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Show HN: linecast – weather, radar, tides and maps in the terminal
I've been working on linecast, a free and open source collection of six terminal applications: weather, radar, sunshine, moon, tides, and maps.It's as if the Old Farmer's Almanac was built for Minitel.I made it because I'd been using the terminal a lot more over the past couple of years, I'm opinionated about weather forecast IA and design, and I liked the idea of making useful little terminal desk ornaments.The applications use ANSI color and Unicode braille characters
Show HN: A tool that intentionally makes you forget your Screen Time passcode
iOS Screen Time is a fantastic app blocker because it's built into the OS, unlike third party apps that can simply be uninstalled.The only problem is that it uses a 4 digit passcode. If I set the passcode myself, I can always override my app limits by tapping ignore limit and entering the screetime passcode.So I built WaitToUnlock.com. It's a simple website that generates a random ScreenTime passcode and guides you through entering it in a deliberately confusing way (for example: "
Ask HN: What a fullstack dev should know about security?
Hi all,I am asked to help a fullstack dev team (Spring+Angular) to skill up in term of security.I am skeptical about fullstack profiles, how many fullstack devs knows in depth display:flex and in the same time transaction isolation level ?So as fullstack devs they are not supposed to become cyber-security experts in their company but since they don't have a cyber-security expert they must level up so they don't put their company at risk. Even if they hire one they must know all the bas
Bell System Unix
Inspired by a convo w/ my friend about putting Unix-tan in Bell System gear (and manholes).
With apologies to...
Bell System UnixInspired by a convo w/ my friend about putting Unix-tan in Bell System gear (and manholes). With apologies to this 1972 ad.
One of the biggest questions people have when they want to start their Linux journey is which distro should they use and I want...
One of the biggest questions people have when they want to start their Linux journey is which distro should they use and I want to say that my absolute favorite is called Puppy Linux because it’s wicked tiny and I have shitty machines that run super fast with that on it but it is definitely not beginner friendly and it sucks ass but I love it, if you’re reading this do not install Puppy Linux first but I do think it’s really funnyIf you want my legitimate suggestion I say go wi
Show HN: Reverse-engineered a gaming mouse's HID protocol to bring it to Linux
I’ve been reverse-engineering the HID protocol of an Attack Shark X6 gaming mouse (no official Linux support) using Ghidra and USB captures, and building a native Linux desktop app around it in Go + Wails, with a React frontend.The protocol itself is fairly advanced. DPI, RGB lighting, polling rate and button remapping are all documented at the protocol level. The app currently only exposes DPI configuration though, the rest is reverse-engineered but not yet wired into the UI.One piece is still
New Game Performance Updates Make SteamOS a Viable Linux Choice
Steam Machine updates show Linux gaming is growing as Epic Games develops a Linux client. Find out why gaming hardware prices are expected to rise.
Linux 7.3 will boost minimum framerates by 7x on older CPUs, which is perfect in this hardware crisis
It won't release for a little while, though.
Linux 7.2 Enables HDMI 2.1 FRL Support for AMD Display GPUs
Improve hardware compatibility with Linux 7.2 kernel updates, featuring AMD GPU HDMI 2.1 FRL support and major GNOME 50 features in Manjaro.
China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux
China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux ...
The 6 AI-free Linux distros I recommend most - and why they're likely to stay that way
If AI isn't your jam, and you're looking for an operating system that doesn't (and won't) force it on you, look no further than these Linux distributions.
Proton VPN on Linux gets a huge accessibility boost with 20 new languages
Proton VPN’s Linux application is about to get a lot more accessible, as the privacy provider announces automatic ...
There’s NO Excuse Not To Try Linux!
Thanks to MSI for sponsoring this video! Check out their Intel Gamer Days deals at https://msi.gm/SA322D11 People are clearly ...
Is this AWS RI/SP simulation engine interesting / valuable?
TLDR; This AWS RI/SP tool we built might have unique features that are important especially for companies running large, high-variability workloads with high coverage targets. We want feedback on how true that is and whether we should open this up to others, possibly even for free or as OSS.Setup: We're a small cloud cost consultancy, but not a tools vendor. We do build a lot of internal tooling for our own use. We serve companies spending 7- to 9-figures (USD) annually.One of the inte
Show HN: Omacosy – omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP
I have been using omarchy on my tower since nearly a year now, shortly after it was released first. I really love the experience I am having with it but I still use my macbook for daly work, so I wanted to recreate a similar experience on it. Thats why I created omacosy, a setup for tiling windows, custom menu bar, some themes from omarchy, focus follows mouse, focus rings around windwos, some mac flavors with trackpad events and a custom mission control overview for your workspaces.I used AeroS
troff.org — the Text Processor for Typesetters
troff.org — the Text Processor for Typesetters—————GNU roff (groff) — a GNU project
NexentaStor
NexentaStorNexentaStor – a Unix operating system based on the illumos kernel and is a direct fork of OpenSolaris. NextenaStor provides a graphical and text-based interface for system management. https://archiveos.org/nexentastor/
Hidden in a university closet was an important relic experts thought was lost forever
A chance discovery in a university storage space revealed a long-lost artifact with major implications for the history of ...
Show HN: Pharos – A package manager for MCP servers (like NPM, but for MCP)
Hey HN! Dev here. I built PHAROS, an open-source CLI package manager for MCP servers. Think npm, but for MCP.What it does:
- Search across all MCP registries in one place
- Install servers with dependency resolution and lockfiles
- Audit installed servers against known vulnerabilities
- Import your existing MCP client configs
- Publish your own serversSingle Go binary, no runtime deps. macOS, Linux, Windows. MIT licensed.
There is a second repo for the Agent SDK it has MCP/MCP-Apps server f
Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?
I'm looking for a good, simple desktop IMAP email client for Windows and Linux and coming up empty handed.<p>Thunderbird absolutely sucks now, it is borderline unusable (it would not connect to our internal email system, and I had no patience with its incomprehensible UI to figure out why).<p>New Outlook is just a web wrapper.<p>It feels like there are far fewer options in this space than existed 20 years ago.<p>Does anyone still use Seamonkey?