The UNIX List

Show HN: Pkgbot – Fast Linux package search engine

I recently switched to NixOS and in the process of setting it up, found the package search on its repo site very clunky and tedious. No permalink to share, no way to find or sort by recency or version.That got me thinking that most repo websites, including aggregators like pkgs.org and repology.org have the same issue with UX (AUR is nice and simple though).So I made https://pkg.bot on top of the excellent Repology data dump specifically with the following subjective goals:- Good, non-

Show HN: In-Browser Sanskrit ASR Model

Su-śrotā Sanskrit ASR — ONNX & In-Browser INT8 This repository provides ONNX and INT8 quantized exports of Su-śrotā (v13b), a scholar-grade Sanskrit speech recognition model developed by Prof. Prathosh A P (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru).These models allow running Sanskrit ASR 100% serverless in a web browser (via onnxruntime-web) or locally on Mac/Linux/Windows with zero PyTorch/NeMo dependencies.Demo -> https://h3manth.com/ai/sanskrit-asr&#x2F

Show HN: Pingularity – scheduled Ookla/iperf3 speedtest dashboard, outage alerts

I was having intermittent issues with my ISP after switching and was looking for something that would let me easily trend downtimes, speed tests, and latency, but the existing projects out there (speedtest-tracker, myspeed, netcheck, etc.) lacked a few things I needed. I gradually put together my own, it's simple to install and supports Linux, macOS, Windows, and Docker.Interactive demo with sample data: https://demo.pingularity.dev/Install from https://pingularity.

Show HN: An open source PDF Reader with annotation, notes, SRS, Linking support

A calm, local-first desktop PDF reader designed to make sure you remember what you read. You can link notes across files and group notes/annotations into a larger Markdown note, which can be linked with others.The Releases are only for Windows, but you can use the code to build for any system Tauri Supports (Linux- Debian or macOS).It's fast and small in size and has first-class support for annotations and note-taking.You can check out the code herehttps://github.com/ros

Dennis Hilk Introduces ‘The Lost Administrator’, a Techno-Thriller Exploring Linux and Digital Evidence

WIESMOOR, LOWER SAXONY, GERMANY, September 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- German author, open-source developer, and ...

PS5 Linux dev abandons the project as AI 'slop kiddies' ruin open-source mods ahead of GTA 6

"I asked them to at least wait for GTA 6 to come out," says Andy Nguyen ...

I found the best speech-to-text tool for Linux, and I’ll never dictate notes again without it

If dictation is your favorite method of taking notes and Linux is your desktop OS, Speech Note is the perfect app for you.

Linux development is really benefiting from AI, but not from its coding

LLMs are far better than coding at one thing.

PS5 Linux developer drops project after “last” hypervisor bug is reported to Sony

TheFloW is leaving the PS5 development scene after a dispute over disclosure of a hypervisor vulnerability. His unfinished ...

Getting Linux onto a PS5 screeches to a halt after the hypervisor bug it relies on was reported to Sony

Over on X, the original creator of the Linux on PS5 mod, Andy Nguyen, announced that the project was pretty much over. To get ...

Survive any Linux catastrophe with a Btrfs snapshot – these GUIs make it easy

Want to ensure your Linux system can recover from a catastrophe? Consider a handy GUI app for your Btrfs filesystem. These ...

Drama Around A PS5 Exploit, AI-Coding, Linux, And GTA 6 Has One Popular Hacker Calling It Quits

Earlier this year, longtime PlayStation hacker TheFlow shared a video of a modded PS5 running Linux and playing Grand Theft ...

Forgot the Linux Command? It’s Right on Your Desk 💻🐧 | Linux Commands Cheat Sheet Desk Mat

Still Googling the same Linux commands over and over? Keep the commands you actually need right in front of you while ...

Show HN: Plurnk (Yet *Another* AI Harness)

I am desperate for feedback on my homebrewed harness, "Plurnk."I've been dogfooding it on my RTX5070Ti with only 16GB VRAM as my daily driver for weeks now and it's genuinely better than everything else available (I'm biased).1. Curation, not CompactionThe model's fully responsible (bitter lesson) for deterministically curating its own context.2. ANTLR GrammarThe dozen verbs for the harness are optimized for model pretraining, looking like markdown while being fully

Show HN: farseer.space – fly anywhere in the universe in your browser

I've been hacking on a universe simulator, modeled on the path that the amazing SpaceEngine worked out over a decade ago, but without its Windows platform restriction. It takes real scientific data where we have it and augments it with procedural generation. So you can fly to e.g. the Whirlpool Galaxy, see a real image of it, but then fly into a 3d model that's created based on the image characteristics and visit individual stars etc within it. Same with nebula and other celestial obje

The 60-year-old Unix design choice that made the Linux desktop a mess

A heritage of dumb terminals and 1980s workstations still leaves Linux rooted in text tools and unconventional window ...

Ask HN: MacBook Pro (Max) equivalent Linux laptop?

Looking for recommendations :)

DietPi released a new version v10.7

DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki&

Show HN: I Built a CLI for Proton Mail, Drive, Calendar, Pass and Contacts

I made a command line tool for Proton. It covers Mail, Drive, Calendar, Pass and Contacts. It is one static binary for Linux, macOS and Windows.Proton doesn't have a CLI for all their web interfaces. There is one for Drive and one for Pass, but the other ones are not really there. There's no Mail CLI, Contacts or other CLIs. I wanted to have everything in one.It does logins the way the Proton apps do, with SRP. It decrypts and encrypts on your machine with Proton's own Go librarie

Show HN: Simpleboot and Easyboot

These are FLOSS boot loaders and disk utilities which follow the suckless philosophy (https://suckless.org/philosophy/). Despite being totally dependency-free, they come with a fully featured single command to create bootable disk images out of a directory (utility is available on Windows, Linux and other POSIX systems). Usage is as simple as it gets.There are two repositories, depending on the desired use case:Simpleboot is the little brother, an embeddable boot loader: http