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Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vgZe
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TLDR: I wrote a handbook for the Linux command line. 120 pages in PDF. Updated for 2025. Pay what you want.
A few years back I wrote an ebook about the Linux command line. Instead of focusing on a specific shell, paraphrasing manual pages, or providing long repetitive explanations, the idea was to create a modern guide that would help readers to understand the command line in the practical sense, cover the most common things people use the command line for, and do so without wasting the readers' time.
The book contains material on terminals, shells (compatible with both Bash and Zsh), configuration, command line programs for typical use cases, shell scripting, and many tips and tricks to make working on the command line more convenient. I still consider it "an introduction" and it is not necessarily a book for the HN crowd that lives in the terminal, but I believe that the book will easily cover 80 % of the things most people want or need to do in the terminal.
I made a couple of updates to the book over the years and just finished a significant one for 2025. The book is not perfect. I still see a lot of room for improvement, but I think it is good enough and I truly want to share it with everyone. Hence, pay what you want.
EXAMPLE PAGES: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PkUcLv83Ib6nKYF88n3OBqeeVff...
https://commandline.stribny.name/
Tariffs in American History (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v2d7
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Square Theory (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vb3Q
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A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v7B2
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Jjui – A Nice TUI for Jujutsu (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v6nY
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Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uUgy
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uUgy
Remote Prompt Injection in Gitlab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft (❄️ Score: 152+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uX9u
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uX9u
On File Formats (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uQjN
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Now you can watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uXCt
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DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v2c7
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Show HN: DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v4VB
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Demo: https://dustinbrett.com
Hey HN!
I've been building my passion project daedalOS for over 4 years now.
The original idea was to give visitors to my website the experience as if they had remotely connected to my personal machine. To do this I decided I would attempt to recreate as much of the functionality as possible.
My hope is to keep working on this project for the rest of my life and continue to evolve it's capabilities as technologies progress.
Thanks for checking it out!
You can choose tools that make you happy (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uTsh
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Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018) (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v4TU
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Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uSk8
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6v5sm
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Running GPT-2 in WebGL: Rediscovering the Lost Art of GPU Shader Programming (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vbtj
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FromSoft's singular mech game Chromehounds is back online (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v9tn
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German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal (🔥 Score: 165+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v7TV
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GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world (Score: 157+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v6Un
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Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? (Score: 155+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6v6Y7
I use LLMs daily for stuff like:
- solving tasks that just require applying knowledge ("here's a paste of my python import structure. I don't write Python often and I'm aware I'm doing something wrong here because I get this error, tell me the proper way organise the package").
- writing self-contained throwaway pieces of code ("here's a paste of my DESCRIBE TABLE output, write an SQL query to show the median [...]").
- as a debugging partner ("I can SSH to this host directly, but Ansible fails to connect with this error, what could be causing this difference").
All these use cases work great, I save a lot of time. But with the core work of writing the code that I work on, I've almost never had any success. I've tried:
- Cursor (can't remember which model, the default)
- Google's Jules
- OpenAI Codex with o4
I found in all cases that the underlying capability is clearly there (the model can understand and write code) but the end-to-end value is not at all. It could write code that _worked_, but trying to get it to generate code that I am willing to maintain and "put my name on" took longer than writing the code would have.
I had to micromanage them infinitely ("be sure to rerun the formatter, make sure all tests pass" and "please follow the coding style of the repository". "You've added irrelevant comments remove those". "You've refactored most of the file but forgot a single function"). It would take many many iterations on trivial issues, and because these iterations are slow that just meant I had to context switch a lot, which is also exhausting.
Basically it was like having an intern who has successfully learned the core skill of programming but is not really capable of good collaboration and needs to be babysat all the time.
I asked friends who are enthusiastic vibe coders and they basically said "your standards are too high".
Is the model for success here that you just say "I don't care about code quality because I don't have to maintain it because I will use LLMs for that too?" Am I just not using the tools correctly?
Bagel: Open-source unified multimodal model (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v6Hk
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Lisping at JPL (2002) (❄️ Score: 151+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uTKC
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Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v6Zc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v6Zc
CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing) (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v3Cp
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Google Shared My Phone Number (🔥 Score: 162+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v6FG
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Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v5YY
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v5YY
Robin: A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uNrV
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Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v4CW
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v4CW
Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v59a
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v59a
Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023) (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v54n
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v54n