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Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/
111•droidjj•2h ago•43 comments

Compression is prediction

https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
112•nikolay•1h ago•49 comments

Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here
206•dayanruben•4h ago•92 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/
404•quantumgarbage•8h ago•162 comments

Making holograms with a pen plotter

https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/Penplotter-holography/
65•DemiGuru•2h ago•6 comments

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-we-used-to-get-jobs/
69•speckx•3h ago•49 comments

Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

https://photosynthesis.camera
133•sajomes•2d ago•143 comments

A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/ai-boss-san-francisco-andon-market.html
42•jjwiseman•1w ago•38 comments

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0
179•ilamont•9h ago•261 comments

Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme

https://jolt-lang.github.io
122•mark_l_watson•3d ago•39 comments

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o
454•stevekemp•9h ago•327 comments

Let’s take apart your phone

https://everythingmachine.io/phone/
36•bookofjoe•5d ago•20 comments

Manus will return to operating as an independent company

https://manus.im/blog/a-note-to-our-users
115•thm•7h ago•59 comments

Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife
107•YonathanTesfaye•6h ago•79 comments

OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.5
75•voxadam•3h ago•28 comments

CSS properties you should know for better text designs

https://master.dev/blog/typographic-css-tricks/
39•ibobev•4h ago•1 comments

Nvidia's Risky Business

https://stratechery.com/2026/nvidias-risky-business/
258•jonbaer•11h ago•113 comments

Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

https://github.com/trycua/cua/blob/main/blog/gpu-passthrough-macos-vms.md
269•frabonacci•6h ago•42 comments

Grok Bot

https://x.ai/bot
39•rvz•4h ago•34 comments

H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/antirez/h3.c
414•swyx•20h ago•93 comments

What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/i-put-github-copilot-behind-a-mitm
139•j0selit0•11h ago•18 comments

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-int...
154•BlueBerry2001•12h ago•185 comments

Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything

https://www.trykeet.com/
33•zackashen•6h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

https://writemd.app/
55•danielbilekq•8h ago•56 comments

An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk

https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06650-9.html?srsltid=AfmBOorGIOS9Y77k3J_CX6UWqfZl...
5•Bluestein•6d ago•0 comments

Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-amazing-archive-of-animal-photography-reveals-...
26•pseudolus•2d ago•7 comments

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempi...
72•andsoitis•1h ago•108 comments

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

https://thewalrus.ca/google-search-is-dying/
846•awnird•23h ago•846 comments

Chicken Scheme 6.0

https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS
293•eatonphil•21h ago•49 comments

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/openai-launches-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux/
8•ashurandi•53m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Zev – Remember (or discover) terminal commands

https://github.com/dtnewman/zev
87•dtnewman•1y ago

Comments

0x696C6961•1y ago
I really like how it gives you multiple options to choose from. I've been using https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd
dtnewman•1y ago
Thanks! My main issue is that i'm lazy and although i often know approximately what i want i don't want to type a lot of words to describe it exactly. For example writing `zev 'show disk usage'` is somewhat ambiguous. Am i talking about my current folder or the harddrive? My idea was that rather than typing out what I want explicitly, i want to type the minimum amount and then just select the best of available options.
submeta•1y ago
Nice! I use a combination of an endless bash (zsh) history with timestamps that I navigate via fzf and ctr+r and comments I occasionally add to commands via # at the end followed by my annotation so that I can rediscover the command.

I do this ever since I switched to a Mac in 2015 and my history has over 60,000 lines. So that’s basically my knowledge base :)

But your project looks nice. Will check out.

afefers•1y ago
Can you explain how you achieve this?
import•1y ago
Not op but you need fzf and you need to increase the history size of your bash/ssh whatever

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

WalterGR•1y ago
Shells that use readline (such as bash) may have a history search feature built-in and on by default. Try pressing Ctrl-r or Cmd-r and see if a prompt pops up.

You can build your own workflow by hand by doing something like:

1. Turn on your shell’s feature to record command history.

2. Look into its feature set to control things such as how many entries it remembers, whether it remembers duplicate entries, and whether it timestamps each entry. (Don’t forget to restart each instance of your shell, if needed, for changes to take effect.)

3. Install a tool such as fzf that allows interactive filtering of arbitrary text. (Via Homebrew it’s `brew install fzf`. It’s likely something similar for other package managers.) These tools usually: read lines of input, prompt the user to optionally filter but eventually select a line, then just print that line.

4. Write the necessary shell script(s) / functions / aliases to do things like:

+ invoke the fuzzy-finder on the shell’s history file or a modified version of that file (for example, a modified version that excludes bash’s timestamp lines, or that joins them - perhaps in a human-readable format - with the command it timestamps.)

+ process the output of the fuzzy-finder tool (for example, to copy the command to the clipboard, paste it into the shell, or execute it immediately - which will necessitate things like removing any timestamps or additional notation added in the previous step.)

