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Particle Lenia

Sun, 02/08/2026 - 3:15pm

Article URL: https://znah.net/lenia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938084

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The Gradual Print Is Here

Sun, 02/08/2026 - 3:13pm
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Hacker News in Your Terminal

Sun, 02/08/2026 - 3:08pm
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Ask HN: What to do instead of giving up on tech

Sun, 02/08/2026 - 3:04pm

I was fired from the fintech I used to work for last November, being a senior site reliability engineer. I was already pretty unmotivated about working in tech since ChatGPT appeared, and the emotional burden of being fired just made things worse. Even though I love computers and computer science (and infrastructure, my area of expertise), I grew to hate the tech market so much. Nothing I did seemed to bring me any joy or brainfood and nothing I did seemed good enough.

Finding a job is very bad. The first months I had only rejections, some didn't even mask that were made by AIs (one day I applied on a Friday night and got a rejection on Saturday morning).

When January started, I started to land the first interviews, some on FAANG companies. Even though I applied for jobs more related to infrastructure, they still required Leetcode-like interviews, which is odd. I failed some of them, but aced one that was more infrastructure related. However, even though I aced it and went pretty well, I still wasn't chosen for their opening (they probably had very limited openings).

I know there are lots of threads here asking "is the market bad right now", but I wanted to read your thoughts on the market right now, the impact of AIs in hiring (I dislike using AIs for mostly anything, I'm not sure if I'm on a disadvantage for having a resume written by myself or not) and if any of you have lost hope on continuing in tech.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937975

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Show HN: Calculator for UK student loan repayment strategies

Sun, 02/08/2026 - 3:03pm

Made this after graduating from university, in the UK, to help myself determine whether I should make extra student loan payments or not in order to clear the debt early. Shared it with friends and family who found it insightful, sharing here for others as well.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937964

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Ask HN: How are you enabling your company to vibe-code?

Sun, 02/08/2026 - 2:55pm

I would like to enable non-developer coworkers to vibe code, starting with simple charts but hopefully expanding from there.

I'm trying to develop standardized charting for our company built in JS. This would save a ton of time vs coworkers fiddling with Excel settings every time they need a new chart and looks way better / is interactive.

For devs this is super easy: clone our standard charts repo, drop in your data and tell your preferred coding agent to make a new chart with your data.

However for the marketing team and the like, it's not realistic to get them set up with GitHub / Cursor etc., for many reasons including cost and security concerns.

Realistically just want to get them to visit an internal webpage and see the charts, then be able to drop in files & prompt it for updates. It would run in some locked-down VM so they can't screw up too bad.

I've been brainstorming and testing a few things but don't have a great solution yet.

Anyone with experience here?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937892

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Show HN: Sofia Core – Open-source AI infrastructure with biological computing

Sun, 02/08/2026 - 2:54pm

Hi HN,

We built Sofia Core - open-source AI infrastructure exploring biological computing in production systems.

Technical approach: • DNA-inspired algorithms for massive parallelism (10^15 operations) • Swarm intelligence for distributed coordination • Temporal reasoning for time-aware predictions

Stack: Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis Testing: 70%+ coverage, 100+ endpoints License: MIT

Research foundation: 8,000-word paper with benchmarks showing 300× speedups in parallel pattern matching tasks.

Quick start: git clone https://github.com/emeraldorbit/sofia-core-backend ./quick-start.sh

Runs locally in 5 minutes. Graceful fallbacks if you don't have API keys.

Questions for HN: 1. Is biological computing interesting beyond academic research? 2. Would you trust this in production today? 3. What's missing for your use case?

Launching on Product Hunt tomorrow - would love HN's technical feedback first.

Code: https://github.com/emeraldorbit/sofia-core-backend Paper: [repo]/research/papers/dna-computing/PAPER.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937882

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