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I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace

https://instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspace
869•mkagenius•19h ago•229 comments

Partially Matching Zig Enums

https://matklad.github.io/2025/08/08/partially-matching-zig-enums.html
84•ingve•4h ago•26 comments

Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI

https://github.com/menloresearch/jan
27•maxloh•3h ago•7 comments

Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

http://www.tribblix.org/
60•bilegeek•6h ago•11 comments

Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

https://github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-card
1030•wompapumpum•1d ago•207 comments

Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/08/08/stanford-to-continue-legacy-admissions-and-withdraw-from-cal-grants/
14•hhs•40m ago•2 comments

Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

https://sandstorm.org/
84•nalinidash•7h ago•19 comments

Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/1985-toyota-tercel-high-mileage-1.7597168
53•Sgt_Apone•3d ago•63 comments

Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033
72•pentestercrab•8h ago•2 comments

Why Wisconsin's county highways are lettered, not numbered (2019)

https://www.wpr.org/transportation/why-wisconsins-county-roads-are-lettered-not-numbered
16•kaladin-jasnah•3d ago•10 comments

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-history-of-tor-how-a-military-project-became-a-lifeline-for-privacy/
354•anarbadalov•21h ago•168 comments

A SPARC makes a little fire

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/08/05/sparcstation-scsi-termination-fix-magic-smoke.html
49•zdw•3d ago•6 comments

Private Welsh island with 19th century fort goes on the market

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/business/thorne-island-fort-wales-scli-intl
17•makaimc•1h ago•6 comments

Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs

https://marimo.io/blog/dataflow
51•akshayka•3d ago•6 comments

A Brief Publishing History of Don Quixote (2024)

https://www.swanngalleries.com/news/books/2024/04/a-brief-publishing-history-of-don-quixote/
5•jbperry•2d ago•3 comments

Getting good results from Claude Code

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/getting-good-results-from-claude-code/
393•ingve•23h ago•156 comments

I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/i-bought-a-16-smartwatch-just-because-it-used-usb-c/
219•blenderob•3d ago•162 comments

Our European search index goes live

https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/
122•maelito•16h ago•57 comments

What the Windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem

https://ethanding.substack.com/p/windsurf-gets-margin-called
144•whoami_nr•10h ago•36 comments

Let's properly analyze an AI article for once

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/lets-properly-analyze-ai-article-for.html
107•pabs3•11h ago•70 comments

Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge

https://www.matthewnewton.com/blog/arc-challenge-diffusion
107•mattnewton•3d ago•10 comments

How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

https://radar.com/blog/high-performance-geocoding-in-rust
255•j_kao•1d ago•73 comments

Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs

https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit
135•simonpure•18h ago•26 comments

I prefer human-readable file formats

https://adele.pollux.casa/check-human.php?redirect=%2Fgemlog%2F2025-08-04_why_I_prefer_human-readble_file_formats.gmi
58•Bogdanp•4h ago•48 comments

What's wrong with the JSON gem API?

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2025/08/02/whats-wrong-with-the-json-gem-api.html
55•ezekg•3d ago•16 comments

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell/
544•LorenDB•18h ago•108 comments

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist

https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/2025-shortlist
226•speckx•23h ago•32 comments

Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?

468•superasn•18h ago•302 comments

Datalog-Based Binary Equivalence

https://github.com/binaryeq/daleq
5•xupybd•4h ago•0 comments

Window Activation

https://blog.broulik.de/2025/08/on-window-activation/
211•LorenDB•5d ago•123 comments
Open in hackernews

Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

http://www.tribblix.org/
60•bilegeek•6h ago

Comments

hulitu•4h ago
> lightweight window managers are preferred over heavy desktop environments, the primary desktop option is Xfce, and MATE and Enlightenment are also available, plus many others

I would expected CDE as a first class citizen and maybe OpenLook.

And it says that it it maily for 32bit SPARC and 32bit X86 and later that "Important: 32-bit hardware support now completely removed.".

cheaprentalyeti•4h ago
I've been looking for a linux distribution that has olwm available but have had little luck. The closest I can find is a theme for icewm.
CTOSian•3h ago
me as well, olvwm was last time in Debian Jessie, now only on NetBSD as package
pabs3•3h ago
Looks like Debian removed olvwm/olwm because they were incompatible with 64-bit and unmaintained.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xview https://tracker.debian.org/news/1000764/removed-32p14-282-fr... https://bugs.debian.org/911787

ptribble•1h ago
It's never going to be maintained...

But there is a 64-bit port (which I ought to bring in to Tribblix)

https://github.com/ggodd/xview-64bit

ch_123•3h ago
They have an overlay for both:

http://www.tribblix.org/overlay-cde.html

http://www.tribblix.org/overlay-openlook.html

ptribble•1h ago
There are over 30 desktop options (including quite a few of the older window managers, which is a bit of a blast from the past).

I do include CDE and Open Look (the window manager and toolkit, at least). In both cases the add-on tools that were present in Solaris (like the whole of the DeskSet suite) aren't available, because they were never released in source form.

gr4vityWall•2h ago
The Illumos' family is an interesting one. I wish it was easier to get it installed on modern hardware. Any of my attempts with distros like OpenIndiana, Tribblix and OmniOS didn't go further than the boot menu.

I wonder how far a compatibility layer for Linux drivers could go to help other UNIX kernels' usability. Maybe the Oxide folks know more of what would be involved in such an effort.

JdeBP•1h ago
That's the wrong solution to the problem, as it means learning a second kernel and all of its stuff and making compatibility shims, whilst still facing the real problem that is not software at all.

The right solution is actually explained the headlined WWW site, where Peter Tribble points out (in the About page and in the Use guide) that the significant constraint is that xe does not own the actual physical hardware to develop against. It's the usual story with small projects: good donated hardware, and developer time (and workspace, and food, and water, and housing, and electricity supply (-:), needed.

rollcat•14m ago
I was just thinking this morning, to write a blog post with a small tour of niche-but-functional operating systems. Tribblix and Dragonfly BSD were at the top of my list. I've been also thinking Haiku, RISC OS, 9front, MINIX... They've all been around for decades, and usually fly under the radar.
shrubble•10m ago
I really like (and have used in production) the ability to run Solaris Zones (containers) and "LX zones" which are Linux containers side by side on the same hardware.

Many installation problems show up in the handling of USB3 and related quirks; I have a lovely AMD 8350 system that I can't install from USB onto because of some XHCI problem. The USB stick will boot the kernel, but then the kernel can't properly handle the USB stick after it has booted and can't see the installation media. I suppose I should bite the bullet and burn a CD to boot from, which should fix it.