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Show HN: Groupicorn directory of IOP group therapy programs
Hello fellow tech workers!My name is Andrew, cs major from University of Pittsburgh 1996 and long time BBS SysOp from 1991-1993. I grew up chatting online as a teenager. Before this new fangled internet came around, back in my day, ok sorry, to the point: Isolation and work from home jobs can drive you a little crazy.It was always my dream before 2020. Getting the powers that be to agree to work from home. Now six years later it's definitely a careful what you wish for type situation. I got
Show HN: Parametric, low-poly assets for BIM/CAD
I've been learning and working in the 3D CAD/BIM space for almost 20 years and one thing that often comes up is the availability of simple assets that are efficiently modelled.One of the challenges I see a lot is an Architect will need to model a kitchen unit, so they go to BIM Object or another library and download a model. There are two problems this creates; firstly the 3D element itself contains an enormous number or polygons which can cause performance issues, and second the Archi
Show HN: Palette, a Figma plugin that turns one color into a whole UI system
I was inspired to build this because of AI slop design. That led me down the path of why computers didn't 'see' color the way that humans did - and the lack of a common language between perceptual, display, and print color spaces (there was no Unicode for color).That led me to inventing and patenting ART, a new color language, and Orchestra, the engine that runs it.Palette is the first product built on this tech, and it solves problems I faced as a designer for the last 30 years:-
Ask HN: Honey Pots in 'who wants to be hired'?
So I put my info into the hackernews 'who wants to be hired' this month, and I've had 5(?) fake recruiters reach out (all rando8374*@gmail.com). It would be awesome to recruit security researchers or law enforcement or whatever to snipe people like this.<p>I think even the _threat_ that the 'job applicant' is a cop seems like it would deter this behavior in a non negligible way. /shrug<p>Putting it out in the universe...
Ask HN: Engineers on highly polished products, how are you using agentic coding?
Hi HN,Agentic coding is amazing at getting you 90% of the way to "finished", but getting products to feel really polished seems to take monumental effort if you're just "vibing".Yet engineers working on world-class products have ample access to plenty of frontier LLM tokens. Products like Linear, Instagram, Google Docs, Figma, etc. This class of products were super polished before LLMs took over, and they've stayed polished in the post-LLM era.My question: What'
Show HN: GoNix – A Unix with a Go Userspace
A UNIX-like operating system on the Linux kernel, with the userspace — init, coreutils, networking, services and SSH — written mostly in Go.
Linux tip: chmod 755 explained #shorts
chmod 755 explained — a quick Linux tip from Day 14 of our free Learn Linux in 30 Days course. ▷ Full lesson: ...
Linux tip: Find top visitors in one line #shorts
Find top visitors in one line — a quick Linux tip from Day 12 of our free Learn Linux in 30 Days course. ▷ Full lesson: ...
Linux tip: What sudo really does #shorts
What sudo really does — a quick Linux tip from Day 13 of our free Learn Linux in 30 Days course. ▷ Full lesson: ...
Should Hamilton the musical have told UNIX history in relation to Bob Morris and Lee McMahon's statistical analysis of the...
Should Hamilton the musical have told UNIX history in relation to Bob Morris and Lee McMahon’s statistical analysis of the Federalist Papers, leading to the creation of grep and typo, a text search tool and one of the first spell checkers?YesNo
Show HN: Bailout – The coding agent meant to be deleted
hey hn,i made bailout for a pretty specific problem. you boot a fresh vm and want an agent to help get it set up, except you dont have your agent set up yet. no gh, no config, no api key handy. might not even have codex / claude code / opencode curled and loaded. or you already have a setup but opencode / pi / whatever stopped launching, and the thing you'd normally ask to fix it is the thing that's broken.for me, and this is embarrassing, but at work we switched fr
Show HN: A 3D Mac window switcher with browser tab support and search
Hey HN. I made this little app, because I missed Compiz but also because I wanted a way to switch between tabs as well as my windows.Around 2008 a Linux desktop could spin your windows around a cube and flip through them like cards, and so far I have not seen anything like that on Mac. I also tried a bunch of different Command-Tab alternatives like AltTab, but so far they always lacked the following things: a live visual preview of windows and some kind of way to switch and search between indivi
Show HN: Set, offline Markdown note-taking app with device-to-device sync
Hi HN. I am an avid user of Notion (https://notion.so) and really like the ergonomics of its block-based editor, but with how the product is evolving I felt I was missing a simple "single-player" experience of just taking notes and jotting down my thoughts. Hence, Set exists. It's in beta and all feedback is appreciated.You can use the app in the browser but notes are saved only to that browser session. The device-to-device sync and local dictation is desktop only. All n
Show HN: WTF > Auto-check what your coding agent changed
wTF is my attempt to understand all the development that my agents are doing all the time without getting splitting headaches and standing a chance of reading a couple of pages in any given book by the end of day. It gives me an overview of what actually happened.<p>It's also in early experimentation to see if it can help ground the agents in actual reality. Not there yet, though.<p>Free, open source, no API, 100% local.
Critical Linux kernel vulnerability ZcopyReaper allows privilege escalation
Smarter MSP disclosed that a critical Linux kernel vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-43502 and nicknamed ZcopyReaper, poses a significant risk to Linux environments. This flaw allows unprivileged ...
Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root
Public exploits for four patched Linux kernel flaws let local users gain root; three require unprivileged user namespaces.
Linux fixed a Windows frustration I didn’t know I had
I tried System76's Pop_OS Linux distro after hearing about it on the most recent episode of The Full Nerd, and it opened my eyes to something I never knew Windows could do—and now I'm desperately downloading third-party apps trying to replicate the feature in Microsoft's walled garden.
Linux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the world
The debate started on January 29th, 1992, over on the comp.os.minix Usenet board. In a thread titled " LINUX is obsolete ," ...
My 6 favorite Microsoft Office alternatives for Linux – and why
If you’re new to Linux and wondering what can replace Microsoft Office, you have plenty of options. Here are my favorite Linux office suites. Some might surprise you.
PearOS is the MacOS of Linux, and the latest version is better than ever
With the latest release, the developer refines pearOS' Liquid Glass look with a host of improvements. MacOS users should be ...