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Spark: Sparklines in your shell

https://git.zx2c4.com/spark/about/
18•hskimse•1h ago

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throw-the-towel•45m ago
Site seems to be hugged to death. https://web.archive.org/web/20260830100336/https://git.zx2c4...
priteau•17m ago
I am not sure why this repository last updated in November 2011 is suddenly on the front page?

Anyway, a better known implementation (in Bash) is probably https://github.com/holman/spark, which was developed by Zach Holman, one of the first GitHub hires.

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
68•joebig•3h ago•15 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
49•vntok•2h ago•12 comments

Spark: Sparklines in your shell

https://git.zx2c4.com/spark/about/
18•hskimse•1h ago•2 comments

Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/30/turns-out-brits-would-quite-like-their-private-me...
98•defrost•2h ago•58 comments

Everyone Should Build Their Own Network Stack

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/dn42-2-dnet/
15•uneven9434•1h ago•7 comments

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/
189•lumpa•5d ago•38 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
315•shenli3514•16h ago•195 comments

Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-xcena-and-samsungs
16•klelatti•3h ago•1 comments

My life was changed by four sentences in four books

https://sive.rs/4s4b
6•surprisetalk•4d ago•1 comments

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

https://freecore.org/
112•sashk•10h ago•65 comments

JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps

https://blog.jupyter.org/jupytergis-0-16-new-visualization-capabilities-collaborative-story-maps-...
29•arjxn-py•5d ago•4 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption...
338•shscs911•8h ago•152 comments

Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/
276•davidmckenna•11h ago•167 comments

The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/einstein-szilard-refrigerator
40•EndXA•3d ago•12 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
470•zackb•6d ago•185 comments

Show HN: Bolnee-Chat – Self Hosted Chatbot Integration in Your Business Website

https://github.com/AniketWathore/bolnee-chat
3•AniketWathore•1h ago•0 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
203•JumpCrisscross•19h ago•80 comments

Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/fair-work-commission-condemns-ai-legal-advice/107089766
14•martyvis•1h ago•2 comments

Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference

https://artificialanalysis.ai/hardware-inference-stack/mobile-phones
52•sys42590•2d ago•4 comments

Orbs

https://ampcode.com/notes/orbs-explained
17•tosh•4d ago•9 comments

Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html
49•Bluestein•4d ago•11 comments

Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/among-all-great-things-benjamin-franklin-invented-discover...
74•cisc•10h ago•30 comments

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support
218•lioeters•5d ago•53 comments

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/
316•DeepLogin•12h ago•181 comments

EVE Online moves to Python 3

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
368•TylerJaacks•4d ago•198 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice
307•ostacke•5d ago•61 comments

Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830438.3830958
93•matt_d•16h ago•36 comments

Nvidia's AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/29/nvidias-ai-advantage-is-moving-beyond-the-gpu/
9•01-_-•1h ago•5 comments

Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients

https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server
43•gregsadetsky•11h ago•16 comments

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

https://iafisher.com/2026/08/sigprint
52•hellerve•3d ago•29 comments