8 interesting things surfaced from HN on 2026-10-28

“That implementation is called GraalPy and it builds on the JVM: https://graalpy.org/ A bit like Chrome there's a fully open source version and a proprietary version with a few extra bells and whistles, but the latter is entirely free for both open and commercial usage (you can't redistribute it for a fee). So you may as well use it.”

mike_hearn · recommendation

Direct HN comment

“Herdr is designed for AI usage, but I actually really like it even for just normal terminal multiplexing.”

Zambyte · recommendation · first hand use

Direct HN comment

“I have an interesting reason to not upgrade: I use ghostty as my go-to terminal on my linux devices. I chose it after trying four or so with the way I work. It just works perfectly for me.”

pcblues · recommendation · first hand use

Direct HN comment

“but this is actually legit and dates back years before slop was even a thing. Nice work.”

mschuster91 · recommendation

Direct HN comment

“I’ve used WineVDM (otvdm) to run my Fluke 16-bit application to talk to my VR101 Voltage Event Recorder on 64-bit Windows for a few years now.”

NetMageSCW · incidental · first hand use

Direct HN comment

“I then tested Strata ( https://github.com/niko1221/strata ) and the results are not even close. You can basically ignore everything in that table and use Strata instead, you can use bigger/less-quantized models and have way better results.”

plqbfbv · recommendation · evaluated

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“Fluxer is the first Discord competitor that when you show to someone they can't say "well Discord does X better", and it was largely made using AI.”

Zambyte · recommendation

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“I use my wife's Studio Display sometimes and it's a real, real nice piece of hardware. I have a 5k LG ultrafine at work that's spec for spec similar but it feels like a toy in comparison (it's also like half the price though so).”

NorthSouthNorth · recommendation · first hand use

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“this is basically the entire premise of Cory Doctorow's excellent The Reverse Centaur's Guide To Life After AI, which everyone should read.”

Amorymeltzer · recommendation

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