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Show HN: We polled 2,122 Americans on AI and regulation, and built a visualizer

We are researchers from Johns Hopkins University who wanted to measure American attitudes toward specific AI regulations. So we ran a poll, with SurveyUSA as our partner, to collect the data from a nationally representative sample, and we built a data-explorer to share it. We included questions about where people trust or do not trust AI, and how they expect AI to alter power, inequality, and the meaningfulness of work. There is also a quiz to try, if (a) you want to locate your own AI attitudes

Show HN: Macro – unified system for email, chat, tasks, docs, agents (AGPL/Rust)

Hey HN! We're launching Macro (macro.com) — an open source, AI-native system that unifies email, chat, tasks, calls, docs, and CRM in one interface with shared memory.Before Macro, we ran our startup on Superhuman + Slack + Notion + HubSpot + Linear. Each of these apps are good but they don't talk to each other, they're proprietary and closed off. We wanted one unified system, open source, with shared memory, that we could build our company around.Macro is built to be modular and

Show HN: A pure-Ruby X11 terminal

I use this as my regular xterm replacement... Why? Because I can.It's pure-Ruby down to the font-renderer, and the X11-bindings.(I also run a Ruby WM, a Ruby editor, file manager, and more, so this is just par for the course of my descent into madness)It supports double-width and double-height text, unicode (but double-width characters may currently be rescaled down), layering fonts, special rendering of box-drawing characters (to ensure they seamlessly scale and connect, and has reasonably

Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students

Hi! me and my friends together built an 8 bit CPU implemented in Logisim purely from scratch. The control unit of this system does not implement the generic microcode ROM or any kind of RAM. This was made purely from discrete logic gates and coded the system to run different programs.key features: Custom 16-instruction Harvard ISA, 8-bit fixed format, 4 general purpose registersHardwired control unit built entirely from AND/OR gate logic matrixDual-phase clocking to eliminate race conditio

Show HN: Ghostty in-browser with real client-side back end

A real work in progress I've got here. Our good friend Ghostty is now haunting the browser.Ghostty Playground is an experimental project based on ghostty-web. It includes the full Ghostty terminal with configs, like themes and keybinds (config panel is based on zerebos' ghostty-config).It runs a real Linux-like backend directly in the browser via BrowserPod with a dedicated filesystem, port-listening, bash, git, node.js, npm etc.It includes the ability to download small AI models via H

Show HN: HashMeterAi – Private AI Token Real Usage Meter for All Models

The honest, local-first usage meter for AI coding tools. Claude Code, Codex, Kimi, Qwen CLI, HashCortx, HashCerebrum — unified into one clean dashboard with usage based trophies :)

Ask HN: How long have you been looking for a job?

For me personally, I was laid off around a year and 3 months ago. I've gotten many interviews but no success. Just wondering how it's going for others. For context I'm a software engineer (unexpected, I know).

Emacs Musings: Week 11

Emacs Musings: Week 11Had a bit of a break to focus on getting settled into a new job, but am now back on the emacs enjoyment! New things:1. I’ve learnt the elisp syntax, and am slowly learning how to use it to automate things.2. Now that I know how elisp works, I feel a little more confident installing packages I need! It’s becoming a competent editor at last.3. Magit lives up to the hype. It just… works. perfectly. Nothing so far has been an issue with it.I’ve also ret

That's it. #linuxadmin #freebsd #opensource #UNIX #operatingsystem

That’s it.#linuxadmin #freebsd #opensource #UNIX #operatingsystem

illumos

illumosillumos – a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features for downstream distributions, including advanced system debugging, next generation filesystem… https://archiveos.org/illumos/

Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI

Hi HN! Excited to launch machine0, a CLI that makes it easy to create, provision and snapshot persistent NixOS (& Ubuntu) VMs.You can think of machine0 as a modern VPS provider. VMs stay on unless switched-off (with 99.99% uptime), they have static IPs and HTTPS endpoints, 1-60 vCPU, up to 240GB RAM and optionally GPUs. The CLI provides commands to manage lifecycle, snapshots and also provision the VMs using Nix flakes or Ansible playbooks. VMs are priced by the minute of usage.What makes ma

Show HN: SideDNS – Local DNS routing and HTTPS without editing /etc./hosts

Hi HN,I built SideDNS because I wanted local development environments to behave more like production.I was constantly switching between /etc/hosts, reverse proxies, local certificates, and various DNS tools just to access services through real domains.With SideDNS:sidedns add api.myapp.com --port 3000 or show hand with ephemeral rule sidedns run -d example.com mycommand with args // sidedns with detect openned portNow every application on your machine can access that service

33 Space-Saving Products That’ll Help Prevent The Need To Side-Step Through Your Entire Home

Because living in a glorified storage unit is <i>not</i> the move.

Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit

Attackers hijacked 400+ Arch Linux AUR packages to run a Rust credential stealer, with optional eBPF rootkit support on root systems.

Linux Foundation Announces Tokenomicon, a New Conference for the Economics of AI

Linux Foundation also releases FOCUS 1.4 and launches two new certifications, AI Value and Technology Value, at FinOps X in San Diego ...

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash

SteamOS could still be affected ...

Microsoft plans Linux tools and an RTX Spark desktop for Windows developers

The Dev Box looks a little like a cartoon anvil or piano fell onto an Xbox Series X and flattened it. Its aluminum casing was ...

One-Character Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Local Root Access, Exploits Now Public

CVE-2026-23111 is a Linux kernel nf_tables use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and escape a container.

RakuOS fixes the one thing that annoys me most about immutable Linux distros

RakuOS fixes the one thing that annoys me most about immutable Linux distros ...

The Arch Linux AUR had over 400 packages compromised with malware

Looks like the Arch Linux AUR (Arch User Repository) needs some better security and package checks - as some malicious users compromised a lot of packages.