Show HN: Mastodon desktop client, made with Claude, using Rust and GTK4
Inspired by Mastodon's new Web UI makeover, I used Claude to make a nice Linux desktop client, using Rust and GTK4.
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Ask HN: Any way to have inbuild second screen for AI to control
Hey HN!<p>I was thinking in windows and linux having running computer use, but rather than full control, a way agent sees the screen like layer of application like z index but then also send the click and insert text there too ? its possible on mac i can see chatgpt has done it but how about windows or linux ?
Show HN: Ferry, a highly customizable and feature-rich file manager for macOS
I am the main developer of Ferry. The team I am part of began on the demoscene in the mid-90s, but for a long while we are mainly just an indie development studio.Ferry started with me being forced to use macOS at my current workplace, which suddenly replaced a working environment I'd been using during professional career as a programmer: Windows for around 10 years, then Debian/KDE for the last 15 years.Over that time, I'd grown very accustomed to Total Commander on Windows, and
The first Snapdragon phone with Android Linux Terminal support is here
The Redmagic 12 Pro appears to be the first Snapdragon-powered phone with working Android Linux Terminal support.
Linux 7.4 Showing Few Performance Gains With Initial Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper
In the first round of benchmarking the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel there are some performance improvements -- and some ...
These are the only 3 Linux distros I recommend to newcomers
Ready to try Linux but confused by the hundreds of distros out there? Wondering which one will actually suit your needs ...
CentOS co-founder creates a Linux-compatible kernel in just 11 days, with AI doing almost all the coding
Kurtzer unveiled the kernel, Ginux, on X last week. The code is on GitHub, too, under the Apache 2.0 license. As for the name ...
Claude-Built Linux Exploit Targets Bug That Ubuntu Still Hasn't Patched
Anthropic says Claude wrote an attack that can take over a Linux server with no password. Red Hat patched on Sunday, but Ubuntu still has no fix.
Linux 7.4 Supports AMD Ryzen Zen 6 and Intel Panther Lake
Linux 7.4 performance enhancements include a massive 265x speed boost for FAT32 pre-allocation. Read about the new ...
Want traditional or immutable Linux? openSUSE Leap 16.1 lets you decide
The Linux distro has announced that openSUSE Leap 16.1 introduces Immutable Mode, effectively bringing the power of Leap ...
Maze Linux is the best security-focused distro I’ve ever tested
Want a Linux distro that's all about privacy and security - without sacrificing usability? Maze is for you.
Linux's file permissions are over 50 years old, and three letters still decide who can touch every file on your PC
You can see them in action with a single console command.
I tried this Linux distro on a PC with just 3GB of RAM – and came away impressed
The main reasons why users might not want to opt for Systemd are: the large codebase, scope creep, and tight integration with other systems. Devuan, on the other hand, retains the more Unix-like ...
Linux Mint 27 arrives next month, and I like it already: New features and other upgrades to expect
It starts with a surprise version number: Linux Mint 27 instead of 24. But the next release brings far more changes than that.
Show HN: Ifso.io – Plan financial decisions with no sign-in needed
Hello HN!I'm a software engineer and a personal finance nerd, and I've spent the past 6 months building Ifso, a planner that shows how your financial decisions play out.I started Ifso because I wanted to see how a few decisions I was weighing would actually turn out, and the existing tools weren't quite what I was looking for. They were complicated for simple things, and it felt like I had to do a lot of learning just to get off the ground. Beyond that, modeling simple moves (sell
Show HN: Scroll from your own skeleton to the edge of the observable universe
Hi HN!I made this to help improve visualisation for a meditation I practise where you picture leaving your body moving outward in stages until you are beyond space-time. It’s helped me get through some really tough times by putting things in perspective.You start as a skeleton by the pyramids at Giza and scroll past Earth, the planets, the stars, the Milky Way and the galaxy clusters to the edge of the observable universe.It’s built with real data - 9,096 stars (Yale Bright Star Catalogue), 43,4
Chat i feel like trying fvwm for a desktop... let's see how it goes using fvwm2 in school on openbsd for a week for maximum...
<p>Chat i feel like trying fvwm for a desktop…</p><p>let’s see how it goes using fvwm2 in school on openbsd for a week for maximum larp.</p>
Show HN: Janet LSP with VS Code Extension
Most of the code generated using Codex, with task specific prompts.<p>To try out on Linux: install Janet, install spork package then install extension<p>Features: - Symbol lookup, with native modules - Format on save - go to symbol and references - Prefix based autocomplete - Snippets for common forms (def, defn, if, while etc.) - Basic diagnostics errors<p>Use with Janet default extension for syntax highlighting
Show HN: Building an AI Traffic Guardrail(kilasec)
Show HN: An AI traffic guardrailBuilding something based on 2 decades of support experience.It's a guardrail for AI traffic where you can apply policies, redact PII and API keys, set model destinations, catch destructive actions before execution, etc.The whole thing is built with Claude and can also be configured and troubleshot via Claude/AI tools (it acts as an MCP server).It acts as a proxy for AI traffic. All you need is a Linux box (the Collector, where policy rules are applied) a
Show HN: Quarter – A TUI launcher to browse, search and launch your games
Quarter sits on top of the launcher client you already have. It grabs your library and hands every action back to the launcher, there's no login or password, no API key or data collection. Your client does everything else.Quarter is just a fast shortcut to play your favorite games from the terminal you live in every day. That was my main mission when I created Quarter; just insert quarter, pick a game, press Enter.Written in Go with Bubble Tea, reads Steam's own files on disk; game log