Hey everyone! 👋

I just released an NPM package that lets you generate files effortlessly based on your prompts! Right now, it supports React and Node.js projects, and I’d love to hear your feedback!

I’d love for you to give it a shot and let me know what you think. Any suggestions for improvements or additional features? https://www.npmjs.com/package/genjs-cli

Github repo : https://github.com/vaibav03/genjs-cli

We just open-sourced **Lume, https://github.com/trycua/lume** - a tool we built after hitting walls with existing virtualization options on Apple Silicon. No GUI, no complex stacks - just a single binary that lets you spin up macOS or Linux VMs via CLI or API.

What Lume brings to the table:

• Run native macOS VMs in 1 command, using Apple Virtualization.Framework: lume run macos-sequoia-vanilla:latest
• Prebuilt images on ghcr.io/trycua (macOS, Ubuntu on ARM, BSD)
• API server to manage VMs programmatically (POST /lume/vms)
• A python SDK on github.com/trycua/pylume

Run prebuilt macOS images in just 1 step

lume run macos-sequoia-vanilla:latest 

Install from Homebrew

brew tap trycua 

lume brew install lume 

You can also download the lume.pkg.tar.gz archive from the latest release and install the package manually.

Local API Server:

lume exposes a local HTTP API server that listens on http://localhost:3000/lume, enabling automated management of VMs.

lume serve 

For detailed API documentation, please refer to API Reference.

HN devs - would love raw feedback on the CLI and whether this solves your VM on Apple Silicon pain points. What would make you replace Lima, UTM or Tart with this?

Repo: github.com/trycua/lume

Python SDK: github.com/trycua/pylume

• I'm looking for an open source program I can quickly activate to look up prompts, emojis or text snippets. I would prefer the lookup to support fuzzy matching and provide incremental suggestions.
• Some people recommend text expanders for this purpose, but I'm reluctant to use programs that intercept keystrokes; see also https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/12wb55l/lets_talk_text_expanders/ where the assumption in the comments is that all text expanders function as keyloggers and are therefore a security risk.
• Certainly there must be some class of organized, quick-look-up text tools that *don't* function as keystroke interceptors, and are instead operated by entering a command to activate another program, then entering input in the 2nd program and getting back a result.
• After looking around a bit, it seems like MOST of the popular text expanders intercept keystrokes. Virtually all the options recommended in https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1h1j6ra/best_text_expander_alternative_heading_into_2025/ are keystroke interceptors.
• For example, one of the more frequently recommended options, espanso, intercepts keystrokes: https://espanso.org/docs/get-started/#understanding-matches .
• It seems like the command line might be the most favorable candidate for this; one can set a global hotkey for a terminal, then quickly activate it and enter a command. Zsh supports fuzzy matching. Certainly someone has connected the dots into a program or a framework. What recommendations do you have in this direction?
• I'd prefer options that are aimed at technical users in security-conscious settings.
• I came to write this post after creating my first oh-my-zsh zsh autocompletion plugin codekiln/macos-system-settings-zsh-completions: zsh plugin for opening up MacOS system settings, and realizing that zsh could probably do everything that I need it to do. I could probably start developing a solution, but first I'd like to get a sense of the prior art in this area.

https://preview.redd.it/jb5w9v56rtge1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=caf851ccae71830de6da3a43f4eae46ffe028e76

I wrote a simple cli tool called jhtree in Go that outputs the hierarchy of java classes like the tree command

https://github.com/cjlangan/java-class-tree-cli

The title is pretty self-explanatory, I am looking for something extremely simple that allows me to view, add and edit rows in the "dumbest" way possible.

Fuzzy search would also be nice to have.

In short, something like Tabiew, but with the ability to make edits:

https://preview.redd.it/2ilj614wuoge1.png?width=2535&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6d50a026ea4f9ebcf0c54acd31c24424621c3f8

Posts showing Kitty getting something like (but not 100% like) Neovide's animated cursor got lots of upvotes, it seems like there are a good amount of terminal users that would in fact like Neovide's visual features. Just to show a few: https://neovide.dev/features.html.

