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Show HN: Shlexball, describe a file and a local 1.5B model finds it on your Mac

https://shlexball.com/
1•porkychan•59m ago
Basically, I didn't want to waste my opus 5.5 or codex Astra credits just to find files in my machine, so I trained a local LLM which is only 1.5B to write bash to find files on your macos laptop (works on apple silicon, uses little ram).

Full privacy since it's local so you can look for your sensitive files and api keys without sending them to a third party server.

It outperforms strong cloud models like Gemini 3.8 Flash and hefty 31B Param Gemma models in the file search benchmark I created to measure competency, details here: https://shlexball.com/findbench/

1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections

https://www.livescience.com/health/cancer/1-in-8-cancer-cases-are-caused-by-infections-underscori...
1•bookofjoe•58s ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Poteto Frontier for AI Agents

https://poteto-frontier.vercel.app/
1•transitivebs•1m ago•0 comments

Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/milt-windler-nasa-flight-director-who-helped-save-apollo-13...
1•pseudolus•2m ago•0 comments

Desulforudis Audaxviator: radiotrophic bacterium kms below the surface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulforudis_audaxviator
1•hdivider•7m ago•0 comments

Orbital Sunrise

https://orbitalsunrise.cc/
1•qiqing•9m ago•0 comments

US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/politics/us-air-force-bombers-removed-fairford-iran
1•Bender•13m ago•0 comments

Open Source Instinct

https://github.com/mariagorskikh/open-instinct
1•mariagorskikh•15m ago•1 comments

Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/10/02/teen-suspected-of-running-killsec-ransomware-g...
1•Bender•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Digital scarcity; app where photos gradually decay with time / views

https://joinfaded.com/
1•dreadsword•18m ago•0 comments

Linux 7.3-Rc6 Released: Normal for the New "AI Normal"

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc6-Released
1•Bender•18m ago•0 comments

Astronaut back on Earth – forgets about gravity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVxaL8CAO4M
1•lifeisstillgood•22m ago•0 comments

Radio signal detected for the first time from a planet outside our solar system

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1736845/radio-signal-detected-for-the-first-time-from-a-planet-o...
3•billybuckwheat•23m ago•1 comments

A priors-based argument for psychadelic skepticism

https://www.technotheoria.org/p/a-priors-based-argument-for-psychadelic
2•paulpauper•25m ago•1 comments

Study of 2.5M children finds no link between MMR vaccine and autism

https://www.psypost.org/study-of-2-5-million-children-finds-no-link-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/
2•downbad_•28m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing at StarCraft and Decides to Cheat

https://kotaku.com/openais-gpt-6-astra-gets-frustrated-losing-at-starcraft-and-decides-to-cheat-i...
2•doener•30m ago•1 comments

Every Map Everywhere All at Once: exact neutral redistricting maps on a GPU

https://www.mccomb.ca/writing/everymap/
1•rjmc_verex•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: EditUI – Cursor/Claude Design-style UI editing directly in the browser

https://www.editui.app/
1•jic00•31m ago•1 comments

Smart meter rollout in Germany continues to be slow

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Smart-meter-rollout-in-Germany-continues-to-be-slow-11475320.html
1•doener•33m ago•0 comments

RustQC: Rust reimplementation of dupRadar, RSeQC, Qualimap, preseq, and samtools

https://seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/
1•guessmyname•34m ago•0 comments

An OpenAI agent reached four Australian government systems. Nobody noticed

https://trustboundarystudio.com/posts/openai-medicare-2026/
2•trustboundaryst•35m ago•0 comments

Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of 'unknown' infection

https://www.scrippsnews.com/world/europe/researcher-at-russian-plague-laboratory-dies-of-unknown-...
3•RickJWagner•36m ago•0 comments

Zelenskyy says Ukraine is developing satellite system similar to Starlink

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/10/04/8056442/
3•uxhacker•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Soulor – Rehearse hard conversations with simulated people

https://soulor.app/
1•DH8116•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TapRacer – drag racing with real car physics and a two-key throttle

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5077320/TapRacer/
1•heysite•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Xetodus, browser based 3D space MMO

https://xetodus.com/
1•carsenk•44m ago•0 comments

I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220427.html
3•birdculture•45m ago•0 comments

Hurl – Run and Test HTTP Requests

https://hurl.dev/
1•gurjeet•46m ago•1 comments

Show HN: C++ LSP for the LeetCode editor and Vim keybindings

https://twitter.com/emerald_d3v/status/2106885158360195426
1•adia-dev•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Redactpdf.ai: Open-source AI-based PDF redaction tool

https://redactpdf.ai
2•phsource•46m ago•1 comments

Netkit: Specializing Linux Packet Delivery for Container Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18633
1•teleforce•50m ago•1 comments