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Searching for Biomarkers of Long Covid

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-68705-1
1•tiahura•1m ago•1 comments

Christopher Nolan's Finest Trick [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=livIbni7x7o
1•dmschulman•2m ago•0 comments

We’re rolling out ads in ChatGPT

1•kasdi•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is Gemini Having Issues?

1•gradus_ad•4m ago•0 comments

Tech giants urge global response to AI cybersecurity threats

https://www.dw.com/en/ai-companies-cybersecurity-threats-open-letter/a-78538592
1•abeppu•5m ago•0 comments

NSA wants access to 'all' AI models, top official says

https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/nsa-wants-access-all-ai-models-top-offici...
4•jethronethro•6m ago•0 comments

Police Officers Brag About Flock Gifts

https://ipvm.com/reports/flock-swag
3•jhonovich•6m ago•0 comments

LLMs Don't Replace Classical ML – They Feed It

https://bilanc.co/blog/llms-as-feature-extractors-for-classical-ml
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Unix V4 Workshop at Low Resource Computing

https://github.com/thaliaarchi/unix-v4-demo/blob/main/README.md
1•birdculture•8m ago•0 comments

Stopping the smart TV from being used against you

https://www.s-config.com/stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you/
2•speckx•11m ago•0 comments

The Cully Hill Boys – 110 minute AI film

https://higgsfield.ai/original-series/cully-hill-boys/full-film
2•thelastgallon•12m ago•1 comments

Why LLM infrastructure chokes: ternary and pentary logic matrix replacement

https://github.com/Zavodiuk/Technology_constructor/blob/main/README.md
1•ArchitectZav•12m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Twitterwebviewer.com Has Been Discontinued

1•SpyCoder77•12m ago•0 comments

Why LLM infrastructure chokes: ternary and pentary logic matrix replacement

1•ArchitectZav•13m ago•0 comments

How to run cloud coding agents overnight

https://mouse.dev/blog/running-code-agents-overnight/
2•Aeroi•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Helm ValueTrace – see which Helm values source actually won

https://github.com/aboodcs/helm-valuetrace
1•x59lk•19m ago•0 comments

The University in the AI Era

https://four.htmx.org/essays/universities-and-ai
1•maxall4•20m ago•0 comments

Would you pay to put your logo on someone's wedding tuxedo?

https://milliondollartuxedo.com
2•hotdev•21m ago•1 comments

Why Agentic AI Needs a Strong Identity Foundation

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/back-future-why-agentic-ai-needs-strong-identit...
1•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments

BBC chief proposes 'public service algorithm' with YouTube-style content

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/27/bbc-chief-proposes-public-service-algorithm-youtube...
1•rdmuser•23m ago•0 comments

Six people injured after sign falls at Christian festival

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyz52x45jxo
1•hermitcrab•23m ago•1 comments

The Trade-Offs of Fighting Child Abuse Online

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-hidden-trade-offs-of-fighting-child-abuse-online/
1•visha1v•24m ago•0 comments

Type Variances

https://kevinkle.in/posts/2026-02-21-types/
1•speckx•24m ago•0 comments

Toyota launches updated bZ5 electric SUV at half the price of a Tesla Model Y

https://electrek.co/2026/08/27/toyota-launches-updated-bz5-half-price-tesla-model-y/
3•bookofjoe•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Organize ChatGPT and Claude chats. Never lose a conversation

https://simplefolder.hestenns.com
1•wowinter15•25m ago•0 comments

Laying solar panels between the rails in Switzerland

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/climate/solar-power-railway-train-tracks.html
2•rpaik•26m ago•1 comments

Racter (1984)

https://www.ubu.com/historical/racter/index.html
3•buescher•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Consequence Gate – agent governance based on what being wrong costs

https://github.com/zilianglab/consequence-gate
1•ziliangh•28m ago•0 comments

Refugee engineer filled bottles with sand to build his grandmother a desert home

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/in-2016-a-refugee-engineer-filled-discarded-bottles-...
1•rmason•29m ago•0 comments

Apple Employee Worked 13-Hour Days Building Her Startup

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-apple-employee-worked-13-hour-days-building-her-startup-20...
2•nothrowaways•29m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

https://tmog.org
28•CarbonNanotubes•1h ago

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biglyburrito•53m ago
More info:

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/dave-plumme...

CarbonNanotubes•50m ago
Windows support is here. I am running it on Windows right now. That article was from two weeks ago.

Linux is also available

gruez•46m ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477269
DetroitThrow•43m ago
Wow, thought the guy would be a MSFT OG but this looks like it sucks? Vibed, closed source, paid extensions.. Why on earth would anyone use this?
bobsmooth•42m ago
Too colorful for you?
DetroitThrow•39m ago
I don't mind color, the glow effects just hurt the ability to read what's there (this reminds me of the gaming setups teenagers are drawn to)...but there's no reason a utility like a task manager should be closed source or have a pro version.
mikestew•32m ago
Why on earth would anyone use this?

