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Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

https://www.openchaos.dev/
203•stefanvdw1•4h ago•33 comments

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books

https://trails.pieterma.es/
18•pmaze•3h ago•1 comments

A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (2023)

https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz/
301•skadamat•8h ago•132 comments

Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats

https://scienceclock.com/rats-caught-on-camera-hunting-flying-bats-for-the-first-time/
26•akg130522•2h ago•5 comments

Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair
101•alphabetatango•4h ago•78 comments

ASCII-Driven Development

https://medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f66661351
39•_hfqa•2d ago•22 comments

Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas

https://civai.org/p/ai-values
32•jesenator•1d ago•18 comments

Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI

https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon
25•rendx•1h ago•6 comments

New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-4/
227•libroot•9h ago•105 comments

Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fix
13•thorel•1h ago•0 comments

Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming

https://alextardif.com/BindlessProgramming.html
11•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring PMs, SWEs to automate construction compliance

https://up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN
1•Old_Thrashbarg•3h ago

UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/10/csr_bill_analysis/
248•DyslexicAtheist•7h ago•51 comments

Distributed Denial of Secrets

https://ddosecrets.com/
30•sabakhoj•2d ago•3 comments

“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103
586•cod1r•22h ago•328 comments

Httpz – Zero-Allocation HTTP/1.1 Parser for OxCaml

https://github.com/avsm/httpz
61•noelwelsh•3d ago•16 comments

GPU memory snapshots: sub-second startup (2025)

https://modal.com/blog/gpu-mem-snapshots
10•jxmorris12•2d ago•3 comments

How we made v0 an effective coding agent

https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-made-v0-an-effective-coding-agent
18•MaxLeiter•2d ago•7 comments

Good Judgment Open

https://www.gjopen.com
9•kaycebasques•2d ago•1 comments

Changes to Android Open Source Project

https://source.android.com/
268•TechTechTech•3d ago•173 comments

Reverse Engineering the Epson FilmScan 200 for Classic Mac

https://ronangaillard.github.io/posts/reverse-engineering-epson-filmscan-200/
81•j_leboulanger•1w ago•6 comments

Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick

https://aman.bh/blog/2025/creating-embroidered-charts-with-r-and-imagemagick
69•speckx•4d ago•4 comments

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

https://www.theverge.com/tech/858910/linux-diary-gaming-desktop
340•rorylawless•5h ago•277 comments

Time Travelling and Fixing Bugs with Property-Based Testing (2019)

https://wickstrom.tech/2019-11-17-time-travelling-and-fixing-bugs-with-property-based-testing.html
17•todsacerdoti•4d ago•0 comments

Sinclair C5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
6•jszymborski•21m ago•0 comments

Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-eye-greenland-sharks-vision-centuries.html
238•pseudolus•4d ago•103 comments

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters

https://beta.dwitter.net
325•themanmaran•1d ago•59 comments

Start your meetings at 5 minutes past

https://philipotoole.com/start-your-meetings-at-5-minutes-past/
252•otoolep•22h ago•211 comments

Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text

https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/
182•adityaathalye•11h ago•146 comments

How Markdown took over the world

https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
391•zdw•1d ago•294 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback

https://github.com/minimaxir/miditui
58•minimaxir•2d ago

Comments

T-A•17h ago
Everything old is new again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWGUrQsJ7_U

Aldipower•11h ago
<80s flamewar> Pah, Cakewalk? "Voyetra Sequencer Gold" for the win! :-P
vunderba•16h ago
Huge fan of horizontal trackers so this is very cool. If you haven’t already, strongly consider adding some simple quantization options (selecting group of notes, and quick quantize by eighth, quarter, half notes, etc.)
ako•13h ago
Nice, the AI enabled Cambrian explosion of software is happening. Any idea can be built and validated in a few hours or days.

I've built something similar, but focused on guitar backing tracks. It's a TUI built using go, with midi output. Backing-tracks: https://github.com/ako/backing-tracks

neomantra•7h ago
Very cool, thank you for creating and sharing. Literally yesterday YouTube searched (for the first time in a long time) for "D blues backing for Harmonica". I am interested now in exploring LLM paths for that.

You did a great job on the visualizations!!

I couldn't get sound to work on OSX yet, but will keep trying. We uke here, so will make an issue for that ;)

I work on NTCharts and also just yesterday had an LLM fix a visual bug using world understanding, one that I had thought about multiple times prior. In the end, the solution was obvious once revealed and I had overthought the problem.

Video in OP Miditui project is amazing, I missed it on first skim.

ako•1h ago
Thanks, everything was vibe coded, so visualizations thanks to vibe coding. I'm prompting like key user/product manager/architect, so expressing user needs, and ensuring the overall architecture seems reasonable.

For uke, would you expect same functionality but with 4 strings?

rjh29•7h ago
Validated? TUI-based sequencers have been around since the 80s.

It's nice that someone can vibecode what used to take probably a manyear of work though.

ako•7h ago
Not the generic concept of TUI sequencers (i know, have used sequencers on c64), but any weird slightly different idea.

In my case i wanted flexible way to display lyrics, chords, strumming, metronome, fingerpicking, scales, chord shapes, etc, with an easy way for LLMs to define the backing-track, so a backing track DSL.

I think we'll see a lot of these very specialized software popping up, instead of generic solutions that contain everything and the kitchen-sink, where you don't use 90% of the functionality.

ffsm8•47m ago
> Any idea can be built and validated in a few hours or days.

Let's not oversell it to that degree, please.

The amount of ideas that can be built and validated within a few hours or days went way way way up, but is still very very far away from "any". Nor will it ever get there unless we get actual AGI with "free" compute.

strongly-typed•13h ago
What a weird coincidence. Literally today I started building a fully keyboard driven MIDI sequencer in Rust. I was originally going to build it as a TUI but then decided against it because I wanted to have more control over the UI, so I'm building it as a pseudo-TUI with Bevy. But the idea is very similar, I'm approaching this project as a "vim"-like editor but for MIDI editing.
Aldipower•11h ago
Really nice! Reminds me of my "Voyetra Sequencer Plus Gold" which I still have running on a 286, because it has great midi timing! "Miditui" would need a descent recording feature besides easy keyboard roll editing, quantization and so. Any plans to implement this? So you actually could compose music with your real midi devices.
hasbot•7h ago
I clicked only because I'm interested in doing a project related to MIDI, so I was surprised to immediately see that this project was built with Claude Code and unlike, most AI-assisted projects, includes the prompts. Skimming the comments here it appears most people have not noticed this. I suggest re-submitting this project again but with a headline that promotes it as a demonstration for vibe coding.
minimaxir•3h ago
There really isn't a good way to put a note to those prompts in a headline (putting "I vibecoded this" would just get it flagged). I'll likely do a blog post discussing the prompt process at some point.