Why Linux power users love the features that hold it back
A mosaic of desktops, toolkits, and command line rituals reveal a culture that prizes control, polish, and tinkering.
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Show HN: I visualized 35 years of Linux history with code [video]
35 years ago (Oct 5, 1991), Linux 0.02 was released.I made an animated history of Linux using Claude Code + opus 5.5.I've been experimenting with a “video as code” workflow - source, prompts, assets, and rendering scripts live in Git, and the final video is a generated artifact.you can try it out here:Repo: https://github.com/sujee/visual-stories/tree/main/projects/l... | https://github.com/sujee/visual-storiesVideo: https:
Show HN: Bees – Run agentic teams on your own computer (open source)
Author here. Bees is an agentic harness that runs on your own machine — macOS, Windows and Linux, MIT/Apache 2.0.The problem we kept hitting in client work: every agent platform wanted to be the place your documents live. We wanted the opposite — the orchestrator reads your files in place, on your disk, and we never see them.How it works: you describe work in plain English, Bees proposes the agents, stages, tools and schedule, and nothing runs until you apply it. Agents execute locally in t
Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
DHH's "AI shed" idea got me thinking about getting a small $5–10/month VPS.I'm a Linux guy and have on many points of my life have a personal server. So I like the idea of having something always on, but I’m not sure the maintenance is worth it when most things can just run on my laptop.That said, I tend to do things myself and only later realize I could have automated or delegated them, so I may have a blind spot here.If you have a cheap VPS or mini PC, what actually en
Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Run On Very Large Servers, Experimental Sparse VHD
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Kagi gives up on Orion browser plan for Windows and Linux; to open source the code
Kagi is dropping internal development for Orion on Windows and Linux to refocus on macOS and iOS, with plans to open source the code.
Linux Backdoors Impersonate Email Security Tools to Evade Detection in Korea and Taiwan
Linux backdoors targeting South Korea and Taiwan disguise processes and traffic as trusted email services to evade detection.
These 6 operating systems inspired Windows and Linux, and one is probably running on your PC right now
Unix and later Linux, inherited some of Multics' features, such as the single directory tree, a kernel that's protected from ...
The only 2 Linux distros I recommend for laptops with 4GB of RAM
Breathing life into old hardware has been getting increasingly complicated, but it can work out if you know how to.
The future of Linux depends on these 4 distros
Step aside Mint.
MGLRU-FG Delivering Up To 10~40% Higher Performance For Linux In Some Tests
Linux's Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page ...
My 5 favorite Linux distros for security – and how they protect your privacy
If security is a top priority, you should consider one of these five Linux distributions. They're all free to install and use ...
Show HN: onesie – An expressive Unix-pipeable CLI for System One models like Jev
onesie is a Unix-style CLI for using System One models in shell pipelines, scripts, and agentic workflows: https://github.com/frodi-karlsson/onesie echo 'EVERYTHING IS DOWN, CALL ME NOW' | onesie 'does this convey urgency' -r # 0.99 It provides caching, batching, deduplication, unix composability, streaming, and even a way to calibrate thresholds and questions against labelled data: onesie calibrate -f shell-safety -i jsonl --map .command --id .id \
Show HN: SFML – A markup language for software factories, Terraform for agents
SFML is a language specification for defining software factories. You can think of it as Terraform for your software development lifecycle. I started from a language spec to help think through both how a factory is defined and how a conforming runner processes it.The push to do this comes from leading teams where everyone has a unique coding setup, which results in different agentic coding processes. People also want to work together on improving that process. Right now they do it through shared
every half-hour i get a mail from crond saying anacron has already been started
<p>every half-hour i get a mail from crond saying anacron has already been started</p>
What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
You can't use the app without having the permissions "always on" for microphone and nearby divicesI also think they changed the internal language because the terminal app used w3m up until the recent 753 mb forced-update. So after a few months of learning what w3m was, it wasn't even installed anymore in the freshly updated terminal appI also can't figure out what needs to be turned on/off to prevent the terminal app from crashing if I leave it idle for more than a
Show HN: .cmd, cross-platform build tool manager and task launcher you check in
I made this tool because whenever I want to do a new project, there is always this awkward step of picking required tooling that has to be installed on the system. I don't want to manage it, and I don't want to keep my local env in sync with CI configuration.There are many package managers that fill this niche already, like mise and asdf, but they have the same downside: they are a separate installation step you need to do on CI or your machine to work with the project. I wanted someth
Show HN: Television – an open source GUI for your agent harness
Hi HN, I'm co-creator of Television (https://television.run/).Me and the team at Telepath (https://telepath.computer/) have been cooking on this and testing it with a few hundred alpha users. We just opened up the repo to the public today.Television is a clean, beautiful place for all your artifacts. Think of it as a GUI for your agent harness, a visual space for creating and working with artifacts in collaboration with your agent. It works with any agent harne
Speech Synthesis on Linux: Adding a Voice to Scripts and Systems
They do the job where the job is simply to convert text to some kind of speech, but the mechanical output has kept them out ...
AMD iGPUs To Get Promising Performance Boost on Linux via PerfOpt Patch
The Linux kernel 7.4 is still a way out, with a late October/early November release anticipated, but it's already showing ...