52:21 UTC github.com/olserra Prefix Share 9

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 ...

NanoClaw Moved from Apple Containers to Docker

66 simplesort 2026-02-22 19:52:21 UTC twitter.com/gavriel_cohen Full Share 49

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Back to FreeBSD: Part 1

187 enz 2026-02-22 07:52:21 UTC hypha.pub Full Share 88

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Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California

30 PaulHoule 2026-02-22 19:52:21 UTC latimes.com Llama Share 37

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.

In World Without BlackBerry, Physical Keyboards on Phones Are Making a Comeback

12 thunderbong 2026-02-22 20:52:21 UTC cnet.com Llama Share 4

Phones with keyboards are making a comeback due to nostalgia and the need for a tactile typing experience. Companies like Clicks and Unihertz are releasing new devices with physical keyboards, including the Clicks Communicator and the Unihertz Titan series.

Black-White Array: fast, ordered and based on with O(log N) memory allocations

4 platzhirsch 2026-02-22 19:52:21 UTC github.com/dronnix Prefix Share 1

The Black-White Array (aka BWArr) is a fast, ordered data structure based on arrays with $O(\log N)$ memory allocations. The idea of Black-White Array was invented and published by professor Z. George Mou in Black-White Array: A New Data Structure for Dynamic Data Sets. This repository contains the first public implementation. Supports duplicate elements natively (multiset behavior) - no need ...

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

60 rbanffy 2026-02-22 19:52:21 UTC gizmodo.com Llama Share 33

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.

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

187 jakozaur 2026-02-22 15:52:21 UTC quesma.com Llama Share 80

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

40 n013 2026-02-22 13:52:21 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.

International box-sizing Awareness Day (2014)

27 hisamafahri 2026-02-22 17:52:21 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.

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

71 1659447091 2026-02-22 07:52:21 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 66

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.

'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top performers

30 cebert 2026-02-22 20:52:21 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 20

Companies are leaning towards "peanut butter" pay increases, which are across-the-board raises that benefit everyone equally. However, experts warn that this approach may discourage high-performing employees and lead to retention problems.

Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks

16 alx-net 2026-02-22 18:52:21 UTC github.com/dataspren-analytics Llama Share 1

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.