Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust
brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) is a POSIX- and bash-compatible shell, implemented in Rust. It’s built and tested on Linux and macOS, with experimental support on Windows. (Its Linux build is fully supported running on Windows via WSL.) brush is functional for interactive use as a daily driver! It can execute most sh and bash scripts […]
Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust (by showing me C++)
Matt Godbolt, of Compiler Explorer fame, is awesome and you should scour the web for every single bit of content he puts out. That is exactly what I was doing when I watched Correct by Construction: APIs That Are Easy to Use and Hard to Misuse. After 20+ years of working with C/C++, this theme […]
Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
Hey HN! We’re Will and Jeff from Exa (https://exa.ai). We recently launched Exa Websets, an embeddings-powered search engine designed to return exactly what you’re asking for. You can get precise results for complex queries like “all startups working on open-source developer tools based in SF, founded 2021-2025”. Demo here – https://youtu.be/Unt8hJmCxd4 We started working on […]
Single hair-like electrode outperforms traditional 21-lead EEG
Researchers have developed a 3D-printable electrode that looks like a single strand of human hair and measures brain activity more reliably than the current method used to diagnose things like epilepsy and sleep disorders. When you imagine someone having an electroencephalogram (EEG) to diagnose a condition such as epilepsy, for example, you probably picture them […]
Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses
Hi everyone, my name is Kevin Lin, and this is a Show HN for my sheet music smart glasses project. My video was on the front page on Friday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43876243, but dang said we should do a Show HN as well, so here goes! I’ve wanted to put sheet music into smart glasses for a […]
Show HN: Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt
Build machine learning models using natural language. Quickstart | Features | Installation | Documentation plexe lets you create machine learning models by describing them in plain language. Simply explain what you want, and the AI-powered system builds a fully functional model through an automated agentic approach. Also available as a managed cloud service. demo.mp4 1. […]
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance
We’ve seen developers doing amazing things with Gemini 2.5 Pro, so we decided to release an updated version a couple of weeks early to get into developers hands sooner. Today we’re excited to release Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition). This update features even stronger coding capabilities, for you to start building with before Google […]
Show HN: Clippy, 90s UI for local LLMs
You might be wondering: What’s the point of all this? Why? Clippy is basically art. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that this little app is all that magnificent or something that belongs in a museum, I mean “art” in the sense that I’ve made it like other people do watercolors or pottery – […]
Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in English
We work with accents a lot at BoldVoice, the AI-powered accent coaching app for non-native English speakers. Accents are subtle patterns in speech—vowel shape, timing, pitch, and more. Usually, you need a linguist to make sense of these qualities. However, our goal at BoldVoice is to get machines to understand accents, and machines don’t think […]
Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB
A debugger for Linux. Partially inspired by RemedyBG. Mom, can we have RAD Debugger on Linux? No, we have a debugger at home. Debugger at home: Properties: Fast. TUI. Not based on gdb or lldb, implemented mostly from scratch. Works on large executables. (Tested mostly on 2.5 GB ClickHouse.) What we mean by “fast”: Operations […]