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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html
384•ckardaris•5h ago•211 comments

25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA

https://www.thehealthy.com/news/chicken-recall-fsis-august-2026/
69•randycupertino•1h ago•43 comments

Htmx 4.0

https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released
366•rmsaksida•7h ago•89 comments

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit
162•avsm•4h ago•55 comments

Isitdoneyet.gg is a website I made to figure out if games are complete

https://isitdoneyet.gg/
19•Kwolok•1h ago•15 comments

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

https://www.inventati.org/
378•exiguus•7h ago•343 comments

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

https://www.orbify.eu/demo/
337•smoser•8h ago•119 comments

Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe

https://acko.net/blog/curvature-beziers/
33•leephillips•4d ago•9 comments

Stopping the smart TV from being used against you

https://www.s-config.com/stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you/
9•speckx•27m ago•2 comments

Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23691
49•stephenchung•3h ago•8 comments

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3
456•jeudesprits•5h ago•169 comments

Visual Analysis of Binary Files

https://binvis.io/#/
33•vismit2000•2d ago•7 comments

The Twelve-Factor App

https://12factor.net/
181•jxmorris12•22h ago•91 comments

Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/attimet/jobs/6btZFDg-member-of-technical-staff-engineering
1•kbanothu•3h ago

Show HN: Conduct, open-source guardrails for LLM and MCP tool calls

https://github.com/sseshachala/conductai
12•sudhendra1•1h ago•1 comments

Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) – Finding the files that need the most attention

https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code-hotspots-finding-files-that-need-attention/
11•boyter•4d ago•0 comments

Barrier lake continues to pose flood risk, China warns

https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/08/28/barrier-lake-continues-to-pose-flood-risk-china-warns
74•r721•5h ago•17 comments

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-08-25-verschlimmbesserung/
86•speckx•6h ago•49 comments

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/anthropic-government-blacklisting-ruling.html
412•jbegley•18h ago•316 comments

The Analytical AI Handbook

https://handbook.sutro.sh
30•sethkim•1h ago•2 comments

Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/
44•EndXA•2d ago•15 comments

Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/africa-wild-dogs-most-hated-carnivores-continent-he...
59•speckx•6h ago•19 comments

Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)

https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/blog/hilariously-fast-volume-computation-with-the-divergence-theorem....
231•luu•11h ago•61 comments

Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02506-4
93•sohkamyung•8h ago•123 comments

State of the Map 2026

https://2026.stateofthemap.org/
116•lode•7h ago•46 comments

Get your Windows license refund

https://en.refund4freedom.org/
583•smartmic•7h ago•235 comments

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/
360•miniBill•14h ago•117 comments

An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/are-crows-really-our-friends
97•speckx•8h ago•55 comments

EasyEffects can massively improve laptop speaker sound quality

https://www.osnews.com/story/145883/easyeffects-should-be-part-of-every-linux-distribution-and-de...
59•birdculture•5h ago•34 comments

Migrating to HTTPX2

https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/httpx2.md
174•tosh•9h ago•74 comments
Open in hackernews

The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

https://tmog.org
27•CarbonNanotubes•1h ago

Comments

biglyburrito•1h ago
More info:

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/dave-plumme...

CarbonNanotubes•1h ago
Windows support is here. I am running it on Windows right now. That article was from two weeks ago.

Linux is also available

gruez•1h ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477269
DetroitThrow•59m ago
Wow, thought the guy would be a MSFT OG but this looks like it sucks? Vibed, closed source, paid extensions.. Why on earth would anyone use this?
bobsmooth•58m ago
Too colorful for you?
DetroitThrow•55m ago
I don't mind color, the glow effects just hurt the ability to read what's there (this reminds me of the gaming setups teenagers are drawn to)...but there's no reason a utility like a task manager should be closed source or have a pro version.
mikestew•48m ago
Why on earth would anyone use this?

Because they use a screen reader and don't know any better.

