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Pebble Watch software is now 100% open source

https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source
511•Larrikin•4h ago•95 comments

Claude Advanced Tool Use

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
230•lebovic•3h ago•85 comments

Claude Opus 4.5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5
637•adocomplete•4h ago•281 comments

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected

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780•mrdosija•12h ago•660 comments

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

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124•JumpCrisscross•1d ago•73 comments

Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of the old CRTs

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
128•michalpleban•5h ago•56 comments

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions

https://www.sawyerhood.com/blog/llm-extension
64•sawyerjhood•4h ago•24 comments

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

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41•amichail•3h ago•16 comments

Neopets.com Changed My Life (2019)

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19•bariumbitmap•5d ago•7 comments

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

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97•johnsillings•5h ago•43 comments

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https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenBSDToFreeBSDMove
118•zdw•5d ago•54 comments

PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

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184•speckx•3h ago•124 comments

You can see a working Quantum Computer in IBM's London office

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21•thinkingemote•2d ago•3 comments

TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped

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129•speckx•4h ago•55 comments

Bytes before FLOPS: your algorithm is (mostly) fine, your data isn't

https://www.bitsdraumar.is/bytes-before-flops/
26•bofersen•1d ago•6 comments

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24•kbyatnal•3d ago•2 comments

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened

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193•markdog12•10h ago•74 comments

Corvus Robotics (YC S18): Hiring Head of Mfg/Ops, Next Door to YC Mountain View

1•robot_jackie•5h ago

What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html
51•nonprofiteer•17h ago•50 comments

Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?

https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/inside-rusts-std-and-parking-lot-mutexes-who-win
115•signa11•4d ago•45 comments

Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster

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86•TangerineDream•3d ago•61 comments

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123•bilsbie•5h ago•118 comments

Fifty Shades of OOP

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25•todsacerdoti•13h ago•3 comments

Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03714-0
95•srameshc•4h ago•70 comments

Launch HN: Karumi (YC F25) – Personalized, agentic product demos

http://karumi.ai/
18•tonilopezmr•4h ago•8 comments

GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France

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157•01-_-•4h ago•59 comments

NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251123-dodging.html
283•upofadown•10h ago•152 comments

The history of Indian science fiction

https://altermag.com/articles/the-secret-history-of-indian-science-fiction
58•adityaathalye•2d ago•5 comments

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68•jnord•47m ago•9 comments

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/
242•lalitmaganti•1d ago•306 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)

https://whippyterm.com
96•SurvivorTed•6mo ago

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SurvivorTed•6mo 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•6mo ago
This seems really nice, thank you! Does it support auto-reconnect, like `tio` does?
SurvivorTed•6mo 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•6mo ago
Why no macOS support?
SurvivorTed•6mo 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•6mo ago
Kudos for going with Qt. It looks nice.
mystified5016•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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.