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Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html
243•vismit2000•3h ago•114 comments

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/measuring-agi-cognitive...
43•surprisetalk•1h ago•42 comments

JPEG Compression

https://www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg
279•vinhnx•4d ago•67 comments

Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

https://nightingale.cafe/
143•rzzzzru•4h ago•29 comments

Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

https://machinelearningplus.com/python/101-pandas-exercises-python-interactive/
22•selva86•4d ago•6 comments

Write up of my homebrew CPU build

https://willwarren.com/2026/03/12/building-my-own-cpu-part-3-from-simulation-to-hardware/
110•wwarren•2d ago•17 comments

Mistral AI Releases Forge

https://mistral.ai/news/forge
563•pember•16h ago•135 comments

A Decade of Slug

https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html
656•mwkaufma•18h ago•64 comments

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science

https://bertrandmeyer.com/2026/03/16/celebrating-tony-hoares-mark-on-computer-science/
58•benhoyt•6h ago•11 comments

How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly

https://eon.systems/updates/embodied-brain-emulation
39•LopRabbit•2d ago•10 comments

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/microsofts-unhackable-xbox-one-has-been-h...
718•crtasm•21h ago•265 comments

Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/jit-on-track.html
413•guidoiaquinti•18h ago•231 comments

Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL

https://oseifert.ch/blog/building-pgit
67•ImGajeed76•1d ago•25 comments

(Media over QUIC) on a Boat

https://moq.dev/blog/on-a-boat/
41•mmcclure•4d ago•4 comments

Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead

https://ndea.com/jobs/search-guidance
1•mikeknoop•6h ago

The pleasures of poor product design

https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/the-pleasures-of-poor-product-design
155•NaOH•12h ago•56 comments

More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

https://openhardware.directory
266•iosifnicolae2•4d ago•31 comments

Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system

https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done
368•stefankuehnel•16h ago•185 comments

Have a fucking website

https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/
549•asukachikaru•9h ago•299 comments

Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking

https://github.com/adammiribyan/zeroboot
202•adammiribyan•23h ago•50 comments

Animation 10k Starlink Satellites

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=03&year=2026
24•MeteorMarc•6h ago•26 comments

Unsloth Studio

https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio
319•brainless•21h ago•59 comments

Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15381
143•aanet•15h ago•79 comments

A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel

https://rovarma.com/articles/a-tale-about-fixing-ebpf-spinlock-issues-in-the-linux-kernel/
115•y1n0•12h ago•11 comments

It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4
261•yincrash•4d ago•102 comments

Leviathan (1651)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm
94•mrwh•3d ago•37 comments

Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/electron-microscopy-shows-mouse-bite-defects-semiconductors
86•hhs•4d ago•27 comments

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ryugu-asteroid-samples-dna-rna.html
268•bookofjoe•1d ago•141 comments

Launch an autonomous AI agent with sandboxed execution in 2 lines of code

https://amaiya.github.io/onprem/examples_agent.html
47•wiseprobe•11h ago•18 comments

Launch HN: Kita (YC W26) – Automate credit review in emerging markets

46•rheamalhotra1•17h ago•13 comments
Open in hackernews

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

https://whippyterm.com
96•SurvivorTed•10mo ago

Comments

SurvivorTed•10mo 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•10mo ago
This seems really nice, thank you! Does it support auto-reconnect, like `tio` does?
SurvivorTed•10mo 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•10mo ago
Why no macOS support?
SurvivorTed•10mo 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•10mo ago
Kudos for going with Qt. It looks nice.
mystified5016•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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.