Animated cursor

https://i.redd.it/4gp4uxe3ioge1.gif

Smooth Scrolling

https://i.redd.it/7nou7ykgioge1.gif

Animated Windows

• (terminals with built-in multiplexing like Kitty and Wezterm could implement this)

https://i.redd.it/vqq1rh6iioge1.gif

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Hi, all. I am currently on a path to cybersecurity so I am doing my due diligence by learning CLI using overthewire . org war games

My question is, how do i cat a file named "spaces in this filename"?

without the contents within this file, I cannot proceed to the next level. I apologize if this question is dumb lol

Thank you!

Query frontmatter data with SQL.

I wanted to edit my notes in vim without switching to Obsidian, and I was missing dataview, so I made my own.

krafna github link

There is also a nvim plugin: perec.nvim

Hi all

Is there any way to make my prompt persist over SSH?

I’m excited to share my Python package, **Markdrop**, which has hit 6.17k+ downloads in just a month, so updated it just now! 🚀 It’s a powerful tool for converting PDF documents into structured formats like Markdown (.md) and HTML (.html) while automatically processing images and tables into descriptions for downstream use. Here's what Markdrop does:

# Key Features:

* **PDF to Markdown/HTML Conversion**: Converts PDFs into clean, structured Markdown files (.md) or HTML outputs, preserving the content layout.

* **AI-Powered Descriptions**: Replaces tables and images with descriptive summaries generated by LLM, making the content fully textual and easy to analyze. Earlier I added support of 6 different LLM Clients, but to improve the inference time, restricted to Gemini and GPT.

* **Downloadable Tables**: Can add accurate download buttons in HTML for tables, allowing users to download them as Excel files.

* **Seamless Table and Image Handling**: Extracts tables and images, generating detailed summaries for each, which are then embedded into the final Markdown document.

At the end, one can have a **.md** file that contains only textual data, including the AI-generated summaries of tables, images, graphs, etc. This results in a highly portable format that can be used directly for several downstream tasks, such as:

* Can be directly integrated into a RAG pipeline for enhanced content understanding and querying on documents containg useful images and tabular data.

* Ideal for automated content summarization and report generation.

* Facilitates extracting key data points from tables and images for further analysis.

* The .md files can serve as input for machine learning tasks or data-driven projects.

* Ideal for data extraction, simplifying the task of gathering key data from tables and images.

* The downloadable table feature is perfect for analysts, reducing the manual task of copying tables into Excel.

Markdrop streamlines workflows for document processing, saving time and enhancing productivity. You can easily install it via:

pip install markdrop

There’s also a **Colab demo** available to try it out directly: [Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ZebtmqGB9i4pZzo824aT5KzGuPikw6D9?usp=sharing).

[Github Repo](https://github.com/shoryasethia/markdrop)

If you've used Markdrop or plan to, I’d love to hear your feedback! Share your experience, any improvements, or how it helped in your workflow.

Check it out on [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/markdrop) and let me know your thoughts!

I'm wondering what you guys do to swap esc and capslock for tty, i don't want to effect x11 or wayland setting which i run when graphical?

is there a shorthand way of accomplishing this in /etc/vconsole.conf?

Running arch linux but am curious about other major distros or even openbsd!

Enhancing your pre-commit experience with seamless hook autocompletion 🎢

GitHub: https://github.com/jason810496/zsh-pre-commit-autocomplete

I use OMZ, but...

✗ gsw
fatal: missing branch or commit argument

Or

✗ gsw
zsh: do you wish to see all 135 possibilities (135 lines)?

I would really like to push two buttons to go to 1 of the 10 latest branches I worked on.

Hello everyone,

I built a small tool I had been wanting for a while: a "television channel" for Nix packages.

You can check it out here: https://github.com/3timeslazy/nix-search-tv

It's built on top of awesome and fast nix-search package. Right now, it allows you to fuzzy search nixpkgs, but I’m considering adding support for home-manager and nix-darwin as well.

Also, I would like to say big thanks to the contributors of nix-search—this project wouldn't exist without their work

Hi,

I'm working on a command line tool taking regular expressions as arguments:

$ ./app column=regexp1 +regexp2 -regexp3

It basically filters a table of rows, the comand line arguments constraint the relevant/interesting rows:

• foo=regexp1 matches a row where the column foo value is characterized by regexp1
• +regexp2 denotes that regexp2 must be included in a certain column (contains)
• -regexp3 denotes that regexp3 must NOT be included in a certain column (contains not)

By default, the provided regular expressions match some text case insensitive. This is not negotiable, because it's critical to get rather more than to few results.

