Hacker News with Generative AI: Software

Show HN: Empty Enter Expander – Type less in the terminal with this tool (github.com/waszabi)
Type less in the terminal with this tool
ATS3 Xanadu Released (github.com/githwxi)
XATSHOME is a place for one to learn ATS3 and also contribute to ATS3.
Parallel ./configure (tavianator.com)
I'm sorry, but in the year 2025, this is ridiculous:
Show HN: Mermaid Open Editor 2.0 (mermaidchart.com)
Next-Gen GPU Programming: Hands-On with Mojo and Max Modular HQ (youtube.com)
Is Electron That Bad? (macstories.net)
I’ve been thinking about this video by Theo Browne for the past few days, especially in the aftermath of my story about working on the iPad and realizing its best apps are actually web apps.
Things I learned about software and startups by playing video games (ghost.io)
In 2005, Steve Jobs told the graduating class of Stanford a now-famous story about connecting the dots - a story about the calligraphy courses he took in his college years, which later influenced the industry-leading digital fonts that shipped with the Macintosh.
DeepWiki – Which repo would you like to understand? (deepwiki.com)
Powered by DevinDeepWikipowered byDevinShare<h1>Which repo would you like to understand?</h1>
The first SWHID publicly available specification is out (softwareheritage.org)
Identifying precisely software artifacts and their versions is of paramount importance for a variety of stakeholders, ranging from industry to academia, from cultural heritage to public administration.
UIT – performant, modular, low-memory file processing at scale, in the Cloud (github.com/janwilmake)
UIT is a library for performant, modular, low-memory file processing at scale, in the Cloud. It works by offering a 4-step process to gather a file hierarchy from any desired modality, apply filters and transformations, and output it in any desired modality.
Show HN: BugStalker - a modern Rust debugger (github.com/godzie44)
Show HN: SnipFast – Extract Highlighted Text from Physical Books (snipfa.st)
Wasmer 6.0 (wasmer.io)
Today we are extremely excited to announce Wasmer 6.0.
GCC 15.1 (gcc.gnu.org)
The GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 15.1.
How I set up new MacBooks (catalins.tech)
I recently got a new MacBook and procrastinated setting it up for a few days. Installing apps individually and configuring your machine manually feels like a huge chore.
What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch? (morling.dev)
The last few days I spent some time digging into the recently announced KIP-1150 ("Diskless Kafka"), as well AutoMQ’s Kafka fork, tightly integrating Apache Kafka and object storage, such as S3. Following the example set by WarpStream, these projects aim to substantially improve the experience of using Kafka in cloud environments, providing better elasticity, drastically reducing cost, and paving the way towards native lakehouse integration.
Observability 2.0 and the Database for It (greptime.com)
Observability 2.0 is a concept introduced by Charity Majors of Honeycomb, though she later expressed reservations about labeling it as such(follow-up).
Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) (jsoftware.com)
OpenAlternative – open-source Alternatives to Popular Software (github.com/piotrkulpinski)
Discover open source alternatives to popular software.
Show HN: I Added Translation to My RSS Reader Project (rahuldshetty.github.io)
Show HN: GitNote- Online MD note editor that syncs to GitHub (vercel.app)
Your notes, synced with GitHub.
PgDog is a transaction pooler logical replication manager can shard PostgreSQL (github.com/pgdogdev)
PgDog is a transaction pooler and logical replication manager that can shard PostgreSQL.
Docker Model Runner Brings Local LLMs to Your Desktop (thenewstack.io)
Open Sourcing 30 Sandboxes (antonz.org)
I'm a big fan of interactive playgrounds. So today I'm open sourcing 30+ sandboxes — from programming languages to databases to networking and CLI tools. You can use them to experiment locally, or embed interactive examples in your writing like this:
OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours (open-vsx.org)
Some services are down
Show HN: We made a blazing-fast, open-source GitHub front end (gitfaster.dev)
gitfaster is a minimal, blazing fast GitHub client to make github not feel like legacy software.
Show HN: Zev – Remember (or discover) terminal commands (github.com/dtnewman)
Zev helps you remember (or discover) terminal commands using natural language.
Ninite to win it: How to rebuild Windows without losing your mind (theregister.com)
When you install a fresh, clean copy of Windows – say, if you're switching to the LTSC edition – Ninite is here to kickstart provisioning the new OS.
Text-to-Visual with AI by Excalidraw (visualgpt.io)
VisualGPT instantly creates stunning visuals from text, making communication clear and engaging. Free & easy!
Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI (motherduck.com)
Today, we’re releasing Instant SQL, a new way to write SQL that updates your result set as you type to expedite query building and debugging – all with zero-latency, no run button required. Instant SQL is now available in Preview in MotherDuck and the DuckDB Local UI.