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Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
75•kim_rutherford•10h ago

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kristopolous•8h ago
Reminds me of

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView

It'd be interesting to try this concept again on the wildly different computers we have now compared to 40 years ago.

4k monitors, high speed networks, dozens of cores, things are significantly different - might open some wildly exciting and new possibilities

skissane•7h ago
Also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaWindows

Although I’ve never succeeded in locating a copy of the spec, any implementations, even a screenshot… would be great if any of them turned up some day

eschaton•6h ago
This should have enough to build either an emulator or a window manager.

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/displayIndustryAssociation/AlphaWi...

skissane•3h ago
Also there is a firmware dump for the HP 700/70 which implemented it: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/terminal/700/HP_700_70_C1093/

Likewise for the Televideo 995-65: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/televideo/995/firmware/

jd3•6h ago
I'm a fan of the tiles/patterns from DESQView/X

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16044021

kristopolous•5h ago
I got Desqview/X running about 25 years ago on some Everex. An X Terminal that ran win16 software - Useless but fascinating.

IIRC there was some additional minimal runtime stuff like perl/awk/sed that came with it kinda like MinGW later on

johng•5h ago
Same experience here. It blew my mind but it wasn't really useable.
boznz•5h ago
and Borland Turbovision
ivolimmen•3h ago
... and visual basic 1.0 for DOS
matt3210•3h ago
Peak UI for sure!
behnamoh•2h ago
Does it support Liquid Glass? :')

Show HN: I built a Chrome extension that makes bug reporting dead simple

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fast-review-web-testing-b/fpehikammelnmpcobdfnibjbkgcokfgg
1•baursha•27s ago•0 comments

Another one for the graveyard: Google to kill Instant Apps in December

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/another-one-for-the-graveyard-google-to-kill-instant-apps-in-december/
1•rurp•1m ago•0 comments

With Quantum Entanglement, Blockchain, Can Generate Real Random Numbers

https://www.iflscience.com/with-quantum-entanglement-and-blockchain-we-can-finally-generate-real-random-numbers-79601
1•Bluestein•2m ago•0 comments

Munich from a Hamburger's Perspective

https://mertbulan.com/2025/06/14/munich-from-a-hamburgers-perspective/
1•mertbio•6m ago•0 comments

RBAC Atlas: A curated index of rbac policies in K8s

https://rbac-atlas.github.io
1•alevsk•8m ago•1 comments

Working from home makes us happier

https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/scientists-have-been-studying-remote-work-for-four-years-and-have-reached-a-very-clear-conclusion-working-from-home-makes-us-happier/
1•01-_-•13m ago•0 comments

Turing Trees

https://far.in.net/turing-trees
1•matomatical•14m ago•0 comments

Chinese scientists have uncovered a deposit of 1M tons of thorium

https://www.info-culture.com/trends-8332-chinese-scientists-have-uncovered-a-deposit-of-1-million-tons-of-thorium-estimated-to-be-worth-178-billion.html
2•01-_-•14m ago•0 comments

The latest room-temperature superconductor claim debunked

https://www.quantamagazine.org/room-temperature-superconductivity-claim-falls-apart-update-20201014/
2•karlperera•46m ago•2 comments

Game Boy Advanced programming tutorial

https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/toc.htm
2•ibobev•55m ago•0 comments

The herb linked to better memory, lower anxiety and Alzheimer's protection

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/health-and-families/rosemary-benefits-alzheimers-memory-anxiety-b2770395.html
2•XzetaU8•56m ago•0 comments

The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, 'We want you'

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/the-u-s-navy-is-more-aggressively-telling-startups-we-want-you/
3•gametorch•1h ago•1 comments

Advanced tool for repository analytics, statistics, including fake stars

https://github.com/snooppr/shotstars
1•zaharqoops•1h ago•1 comments

YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2814755/youtube-might-slow-down-your-videos-if-you-block-ads.html
4•rapamycin•1h ago•0 comments

Nesdev.org

https://www.nesdev.org/
2•ibobev•1h ago•1 comments

Simple ideas with impact from Clojure and Rama (by Nathan Marz) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25lJNRibYv8&list=PLtw0bWXdq7pMmm1ALroZ_c5aZB-l4V06V&index=1
2•adityaathalye•1h ago•0 comments

Game Boy Development Community

https://gbdev.io/
3•ibobev•1h ago•0 comments

ExpDeals 5.0 – Only Working Priceline Express Deals Finder

http://expdeals.com
1•coolwulf•1h ago•0 comments

Frontier Valley: New Special Regulation Zone in Alameda, CA

https://frontiervalley.com/
4•ddlatham•1h ago•2 comments

Pessimists Archive

https://pessimistsarchive.org/
1•animal_spirits•1h ago•0 comments

Vector and Semantic Search in the Lakehouse

https://www.e6data.com/blog/vector-semantic-search-lakehouse-faster-insight-unstructured-data
1•gete6data•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What body of knowledge do you have that LLMs don't?

1•toephu2•1h ago•0 comments

Anonymous video chat app – no login, just connect (Java and WebRTC)

https://randomchat-hfta.onrender.com
2•thughari•1h ago•1 comments

Physicists on a remote island: we visit the ultimate quantum party

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01863-w
1•MukundMohanK•1h ago•0 comments

Traveling the Cosmos with Carter Emmart, One Last Time

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/science/astronomy-planetarium-amnh-carter-emmart.html
1•babushkaboi•1h ago•0 comments

Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13548
3•fzliu•1h ago•1 comments

How do you use business automation with AI?

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-683cc317abb08191bca3da9b36e9f008-master-business-automation-tools-mba-gpt
1•arcknighttech•1h ago•0 comments

Advent of Computing: Episode 159 – The Intel 286: A Legacy Trap

https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-159-the-intel-286-a-legacy-trap
2•matt_d•1h ago•0 comments

The Irony of This Post

https://www.vibesec.app/
2•officialmoseti•2h ago•1 comments

Chapter 1 of Morris Chang's memoir, translated from Chinese

https://karinabao.substack.com/p/morris-changs-memoir-chapter-1-english
1•walz•2h ago•0 comments