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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
233•theblazehen•2d ago•68 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
694•klaussilveira•15h ago•206 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
6•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•0 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
962•xnx•20h ago•555 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
130•matheusalmeida•2d ago•35 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
67•videotopia•4d ago•6 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
54•jesperordrup•5h ago•24 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
36•kaonwarb•3d ago•27 comments

ga68, the GNU Algol 68 Compiler – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
10•matt_d•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
236•isitcontent•15h ago•26 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
233•dmpetrov•16h ago•124 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
32•speckx•3d ago•21 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
335•vecti•17h ago•147 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
502•todsacerdoti•23h ago•244 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
386•ostacke•21h ago•97 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
300•eljojo•18h ago•186 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•185 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
10•__natty__•3h ago•0 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
425•lstoll•21h ago•282 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
68•kmm•5d ago•10 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
96•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
21•bikenaga•3d ago•11 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
19•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•5 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
264•i5heu•18h ago•216 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
33•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
64•gfortaine•13h ago•28 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1076•cdrnsf•1d ago•460 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
39•gmays•10h ago•13 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
298•surprisetalk•3d ago•44 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
154•vmatsiiako•20h ago•72 comments
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Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine

https://blog.atuin.sh/introducing-the-new-runbook-execution-engine/
138•emschwartz•2mo ago

Comments

piqufoh•2mo ago
I love atuin -- the shared shell command memory function solves a problem that I had (recalling obscure CLI commands)

I'll try atuin desktop and I hope it succeeds, but I can't say that it solves any particular problem that I have and am aware of.

Ghoelian•2mo ago
I had the same feeling. It looks like a super cool product, and I'd love to do something with it. I just have no idea what.
robinhood•2mo ago
I had the same thoughts a few months ago, and then someone told me Atuin Desktop is made for DevOps and the likes, in order to scale manual and repetitive operations accross many teams. This made sense to me.
nickspacek•2mo ago
We have CI actions we use to configure and deploy dev namespaces. We document a bunch of steps for these actions in a doc, including situational tweaks. I could see this being a great replacement for that, given the right integrations.
azuanrb•2mo ago
Tried it few days ago, and came to same conclusion myself. In a way, it's like Ansible but simpler for some use cases.
gtirloni•2mo ago
Manual repetitive processes are already a smell. Shared across teams?
ellieh•2mo ago
One of the main things we’re aiming to do here is make these manual processes much less manual! I’m a big believer in automating things gradually, which runbooks enable
imiric•2mo ago
Atuin seemed like an interesting way to sync shell history across machines. That wasn't a problem I personally had, but I could've seen myself giving it a try.

These recent developments with the Desktop tool, and now what seems like a Jupyter-like replacement for... shell scripts(?)... sounds completely alien to me. I'm sure it solves some problem for somebody, but it's far removed from any problem I've ever had. Good luck with the project, as it does look like a lot of work and thought went into it.

acedTrex•2mo ago
Honestly atuin is great even if you dont sync history.
quasigod•2mo ago
Yeah even the completely offline features make it much nicer than a standard shell history
thayne•2mo ago
What advantage does it have over zsh (or bash) native history?
acedTrex•2mo ago
The fuzzy search ui bound to up is more convenient than history | grep ...
thayne•2mo ago
I just hava a zsh binding for using fzf to doing a fuzzy search of my history. The fzf package actually includes the implementation of the zsh "widget".
acedTrex•2mo ago
That's probably essentially the same thing, atuin being sqlite based is possibly faster but its not likely to matter until you reach a very very large history.
ellieh•2mo ago
The main difference otherwise is that Atuin stores much more data + syncs it

We shelled out to fzf in the very early days, but found the initial indexing to be a bit slower + add latency vs SQLite

theoldgreybeard•2mo ago
Atuin Desktop is wonderful.

At first I didn’t know what I wanted to do with it…then I realized basically anything I would want to do more than once should go in here.

One off CSV export from a custom sql query? It’s in Atuin.

Need to onboard a new dev across all our various repos and tools? Shared Atuin runbook.

Basically any kind of manual process I’ve ever needed now lives in Atuin and is almost entirely automated. It’s wonderful.

Used to do all this stuff with Confluence and a bunch of copy-paste. No more.

ellieh•2mo ago
Very happy to hear you find it so useful! Please do let me know if there’s anything we can do to make it better for you
emmelaich•2mo ago
I had a thing in progress to export a Confluence page to a runscript, mainly just converting `code` blocks to scripts and the rest to comments.

I, uhh, moved on before I finished it.

jdorfman•2mo ago
I haven’t tried the desktop but I use the CLI tool multiple times a day (sometimes hour) and I just want to thank the team for making my life easier.
ellieh•2mo ago
You’re very welcome! Glad it’s working well for you
quasigod•2mo ago
Ive been wanting to give this a try. I see that it mentions markdown formatting support, but I wonder if it actually supports markdown. I'd love to find a way to integrate it with my Obsidian vault, since I already have all my shell snippets and homelab docs there
ellieh•2mo ago
Not just yet! We support a bunch of features that don’t fit into markdown very well.

We will have better markdown support soon

slurrpurr•2mo ago
Very cool, but what is the advantage of this over something like marimo?
mkl•2mo ago
What is the advantage of a screwdriver over something like a saw?

Atuin Desktop and Marimo have quite different purposes and not much in common. Atuin Desktop is a runbook system for devops, to store, document, and run sequences of templated terminal commands (and some other things). Marimo is a reactive Python notebook development system for programming, data science, etc., which can't run terminal commands.

zem•2mo ago
this looks wonderful, will have to see if I can get permission to use it at work.
ellieh•2mo ago
Let me know if there’s anything I can help with!
zem•2mo ago
great, will do! this really does look like the solution to having random docs and shell scripts scattered around
Ferret7446•2mo ago
Unfortunately I've uninstalled atuin while this bug is getting fixed

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/issues/2969

The slow turnaround is somewhat disappointing but not surprising for a FOSS project; I'd fork it but using a forked Rust project is quite inconvenient vs, e.g. Python where you can just clone it and go.

pavlov•2mo ago
Cute typo:

”if you run a command like mktemp -d to create a tempflorary directory”

A tempflorary sounds like a pop-up garden.

eternityforest•2mo ago
Having trouble getting it to work on Ubuntu, the terminals seem to work but do not show any output. Definitely looking forward to when all the issues are ironed out, I'll probably make it a core part of some of my projects.

The CLI is amazing though!

shellfishgene•2mo ago
Do I need to make an account for this if I don't actually want to share anything?