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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

every half-hour i get a mail from crond saying anacron has already been started

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 ...

Windows abandoned my 12-year-old PC, so I revived it with Linux Mint

Giving my old hardware the TLC it deserves.

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 ...

Linux 7.4 To Introduce Initial Device Trees For Apple M4, A18 Pro For MacBook Neo

Asahi Linux developer Sven Peter today sent out the pull requests of the Apple SoC Device Tree changes they are ready to ...

3 real Linux tasks you can run on Android with Termux (no rooting required)

Termux can be extremely useful if used correctly.

Fedora Everything let me build the Linux desktop I actually want – like the old days

If you miss the early days of Linux, when you were the one who decided what was installed on your OS, Fedora has a treat for you.

Ask HN: Point of view about Agents Identity?

Human cannot duplicate (yet) themselves.Agent does.Private key, context, all can be copied in minutes.Could unique Agents identity possible outside of them owners and if yes how?curious to know what do you think.

Ask HN: Is there a market for AI critics?

I have a bit of an odd background -- like a lot of folks, I became interested in IT security during the free fire zone that was the late 90s and early 2000s internet -- battlefield promoted at age 12 into household sysadmin was an... interesting dynamic. (Parents try to take compy away, it inevitably fills with bloatware after a few days)Flash forward -- after reporting an insider threat, I don't currently work in IT security, and took on a job in retail.They seem to struggle with statistic

Show HN: Hypercolor – Epic RGB lighting control for everything

Light it up with Hypercolor, a new RGB lighting orchestration platform for all platforms and all devices. Effects are web pages (or glsl), rendered by an internal browser GPU accelerated all the way to the pixels. It's pure rust from the Servo renderer to the WASM UI.Comes with 40+ effects, supports ambilight, display faces, system monitoring, screen casting, and audio. Device support is pretty good but it's early and this is where we need the most help! You can find the full support m

Ask HN: How do you sync or migrate KDE settings?

Inspired by today's post on Ubuntu: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908757I use KDE at home, and installed (K)ubuntu on a separate laptop to use for work stuff (Yocto). It's a bit tedious to have to go into system settings and click through menus to configure e.g. middle-click settings, alt-tab settings, sleep/wake/lock behavior, Dolphin toolbar/views, etc, every time I set up a machine.Some options I've seen: Konsave (https://github.

Fractional Is Just a Racket

Today I’ve had it.I’ve done fractional work long before some idiot came up with the term. That is, I worked part time for 1 or more small businesses at the same time. That wasn’t unexpected back in the day (25 years ago, if you want to know). It didn’t need a fancy name. But someone just had to upscale the term “part-time” and gave us this nonsense.I’ve tried to get into the fractional racket a number of times in the past 10 years or so, but my sense is that something is wrong here. Yes, everyon

Show HN: CLI and TUI control for dps150 power supply

Hey HN,Powercycling and basic power supply measurments are essential part for embedded devices development debug.But there are no interface for pwoer control for coding agents. So I created that python package which interacts with portable Fnirsi DPS-150, can toggle output, set voltage and current limits.Unexpected outcome is that it is MUCH MORE convenient to manage it in terminal and tmux than clicking on the box itself.TUI dashboard with charts, numbers and hotkeys is included.

How much of our infrastructure uses 32 bit wide signed integers to store Unix epoch timestamps? No pressure, but I need to know...

How much of our infrastructure uses 32 bit wide signed integers to store Unix epoch timestamps? No pressure, but I need to know by Tuesday, 19 January 2038 at 03:14:07 UTC.

Show HN: Gryphana – an IDE that runs in the browser

Hi HN! We're a two-person team building Gryphana. It's a full IDE (VS Code-based editor, file management, code execution with a live console) that runs entirely in the browser - nothing to install, works from any device, and lets you pick from different OS and toolchain setups.This is a rough alpha. Editor, file management, and running code on Linux with a live console work. Not yet there: GUI streaming, Windows environments, GitHub integration, collaboration.Would love to hear what yo