A networking explainer breaks down the three core pieces of home internet hardware: modems, which translate signals between your ISP connection and digital devices (replaced by an ONT on fiber lines); routers, which distribute that data to devices over Wi-Fi or Ethernet, manage local traffic, and provide security features like firewalls; and gateways, which combine a modem and router into one unit, commonly supplied by ISPs.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-18
OmniPTY, a GPU-rendered terminal emulator built in Rust, bundles features like a vim-driven file tree, workspace layouts, vim-style copy mode and a git/ssh-aware status bar directly into the app rather than requiring separate tools like tmux. The project was previously called Oxide and renamed in version 0.9.0 due to a naming conflict with an unrelated company; existing installs migrate automatically via the in-app updater or a Homebrew cask swap.
github.com
· 2026-10-18
DeepSeek has launched V4.1-Flash-1017, a minor version update to its V4.1-Flash model that the company says improves reasoning, coding, agentic task handling, and visual benchmark scores compared to the prior version. The update also shortens task execution time and output length. DeepSeek is also releasing deepseek-recipe, a Rust-based toolkit with Python bindings for encoding prompts and parsing model outputs.
huggingface.co
· 2026-10-17
The developer behind the iTerm2-Color-Schemes GitHub repository has launched TerminalThemes.com, a web application offering over 800 terminal themes with downloads in nearly 40 formats including iTerm, Ghostty and Windows. The site is free to browse and download without an account, while registered users can vote, bookmark and submit themes.
news.ycombinator.com
· 2026-10-15
A developer has released Ito, a library for building terminal user interfaces using the Lua programming language, shared via a Show HN post. The tool works by importing it with require("ito") and returning a function that constructs a view, with an ito.state(value) helper for managing values that change over time.
uji.sh
· 2026-10-14
A blogger published a technical walkthrough explaining how they built a terminal-friendly 'curl' version of their website, where visitors run commands like curl nytpu.com to view ANSI-formatted pages directly in a terminal. The author credits the idea to earlier curl sites by trinkey and strongsand, though an October update notes both of those original sites are no longer functional. Unlike those examples, which reportedly generate pages dynamically using a library like ratatui, this author hand-wrote the ANSI escape codes for their entire blog rather than just a page or two.
nytpu.com
· 2026-10-14
Pocketty is a new iPhone and iPad app providing SSH terminal access designed for monitoring coding agents, built to work with a tool called herdr. The app sends notifications readable only on the user's phone when an agent is blocked or has finished a task, letting the user respond directly in a mobile terminal session. It offers a 14-day free trial followed by a one-time launch price of $99, discounted from $129.
pocketty.app
· 2026-10-08
Android Authority reports that Google's new Googlebook laptops do not offer the same streamlined Linux app installation process as ChromeOS devices. Instead of installing apps via Settings and launching them from the app drawer, users must rely on Android's Terminal app and command-line instructions, with installed apps not appearing in the app drawer. Google has confirmed this limitation, stating that GUI Linux apps are not currently a priority.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-07
A specification has been published for OSC 7501, dubbed the Program Status Protocol, a terminal escape sequence that lets programs report states such as idle, working, waiting on user input, finished, or failed, along with a reason. The author gives an example of Terraform using the sequence to signal it is blocked awaiting a permission confirmation, with terminals free to display that status as a notification, icon, or inbox entry. The spec grew out of the author's work on Superlogical and Ghostty but is presented as a generic, product-agnostic standard any terminal could adopt.
mitchellh.com
· 2026-10-06
Weave OS released Weave Router 2.0, an open-source model router that dynamically switches between LLMs for coding agents like Claude Code or Codex. On Terminal Bench 4.0 and SWE Atlas benchmarks, the router matched GPT-6 Astra's pass rates while running at roughly 52-54% of its cost and 2.2-2.5x faster. The company attributes the gains to a new routing architecture, a larger training dataset, and improved cache-eviction calculations.
news.ycombinator.com
· 2026-09-30
Canonical has released Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, dubbed Resolute Raccoon, a maintenance update that consolidates fixes found since the original 26.04 LTS launch. The release ships GNOME 50 with full Wayland support, new default apps including Papers, Loupe, Ptyxis and Resources, and a unified App Center showing debs and snaps together. Users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will soon be prompted to upgrade directly from their desktops.
ubuntu.com
· 2026-09-30
The piece recounts how financial information delivery evolved from carrier pigeons and ticker tape to telegraph and early electronic quote screens like Quotron in 1960. It situates the eventual creation of the Bloomberg Terminal within this long history of firms racing to supply faster, more proprietary market data to traders.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-09-30
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