Step 4 can be easy as something approximating (I’m on mobile right now):

   fzf “$HOME/.bash_history” | copy-to-clipboard
chrisco23•1y ago
I'm trying to get this to work with ollama. I'm on Arch Linux, fish shell, new to ollama, and only very rarely used pipx. I get:

raise ValueError("OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_API_KEY must be set. Try running `zev --setup`.") ValueError: OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_API_KEY must be set. Try running `zev --setup`

even when I run (for example) set -x ZEV_USE_OLLAMA 1; zev 'show all files and all permissions'

dtnewman•1y ago
creator here. It pulls env variables from a file in your appstorage directory. I need to change this in a future release to make it cleaner, since I don't think i like it intermingling with env variables.

That said, did you run `zev --setup`?

dtnewman•1y ago
btw, feel free to open an issue on github :)
lionkor•1y ago
Why are you using env variables when you don't pull them primarily from the process env?
dtnewman•1y ago
I’m debating changing it. I do pull in env vars to use as default values (e.g. you already have an API key set). But I might transition way from env variables.
regnull•1y ago
Somewhat related, here's a little project I've done with LLM: https://github.com/regnull/how.sh

It uses locally hosted (or remote) LLMs to create and execute shell commands that you describe. You can go as far as writing "shell scripts" in natural language.

arjie•1y ago
I don't like most of these commands because they just execute. This one is nice because it will be in your history. The current trick I use is to use copilot.vim at the command line. It naturally fits into my flow.

Recently some of my friends reported that it just wants to do comments and I've noticed that it actually biases towards that nowadays, so I start it with something to get it kicked off.

I've been managing to try to figure out what in the prompt makes it like that, but for the moment that little workaround gives me both the comment and the command in my history so it's easier to r-i-search for it.

https://x.com/arjie/status/1575201117595926530

You just set up copilot for neovim normally and set it as your EDITOR. https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/index.php/AI_Completion_In_The...

wapxmas•1y ago
how do I install it with pip? It requires to be in virtual environment. (
trallnag•1y ago
Use something like pipx or uv
dtnewman•1y ago
it should run outside of a virtual env and is intended to be installed locally. That said, it currently has too many dependencies (IMO) and i'm working on cutting them down to avoid conflicts.
AvieDeckard•1y ago
Your gif in your README features a prompt asking to "show all files in this directory" but the 'ls -lh' returned and selected in the demo gif does not show all files, just the ones that aren't hidden. I'd have chosen a more accurate interaction for the demo.
rco8786•1y ago
Kind of a good example of how AI gets it "almost" right.
imzadi•1y ago
Hi Zev!
latchkey•1y ago
Why not https://docs.atuin.sh/?
dtnewman•1y ago
different use case. atuin is for past commands, whereas this uses an LLM to give you options for commands.
latchkey•1y ago
Feels like this should be an extension to atuin instead of a separate tool.
anamexis•1y ago
Why? Besides both involving terminal commands, they serve very different purposes.
latchkey•1y ago
atuin is a collection of the past, which can be training data for a collection in the future. If I'm asking AI to essentially generate commands, my previous inputs ideally would be part of the basis.
arp242•1y ago
Named after Zev from the film Remember? A few years back I wrote a Vim plugin to remember things with the same name :-)
dtnewman•1y ago
ha, no, just a coincidence. Named after someone i know named Zev. But chose it because it's short and not taken on Pypi
CGamesPlay•1y ago
You may be interested in copying some of the usage patterns from my similar project: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/llm-cmd-comp

Instead of being a separate command, I released a set of key bindings you can push that start the LLM prompt with your current command line, and if you successfully accept the suggestion, replace your command line with the result, bypassing the manual clipboard step, and making it so that the result goes into your shell history as a normal command.

tzury•1y ago
Newman!
badmonster•1y ago
Since it's generating terminal commands dynamically, what safeguards (if any) are in place to avoid generating destructive or insecure commands (like rm -rf /, etc.)?
sathishvj•1y ago
Yes, this is a concern. When I built something similar (gencmd.com), I avoided the auto-run option even though it was easy to implement. imho, it's better to have a human in the loop for these.
dtnewman•1y ago
1) When you are selecting a command you get a little description at the bottom telling you what it does.

2) this doesn’t run anything. It goes to your clipboard and you have to run it yourself

3) this a good callout… what do u think? I’m thinking maybe ask the models to return a Boolean is_dangerous plus a small explanation and then I can display dangerous commands in red and show the warning when you select one.

badmonster•1y ago
sounds like a solid plan
dtnewman•1y ago
Just fyi, this is now implemented
sathishvj•1y ago
Nice! Little plug for what I did too, in a similar vein - it has a web version https://gencmd.com/ and also a cmd line version.
Bishonen88•1y ago
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/latest/userguide/c...

Looks like cw from aws

porridgeraisin
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1y ago
Fzf installs hooks automatically for ctrl+r and a bunch of other stuff

Search for `fzf --bash`. Note that the version in the ubuntu repos is too old to have this feature (I think)

reddit_clone•1y ago
Exactly my setup including the #tag's. It is my second brain.

What I love about this is the fzf's fuzzy narrow down. You don't have to start at the beginning of command, you don't have to worry about exact spelling. Just a few snippets you remember, it will narrow it down really fast.

I use the same fuzzy search narrow downs in Emacs.

I miss it everywhere else.

aldanor•1y ago
Fish has built in fuzzy search on ctrl-r as well, with no extra config needed