frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Ghostty is now non-profit

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit
171•vrnvu•1h ago

Comments

simonw•37m ago
I wasn't aware of Hack Club before and wow, their fiscal sponsorship program is enormous: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/directory/ - looks like they cover more than 2,500 organizations!

The Python Software Foundation acts as a fiscal sponsor for a much smaller set of orgs (20 listed on https://www.python.org/psf/fiscal-sponsorees/) and it keeps our accounting team pretty busy just looking after those. Hack Club must have this down to a very fine art.

I wrote a bit more about PSF fiscal sponsorship here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/18/board-of-the-python-so...

conradev•23m ago
Hack Club builds software, so the students naturally built a banking product to scale their fiscal sponsorship: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/

I was working with Hack Club students on an experimental VPN client (https://github.com/hackclub/burrow) but never got the momentum to finish it. Made some great friends, though! It's a really fantastic organization.

The students have one big global Slack instance. If you're a student and on here, you should also be in there: https://hackclub.com/slack/

bos•37m ago
Really nice to see a solidly valuable project develop a sustainable foundation instead of turning into yet another VC-backed devtools startup that will inevitably die in a few years.
neural_thing•28m ago
"sustainable foundation" it's still one guy funding it, no? seems as sustainable as before
simonw•25m ago
Fourteen additional people funding it as of this announcement: https://hcb.hackclub.com/ghostty/transactions
mitchellh•13m ago
You can't build a house without the foundation (pun intended).

I said in the linked post that I remain the largest donor, but this helps lay bricks such that we can build a sustainable community that doesn't rely on me financially or technically. There simply wasn't a vehicle before that others could even join in financially. Now there is.

All of the above was mentioned in the post. If you want more details, please read it. I assume you didn't.

I'll begin some donor reach out and donor relationship work eventually. The past few months has been enough work simply coordinating this process, meeting with accountants and lawyers to figure out the right path forward, meeting with other software foundations to determine proper processes etc. I'm going to take a breather, then hop back in. :)

zikduruqe•25m ago
Good. Maybe they'll add search to the terminal now. /s
simonw•22m ago
https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1993728538344906978 - "Ghostty on macOS now has search [...] GTK to follow soon" - November 26th 2025
mitchellh•11m ago
GTK is also merged. Main branch has search. Its also exposed via libghostty for embedders.
codeptualize•19m ago
This seems really nice. Wasn't aware of hack club but that just looks like a wonderful construction and organization.

In a world of VC backed open source projects with big profit motivations, it's refreshing to see things like this. Definitely going to give ghostty another try!

tcdent•17m ago
I'm making an effort to support Open Source projects that I use everyday; much in the way I support creators on YouTube via Patreon with small monthly commitments, so it's a welcome opportunity that GhosTTY has made that easy to accomplish.
nodesocket•11m ago
I love Mitchell’s X post awhile back:

“What the monetization strategy of Ghostty?”

“My monetization strategy is that my bank account has 10 digits in it…” lol, epic.

LennyHenrysNuts•10m ago
...and another $150k from my family...

Wow.

alkh•9m ago
The only thing I am missing now from Ghostty is being able to open it in any open Finder folder with a keyboard shortcut(like standard Ubuntu terminal). Ghostty already provides Finder-specific GUI shortcut but you need to use a mouse. Otherwise, stellar work(especially the ease of configuring it) and congrats to everyone involved!
orbsa•8m ago
Can you not bind the command "open ." to a keybind through Ghostty?
tomjakubowski•5m ago
[delayed]
duskwuff•4m ago
[delayed]
ubercow13•5m ago
You can set a keyboard shortcut for that GUI menu entry (and most others) in macOS system settings.
rvz•8m ago
Smart decision and makes sense.

Lowers the risk of a rug pull or the project becoming suddenly abandoned.

Reminds me of Signal.

Ghostty is now non-profit

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit
180•vrnvu•1h ago•22 comments

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k
216•bearsyankees•2h ago•56 comments

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=222136#p222136
159•nooks•2h ago•47 comments

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2
277•hajtom•3h ago•162 comments

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

https://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-arm-gaming-steamos-pierre-loup-griffais
48•evolve2k•23h ago•180 comments

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

39•rushingcreek•2h ago•27 comments

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-9qr9-h5gf-34mp
182•rayhaanj•3h ago•51 comments

Prompt Injection via Poetry

https://www.wired.com/story/poems-can-trick-ai-into-helping-you-make-a-nuclear-weapon/
26•bumbailiff•1h ago•15 comments

Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?

https://alexene.dev/2025/12/03/Why-do-my-headphones-buzz-when-i-run-my-game.html
84•pacificat0r•4h ago•77 comments

How to Synthesize a House Loop

https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/how-to-synthesize-a-house-loop
105•stagas•6d ago•35 comments

Boston's subway system replacing 1890s-era wooden catenary system

https://www.mbta.com/news/2025-11-18/mbta-announces-december-service-changes
27•ilamont•2d ago•25 comments

Rocketable (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer to automate software companies

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rocketable/jobs/CArgzmX-founding-engineer-automation-platform
1•alanwells•2h ago

You can't fool the optimizer

https://xania.org/202512/03-more-adding-integers
201•HeliumHydride•7h ago•112 comments

What Are Lie Groups?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-are-lie-groups-20251203/
9•ibobev•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust

https://sinelaw.github.io/fresh/
37•_sinelaw_•5h ago•22 comments

"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34524
715•mhb•6h ago•427 comments

GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles

https://yunfan.zone/gswt_webpage/
64•klaussilveira•5h ago•19 comments

Everyone in Seattle Hates AI

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html
5•mips_avatar•13m ago•1 comments

Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO

https://vechron.com/2025/12/anthropic-hires-wilson-sonsini-ipo-2026-openai-race/
187•GeorgeWoff25•9h ago•150 comments

Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-we-really-repeating-the-telecoms-crash-with-ai-datacenters/
111•davedx•8h ago•67 comments

Tidyverse: R Packages for Data Science

https://tidyverse.org/
5•cl3misch•1w ago•0 comments

A Look at Rust from 2012

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/a-look-at-rust-from-2012/
128•todsacerdoti•1w ago•43 comments

Shrinking While Linking

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-11-27-shrinking-static-libs/
14•ingve•3d ago•5 comments

Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/helldivers-2-install-size-slashed-from-154gb-t...
308•doener•6h ago•207 comments

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/
847•Brajeshwar•11h ago•476 comments

The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-handwriting-recognition/
166•speckx•1w ago•93 comments

Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

https://medium.com/atari-club/interview-with-rollercoaster-tycoons-creator-chris-sawyer-684a0efb0f13
251•areoform•15h ago•44 comments

Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami

https://www.earth.com/news/satellite-captures-the-first-detailed-look-at-a-giant-tsunami/
38•stevenjgarner•7h ago•1 comments

Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/super-fast-aggregations-in-postgresql-19/
205•jnord•1w ago•22 comments

Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec9014
84•mmaaz•5d ago•82 comments