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[Other] Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres

[CLI Tool] Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier I built this because I was always creating machines on GH actions to test builds on different OS, and I wanted a tight CLI that could do it. I always saw Actions as this great resources and ephemeral machines you could do dev work in just were a natural way for me to work, so this grew out of that workflow.<p>I didn&#x27;t expect it to blow up, so it wasn&#x27;t 100% finished when I posted it. But it should stabilize pretty quickly.<p>Happy to know what you think and talk about it.

[Other] Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

[Other] Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk I&#x27;ve always had the urge to have my two macbooks communicate. Having one idle while working on the other felt like underutilization of resources. So I built Loopsy. Initially the goal was to do file transfer via local network, and then came running commands. I then tried running coding agents from one machine to the other, and it worked.<p>Later I figured there should be a better way to continue my claude sessions remotely on my phone from the gym. So I did a cloudflare worker that connects to my local machine. I just need to ensure the laptop is plugged in.<p>I know I might be reinventing the wheel, but I love that it just works. Still working on E2E encryption. iOS app still in review.<p>Lemme know your thoughts.

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[Other] Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables USB-C cables can be a mess. One cable charges at 5W, another does 100W and Thunderbolt 4, and they look identical in the drawer.<p>WhatCable sits in your menu bar and reads the cable data your Mac already has access to. Plug in a cable and it tells you in plain English what it can actually do: charging wattage, data speed, display support, Thunderbolt, etc.<p>Built in Swift&#x2F;SwiftUI. Open source, free, no tracking.<p>GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;darrylmorley&#x2F;whatcable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;darrylmorley&#x2F;whatcable</a>

[Other] Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine

[Other] Show HN: Git repositories hosted directly on Freenet Freenet&#x27;s philosophy is &quot;decentralize everything&quot; and one of the things I&#x27;ve long wanted to apply that to is Git. The original Git concept was decentralized but for practical reasons most people use centralized hosting services like GitHub.<p>For anyone unfamiliar, Freenet[1] is a general purpose platform for building decentralized systems.<p>So I implemented a working prototype which already hosts the freenet-core repo, integrating as a git remote helper. It&#x27;s still early so I&#x27;d greatly appreciate any feedback and will iterate quickly if there is interest.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freenet.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freenet.org&#x2F;</a>

[CLI Tool] Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell I originally was just messing with pi-autoresearch. Gave it a sample task to build the most portable coding agent.<p>First cut was 6 KB of shell. Great for one-shots, unusable interactively. I was shocked it actually worked.<p>Started building up -- adding features — but with a self-imposed rule: no new dependencies, and sub 500 LOC. This thing had to be truly portable. Just sh, curl, awk. System primitives only.<p>Which means I did some genuinely disgusting things in awk, including JSON parsing and the OpenAI Responses tool loop with reasoning items carried across turns.<p>It&#x27;s now ~400 lines. In the box: Anthropic + OpenAI, 7 tools (bash, read, write, edit, grep, find, ls), REPL, auto-compaction, checkpoint&#x2F;resume, pipe mode, 90 no-API tests. Not in the box: TUI, streaming, images, OAuth, Windows, dignity.<p>Two honest things:<p>1. I stole&#x2F;modified the system prompt and the architecture. Pi&#x2F;Claude&#x2F;Codex wrote the awk. I cannot read most of this code. This wasn&#x27;t possible for me a year ago.<p>2. Heavily inspired by Pi (pi.dev) — same 7-tool surface, same exact-text edit model. Credit where it&#x27;s due. Pi is awesome -- you should probably use them.<p>The agent loop itself is tiny. Almost everything else in a &quot;real&quot; agent CLI is DX and hardening. You can probably build your own harness exactly how you like it. Mario Zechner&#x27;s AI Engineer talk on taking back control of your tools nudged me here.<p>The name is because it&#x27;s a .sh file. The other thing it sounds like is, regrettably, also accurate.

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[Other] Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

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