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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
1284•vincent_s•13h ago•805 comments

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
581•jervant•11h ago•126 comments

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic
181•minimaxir•7h ago•67 comments

Decoy Font

https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font
447•ray__•11h ago•107 comments

$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6
170•hershyb_•7h ago•188 comments

M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t13l/executive
42•hnburnsy•3h ago•12 comments

The Human-in-the-Loop Is Tired

https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tired
56•haritha1313•3h ago•31 comments

An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024)

https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy228/slyy228.pdf?ts=1759892558029
16•gregsadetsky•6d ago•0 comments

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/
266•xnx•11h ago•135 comments

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

https://github.com/alxndrTL/little-book-rl/
74•mustaphah•5h ago•10 comments

Solod: Go can be a better C

https://solod.dev
64•koeng•3d ago•16 comments

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/simulating-everything-sort-of-the-promise-and-limits-of-world-...
16•LorenDB•3d ago•0 comments

Mathematics of Data Science

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11938
114•Anon84•7h ago•3 comments

'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/meet-likweli-new-monkey-species-discovered-congo-basin
57•gmays•5h ago•8 comments

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/
167•uneven9434•11h ago•114 comments

Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708
80•anyonecancode•7h ago•17 comments

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig
431•jorangreef•16h ago•232 comments

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)

https://immersivemath.com/ila/
180•srean•12h ago•26 comments

Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12395
40•binyu•6h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20

https://github.com/samyeyo/clx
95•_samt_•5d ago•5 comments

CVE-2026-25089: FortiSandbox unauthenticated command injection added to CISA KEV

https://hellorecon.com/blog/cve-2026-25089
28•slvnx•5h ago•0 comments

GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims

https://privacypros.com.au/privacy-hub/articles/dv-safe-phone-australia/
10•aussieguy1234•2h ago•2 comments

Pseudpocalypse

https://dynomight.net/pseudpocalypse/
94•surprisetalk•2d ago•54 comments

Abstracting Effects with Continuations

https://crowdhailer.me/2026-07-15/abstracting-effects-with-continuations/
44•crowdhailer•17h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mojibake – A low-level Unicode library written in C

https://mojibake.zaerl.com/
47•program•5h ago•7 comments

How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM

https://www.zhinit.dev/blog/training-a-kick-drum-diffusion-model
107•zhinit•12h ago•55 comments

Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adaptional/jobs
1•acesohc•10h ago

CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026

https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/
73•speckx•10h ago•84 comments

Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/goes-19-safe-hold
156•yabones•14h ago•79 comments

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/
204•JeremyTheo•15h ago•207 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.