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Show HN: Native Immediate-Mode UI Library

https://github.com/petabyt/rim
3•petabyt•1y ago
For the past few months I've been working on Rim, an immediate-mode UI library that renders down to native retained-mode toolkit widgets.

I've always preferred using native desktop toolkits for my projects, but it's always such a pain to use a retained-mode approach and maintain state in two different places.

This, and my jealousy of how easy people in the ImGui world have it (it's so much easier!), led me to create a virtual DOM for desktop toolkits.

This gives me the full power of the immediate-mode paradigm, but still allows me to target native toolkits.

Feel free to ask any questions or provide suggestions.

On-the-fly Godot map editor

https://playpacoca.org/editor/
1•r2ob•28s ago•0 comments

There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text

https://sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/there-are-no-lossless-transformations-of-natural-language-text
1•speckx•40s ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a WASM-based spreadsheet engine that's pretty fast

https://podraven.github.io/titan-engine/
1•deathg0d•52s ago•0 comments

Interstitial risk: when two secure systems make one vulnerable one

https://gneiss-group.com/writing/interstitial-risk/
1•raphtheb•1m ago•0 comments

Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhVJ7cv9B4
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

Open models for AI were inevitable (op-ed) – Bill Gurley

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/20/open-model-ai-is-good-competition-anthropic-op...
1•aanet•2m ago•1 comments

Polling: AI isn't immune from the diploma divide

https://news.americanson.ai/p/ai-isnt-immune-from-the-diploma-divide
1•colinhb•3m ago•0 comments

SaaS *is* dead. But not because AI "killed" it, because AI killed it

https://avivcarmi.com/saas-is-dead/
1•avivcarmis1•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone using MCP notifications?

1•ilbert•4m ago•0 comments

The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80%

https://boilingsteam.com/the-great-steam-deck-volume-crash/
1•ekianjo•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LectureToBook – Turn Videos into a PDF/ePub

https://lecturetobook.com/
1•h02•5m ago•0 comments

A 600-acre AI data center could cost some Wisconsin residents their land

https://abcnews.com/US/600-acre-ai-data-center-cost-wisconsin-residents/story?id=130153006
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•5m ago•0 comments

Chinese AI Open Weights Grow Safer as American AI Becomes Dead Weight

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/chinese-ai-open-weights-grow-safer-as-american-ai-becomes-dead-weight/
2•speckx•6m ago•0 comments

N8n-rustful-operator – a Kubernetes operator in Rust that runs n8n from CRDs

https://github.com/jakub-k-slys/n8n-rustful-operator
1•jakub-k-slys•7m ago•0 comments

Some AI Systems Differentially Downplay Their Creators' Controversies

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7059338
1•fi-le•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DeepSQL – A self-hostable AI DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL

https://deepsql.ai/
1•venkat971•9m ago•0 comments

AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen...
1•Brajeshwar•10m ago•0 comments

Current Opinions on AI Generation

https://risingthumb.xyz/Writing/Blog/Current_Opinions_on_AI_Generation
1•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

Wargaming and the Proliferation of Virtual Tabletops

https://realmsofshod.com/blog/wargaming-and-the-proliferation-of-vtts
1•vvarpig•12m ago•0 comments

Standard Schema Playground

https://www.osbytes.io/tools/standard-schema-playground
1•dlln•13m ago•0 comments

Jaron Lanier: there is no AI (2023)

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai
3•simonebrunozzi•13m ago•0 comments

Commitcraft – writes your Conventional Commit message from the staged diff(BYOK)

https://commitcraft-app.netlify.app
2•Purkit•14m ago•0 comments

ArcBox: From-Scratch Container Runtime for macOS in Rust (Docker, K8s, MicroVMs)

https://github.com/arcboxlabs/arcbox
2•opwizardx•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vestige - Splits large AI diffs into reviewable chunks

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Vestige.vestige-vscode-extension
2•glendatxn•17m ago•1 comments

China saved the world last month [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkA0bkb6ZO0
2•kklisura•17m ago•0 comments

The Startup Graveyard Is Full of Problem Solvers

https://www.minid.net/2019/7/30/find-a-problem-and-solve-it
2•meerita•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

https://wheesper.com/
3•whatdoyouthink2•18m ago•0 comments

Prompts for Progress

https://wintercarver.github.io/prompts-for-progress/
2•wintercarver•19m ago•1 comments

Running Zed Editor on ARM Chromebooks (Mali G925 / Crostini)

https://blog.johnozbay.com/running-zed-editor-on-arm-chromebooks-mali-g925-crostini-2.html
2•speckx•20m ago•0 comments

GNU Hurd Makes Progress on AArch64, Writing Translators in Rust

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-Q2-2026
2•arto•20m ago•0 comments