The UNIX List
Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
Hi HN, we're Sanchit and Shubham (YC W26). We built a fast inference engine for Apple Silicon. LLMs, speech-to-text, text-to-speech – MetalRT beats llama.cpp, Apple's MLX, Ollama, and sherpa-onnx on every modality we tested. Custom Metal shaders, no framework overhead.Also, we've open-sourced RCLI, the fastest end-to-end voice AI pipeline on Apple Silicon. Mic to spoken response, entirely on-device. No cloud, no API keys.To get started: brew tap RunanywhereAI/rcli https:
A Methodological Critique of "First Proof" (Abouzaid et al., 2026)
Regarding: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192IntroductionThe First Proof paper (Abouzaid et al., 2026) aims to evaluate AI capabilities through a set of research-level mathematical problems. While the mathematical content of the questions is not in dispute, the experimental design suffers from significant methodological gaps that undermine the authors' primary conclusions. Specifically, the paper conflates binary outcomes with processual states, lacks independent verificat
Show HN: Conkoa AI – Voice-First Slack for Construction
I spent years building a SaaS product for the construction trades focused on health and safety. We obsessed over UI/UX because our users varied wildly in age, tech comfort, literacy, and preferred language. As good as we were, it was always a challenge to get new users to become proficient with it. That company was acquired in 2022.One thing I noticed throughout that journey: internally, we lived in Slack. It became our hub for everything — team conversations, server alerts, support tickets
Show HN: G0 – The control layer for AI agents (scan, test, monitor, comply)
AI agents are shipping fast (LangChain, CrewAI, MCP servers, OpenAI Agents SDK) but there's no unified way to secure and govern them. We built g0 to be
that control layer. What g0 does across the agent lifecycle:
g0 scan - Static + behavioral analysis of agent code. 1,180 rules across 12 security domains, 10 frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, MCP, OpenAI, Vercel AI,
Bedrock, AutoGen, LangChain4j, Spring AI, Go AI), 5 languages. Detects toxic tool chains, taint flows, overprivileged de
Ask HN: What would a developer-first alternative to Shopify look like?
Over the past few years I’ve been working with e-commerce businesses through my small agency, Zenpexal. Most of the projects involve building or optimizing online stores using platforms like Shopify or custom stacks.While Shopify has made it incredibly easy for people to start online stores, working with it as a developer sometimes reveals a few recurring limitations.Some patterns I’ve noticed:• Heavy reliance on third-party apps for even basic functionality
• Performance issues when stores scal
Markdown Files Won't Make You an Engineer
Recent advancements in AI has convinced 99% of the population that engineering is just writing markdown files. Well, it's not and it never will be.Deep knowledge of systems, engineering, and programming will be in demand for as long as technology exists. Relying on AI without that foundation is like trying to advance material science without understanding chemistry, or pioneering new techniques in biology without grasping the underlying mechanisms. The tools change, the need for real unders
Ask HN: How to "make it" as a newlygrad/junior?
Hello HN!Over the past couple months I've made dozens of job applications and it's not turned into much, and from talking to some of my coevals I'm not alone. It really feels like me and my friends have been dropped onto an industry that has just shut the doors to anyone in our 0-2 yr. experience range. Needless to say, I'm pretty worried that it's going to be a year out from my graduation without being employed doing the thing I spent the past >4 years of my life stu
Show HN: Mumpix – Local-first AI infrastructure and $1B developer grant
Hi HN,I’m working on Mumpix, a local-first infrastructure stack for building AI systems that don’t depend on centralized cloud platforms.The goal is to make AI memory, state, and infrastructure run anywhere: phones, browsers, desktops, servers, or edge devices.The stack currently has four layers:MumpixDB
Structured hierarchical database designed for AI memory and application state.Examples of keys:memory^assistant^context
memory^assistant^recent
workflow^task^42^statusFeatures:
• hierarchical k
What happened in the timeline where Microsoft pushed Xenix over DOS, and Window ended up being UNIX based?
<p>What happened in the timeline where Microsoft pushed Xenix over DOS, and Window ended up being UNIX based?</p>
Maybe one day I'll have used sockets enough to remember how to set them up.
Unfortunately, today is not that day.
<p>Maybe one day I’ll have used sockets enough to remember how to set them up.</p><p>Unfortunately, today is not that day.</p>
Okay. There is communication between the client and server. It's not a proper conversation, but they are talking, and I can...
Okay. There is communication between the client and server. It’s not a proper conversation, but they are talking, and I can start to set up the basic protocol.I haven’t even touched pthreads yet. I’m going to see how far I can push things without multithreading. It seems like I can do a lot with just polling. I’m not worried about being perfectly efficient, or having things be immediately responsive, so I’m okay with cheating here. Things will be deliberately slow,
A Printer Bug Could Hand Attackers the Keys to Your Entire Unix System
CVE-2025-61915 in CUPS lets an unprivileged attacker plant a malicious IPv6 address that corrupts memory in a root-running process, with proof-of-concept exploitation already demonstrated using a ROP chain that bypasses stack canary protections entirely.
Source: LevelBlue
Read more: CyberSecBrief
This book taught me 6 must-know facts about Linux
An old book about an even older operating system.
Show HN: Ash – OSS Infra for Running Claude Agent SDK
Hey HN,I kept rebuilding the same infrastructure every time I wanted to put a Claude Agent SDK into production. Sessions, streaming, sandboxing, persistence, a REST API, file hooks. So I built Ash.An agent is a folder with a CLAUDE.md file, skills folder, etc, and one-line deploy from cli, or tsx/python sdks.Some things I cared about when building this:Sandboxing. Each agent runs in its own isolated process with an environment allowlist, cgroups resource limits, and bubblewrap filesystem is
Show HN: Paster – A keyboard-first clipboard manager for Vim users
Hi HN,
I’ve tried just about every clipboard manager for macOS, but I've always ran into the same two issues: either they were heavy Electron apps that felt sluggish, or they required me to take my hands off the keyboard to find what I needed. Raycast is what I used most of the time, but it's slow in loading screenshots and is search first, meaning I needed to leave the loved home row to scroll down through items.I built Paster because I wanted something that felt like an extension of
Show HN: U-Boot Fw_env.config Bruteforcer
I created a tool today for embedded device security assessments. Basically what it does it searches the linux `mtd` partitions to find the U-Boot environment variable location and then gives the correct format for the `fw_env.config` file that the U-Boot utilities `fw_setenv` and `fw_printenv` use. So, if those utilities are not installed with the proper config file on the embedded device, you can statically compile them and create the proper config file to use them to modify the U-Boot enviro
Show HN: Bsky-CLI – A full-featured CLI client for Bluesky
I spend a lot of time using CLI tools and also enjoy scrolling through Bluesky. I found a CLI client written in Go but it didn't include all the features I wanted so I began building my own and got a bit carried away. Now you can use this client to perform just about every common action in the app or on the web without leaving the terminal.The client has multi-account support through named profiles when you authenticate so you can perform all of the actions below using a different account e
Here's which Samsung Galaxy S26 phones support Android's Linux terminal
Want to use Android's Linux terminal with one of Samsung's new Galaxy S26 handsets? These are the models you'll need.
EA is hiring to bring Battlefield 6 to Windows on Arm and Linux devices
EA is hiring and looking for an engineer to spearhead bringing Battlefield 6's 'Javelin Anticheat' to Windows on Arm and even ...
I’d Happily Pay for Linux — If It Actually Ran the Software I Need
Just one issue stands between me and my Linux daily driver, and this solution is all it'll take to turn the tables.