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Show HN: Katipo is a minimal alternative internet with a Vulkan based browser

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 9:57pm

I’m nervous, announcing this, as it isn’t ready to ship out to the general public yet, and I haven’t had any feedback at all from anyone, I’m out on my own here. I think this concept itself is kind of dismissed outright a lot too, and I understand why, I wouldn’t believe me either actually.

But, I do believe this is very much worth your time to check out, I am not aware of anything else very much like it.

I won’t repeat what is already written on the github README here, but some info:

I am a successful semi-retired solo game developer, I have been making my own bespoke game engines since 2003 for all of my games across a number of platforms and languages. Last year, I ripped out the engine of my latest game, and stripped it back with the goal to start a new project, as I have done a number of times before.

But this time, I decided to ditch lua and make my own programming language, and that was sort of the tipping point. Once I thought about multiplayer, and realized I wanted a general purpose network that didn't exist, I was on my way down this extremely deep rabbit hole.

I want to just make a few things clear, then I hope that some of you might have some questions or feedback.

- I'm disillusioned by capitalism and the AI transition, and that influences my motives

- I have made all of this open source and free not because I am overly altruistic, but because it is the only way something like this can succeed

- I don’t think it can or should replace the internet, I see it as a cycleway alternative to the internet highway, they have different purposes

- I have no real desire to run an open source project or lead anyone, I mostly just want software that works for me and my family and friends. I love coding and I like to make nice things and share them.

- There is still a lot to do, I'm very excited about messaging and the whole client-side data thing in particular, but for now there are only a few weeks of work to go until a bare bones browser will be functional enough to release and ship.

You can have a play and build it all yourself though right now, host sites, and build apps.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030378

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A NEW Windows‑native SSH agent

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 9:48pm
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ASUKA.md – The SOUL.md for Eva Asuka

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 9:43pm

Article URL: https://asuka.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030299

Points: 1

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Printing Films Archive

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 9:21pm

Article URL: https://printingfilms.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030170

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EpsteinDB – Making the Epstein Files More Searchable

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 9:20pm

Article URL: https://epsteindb.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030166

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Show HN: Talk2Code – Text your codebase from your phone (~150 lines of Python)

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 9:15pm

Talk2Code was my endeavor into building something useful, but I thought it would take MUCH more than 150 lines of code... this is just stupid simple, and it SHOULD be shared. Check out my video walkthrough on Reddit too: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1r5wvzv/i_buil...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030139

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Show HN: Ls-f a fast, zero-dependency ls with Nerd Font icons (Rust rewrite)

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 9:15pm

Hey HN People, Like many of you on Arch + Hyprland (or really any rolling distro), I used to rely on eza for nice-looking ls output with icons, git status, tree view, etc.

Then a recent update broke eza's package icons just turned into ugly boxes/rectangles everywhere.anyhow ls is also stop working .Reinstall, rebuild deps, downgrade, nothing helped. Classic rolling-release Friday night.

I got tired of fighting it so I finally finished something I'd been tinkering with for a while: ls-f.

It's a from-scratch Rust rewrite (v5 is the new one) of an old Bash ls wrapper I made years ago. Main goals were:

- Single static binary → zero runtime deps (no drama when Arch updates something) - Nerd Font icons for file types (hundreds supported) - Tree view built-in (--tree) - Git indicators (--git) without extra cruft - Speed basically on par with GNU ls (benchmarks in the readme — icons add ~0 overhead in most cases) - Supports most common ls flags so aliases just work: ls='lsf', ll='lsf -l', la='lsf -la', lt='lsf --tree'

No config files needed anymore, no Python/Bash layers. Just drop the binary in PATH.

Repo: https://github.com/swadhinbiswas/ls-f

Quick install on Arch (or anywhere with Rust/cargo): ```bash git clone https://github.com/swadhinbiswas/ls-f.git cd ls-f make install # or cargo install --path . ```

Make sure your terminal uses a Nerd Font (JetBrainsMono NF, MesloLGS NF, etc.) , otherwise icons show as boxes (there's a troubleshooting section in the readme).

It currently has only a handful of stars because I mostly built it for myself + a few friends, but after this eza breakage I'm actually using it daily now and it feels more reliable.

Would love to hear thoughts / feedback / brutal honesty: - Does it cover the flags you actually use? - Any missing icon or weird rendering in your setup? - Better name? (ls-f is short but maybe too generic)

Thanks for looking!

(Using it right now in Hyprland on Arch feels snappy and zero surprises so far.)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030136

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