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Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody)

https://definitelynotwindows.com/
92•jjbinx007•52m ago•32 comments

Pirating the Pirates

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates
170•piotrgrabowski•2h ago•52 comments

So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes

https://lecaro.me/20260921-google-less.html
36•speckx•38m ago•10 comments

Claude Sonnet 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5
155•D2OQZG8l5BI1S06•45m ago•106 comments

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream

https://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/
88•ibobev•3h ago•11 comments

Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts

https://hn.watch/
57•mrborgen•3h ago•16 comments

Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley
248•davidcollantes•8h ago•122 comments

Who Wrote Elizabeth I's Most Scathing Letters?

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7•benbreen•56m ago•1 comments

When did Google get so weird?

https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
1701•sancho-panza•22h ago•935 comments

The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-teen-portraits-that-captivated-sofia-coppola
8•prismatic•1h ago•1 comments

Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP

https://www.vespper.com/blog/launching-vespper-docx-mcp
9•topaztee•1h ago•2 comments

What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators

https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/09/japanese-vs-western-heraldry/
41•bovermyer•3h ago•13 comments

OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/openai-still-doesnt-seem-to-have-a-handle-on-all-of-its-rogue-a...
49•mikelgan•1h ago•46 comments

GrapheneOS – When an App Is Slow

https://blog.wirelessmoves.com/2026/09/grapheneos-when-an-app-is-slow.html
4•speckx•22m ago•0 comments

I made a visual workspace for AI Automations

https://www.biom.dev/
8•jduhking•50m ago•3 comments

MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta

https://www.reuters.com/technology/mongodb-ceo-desai-steps-down-lead-metas-enterprise-platform-20...
186•diek•3h ago•174 comments

Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/
36•macleos•3h ago•13 comments

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript
135•simonpure•3h ago•89 comments

37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

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145•nicocarsui•10h ago•31 comments

Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page

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96•seamus_c•8h ago•45 comments

Coding Is Not Solved

https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved
337•firstSpeaker•4h ago•343 comments

What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like?

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-product.html
73•lumpa•7h ago•23 comments

The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/the-problem-is-not-the-ai-code-but-nobody-knows-anything-anymore/
279•zazuke•2h ago•189 comments

Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT

https://thill.me/2026/07/16/corn-puzzle-sat-solver.html
11•luu•21h ago•4 comments

Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”

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146•birdculture•1d ago•82 comments

Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman

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12•HugoDz•2h ago•5 comments

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
1016•Eric_Gullichsen•16h ago•426 comments

Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants

https://scissor.studio/
66•sia_xi•9h ago•30 comments

Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
566•gmays•1d ago•242 comments

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/E_POWER_GEN3/
144•mroche•16h ago•331 comments
Open in hackernews

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.