Thursday, September 11, 2025

New best story on Hacker News: Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured

Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
1013 by xyzal | 335 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured

Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
1011 by xyzal | 335 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
1009 by mmulet | 137 comments on Hacker News.
I made a built-from scratch Wayland Compositor to display any GUI app* in the terminal! I think there is a lot of unexplored potential in custom Wayland compositors, a lot of really cool things you can embed existing applications into! So, I started with embedding apps into the terminal because that is the easiest input/output (output is just utf-8 and I use the great `chafa` library for that, and I just read from stdin for the input). If you have any other ideas for cool Wayland compositors, let me know. I purposedly wrote 80% the app in Typescript to appeal to the most developers and attract cool contributions (I do all drawing with the familiar Canvas2D api, so if there is interest, I can also fork this out into a cool Terminal canvas, let me know!) I have a blog post here about how I did it, but it’s pretty high level and non technical, so please ask if you have any questions. [How I Did It](< https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/blob/main/resource... >) *technically only Wayland apps and x11 apps with Xwayland. But on Linux that’s mostly everything.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
1007 by mmulet | 136 comments on Hacker News.
I made a built-from scratch Wayland Compositor to display any GUI app* in the terminal! I think there is a lot of unexplored potential in custom Wayland compositors, a lot of really cool things you can embed existing applications into! So, I started with embedding apps into the terminal because that is the easiest input/output (output is just utf-8 and I use the great `chafa` library for that, and I just read from stdin for the input). If you have any other ideas for cool Wayland compositors, let me know. I purposedly wrote 80% the app in Typescript to appeal to the most developers and attract cool contributions (I do all drawing with the familiar Canvas2D api, so if there is interest, I can also fork this out into a cool Terminal canvas, let me know!) I have a blog post here about how I did it, but it’s pretty high level and non technical, so please ask if you have any questions. [How I Did It](< https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/blob/main/resource... >) *technically only Wayland apps and x11 apps with Xwayland. But on Linux that’s mostly everything.

New best story on Hacker News: I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens

I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
991 by arch_deluxe | 329 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah 1029 by david927 | 3002 comments on Hacker News.