Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

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Shitty is a terminal emulator built for low latency and fast startup, using native compute backends for rendering. It supports various features including font resizing, clipboard integration, and OSC 52 policy.

Karpathy’s Pelican

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Opus 5 generated 5500 lines of code to procedurally render the Lord of the Rings story with a 1M token budget. This example showcases LLMs' potential for creating hyper-custom worlds, but also highlights their limitations in auditing and perceiving multimodal content.

Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor

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The user trained a tiny Mamba-based autoregressive language model and ran it on a BBC Micro from the 80s using a custom inference engine, generating text with a vocabulary of 26 letters and a space character. The project demonstrated the importance of mechanical sympathy in designing ML models, considering hardware constraints, and showed that a Mamba-based model can run inference on 8-bit ...

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

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Kakehashi is a tool that runs Darwin CLI tools natively on Linux aarch64 by translating BSD syscalls and mapping a freestanding libSystem. It aims to provide a cost-effective alternative to running Darwin tools on macOS, with a focus on correctness and performance, and is suitable for use in CI environments.

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

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The user read an article by Brennan Kenneth Brown about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and found it to be misleading. The user argues that Brennan's article fails to critically examine the effectiveness of PKM systems and tools like Obsidian.

The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)

The computational theory of mind (CTM) suggests that the mind is a computational system similar to a Turing machine, which can process information and make decisions. This theory has been influential in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, but it has also faced criticisms and challenges, such as the need to explain how mental computation interfaces with sensory inputs and motor outputs.

Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else

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Patrick O'Brian, a renowned author, was exposed as a liar who fabricated his biography, including his Irish childhood and naval experience. Despite this revelation, his Aubrey-Maturin novels continue to be widely read and admired for their historical accuracy, witty dialogue, and vivid descriptions of 19th-century life.

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

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Developers are struggling to trust AI tools due to their unpredictability and lack of transparency, which can lead to broken processes and decreased productivity. To build trust, teams need to establish a more deliberate and explicitly-defined workflow that preserves human judgment and provides the right context for AI agents.

Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents

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Mu provides a suite of 67 real tools behind one endpoint, including news, search, mail, markets, and more, accessible via a web app or CLI. It uses the MCP protocol for authorization and allows users to run their own instance, with tools available for both agents and humans.

AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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The Ohio State Fair poster contest originally allowed AI use but will prohibit it in 2027. The contest celebrates Ohio artists with a patriotic theme, with winners displayed in Kasich Hall during the 2026 fair.

Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

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To use Nix on DGX Spark, you can either use DGX Spark playbooks with Nix on DGX OS or install NixOS with the DGX Spark module.

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

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A Creaky Door for Framework 12 laptops has been created, filtering optimized for its hinge stiffness. Download the executable from the releases tab, or clone the repo and run with cargo, noting potential dynamic linking issues on non-Fedora distros.

TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console

The TinyNES is a niche device that merges original NES hardware with modern design, using socketed CPU and PPU chips that can be swapped out. It's designed for those who want a precise, hardware-based experience, rather than emulators or FPGAs.

Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

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California residents can now use the DROP platform to request data brokers stop selling their personal information. Registered data brokers must honor these requests within 45 days, or face fines of $200 per day per affected Californian.

Sharing an X11 Server Across Hosts with FamilyWild

To run X11 applications from a container or over SSH, rewrite the .Xauthority file to use a wildcard family that matches any hostname. This can be done by overwriting the first two bytes of the file with ffff using sed, allowing the client to connect without hostname constraints.

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

RISC OS Open Ltd was founded in 2006 with the goal of opening up the proprietary operating system to the community. Over the past 20 years, the community has contributed significantly to the OS's development, resulting in a much healthier and improved RISC OS today.

F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language

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F* is a programming language that combines dependent types and multi-monadic effects for formal verification and proof-oriented programming. It has been applied in various fields including security, cryptography, and systems.

The Myth of Snow Leopard

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Snow Leopard was a 2010 Mac OS X version focused on refining the system, improving efficiency, and fixing bugs. Its promise of stability and polish has become a lasting myth, with people still referencing it for quality of life improvements and stability.

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

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The European Union's age-verification project requires hardware-bound attestation, raising concerns about Linux, custom Android ROMs, and open systems. Critics argue this approach endangers the system by limiting it to approved devices and operating systems, invading users' privacy and restricting internet access.

A tool for finding the causes of unstable Python tests

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You have a test that passes when executed alone but fails when running its suite. What's happening? My two cents that some previous test keeps the things dirty. But wich one/s, maybe the previous are a lot, right? This plugin helps to find a culprit by doing a binary search (alla git bisect) on the collected tests before the target. The first time it will collect the first half of those ...

'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout

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When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)

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The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company produced colorful transit passes from 1930s to 1960s with unique hand lettering and designs. About 300 of these passes are now in the Archive's collection, showcasing the city's commitment to civic design and visual appeal.

My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw."

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One prompt, every model: generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw. Each model gets three tries a month. An AI drawing benchmark.

Schmitt Trigger: Robust Comparator Design with Hysteresis

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A Schmitt trigger is a comparator with built-in hysteresis that prevents rapid switching due to noise or slow edges. It uses positive feedback to create two distinct switching thresholds, V(TH) and V(TL), which are determined by the resistor ratio and saturation voltage.

Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

Fasttracker II is a music tracker software developed by Fredrik Huss in 1994, allowing users to create and edit music files. Your FT2 clone is a portable version written in C using SDL 2, available for download on GitHub.

Folding Paper Globes

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Free print-ready folding paper globe templates: the Moon, Mars, Earth at night, and more. Download, print, cut, fold, glue.

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

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Meshdiff compares two versions of a 3D model and shows exactly what changed: added material, removed material, and dimensional drift. Free, in-browser voxel and surface-heatmap diffing for STL, 3MF, and OBJ files — nothing is uploaded.

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager

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Great Question is hiring a Demand Generation Manager to own SQL attainment, channel strategy, and execution at scale using AI and automation. The ideal candidate has 5-8 years of B2B demand generation experience, is AI-native, and can build repeatable demand programs across multiple acquisition channels.

Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network

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The user has been working on a honeypot network for 30 days using Python and Paramiko for SSH handling, gathering logs locally and fetching additional information with ipgeolocation.io. The project is still in progress and the user is open to feedback and ideas for future development, with plans to share it in a Git repository.