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Show HN: Publish Markdown – A tool to publish Markdown file in one click

https://publishmarkdown.com
1•dzky•1m ago•0 comments

The World's Smartest City Is a Tiny German Village

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/etteln-smartest-city/
1•fodmap•3m ago•0 comments

Turning Claude Code into My Best Design Partner

https://betweentheprompts.com/design-partner/
2•scastiel•4m ago•0 comments

The Differences Between Expats and Immigrants

https://mertbulan.com/2025/08/23/differences-between-expats-and-immigrants/
1•mertbio•4m ago•0 comments

Secret Management on NixOS with sops-Nix

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-08-24-secret-management-with-sops-nix/
1•todsacerdoti•6m ago•0 comments

Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf]

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf
1•Michelangelo11•8m ago•0 comments

Welcome to Fairbourne, the Welsh town that could one day be swallowed by the sea

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-24/residents-in-uk-town-told-their-homes-could-be-lost-to-sea...
1•breve•16m ago•1 comments

PrivacyPack

https://privacypack.org/
1•XzetaU8•19m ago•0 comments

Should you use a standing desk? The benefits are real, but seem to vary with age

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/08/15/should-you-use-a-standing-desk
1•helsinkiandrew•21m ago•1 comments

High priests: why scientists gave magic mushrooms to the clergy

https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/08/21/high-priests-why-scientists-gave-magic-mushrooms-to-...
3•helsinkiandrew•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A "Catalog of Catalogs" for Unified Metadata

https://github.com/apache/gravitino
1•apachegravitino•26m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Windows 95 Launch with Bill Gates and Jay Leno (1995) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JzfROUDsK0
2•unleaded•29m ago•0 comments

Remembering the Hysteria over Windows 95 Launch, 1995

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/windows-95-launch-day-1995/
2•js2•30m ago•0 comments

A visual introduction to big O notation

https://samwho.dev/big-o/
1•samwho•31m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk's X Agrees to Settlements with Former Employees

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/elon-musk-x-settlements.html
2•01-_-•31m ago•0 comments

The biggest chipmaker needs to move beyond Taiwan

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/08/21/the-worlds-biggest-chipmaker-needs-to-move-beyond-t...
3•01-_-•32m ago•0 comments

Google AI Gemini

1•drcrapper•35m ago•1 comments

Airborne Aircraft Carriers for Observers, Sensors, Antennas – and Other Aircraft

https://www.combatreform.org/airborneaircraftcarriers.htm
1•Michelangelo11•41m ago•1 comments

DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase

https://www.aitidbits.ai/p/deepwiki
2•childishnemo•47m ago•0 comments

Arnold J. Toynbee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee
1•handfuloflight•56m ago•0 comments

How to Fix Your Context

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/26/how-to-fix-your-context.html
2•itzlambda•1h ago•0 comments

Grok 2.5 is now open source. Grok 3 will be open source in about 6 months

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1959379349322313920
5•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Small Talk

https://talk.bradwoods.io/blog/small-talk/
2•bradwoodsio•1h ago•0 comments

Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp

https://github.com/phantomics/seed
10•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/rapid-loss-antarctic-ice-may-be-climate-tipping-point-...
9•yusufaytas•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Strapped – A gut wrenching short story about anxiety and inner demons

1•theputdown•1h ago•0 comments

Neural Nets vs. Cellular Automata

https://www.nets-vs-automata.net/
4•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

SurrealDB is sacrificing data durability to make benchmarks look better

https://blog.cf8.gg/surrealdbs-ch/
1•vulnerabiliT•1h ago•0 comments

Half my work is adding a cache

https://blog.waleedkhan.name/half-my-work-is-adding-a-cache/
2•LostMyLogin•1h ago•0 comments

The Swiss Federal Council: A Unique Model of Shared Leadership

https://patriciabt.com/blog/the-swiss-federal-council-a-unique-model-of-shared-leadership/
1•luu•1h ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor

https://github.com/kagehq/port-kill
54•lexokoh•5h ago

Comments

password4321•4h ago
Interesting idea ("manages development processes running on ports 2000-6000"), and props for hitting the front page though technically this is a "Show HN". Screenshot(s)?
lexokoh•4h ago
Not sure I can add images here, but if you check the repo, I'll be adding one shortly.
nbbaier•3h ago
Neat! There's also a raycast extension for this kind of thing for anyone who wants to go that route:

https://www.raycast.com/lucaschultz/port-manager

dsab•2h ago
What is "development process" ??? What is "business use case" of this tool? Such a big readme and no introduction to why I should be interested in this tool.
motorest•2h ago
> Such a big readme and no introduction to why I should be interested in this tool.

This.

Why in the hell would anyone want to kill random processes that open a port in the tange 2000-6000? And why is this need so pressing as to require a full blown monitor integrated in a task bar?

Without context, this sounds like a complete random silly project that makes no sense and serves no purpose at all.

bigyabai•2h ago
Without context, it sounds like something someone vibe-coded and git push-ed up to the internet. Which is fine, but it's just unusually precise and verbose for something that would end up being a shell alias for most developers.
todotask2•2h ago
The author also posted it on Reddit. He used it for himself, but some people use it even though it’s bad practice.
lexokoh•2h ago
It's just a tool I built for myself. There's no business case. It just helps me
_def•2h ago
I'm not looking forward to the near future where it will become harder and harder to distinguish little projects like this from AI generated tools.
userbinator•2h ago
The README already has a rather repugnant LLM-ish feel to it; lots of lists and verboseness, while saying very little.

Also, this is a perplexing choice (which also serves to illustrate the above point regarding verboseness):

    White background with red center: 1-9 processes (some development servers) 
    White background with orange center: 10+ processes (many development servers)
lexokoh•2h ago
A lot of ReadMe's are generated with AI. Doesn't really mean anything.
userbinator•2h ago
You're right. A lot of words that don't really mean anything; and that's exactly why you should not do it if you want actual humans to read it.
nojs•1h ago
> Quit: Exits the application
AbuAssar•2h ago
the ascii tree in "Project Structure" is a dead giveaway that AI is used in this project
pacifika•2h ago
Why would you need to do that?
userbinator•2h ago
To filter out the spam.
faangguyindia•2h ago
On macOS i've this in my zshrc file:

`killport() { kill -9 $(lsof -t -i :$1 -sTCP:LISTEN) }`

i use it like killport 8000

lexokoh•2h ago
Nice. I have this too. I wanted something more visual and expansive.
incanus77•2h ago
These would be good additions to SwiftBar/BitBar.
hbbio•1h ago
Didn't expect to see the FSL for that kind of project :)

The part I'm interested in is the tray_icon crate but I'll look at the package directly https://docs.rs/tray-icon/latest/tray_icon/.

donatj•59m ago
Ports 2000 - 6000?

I know I am getting old but when did we stop running things on 8xxx? The more 8's the more dev it was. 8000, 8080, 8088, 8888