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The Ghostty project has released libghostty-vt 1.0, a portable C library for terminal emulation extracted from Ghostty's core, now with a stable, ABI-locked C interface. Over the past year it moved from an experimental module to powering JetBrains IDE terminals for over 12.5 million users, with adoption also underway or planned at Neovim, KDE's Konsole, Vercel's Turborepo, devenv and others.
A Show HN author published a personal essay revealing they are a convicted felon, something they had kept hidden for two decades. In the same post they explain their writing process, saying they compose text by hand in Neovim without AI assistance, while using AI tools extensively for coding work that they still personally review.
An independent developer built Nordwand Mono, a monospace typeface generated with Python code rather than traditional font design tools. The font blends proportions from JetBrains Mono with stylistic influences from Univers, SF Mono, Alpes Mono, and Ubuntu Mono, and includes alternate glyph styles plus two ligatures for arrow symbols. Users can customize metrics like x-height via a config file and regenerate the font themselves using the provided Python scripts.
Computer scientist David Chisnall reported that installing Neovim caused it to detect existing Vim persistent-undo files, delete their contents, and replace them with a new incompatible format, without renaming or upgrading the originals. He said Vim itself could no longer read the resulting files either. When he raised an issue about the data loss, he was told the persistent undo file format is considered unstable and not guaranteed to preserve data.
A user examining Neovim's public donation footer discovered a Bitcoin address that received a 10 BTC donation in 2023, now worth roughly $800,000. Blockchain records show the project last moved funds from that address in 2019, suggesting the large donation has gone unnoticed or unused for years.