The UNIX List
Show HN: Cronbox – Schedule AI Agents
Cronbox is a cron, where an AI agent wakes up and works on a schedule. We believe a lot of repetitive tasks can benefit a lot from AI agents. And scheduling them in the cloud keeps you hands-free.You can do things like, taking screenshot of a site, resize it to size 1000 x 1000, and look for price changes on the page and get notified via email.Or ask it to draw svg of a 'pelican riding a bicyle' whenever a new model is released on openai and mail it to you.Every job runs in its own lin
Show HN: Homelabinator, the easiest way to self-host
Hey HN! Just got my HN account created recently but I've been around the block a decent bit.Myself and a few friends love self-hosting, but believe that it’s hard to get started. So we created what we believe to be the easiest gateway to homelabbing, and we called it Homelabinator!It is an opinionated customization of NixOS, built on the shoulders of the giants that are NixOS and K3s. Allowing you to enter the world of homelabbing, without being a Linux expert.To celebrate our launch, we ar
Show HN: SwiftNet v0.5.0 – Networking Library
Hello.I’ve been working on a networking library for the past year. It operates at Layer 2, which means it handles custom Ethernet headers, IP headers, and its own protocol data.It’s made for simplicity, experiments and mostly for making my own multiplayer video game in OpenGL.I would really appreciate any tips, reviews or comments.
My goal is to really make this library usable, which cannot be done without proper decision making by other people besides me.It has its own thread-safe memory alloca
Show HN: Shrouded, secure memory management in Rust
Hi HN!I've been building a project that handles high-value credentials in-process, and I wanted something more robust than just zeroing memory on drop. A comment on a recent Show HN[0] made me realize that awareness of lower-level memory protection techniques might not be as widespread as I thought.The idea here is to pull out all the tools in one crate, with a relatively simple API.
* mlock/VirtualLock to prevent sensitive memory from being swapped (eg the KeePass dump)
* Core dump ex
Show HN: Locro – Fast and accurate local OCR through Chrome's screen_ai
A month ago, @Stagnant posted in this thread about how Chrome ships with a open source OCR tool that is only available from the browser:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977802This looked incredibly useful but sadly there were no Python wrappers, so I followed his instructions and built one.It's incredibly fast and accurate (I had my doubts but wow!). I tested the Windows and Linux implementations, and I'm sure expanding the wrapper for macOS should be trivial for a
Enabling MediaTek M7902 WiFi and Bluetooth drivers on Ubuntu 24.04 the easy way
Instructions to installed MT7902 Linux drivers to support both WiFi and Bluetooth on Ubuntu 24.04 and other Linux distributions.
BenQ’s Display Pilot 2 software now has a Linux version
BenQ released a Linux version of its Display Pilot 2 software at the end of 2025, but I only heard about this week when reading about the launch of the ...
Chrome Is Finally Coming to ARM64 Linux Devices in 2026
Google says Chrome will launch for ARM64 Linux in Q2 2026, bringing native support, Chrome sync, and easier installs on ...
WSL graphics driver update brings better GPU support for Linux apps
Running Linux virtualized on Windows is set to speed up slightly, and so is running Windows apps on top of 64-bit Linux and ...
5 Things Linux Can Do That Windows 11 Can't
More people use Linux than they realize because even Smart TVs and the Steam Deck run on a version of Linux, but making the ...
Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS
Linux 7.0 is approaching and there's a new version of bcachefs to go with it… as well as green shoots of support for Apple's new disk format. Interesting developments are happening in Linux filesystem ...
I used Omega Linux to revitalize a junk PC, and it's noticeably better than Ubuntu
I used Omega Linux to revitalize a junk PC, and it's noticeably better than Ubuntu ...
What's a minimal install for Linux? 6 reasons it can come in handy
What's a minimal install for Linux? 6 reasons it can come in handy ...
Switcher 2026: The Agony and Hoped-For Ecstasy of Linux
Linux is compelling because it's free and might work on a PC you already own. But there are so many challenges.
EndeavorOS Titan is one of the most unique Arch-based Linux distros I've tried - here's why
EndeavorOS Titan is one of the most unique Arch-based Linux distros I've tried - here's why ...
Linux's obsession with 'the right way' is why it'll never replace Windows for most people
Linux is great, but there's so much that should be easier than it is. It's no wonder the OS hasn't captured a bigger audience ...
Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor
Just a PSA for folks here in the US because tax season is coming up and some of you may be using H&R Block Business 2025. I discovered that the software installs a root CA named "WK ATX ServerHost 2024" (expiry 2049) into your local machine trusted root certificate store. They also helpfully include the private key to this certificate in a DLL file. This certificate does not identify itself as "H&R Block" anywhere and does not get uninstalled when you uninstall the so
Show HN: Unifast – a Rust Markdown/MDX compiler that's 25x faster than remark
Hi HN,I built Unifast, a markdown/MDX compiler written in Rust.It focuses on a simpler compiler pipeline and, in my benchmarks, compiles around 25x faster than the usual remark/rehype-based setup.This started as a personal project because I felt the existing markdown toolchain was powerful, but sometimes more layered and complex than I wanted for straightforward compilation.It’s still very early, so I’d really appreciate bug reports, feedback, and feature requests.Repo / docs:
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Tell HN: Your AI startup is a Next.js page, OpenAI_API_KEY, & Stripe invoice
Your AI startup is a Next.js page, OPENAI_API_KEY, & Stripe invoice, that's it.<p>Gemini, ChatGPT, etc. are unique products that add value.<p>Your AI startup is vaporware.
Launch HN: Sitefire (YC W26) – Automating actions to improve AI visibility
Hi HN! We're Vincent and Jochen from sitefire (https://sitefire.ai). Our platform makes it easy for brands to improve their visibility in AI search.We’ve been working together for years and have backgrounds in RL/optimization at Stanford and software engineering. We came to this idea after speaking with marketing teams who were seeing declining traffic due to Google’s AI Overviews and didn’t know what to do.This space can feel esoteric. Many case studies, few actual studies.