Because they use a screen reader and don't know any better.

And remember, the state of Washington sued the author for some very good reasons. I wouldn't let his stuff anywhere near my machines.

ndiddy•27m ago
He kind of fell off. He left Microsoft to found a scam company called "SoftwareOnline.com" that used ads to trick people into downloading fake anti-virus software. The software didn't do anything besides show the user nag messages about fictional security threats that could only be addressed by buying the full version, and could not be fully uninstalled. See https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...
walrus01•20m ago
Meanwhile, the creators and maintainers of linux 'btop' haven't scammed anyone or been sued by any state AGs. Shocking, I know! It's almost as if you can write a system status monitor application without doing anything shady.
deepthaw•41m ago
an appimage to get a too complicated version of top?
bigyabai•28m ago
Seems like a gaudier version of Resources[0] with a paid Pro version. It's times like this where I'm grateful for FOSS.

[0] https://apps.gnome.org/Resources/

esseph•27m ago
Yeah, and top is a crunch.

Real men visually parse /proc/ output in realtime.

SG-•36m ago
from the Dave Plummer wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer

"Plummer left Microsoft in 2003[10] to start his own company, SoftwareOnline LLC, a software vendor. Plummer claimed that the company went on to sell millions of copies of first and third party utilities software for Windows.[16]

In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield". SoftwareOnline agreed to pay $150,000 in civil penalties, plus $250,000 that was ultimately suspended following compliance with all terms in the settlement, as well as $40,000 in legal fees.[6] He also founded Xeriton Corporation during this period, whose major product was the Blue Phone technical support service.[17] In December 2009, Xeriton was sold to Support.com for $8.5 million.[18]"

jordand•28m ago
For working with processes and software development on Windows, this replacement looks useless. I use Sysinternals Process Explorer daily at work, and that'll continue being immensely useful.
john_strinlai•27m ago
"Every core, honestly", "Not just used. Accounted for.", "More signal. Less hunting.", "Your machine. Your phosphor."

anyways, after scrolling through all of that stuff, it is not clear to me what the benefit of using this over normal task manager (or sysinternals tools) is, other than themes i guess?

perhaps it is better than whatever the native task management program is on mac?

"lots of words. not much substance".

mikestew•15m ago
perhaps it is better than whatever the native task management program is on Mac?

Activity Monitor works well enough for me. But, damn, I'd rather visually parse top all day before I'd resign myself to gaze upon that hideous mess.

walrus01•11m ago
Macports also provides htop , for the CLI folks.
timeoperator•26m ago
It’s so ugly that it looks like one of those fake antivirus interfaces.
xattt•21m ago
It doesn’t even have a photo of Peter Norton with folder arms.
walrus01•14m ago
Best we can do is neon vector art of John McAfee holding a crack pipe
john_strinlai•18m ago
funny you should say that, given the history of the creator (dave plummer)
nilsherzig•18m ago
checks out:

> In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer#:~:text=16%5D-,In...

svobodamartin•21m ago
Is it vibecoded?
walrus01•19m ago
Metaphorically, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
EricFrost•15m ago
This seems like a good place for me to share TaskPilot, which shows you and lets you manage everything running in the background on Linux. Services, SystemD timers, cron, autostart, ports in use, snaps, containers, mounts, and more

https://github.com/eric-frost/taskpilot

walrus01•12m ago
Would love to see this as a signed Debian package in stable, testing and unstable. Looks very useful.
dundarious•12m ago
I don't use Windows at the moment, but have heard good things about this alternative, which is "Handmade" affiliated: https://taskslinger.net/
pivo•7m ago
Looks like it supports macOS and Linux as well.
yannoninator•12m ago
Saved you a click, it is AI slop garbage.

Why do we need to tolerate this vibe coded slop?

We need a marker on posts which are complete AI generated rubbish.

What happened to the profession of software engineering? The craft and quality has been thrown out of the window in pursuit of slop.

We are disrespecting our own profession by turning the software we build into fast food junk where nobody wants anything we make and nobody cares about the quality and craft of creating software.

We are just building the same things repeatedly over and over again with nothing inventive or new, wasting engineering and the users time in the process.

AI has just shown how unimaginative some engineers are in choosing what problems in software to build and solve.

We need to do way better.

walrus01•10m ago
Feature suggestion to dang for a [slop] clickable next to [flag].
yipinwong•12m ago
I don't see a single compelling reason to use this over built-in one.
KronisLV•2m ago
It would be okay if it were a bit less AI slop in regards to prose, had more conventional fonts and also removed the obnoxious glow effects. Then again, personal opinion.