Now, can you think of an established notation/syntax that switches to case sensitive matching that plays well on the shell / command line?

In the world I know, the default is reverse. Matching happens case sensitive by default and it's possible to switch to case insensitive. For example,

• in perl, /foo/i matches case insensitive (i for ignore case)
  • what's the opposite of 'i'? :)
• in vim, one can provide \c and \C to specify the case to use.
  • vim's notation doesn't play well on the command line (e.g. bash) because \c needs to be written as \\rc or "\cregexp1" so the application gets it (escaping), which looks somewhat awkward.

I somewhat like the /foo/ notation, as at least in the unix world it's somewhat known that a regular expression is meant with that. It also opens room for extension (funny letters after the last /).

The other idea I had was to introduce command line options denoting the case sensitivity, but as you see from the example invocation above, that somewhat conflicts with the -regexp3 notation above:

$ ./app column=regexp1 +regexp2 -c -regexp3

the -c could mean: "the following regexes are to be matched case sensitive!".

Is there a notation you know that would fit here? What would be intuitive for you? :)

Hey all, new to the command line and wanted to start by remotely controlling our site. I have Oh My Zsh installed, but when I run something like `wp plugin list`, it gives me this:

WP Plugin List - no formatting

Conversely, when I run on another program (Local by Flywheel - use the integrated site shell), I get something like this:

Nice and easy to read

I'm using iTerm2. Any ideas how I can achieve result 2?

My USB pluggin is fine, i tried various methods and other updates and it's still not working, like how to fi it?

Title.

Hey fellow CLI workers!

I'd like to share rsnip, a command-line snippet manager designed to make CLI workflows more efficient. Whether you’re juggling shell commands, git workflows, or custom scripts, rsnip makes searching snippets FAST and more productive.

We’ve all been there: searching for that one command or code snippet we know we used before. While tools like ChatGPT are amazing for new ideas, for repeated tasks, they’re slow and unreliable. Shell history is fast but limited. What I would like to have:

• Fuzzy Search: very-fast snippet lookup with an fzf-style interface.
• Dynamic Templating: Jinja2-style syntax for variables, dates, and even shell commands (e.g., {{ env_USER }} or {{ current_date|strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}).
• Deep Shell Integration: Customizable aliases, tab-completion, and clipboard support for efficient workflows.

demo

If this sounds like it might also help your workflow give it a try: cargo install rsnip

I'd appreciate your feedback!

It now supports color themes too. Which color theme would you like me to add?

I'm using Warp terminal, and I'd like to move to something more private and open (ideally Ghostty).

However, one feature it has me stuck on it is the visual command history. If I type "ls" then up_key, it shows every my command history filtered to that prefix. I'm looking for a good open alternative to this in zsh or fish.

I tried zsh-autosuggestions and it is nice, but only shows the one. I usually have many I want to look at visually.

I do care about the the UX/keybindings. "up" is pretty hooked into history in my mind and will be hard to reprogram myself. Being able to hit "up" after typing the start is also important to me (I don't realize I need this until I'm part way into typing).

After typing \"ls\" then up_key

Idk if anyone remembers me from my kotek os post, but since then i switched to making an alpine based distro and today i was able to make a very basic shell! (Made in arch, and will be implemented into my alpine iso soon!)

Desired outcome is... Select magnet link, pass magnet url to transmission-remote.

I have tried placing test commands in /etc/lynx.cfg, ~/.lynxrc, ~/.lynx/external

Errors I've gotten.

LYrcFile: missing '=' EXTERNAL:magnet:echo "Magnet link clicked: %s" >> /home/luke/Lynx.trace

LYrcFile: ignored EXTERNAL=http:echo "POSTs" >> /home/[name]/test.txt

https://pastebin.com/p218ZNLz

https://imgur.com/a/6iIJTAj

I cannot get ANY functionality out of the EXTERNAL command modules.

I have tried everything I can think of any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Try My Quick Configured Editor with One Command

Github

nix run "github:niksingh710/nvix#bare"

Also, check out Github.

This is not an editor meant to be used by everyone, but rather a modular setup that anyone who loves it can easily adopt and customize.