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[Other] Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python Hi HN,<p>I’ve been having a lot of fun building Docking, an open-source dock for Linux written in Python with GTK 3 and Cairo. It includes an extensible applet system, 38 built-in applets, 12 themes, multi-monitor support, auto-hide, and works across several Linux&#x2F;X11 desktop environments.<p>It also has prebuilt releases for x64 and arm64 across multiple package formats: AppImage, .deb, RPM, Flatpak, Snap, Arch, and Nix outputs.<p>GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;edumucelli&#x2F;docking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;edumucelli&#x2F;docking</a><p>Feedback is very welcome!

[Other] Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V I pretty much always have a kernel project going on, and have been that way for decades. Over the past couple of years, that&#x27;s been Anos, which has gotten further along than any of my previous hobby kernels, supporting IPC, multitasking, SMP (x86-64 only right now) and running on real hardware.<p>LLMs (mostly Claude Code) have been used during development, but I learned early on that it&#x27;s not _great_ at code at this level, so I&#x27;ve restricted its use to mostly documentation and tests. There&#x27;s _a little_ AI code in the user space, but I have a strict &quot;no AI code&quot; rule in the kernel itself. I find this helps not only with the quality &#x2F; functionality of the code, but also with learning - for example, even though I&#x27;ve written multiple kernels in the past, it wasn&#x27;t until Anos that I _truly_ grokked pagetable management and what was possible with a good VMM interface, and if I&#x27;d outsourced that implementation to an LLM I probably wouldn&#x27;t have learned any of that.<p>In terms of approach, Anos avoids legacy platform features and outdated wiki &#x2F; tutorial resources, and instead tries to implement as much as possible from manuals and datasheets, and it&#x27;s definitely worked out well so far. There&#x27;s no support for legacy platform features or peripherals, with all IO being memory mapped and MSI&#x2F;MSI-X interrupts (no PIC), for example, which has helped keep the codebase focused and easy to work on. The kernel compiles to about 100KiB on x86-64, with enough features to be able to support multitasking and device drivers in user space.<p>As a hobby project, progress ebbs and flows with pressures of my day job etc, and the main branch has been quiet for the last few months. I have however been working on a USB stack as time allows, and hopefully will soon have at least basic HID support to allow me to take the next step and make Anos interactive.<p>I don&#x27;t know how useful projects like Anos are any more, given we now live in the age of AI coding, but it&#x27;s a fun learning experience and helps keep me technically grounded, and I&#x27;ll carry on with it for as long as those things remain true.

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[DevOps] Show HN: Run Claude Code autonomously inside your Docker Compose stack (OSS) Claude Code&#x27;s --dangerously-skip-permissions flag lets agents run without interruption, but it needs a sandboxed environment to be safe.<p>dangerously is an open source tool that spins up an isolated container and runs Claude Code inside it — file system changes are restricted to your project directory.<p>The new version detects your docker-compose.yml and spins up your full service stack alongside Claude Code, so the agent can test against real dependencies — databases, queues, whatever your app needs.<p>npm install -g dangerously

[Other] Show HN: Ismcpdead.com – Live dashboard tracking MCP adoption and sentiment Built this to track the ongoing debate around Model Context Protocol - whether it&#x27;s gaining real traction or just hype. Pulls live data from GitHub, HN, Reddit and a few other sources. Curious what the HN crowd thinks given how active the MCP discussion has been here.

[Other] Show HN: Aurion OS, A 1.8MB OS with a browser, try it live (C/x86 ASM) I posted Aurion OS a few weeks ago on HN.<p>Since then, the OS has gone from Beta to v1.0 Release with a lot of improvements:<p>Blaze Browser: HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS rendering with tabs and a developer console (local only, no full http&#x2F;https support for now) Installer with user account setup and app selection Multi-resolution support (800x600 to 2560x1440, I plan to add 4096x2160 pixels in next versions) Unix-style luka@aurion prompt Serbian keyboard layout Python interpreter and Make build system 50+ terminal commands Window manager improvements and bug fixes<p>1.8MB ISO (entire OS including the browser and GUI) Supports QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware, and v86<p>You can try it live in the link above, or grab the ISO from GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Luka12-dev&#x2F;AurionOS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Luka12-dev&#x2F;AurionOS</a><p>Built solo as a hobby&#x2F;learning project. I&#x27;m 13. I&#x27;d love any feedback, suggestions!

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[Other] Show HN: LLMnesia – search across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini chats locally I kept running into this annoying problem:<p>I’d remember a really useful answer, but not where it was.<p>ChatGPT? Claude? Gemini? No idea. So I’d end up digging through all of them or just rewriting the prompt.<p>Built this to fix that.<p>It’s a Chrome extension that indexes chats locally and lets you search across them all in one place. Once it’s indexed, search is basically instant.<p>Still early. UIs change and break things sometimes, so it’s a bit fragile in places.<p>Curious if other people have the same issue or if it’s just me jumping between tools too much.

[Other] Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Arthur-Ficial&#x2F;apfel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Arthur-Ficial&#x2F;apfel</a>

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[Other] Show HN: A P2P messenger with dual network modes (Fast and Tor) Hello HN,<p>I have been working on a desktop P2P messenger called Kiyeovo for the last ~8 months, and I just published its beta version.<p>Quick backstory: It started out as a CLI application for my Graduate Thesis, where I tried to make the most secure and private messenger application possible. Then, I transformed it into a desktop application, gave it &quot;clearnet&quot; support and added a bunch of features.<p>Short summary:<p>The app runs in 2 completely isolated modes:<p>- fast mode: relay&#x2F;DCUtR -&gt; lower latency, calls support<p>- anonymous mode: Tor message routing -&gt; slower, anonymous<p>These modes use different protocol IDs, DHT namespaces, pubsub topics and storage scopes so there’s no data crossover between them.<p>Messaging works peer-to-peer when both parties are online, but falls back to DHT &quot;offline buckets&quot; when one of them is not. To ensure robustness, messages are ACK-ed and deleted after being read.<p>Group chats use GossipSub for realtime messaging. Group messages are also saved to offline buckets in order for offline users to be able to read them upon logging in. Kick&#x2F;Join&#x2F;Leave events are also propagated using the DHT. Group metadata and all offline data is of course encrypted.<p>Other features: Chats are E2E, file sharing is supported, 1:1 audio&#x2F;video calls are supported (only in fast mode though, using WebRTC)<p>Tradeoffs: Tor has noticeable latency, offline delivery is not immediately guaranteed, but rather &quot;eventually consistent&quot;; beta version does not have group calls yet.<p>I’d appreciate feedback, that&#x27;s why I posted this as a beta version<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Realman78&#x2F;Kiyeovo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Realman78&#x2F;Kiyeovo</a>

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