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Solarpunk is already happening in Africa (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EXgG
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Radiant Computer (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EVMZ
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Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX (❄️ Score: 150+ in 1 week)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Erin
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An eBPF Loophole: Using XDP for Egress Traffic (Score: 152+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ESEW
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Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else? (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6EW24
Is anybody still using TUI applications for business?
My family company is a wholesale distribution firm (with lightweight manufacturing) and has been using the same TUI application (on prem unix box) since 1993. We use it for customer management, ordering, invoicing, kit management/build tickets, financials - everything. We've transitioned from green screen terminals to modern emulators, but the core system remains. I spent many summers running serial and ethernet cables.
I left the business years ago to become a full time software engineer, but I got my start as a script kiddie writing automations for this system with Microsoft Access, VBA, and SendKeys to automate data entry. Amazingly, they still have a Windows XP machine running many of those tasks I wrote back in 2004! It's brittle, but cumulatively has probably saved years of time. That XP machine could survive a nuclear winter lol.
I recently stepped back in to help my parents and spent a day converting many of those old scripts to a more modern system (with actual error-handling instead of strategic sleep()s and prayers) using Python and telnetlib3. I had a blast and still love this application. I can fly around in it. Training new people was always a pain, but for those that got it—they had super powers.
This got me thinking: Are other companies still using this type of interface to drive their core operations? I’m reflecting on whether the only reason my family's business still uses this system is because of the efficiency hacks I put in place 20+ years ago. Without them, would they have been forced to switch to a modern cloud/GUI system? I’m not sure if I’m blinded by nostalgia or if this application is truly as wonderful as I remember it.
I’d love to hear if and how these are still being utilized in the real world.
P.S. The system we use was originally sold by ADP and has had different names (D2K, Prophet21). I believe Epicor owns it now (Activant before).
P.P.S. Is anybody migrating their old TUI automation scripts to a more modern framework or creating new ones? I’m super curious to compare notes and see what other people are doing.
Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc. (Score: 151+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ETUT
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SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python (❄️ Score: 154+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EAmk
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The 512KB Club (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ESAm
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Tenacity – a multi-track audio editor/recorder (❄️ Score: 150+ in 1 week)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EkFy
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YouTube Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations (🔥 Score: 151+ in 46 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EVCk
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Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EAit
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Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EU4L
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By the Power of Grayscale (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EDpZ
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Customize Nano Text Editor (2022) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 1 week)
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Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race (🔥 Score: 150+ in 50 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EUu7
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Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EVZc
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Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EWtu
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Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EVU8
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FDA described as a "clown show" amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out (Score: 151+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EU8e
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The shadows lurking in the equations (🔥 Score: 157+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EVYp
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Developers are choosing older AI models (❄️ Score: 150+ in 6 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EwBj
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iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EVHq
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Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EUwC
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I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EVfS
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UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EU25
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RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EzMZ
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Rats filmed snatching bats from air (❄️ Score: 150+ in 1 week)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EqpG
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Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EUsh
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Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EU2a
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I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ETHB
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