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Show HN: ShellTalk brings deterministic text-to-bash

https://barrasso.me/posts/2026-04-22-text-to-bash-with-shell-talk/
4•podlp•1h ago
Hi HN! I built a CLI tool called ShellTalk for macOS, Linux, and web (WebAssembly) that maps English text to the corresponding Bash commands.

ShellTalk is written in Swift and available under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub. I was inspired a few weeks ago after reading the Meta-Harness paper and seeing a tool called Hunch that did something similar using the Apple Foundation model. I often forget flag names and orders, but I wanted something that worked consistently. The 3B AFM worked surprisingly well with Hunch, but it felt slow and sometimes slight changes in what I wrote would result in very different outputs.

ShellTalk attempts to match the input with an intent category (Git, File I/O, etc), then a template, and finally to slot-fill and adapt to the specific command version and BSD vs GNU syntax. It has a few other tricks including using NSSpellChecker on macOS to auto-correct certain typos, and scores the output on safety (i.e. is the action destructive or non-reversible).

It's clearly far from perfect, but has very tight testing and validation cycles compared to using an LLM, is very portable, and might eventually work in other languages or environments like Windows. I'm curious to hear what others think.

The AI-Native Interview

https://sierra.ai/blog/the-ai-native-interview
1•ej88•24s ago•0 comments

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-early-...
1•bookofjoe•1m ago•0 comments

Muskism as Fordism

https://lpeproject.org/blog/muskism-as-fordism/
1•abrownbear•1m ago•1 comments

Malicious Checkmarx Artifacts Found in Official KICS Docker Repository

https://socket.dev/blog/checkmarx-supply-chain-compromise
1•justsomehuman•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Everest Drive – a multiplayer spaceship crew simulator in the browser

https://everestdrive.io/
1•jakej256•3m ago•0 comments

X.400, and how email was almost different

https://techinch.com/blog/x-400
1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

ColombiaEscoge – Plataforma para que los colombianos voten con información

https://www.colombiaescoge.com/
1•byandrev•5m ago•1 comments

A jumping spider on the ISS learned to hunt in microgravity (2012)

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2012/11/29/cu-boulder-space-traveling-spider-finds-home-smithsonia...
1•madpen•7m ago•1 comments

GPT-Proxy Backdoor in NPM and PyPI Turns Servers into Chinese LLM Relays

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/gpt-proxy-backdoor-npm-pypi-chinese-llm-relay
1•lschueller•9m ago•0 comments

Coding Models Are Doing Too Much

https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
2•pella•9m ago•0 comments

Y'all want the new Boards of Canada so bad you crashed Warp's server

https://cdm.link/new-boards-of-canada-crashed-the-server/
1•glitcher•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Callmux – MCP multiplexer that cuts tool call context pollution by ~19x

https://github.com/edimuj/callmux
1•edimuj•11m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's New Mythos A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropics-mythos-ai.html
2•edward•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dead Simple Email – Email API for AI Agents

https://deadsimple.email/
1•bridgetburch•12m ago•0 comments

Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/introducing-workspace-agents-in-chatgpt/
4•mfiguiere•14m ago•0 comments

The uphill climb of making diff lines performant

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/the-uphill-climb-of-making-diff-lines-p...
1•ezekg•14m ago•0 comments

What is tech neck? (2024)

https://my.vanderbilthealth.com/what-is-tech-neck/
2•the-mitr•15m ago•0 comments

Google says 75% of it's new code is AI written

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/cloud-next-2026-sunda...
3•Drakexor•17m ago•5 comments

Agents and the Era of Overproduction

https://mattrogish.com/blog/2026/03/11/agents-and-the-era-of-overproduction/
1•MattRogish•18m ago•0 comments

Garbage collection and the edge of safe Rust

https://kyju.org/blog/tokioconf-2026/
1•fanf2•19m ago•0 comments

PulseBench-Tab: Open-source, multilingual benchmark for table extraction

https://www.runpulse.com/blog/pulsebench-tab
3•ritvikpandey21•20m ago•1 comments

YouTuber Turns $2k Wrecked Tesla into Wild Go-Kart – Then Tesla Shuts It Down

https://guessingheadlights.com/youtuber-turns-2000-wrecked-tesla-into-wild-go-kart-then-tesla-shu...
1•toss1•20m ago•2 comments

Parallel Agents in Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents
8•ajeetdsouza•22m ago•1 comments

Font-Family Doesn't Fall Back the Way You Think

https://csswizardry.com/2026/04/font-family-doesnt-fall-back-the-way-you-think/
1•speckx•22m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Moving All GitHub Copilot Subscribers to Token-Based Billing in June

https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-microsoft-moving-all-github-copilot-subscribers-to-token-ba...
2•brandrick•23m ago•1 comments

What Makes a Language Flourish?

https://www.5jt.com/what-makes-a-language-flourish
4•tosh•23m ago•0 comments

Adding live reload to a static site generator written in Go

https://jon.chrt.dev/2026/03/20/adding-live-reload-to-a-static-site-generator-written-in-go.html
1•PaulHoule•23m ago•0 comments

Understanding security warnings when opening Remote Desktop (RDP) files

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/remotepc/understa...
1•neogodless•23m ago•0 comments

Billionaire backer sues Trump family's crypto firm over alleged extortion

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8x7kxjgq9xo
3•tartoran•25m ago•0 comments

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
2•danpinto•26m ago•0 comments