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1D Cellular Automata Playground
Article URL: https://paraschopra.github.io/1d-ca/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942785
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Discussion: Seedance-style AI video generation workflows
I recently came across a site called Seedance 2: https://seedance2.tech/
It seems to be exploring a different angle of AI video generation, focusing more on rhythm, motion, and visual continuity rather than long-form cinematic storytelling.
I’m curious what people here think about this direction in general: - Does a rhythm- or motion-focused approach to AI video feel genuinely useful? - How does this compare to current AI video tools in terms of control and expectations? - If you were to use an AI video generator, what kind of control would actually matter to you?
Not affiliated, just interested in discussing where AI video generation workflows might be heading.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942781
Points: 1
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A read-only IMAP client for Wear OS
Article URL: https://github.com/cmader/MailReader
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942774
Points: 2
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Iraq War Oil Oped
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-oil-juhasz
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942772
Points: 1
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A week in security (February 2 – February 8)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:
- Apple Pay phish uses fake support calls to steal payment details
- Open the wrong “PDF” and attackers gain remote access to your PC
- Flock cameras shared license plate data without permission
- Grok continues producing sexualized images after promised fixes
- Firefox is giving users the AI off switch
- An AI plush toy exposed thousands of private chats with children
- AT&T breach data resurfaces with new risks for customers
- Apple’s new iOS setting addresses a hidden layer of location tracking
- [updated] A fake cloud storage alert that ends at Freecash
- How Manifest v3 forced us to rethink Browser Guard, and why that’s a good thing
- Scam-checking just got easier: Malwarebytes is now in ChatGPT
- How fake party invitations are being used to install remote access tools
Stay safe!
Ahead-of-Time Automatic Differentiation in Python
Article URL: https://github.com/Eshaancoding/ad
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942757
Points: 1
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Reading Buffer statistics in EXPLAIN output
Article URL: https://boringsql.com/posts/explain-buffers/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942749
Points: 1
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Subtle thermal factors I didn't expect when testing high-power LEDs
I’ve been experimenting with high-power LEDs in open, non-commercial setups to better understand real-world thermal behavior outside finished products.
What stood out was how strongly non-electrical details affected stability: – mounting pressure – interface materials – real airflow paths versus assumed ones
Electrically everything stayed within ratings, but long-term thermal behavior varied more than expected.
For those who’ve worked with power-dense hardware: what thermal assumptions turned out to be wrong in practice?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942728
Points: 1
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Show HN: CPL – A categorical programming language that runs in the browser
CPL is a programming language based on category theory, originally designed by Tatsuya Hagino in his 1987 PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh. It has no built-in data types — products, coproducts, natural numbers, and even exponentials (function space) are all defined by the user using F,G-dialgebras.
In this release, CPL now runs in your browser via WebAssembly with no installation required. I've also added tutorials in both English and Japanese.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942719
Points: 1
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Companies behind Postgres 18 development
Article URL: https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/02/02/companies-behind-postgres-18.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942712
Points: 1
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The Cost of a Function Call
Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/08/the-cost-of-a-function-call/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942704
Points: 3
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Show HN: Tiles – yet another Emacs package for note-taking
In TILES, each note (or tile, if you will) is a single plaintext paragraph stored in its own .org file, organized through tags and bold keywords. TILES tries to keep it simple: there is no note title (to reduce friction when creating a note, and honestly a note title is not something I find very useful anyway), there are no dependencies (except for Emacs, version 27.1 at least), no links between notes, no backlinks, no graphs, and no database; every note is a paragraph in its own plaintext file.
Other notable features are: - a dashboard offering a quick glance and a preview of your notes; - note stitching (borrowed from Howm) and the possibility to get note content by using Dynamic Blocks in Org Mode (borrowed from Denote); - tags are mandatory and used for hierarchy; - keywords are optional and automatically extracted from bolded content inside the notes; - search is performed exclusively on tags and/or keywords; - subnotes (or undertiles, if you will), a kind of meta-content (or private content) inside a note, which is a paragraph prefixed with '&&' hidden everywhere except in expanded view in the dashboard and, of course, in the note editing buffer (it's not exported trough Dynamic Blocks actions, nor through stitching); - color coding in the dashboard, depending on the note's age.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942698
Points: 1
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PaperBanana: Generate methodology diagrams and plots from text or references
Article URL: https://paperbanana.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942682
Points: 1
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China Urges Banks to Curb Exposure to US Treasuries
Show HN: MCPlexor – MCP multiplexer that cuts agent context usage by 95%
I built MCPlexor to solve a token waste problem I kept running into with MCP-based agents.
The Problem: MCP (Model Context Protocol) is great for giving LLMs access to external tools. But if you connect multiple servers (GitHub, Linear, Postgres, Slack), you end up with 40-50k tokens of tool definitions injected into every request – before the agent even does anything.
On a 200k context model, that's 25% gone. On smaller models, it's worse. And most runs only use 1-2 tools.
The Solution: MCPlexor sits between your agent and your MCP servers. Instead of loading all tool definitions upfront:
Agent asks for a capability ("create an issue") MCPlexor routes to the right server using semantic matching Only relevant tools get exposed Result: ~500 tokens overhead instead of ~20k.
Technical Details: - Written in Go, single binary, no runtime deps - Supports both stdio and HTTP transports - Stores credentials in OS keychain (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, Linux keyring via zalando/go-keyring) - Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Augment Code, or any MCP-compatible client
The routing logic can run entirely locally using Ollama. No API calls, no cost, works offline.
Business Model (for transparency): - Local/Ollama users: completely free - Cloud tier (on waitlist): we run inference on efficient small models instead of Opus/Pro, pass on savings, take a margin The bet is that routing is a narrow enough task that a fine-tuned 7B model does it as well as a frontier model. Early testing suggests this works.
CLI uploads: https://github.com/arustagi101/mcplexor Install: `curl -fsSL https://mcplexor.com/install.sh | bash` Happy to answer questions about the architecture, the routing approach, or anything else.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942466
Points: 1
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One Person, 34 Services: How AI Tooling Changed the Economics of Running Homelab
Article URL: https://blog.coutinho.io/how-ai-tooling-changed-the-economics-of-running-a-production-grade-homelab
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942447
Points: 1
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I Test Drove a Chinese EV. Now I Don't Want to Buy American Cars Anymore
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/chinese-ev-test-drive-xiaomi-su7-c3e59282
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942445
Points: 1
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The CIA World Factbook is dead
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5702494/cia-world-factbook-dead
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942438
Points: 1
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Apple Silicon Macs have 2 types of Thunderbolt ports
Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/06/apple-silicon-macs-have-2-types-of-thunderbolt-ports/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942431
Points: 1
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1988 Soviet PDP-11 class MK-90 calculator cost >1yr's salary
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGo5L3yzXhA
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942371
Points: 2
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