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Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim

I posted an early beta of this game a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180924 - May 2026 (45 comments) and today released the full version.You all gave extremely valuable and helpful feedback back then - thank you so much for that. It led to a lot of improvements:* I reworked the onboarding tutorials multiple times for clarity, adding protections to stop players from shooting themselves in the foot* I dropped the Comic Sans-reminiscent font and replaced it wi

Show HN: Kavkash – An Atuin inspired history engine built with stock Linux utils

I'm a long-time Atuin user. After seeing another alternative - stinkpot - posted recently, I wanted to take my shot at it too. Rather than re-implementing it in a fancy language, i wanted to see if it would be possible to build a functional one entirely on Linux utilities and system packages. LLMs did the heavy work, i did some small touches and kavkash is now pretty functional for my everyday use, replacing atuin.Kavkash supports bash, zsh and fish. It can import shell history files and at

Show HN: Sleezr – Manage your hosts file without opening a terminal

I kept juggling sudo, comment blocks, and hidden typos in /etc/hosts every time I moved between local, staging, and client projects so I built Sleezr.It's a native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux that lets you: - Create a named environment per project and apply it in a few seconds - Flush DNS with one click (runs the correct command per OS) - Auto-backup before every apply, so you can restore your hosts file if something breaks - Handle large hosts files (1000+ entries)

Modders are trying to bring Game Pass and Xbox games to Mac and Linux

The big picture: Combined with compatibility layers such as Wine and Proton, third-party apps like Heroic Games Launcher have made games from multiple PC storefronts accessible on Linux and macOS. The ...

New OVSwrap Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Open vSwitch

CVE-2026-64531 lets local users exploit Open vSwitch kernel memory corruption to gain root, with a public PoC covering roughly 800 builds.

This free Linux tool makes it easy to check your PC battery and disk usage - here's how

The Mission Center system monitor for Linux adds some new features that will appeal to a broader user base, especially those with laptops.

SteamVR Beta 2.17.7 brings improvements to wired headset support on Linux / SteamOS

VR on Linux has quite a number of sore spots but it seems Valve do continue to improve it, with the latest SteamVR Beta hopefully making it a lot nicer.

Linux Mint will delete your old kernel versions automatically

Linux Mint has announced an overhaul in its kernel management, and will now automatically delete old kernels once a week. Kernel management is moving out ...

Hold up. Is the year of Linux actually happening?

StatCounter data shows that the market share of the Linux operating system has tripled since May, climbing to over ten ...

DualSense haptics land on Linux after six years: GE-Proton 11-4 ships today

GE-Proton DualSense haptics on Linux are finalized in today's GE-Proton 11-4, ending a six-year gap. The community Proton ...

Xbox PC Games May Soon Be Coming to Linux, Thanks to Fan-Made Project

A fan-made project may soon bring Xbox PC games to Linux-based systems, including Xbox Game Pass titles and beyond. Here's the latest on that.

Linux Use Skyrockets as It Becomes ‘OS of Choice for AI Agents’

Instead of more Americans using the Linux operating system, the sharp increase may be attributable to a different cause.

Linux desktop use surged to 22% on one workday, Cloudflare data shows

The Linux desktop continues to grow in popularity. Cloudflare numbers show Linux at work is making gains AI is a big reason ...

Xodus cracks Xbox authentication and game package decryption to bring PC Game Pass to Linux

PC Game Pass on Linux took a major step forward: Xodus, from Heroic Games Launcher developers, has cracked Xbox ...

Back in the Day: UNIX, Minix and Linux

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...

Timeline: 40 years of Unix

Ever wonder about how Unix got started, not to mention all the twists and turns it took along the way? Here are some milestones of the operating system’s four-decade-long history. 1956 A U.S.

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Ask HN: Could Linux on the Amiga have saved Commodore from bankruptcy?

Given that NeXTSTEP saved Apple, one might wonder whether Linux could have saved Commodore.<p>What do you think?

Show HN: Clawx – A package manager where packages are agent tasks

Hi HN — I built Clawx, an experiment in treating agent-driven tasks as installable packages.A Clawx package is a Markdown file with YAML metadata. The Markdown body becomes the system prompt for an agent CLI such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, or Antigravity. Clawx fetches the package from a registry, verifies its SHA-256 hash, shows what it is requesting permission to do, asks for approval, runs it, and records the execution.The idea came from repeatedly writing the same operational p