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Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•54s ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•1m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•1m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•2m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•3m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•6m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•10m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•12m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•16m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•17m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•18m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•25m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•27m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•31m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
9•mooreds•32m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•33m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•35m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•39m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•41m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
2•saikatsg•41m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
2•aweussom•41m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•43m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•44m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•50m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•52m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•52m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•54m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: DWS OS, a Plan 9 Inspired Web “OS”

https://dws.rip
48•tdubey•4mo ago
Hi HN,

I've always loved the aesthetic, quirks, and concepts of Plan9, and I wanted to see how far I could vibe-code a web desktop/OS that resembled it. The result is DWS OS.

My goal was to reach a point where I could build "userspace" apps for this OS, in the OS. DWS OS has a virtual filesystem, an approximation of the ACME editor, file browser, internet browser (just an iframe for fun), and a few other apps to discover.

The environment supports uploading and downloading data from the virtual filesystem, along with support for JavaScript programming within ACME and an API for building GUI apps within DWS OS and interacting with the OS DOM. Lastly, you can export and import the state of your OS as a JSON to share with others! Check out the `examples/` directory!

I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions and see if you build anything interesting within the OS, thanks!

Comments

packetlost•4mo ago
I like having acme(ish) in the browser, that's cool!

The fact that the window decoration buttons aren't square bothers me slightly.

treve•4mo ago
I feel the Plan 9 of the web should use the URI as the most important primitive vs a local path. Neat though!
nticompass•4mo ago
I like how opening the "web browser" app has it load "https://dws.rip" inside. How deep can we go?
ori_b•4mo ago
Where's the chording?
sigmonsays•4mo ago
this is pretty weak, it's not even virtualization, just faking it all the way?
dws•4mo ago
dws.rip? That hit kind of hard.
MisterTea•4mo ago
/sys contains all system source code, including documentation, not just kernel code, which lives in /sys/src/

Acme has a snarf per window

Snarf should copy the text to the clipboard which it does not appear to do so I cant copy paste outside of DWS (Am I missing something?).

In your Acme, right clicking a file path opens a new window with an error message that it could not find the file. If I highlight the file path and right click, it opens the file. Is this intentional? Acme does not require you to highlight navigable text.

No shell? I see a /bin/9term but no way to run it.

Any plans for a plumber to route messages to the right program or start programs?

Your UI is pretty neat and isn't far off from Plan 9: 9front includes bar(1), zuke(1) audio player, and there is the vdiff directory browser from shithub.us. Window decorations and controls are available in lola, a window manager that replaces rio, also available on shithub. You can also run windows managers in windows managers on Plan 9 without limit.

Though simplicity, 9p and per process name spaces are what make Plan 9 awesome. I run 9front on bare metal on a few machines including my home CPU Server which is also my dhcp and dns server managed by ndb (it can do nat via ip(3) as well.)

alt227•4mo ago
I was disapointed to see that when I minimised the web browser, upon restoring it had returned to the homepage and not stayed on the page I was previously on :(
arturventura•4mo ago
Hey, I’ve implemented almost the same thing, but I’ve focused on the internals. I have the server and mount system implemented and wanted to implement something similar to webtorrent to be able to mount peer to peer mounts between browsers. I have more or less the file system and the syscalls. I was using assembly script to implement user space. Take a look. Probably you can copy some parts https://github.com/intigos/possimpible