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Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

https://lore.org/
950•regnerba•10h ago•513 comments

Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colors

https://storiedcolors.com/
71•susiecambria•3h ago•15 comments

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms...
330•giuliomagnifico•20h ago•354 comments

Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/leaked-financial-docs-show-openai-is-losing-billions-of-dollar...
246•greenchair•3h ago•161 comments

Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)

https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=921
18•beatthatflight•1h ago•4 comments

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-leading-open-weights-model-on-the-artif...
774•himata4113•15h ago•384 comments

How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s

https://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infra
190•gregpr07•1d ago•122 comments

Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction

https://loreline.app/en/
60•smartmic•4h ago•8 comments

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM
144•zachdive•8h ago•78 comments

U.S. science is in chaos

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-compact-between-science-and-politics-is-broken/
640•presspot•14h ago•736 comments

Clojure Hosted on Go

https://github.com/glojurelang/glojure
10•dnlo•1h ago•1 comments

Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/tesco-moving-40000-server-workloads-off-vm...
142•Bender•3h ago•61 comments

A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?

https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/royale-last-agent-standing/
157•Usu•3h ago•127 comments

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

https://ribbie.tv/watch
194•brownrout•8h ago•110 comments

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/
315•schappim•13h ago•141 comments

Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students

https://github.com/c0rRupT9/STEPLA-1
14•CorRupT9•2d ago•1 comments

The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate

https://ghostinthedata.info/posts/2026/2026-06-13-human-connection-moat/
113•speckx•7h ago•92 comments

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3
473•microtonal•9h ago•325 comments

The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation

https://www.sigarch.org/the-return-of-rigorous-full-system-timing-simulation/
27•matt_d•1d ago•0 comments

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/
154•kodesko•11h ago•77 comments

Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout

https://flickey.site
39•tal_alfi•4h ago•17 comments

Trellis AI (YC W24) hiring a product lead to build agents for healthcare access

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trellis-ai/jobs/Cg94htp-product-lead
1•macklinkachorn•7h ago

Hacker News but for independent blogs

https://bubbles.town/
542•headalgorithm•16h ago•177 comments

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

https://johnowhitaker.github.io/inkwash/about
161•Yenrabbit•3d ago•21 comments

Kirkland Roundabouts

https://kirklandroundabouts.com
154•DenisM•3d ago•125 comments

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

https://github.com/rxi/microui
179•peter_d_sherman•12h ago•68 comments

Want your images back? That'll be $5

https://www.lutr.dev/want-your-images-back-sure-that-ll-be-5-dollars
599•lutr•11h ago•248 comments

The (real) dead economy theory

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/17/its-the-stupid-economy-stupid/
47•hn_acker•1h ago•18 comments

Image Compression

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/image-compression
155•vinhnx•4d ago•23 comments

Gliderboy Reinvents Humble Weather Balloon with Flight Home

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-06-15/-gliderboy-reinvents-weather-balloon-with-r...
11•kejaed•2d ago•1 comments
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Show HN: Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)

https://whippyterm.com
96•SurvivorTed•1y ago

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SurvivorTed•1y ago
New GUI based serial terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)

Hi all, just wanted to let everyone know of my new open-source serial (and TCP/IP) terminal program aimed at embedded developers.

I wasn't happy with what was available on Linux, so I decided to write my own. The goals were to have a modern GUI (tab based, pull out panels, etc) and I wanted support for binary protocols.

It has support for ANSI escape sequences, XModem (up/down), binary blocks, hex dumps, bridging 2 open connections, and more.

Source link: https://github.com/TheBeef/WhippyTerm

This is the first release (version 1.0), and I am hoping people will have a look (and hopefully like it).

stavros•1y ago
This seems really nice, thank you! Does it support auto-reconnect, like `tio` does?
SurvivorTed•1y ago
It doesn't currently support it, but I was planning in the next release (a number of people have asked for it so it's a definitely going to add).
svth•1y ago
Why no macOS support?
SurvivorTed•1y ago
I don't have a mac. I did have a guy who was going to add support for it but he backed out.

The main GUI is built in QT so making a mac port shouldn't be too hard (the serial port detection would be the hardest part I think).

pjmlp•1y ago
Kudos for going with Qt. It looks nice.
mystified5016•1y ago
Oh damn, this could easily replace my own bespoke serial monitors.

Can a plugin filter the list of available ports? For instance serial over Bluetooth creates two virtual ports for initiating and accepting connections (on windows at least). My bespoke monitor filters these and only shows the outbound ports to the user. It also pulls in the Bluetooth device name from WinRT, etc.

SurvivorTed•1y ago
There isn't any filtering of serial ports (it lists everything it finds).

However it does support bookmarks. With bookmarks you open the serial port you want to use then select to bookmark it. WhippyTerm will take the current config you are using and save it for later. You can then just pick the bookmark later to reopen that connection. Bookmarks also store some of the settings (like is it a binary or text connection, terminal size, colors, etc).

It's a lot like bookmarks in a web browser.

SurvivorTed•1y ago
Thinking about it a bit more, if someone wanted to filter the comports like this you could copy the standard comport IO driver and make a new plugin that only listed the outbound ports (you could also restrict the list to Bluetooth devices).

Internally the comport IO driver is just a plugin that gets compiled into the main exe (any plugin can be made into a built in, just add the source to the .pro file, add a call to the register function and now the extern plugin is built in).

So you could copy the existing comport IO driver, change the 'REGISTER_PLUGIN_FUNCTION_PRIV_NAME' and 'COMPORT_URI_PREFIX' defines to something else (so it doesn't conflict with the built in 'COM' one). Change the code so filter any comport that isn't for the Bluetooth device. Compile the source and package the resulting .dll using the ExternPluginMaker tool. Done

When the new plugin is installed the new connection dialog you will list your detected "devices" listed along with all the other types (you could prefix them with bluetooth for example).

Feel free to email me if you would like more details.

AriedK•1y ago
This is neat. The send buffers and live display give it a nice edge over something like Tera Term. One nitpick: I couldn't find the option to disable autoscroll on incoming serial streams. Like 'Auto scroll only in bottom line' in Tera Term. Thanks!
SurvivorTed•1y ago
It seems like I missed this option. I'll be adding it to the list of things to do for version 1.1 :)

Thanks for the feed back.

alias_neo•1y ago
This looks great. I don't do serial/embedded stuff too often at the moment; ESPHome took away much of my need to hand-build stuff (happy and sad about that), but when I do I always find it slightly irritating to remember the syntax to connect with minicom or screen (I'm a Linux user).

I'm sorry I can't give more useful feedback at the moment, but this is certainly encouraging me to come up with an idea for an embedded project so I can try it!

ac29•1y ago
Can you add Linux build instructions for people not on Debian/Ubuntu?

I didnt see anything on the github or in the source download.

Alternatively an AppImage or Flatpak is a nice way to test software.

SurvivorTed•1y ago
Can't really help with exact instructions for other distros, but the "in a nutshell" is you need to install qtcreator and QT5.

After you have them installed and working all you have to do is load the .pro file from the Project directory (https://github.com/TheBeef/WhippyTerm/tree/main/Project) you should be able to just hit the green debug/go button and it should work (you do need to be using the gcc toolchain). This is the same for the Windows build.

Hope this helps.