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Atheria: Live Wallpaper [Update]

Hi All! Just over a month ago I introduced the Sub to my app Atheria: Live Wallpaper. I really appreciate all the support I get here! Thank you! Since then I've been working hard on improving it and getting the word out. Having some success with regular installs and IAP's, so THANK YOU for the great start! In case you missed it before, here's the PCP rundown again and change log to see my progress. Problem: macOS doesn’t have built-in live wallpapers. Most apps that add one are really just video players. You get a library of loops, a seam every time the loop restarts, a file to download for every wallpaper, and a wallpaper that keeps decoding video while you have Xcode or a browser covering every pixel of it or an un-sandboxed app that's very difficult to remove every bit when you're finally sick of it. I built Atheria because I wanted the desktop to feel alive, native performance, and not play like a clip. Although Atheria has a library of shaders, it is really an engine with simple tools to create digital art. You can code and compile or convert GLSL to MSL shaders and save them to your library. The Flame Creator is much simpler. Anyone can create and customize nearly infinite (like 10\^350) variations of these beautiful fractals. More wallpapers than everyone together can see in a lifetime. The flame fractals run on chaos and math (Draves open source Equation), what could be cooler than that? A flame is a fractal grown from a small set of numbers (genome, same as all livin

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI

Tell HN: Anthropic should make Claude the Author and me the Co-Author

Anthropic has been messing with this behavior as seen by the bugs below: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66602 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/69835 etc They seem to be too hell bent on getting their attribution in. Why does an LLM even want to take credits for? They cannot own copyright. I suggest they make themselves the primary author, so they can get the blame as well. And would even match reality of orgs/people that have drank the AI fuelled cool-aid. What say?

Show HN: Lantunnel – a P2P-first private mesh for reaching your LANs

Mac Apps Roundup: My Picks from August

[Last month, I posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/s/AFDpiXhqxn) about popular and new apps that I had found, and many of you suggested that I continue posting similar content. Thank you so much for your support and interest! I have decided to create a list for August as well and hope you find it useful. ***Disclaimer:*** * I have no association with any of the apps/devs mentioned in this post. I just like to look out for new apps that interests me. * The list is in no particular order ***Tags:*** *In addition to the pricing and platform information, I have also added data processing method, such as local, cloud, unclear or none - as suggested in my last post. I will also try to link the original developer of the apps here so that they can directly answer the users' questions.* * pricing - Free & open source (FOSS), One-time purchase (OTP), Subscription (Sub) * platform - Mac app store (MAS), Direct download (Direct), Both * data processing - local-only (Local), cloud-based (Cloud), Unclear, None ➜ based on Privacy Policy # 1. [Terminal Widget](https://terminalwidget.app/) *tag: OTP, MAS, Unclear* It's pretty rare to start such a post with a terminal app, since many find it to be complex and not-so-useful. But that doesn’t stop developers like Brett Terpstra from creating such a unique app. His problem statement is: >I gave up trying to find a tool that did what seemed like it should be a simple thing: take things like progress reports, status indicators, and generated i

New BundleHunt is live

I just saw that the new BundleHunt is now live and has some good apps in there (LookAway, Insomniac, ScreenPlace, etc) Are you all getting anything from this bundle?

Ask HN: Those still optimistic about a career in software – why?

We keep hearing that the latest LLMs are approaching AGI. The people who run the frontier labs are warning or hinting that soon all code will be written by models. Some argue that software engineering is about much more than just coding, but you don't need nearly as many people for those other parts either. So what happens to people who spent decades in school and on the job, who are passionate about coding and get their energy from writing code? I don't believe in universal basic (or high) income, because that's not how the world has worked so far. I've never seen a world where all humans have equal capabilities or resources — physical strength, financial strength, anything. If everyone gets paid the same, I don't see where the motivation to work comes from. And without work, I think people's cognitive skills will decline and we'll end up completely dependent on the machines slaves to the tech. Thinking about all this has left me feeling pretty low. For those of you in tech who still feel positive about waking up every day: what keeps you motivated?

