The UNIX List

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

Show HN: I made a tiny MoE/Engram viz tool

As part of a ML study group I've been building tools to experiment with ML concepts. I use AI Coding agents to develop software, mostly cloud-based but I keep trying local LLMs on 12G, 16G, and 24G VRAM GPUs. Freetoken has made it possible to run larger MoE models on smaller GPUs.This inspired me to use my ML tools to build a tiny MoE model from scratch so I can experiment with different agent optimizations and things like Engram, recursive models, hierarchical modeles, KV Cache compressi

Show HN: Below the Root (1984 game) ported to JavaScript

As a kid, I loved this relatively unknown game, Below the Root. The world-building of the original trilogy of novels from the 1970s, is lovingly carried through into this side-scrolling "platform-adventure".You can play the IBM PC port of this game online fairly easily, but the quality of the C64 version is much better (non-dithered graphics, better colors, polyphonic sound). However I found there was a lot of friction to just play the C64 version. So back in 2013, I tried restoring

4 Linux distros I'd trust with my gaming PC before SteamOS

Bazzite is one of the most-recommended Linux distros for gaming, and it's what I'd point to if someone wanted the SteamOS ...

Linux Mint unveils Clockenstein and Xepub native apps

Scheduled for a Christmas rollout, Linux Mint 23 brings independent daemons for remote sync, custom sidebar grouping for ...

I moved away from Windows 11, but I didn't go to Linux

In recent months, I've talked a whole lot about moving away from Windows 11 and how much I prefer Linux. And yes, I've used ...

Linux 7.3 Hardware Support Adds Apple M3 and AMD GPUs

Linux 7.3 upgrades kernel performance with a massive 3-5x speed boost for ButterFS. Read our review of the new hardware and ...

PC gaming’s anti-cheat problem is getting ridiculous and Linux players are paying the price

Collateral damage.

The future of TAMS - our research project's next chapter with the Linux Foundation

What began as a BBC R&D exploration into cloud-fit production has grown into an industry-wide initiative. The TAMS specification is becoming a Linux Foundation Community Project, continuing to enable open, interoperable, software-defined media workflows.

A Void Linux maintainer orphaned over 100 packages because of an AI usage ban

People are beginning to take sides.

Can Omarchy Really Bring More People to Linux?

tony-btw and @DistroTube discuss why more attention on Linux can be valuable while questioning whether Omarchy is the right ...

Where Was Linux Written?

NERD TRIVIA: In which country was Linux written?

Omarchy Linux Review: Hyprland, Arch & AI Agents Built In

Meet Omarchy, an opinionated Arch-based Linux distro designed for developers and power users who want a polished Hyprland ...

Show HN: Toolcraft – open-source AI harness and starter for building design apps

MIT-licensed, 100% free starter kit, UI library, and AI harness for building your own design apps. Works with Codex, Claude, Cursor, or any other agents.I’ve always been passionate about pushing the boundaries of design software, spending years with tools like Figma, Blender, After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. But some design tasks need different software — tailored exactly to your needs and creative vision. Apps that aren’t vendor-locked. Apps you can freely modify to make your workflow