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Show HN: Hello Triangle, a puzzle game where you build a GPU

I've been working on a game Hello Triangle for a while. In the game, you build a GPU one part at a time by wiring circuits, and renders a picture on the screen with what your circuit computes. I have a free demo available that goes up to drawing a triangle, while I'm still working on the rest of the game.You don't start from logic gates. The game starts with adders and comparators. Every wire just carries a fixed point number, and there are no bit widths to think about. The reason

Show HN: Paintpot – Kid-friendly MSPaint clone for Linux

Most of the alternatives diverged from the true fun of MSPaint that I had as a child. My children also seem to enjoy this. The closest existing project was "Drawing" on Linux, but I felt it couldn't decide if it was a vector or a raster editor, and this confused my kids, and made good fill pours difficult.Features added beyond original Paint:- Draw circles starting from the center.- OKLCH Palette- Visible pixel grid when zoomed in.- Resizing canvas never destroys pixels.- Builds o

Show HN: Domino Rally – design in 2D, watch in 3D

This is a free to play, no sign up required domino rally simulator. You design them with the editor, and then run them in the 3D player. The from-behind "Chase" view is best.My mum helped develop it - she submitted issue reports direct from the app itself (make it possible to bend the domino tracks, make the playback controls disappear while mouse inactive, add like buttons to the showcase, let me change the backdrop, etc) and the Claude Code session running in the cloud watched, fixe

Show HN: A terminal-native idle factory game, written in Rust with ratatui

Hey HN readers!I'm snipedbywifi (https://gitlab.com/snipedbywifi), and i've been working on terminactory. Please try it out if you'd like to play a cozy factory game while waiting for long agent tasks to finish!The game is a factory game (overused niche, i know xD), but runs in your terminal. Reason i built it? glad you asked: So basically, it started off with me wanting a terminal-native factory game. Me and the modern 5.5 claude models made a base for the game tha

FreeBSD

FreeBSDFreeBSD – a Unix-like operating system from the BSD family that is compliant with the POSIX standard. FreeBSD is based on 4.4BSD-Lite2, a system created by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley. https://archiveos.org/freebsd/

Hexnode expands enterprise controls for Linux with patch management and cloud identity login

Hexnode, the enterprise software division of Mitsogo Inc., has expanded Linux support through patch management in Hexnode UEM and cloud identity-based device login through Hexnode Access. The expansion gives IT teams greater control over how software changes reach devices and how employees authenticate to them.

Linux is getting a tool that crashes your system on purpose

But don't worry, crashing your own computer is all part of the Linux experience.

Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitation

Hackers are actively exploiting a recently discovered critical vulnerability that allows them to log in to privileged ...

6 Linux boot options that can save you from a broken system

If your Linux system breaks after an update, refuses to show the login screen, or throws another error during startup, you ...

AMD Radeon HD 2000 and HD 3000 GPUs receive Linux video decoding fix after nearly 20 years

A developer used OpenAI Codex to investigate video corruption on an older iMac with Radeon graphics. AMD has accepted the ...

We need more reviewers: Finding Linux bugs is easy now – fixing them is another story

Some Linux maintainers are quitting under the crushing strain of AI bug reports, while others see signs for hope.

There's a Linux PC hiding inside your Steam Deck. Here's how to use it

Unlike the PS5 or Switch 2, the Steam Deck lets you install almost any app you want. Here’s how to turn it into a full PC, no ...

Over Ubuntu? Fedora is the Linux distro I’d hop to next – here’s why

In the world of Linux, distro hopping is practically a spectator sport. At some point, we get bored with the distro we’re ...

Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out

Spoiler alert: Tux has wings ...

My 5 favorite KDE Plasma Linux distros – and what makes each one special

There are many distributions that default to KDE Plasma, but I’ve found a few that really show off certain aspects of the ...

Linus Talks about Git, Linux, & BitKeeper Drama..

Linus Torvalds Speaks on Git, Linux, and BitKeeper Licensing drama and how it affected the Linux kernel development and open ...

Is Proton's official statement enough? - Linux Weekly News

Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get ...

I Daily Drove Linux for 1 Year. Here’s the Honest Truth.

I daily drove Linux for 1 year, between Nobara and CachyOS, and I ditched Windows for almost everything. Here's the honest truth ...

Show HN: mib – A 300KiB Vim-Style Markdown Scratchpad for Linux / Wayland

I tend to make a lot of scratch notes as a way to help me think. These usually don't last very long and what does survive usually ends up in a git repo, a wiki or (most often) just gets thrown away.I was using Obsidian for this, but gosh, 4 or 5 Electron processes just for throwaway notes seemed like overkill. Neovim is a better fit but I like it just the way it is for coding and didn't want to install any image plug-ins for that.mib is a bit like a basic Vim editor, with a few Obsidia

Show HN: Sonamu – Tree-Based Wayland Compositor

I use computers for everything and constantly have hundreds of tabs open. Existing paradigms limited me to grouping tabs by applications, but I needed to organize by task.With Sonamu, I can put my GitHub page on the browser right next to my terminal instead of my emails. Sonamu is a Wayland compositor that organizes every tab in a tree hierarchy. I can create a branch for each of my coding projects and my courses. Within each branch, I can create sub-branches to further organize sub-tasks like n