And remember, the state of Washington sued the author for some very good reasons. I wouldn't let his stuff anywhere near my machines.

ndiddy•43m ago
He kind of fell off. He left Microsoft to found a scam company called "SoftwareOnline.com" that used ads to trick people into downloading fake anti-virus software. The software didn't do anything besides show the user nag messages about fictional security threats that could only be addressed by buying the full version, and could not be fully uninstalled. See https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...
walrus01•36m ago
Meanwhile, the creators and maintainers of linux 'btop' haven't scammed anyone or been sued by any state AGs. Shocking, I know! It's almost as if you can write a system status monitor application without doing anything shady.
deepthaw•57m ago
an appimage to get a too complicated version of top?
bigyabai•44m ago
Seems like a gaudier version of Resources[0] with a paid Pro version. It's times like this where I'm grateful for FOSS.

[0] https://apps.gnome.org/Resources/

esseph•43m ago
Yeah, and top is a crunch.

Real men visually parse /proc/ output in realtime.

SG-•52m ago
from the Dave Plummer wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer

"Plummer left Microsoft in 2003[10] to start his own company, SoftwareOnline LLC, a software vendor. Plummer claimed that the company went on to sell millions of copies of first and third party utilities software for Windows.[16]

In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield". SoftwareOnline agreed to pay $150,000 in civil penalties, plus $250,000 that was ultimately suspended following compliance with all terms in the settlement, as well as $40,000 in legal fees.[6] He also founded Xeriton Corporation during this period, whose major product was the Blue Phone technical support service.[17] In December 2009, Xeriton was sold to Support.com for $8.5 million.[18]"

jordand•44m ago
For working with processes and software development on Windows, this replacement looks useless. I use Sysinternals Process Explorer daily at work, and that'll continue being immensely useful.
john_strinlai•43m ago
"Every core, honestly", "Not just used. Accounted for.", "More signal. Less hunting.", "Your machine. Your phosphor."

anyways, after scrolling through all of that stuff, it is not clear to me what the benefit of using this over normal task manager (or sysinternals tools) is, other than themes i guess?

perhaps it is better than whatever the native task management program is on mac?

"lots of words. not much substance".

mikestew•31m ago
perhaps it is better than whatever the native task management program is on Mac?

Activity Monitor works well enough for me. But, damn, I'd rather visually parse top all day before I'd resign myself to gaze upon that hideous mess.

walrus01•27m ago
Macports also provides htop , for the CLI folks.
timeoperator•42m ago
It’s so ugly that it looks like one of those fake antivirus interfaces.
xattt•37m ago
It doesn’t even have a photo of Peter Norton with folder arms.
walrus01•30m ago
Best we can do is neon vector art of John McAfee holding a crack pipe
john_strinlai•34m ago
funny you should say that, given the history of the creator (dave plummer)
nilsherzig•34m ago
checks out:

> In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer#:~:text=16%5D-,In...

svobodamartin•37m ago
Is it vibecoded?
walrus01•35m ago
Metaphorically, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
EricFrost•31m ago
This seems like a good place for me to share TaskPilot, which shows you and lets you manage everything running in the background on Linux. Services, SystemD timers, cron, autostart, ports in use, snaps, containers, mounts, and more

https://github.com/eric-frost/taskpilot

walrus01•28m ago
Would love to see this as a signed Debian package in stable, testing and unstable. Looks very useful.
dundarious•28m ago
I don't use Windows at the moment, but have heard good things about this alternative, which is "Handmade" affiliated: https://taskslinger.net/
pivo•23m ago
Looks like it supports macOS and Linux as well.
yannoninator•28m ago
Saved you a click, it is AI slop garbage.

Why do we need to tolerate this vibe coded slop?

We need a marker on posts which are complete AI generated rubbish.

What happened to the profession of software engineering? The craft and quality has been thrown out of the window in pursuit of slop.

We are disrespecting our own profession by turning the software we build into fast food junk where nobody wants anything we make and nobody cares about the quality and craft of creating software.

We are just building the same things repeatedly over and over again with nothing inventive or new, wasting engineering and the users time in the process.

AI has just shown how unimaginative some engineers are in choosing what problems in software to build and solve.

We need to do way better.

walrus01•26m ago
Feature suggestion to dang for a [slop] clickable next to [flag].
yipinwong•28m ago
I don't see a single compelling reason to use this over built-in one.
KronisLV•18m ago
It would be okay if it were a bit less AI slop in regards to prose, had more conventional fonts and also removed the obnoxious glow effects. Then again, personal opinion.