Buckle up -- bit of a long one here. TL;DR: Hyprland is a tiling window manager (TWM). I don't use it, but I use Mango (another TWM). In general, there are two main layers to a Linux OS: the distro and the desktop environment. Distro is wha

t packages are installed and what repos are available to download from Desktop environment is the part that actually renders things on your screen that you can interact with. There are full desktop environments that you can use out of the box like Gnome & KDE that give you practically everything you need to interact with the computer. However, window managers (Hyprland, Mango, etc.) are just one piece of a desktop environment -- specifically the part that determines where on the screen to put your windows. TILING window managers are window managers that automatically tile your windows, rather than floating them (like in default macOS). Because of this, when people use something like Hyprland, we also have to set up the other parts of a usual desktop environment, like desktop notifications, screen locking/logout, etc.

Mac Apps Roundup: My Picks from August

[Last month, I posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/s/AFDpiXhqxn) about popular and new apps that I had found, and many of you suggested that I continue posting similar content. Thank you so much for your support and interest! I have decided to create a list for August as well and hope you find it useful. ***Disclaimer:*** * I have no association with any of the apps/devs mentioned in this post. I just like to look out for new apps that interests me. * The list is in no particular order ***Tags:*** *In addition to the pricing and platform information, I have also added data processing method, such as local, cloud, unclear or none - as suggested in my last post. I will also try to link the original developer of the apps here so that they can directly answer the users' questions.* * pricing - Free & open source (FOSS), One-time purchase (OTP), Subscription (Sub) * platform - Mac app store (MAS), Direct download (Direct), Both * data processing - local-only (Local), cloud-based (Cloud), Unclear, None ➜ based on Privacy Policy # 1. [Terminal Widget](https://terminalwidget.app/) *tag: OTP, MAS, Unclear* It's pretty rare to start such a post with a terminal app, since many find it to be complex and not-so-useful. But that doesn’t stop developers like Brett Terpstra from creating such a unique app. His problem statement is: >I gave up trying to find a tool that did what seemed like it should be a simple thing: take things like progress reports, status indicators, and generated i

New BundleHunt is live

I just saw that the new BundleHunt is now live and has some good apps in there (LookAway, Insomniac, ScreenPlace, etc) Are you all getting anything from this bundle?

Ask HN: Those still optimistic about a career in software – why?

We keep hearing that the latest LLMs are approaching AGI. The people who run the frontier labs are warning or hinting that soon all code will be written by models. Some argue that software engineering is about much more than just coding, but you don't need nearly as many people for those other parts either. So what happens to people who spent decades in school and on the job, who are passionate about coding and get their energy from writing code? I don't believe in universal basic (or high) income, because that's not how the world has worked so far. I've never seen a world where all humans have equal capabilities or resources — physical strength, financial strength, anything. If everyone gets paid the same, I don't see where the motivation to work comes from. And without work, I think people's cognitive skills will decline and we'll end up completely dependent on the machines slaves to the tech. Thinking about all this has left me feeling pretty low. For those of you in tech who still feel positive about waking up every day: what keeps you motivated?

Buckle up -- bit of a long one here. TL;DR: Hyprland is a tiling window manager (TWM). I don't use it, but I use Mango (another TWM). In general, there are two main layers to a Linux OS: the distro and the desktop environment. Distro is wha

t packages are installed and what repos are available to download from Desktop environment is the part that actually renders things on your screen that you can interact with. There are full desktop environments that you can use out of the box like Gnome & KDE that give you practically everything you need to interact with the computer. However, window managers (Hyprland, Mango, etc.) are just one piece of a desktop environment -- specifically the part that determines where on the screen to put your windows. TILING window managers are window managers that automatically tile your windows, rather than floating them (like in default macOS). Because of this, when people use something like Hyprland, we also have to set up the other parts of a usual desktop environment, like desktop notifications, screen locking/logout, etc.

Four Weeks of a Vegan Diet Alter Signs of Inflammation and Aging

Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple

Show HN: Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source

Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloads

I built VODForge because I work with a CTV company that needed to pull YouTube videos from our channel partners into our media workflow. Converter sites are always an option but the bitrate wasn't optimal for a CTV network that needs to make multiple streaming version off of a single source file. So I build vodforge to use yt-dlp and ffmpeg under the hood with preconfigured settings for the highest quality end result, automatically adjusting the output settings based on source quality, frame rate, and things like that. It became a game changer internally for us because we were able to avoid sketchy converter sites and avoid paid converter software. Eventually I decided to release it for free and others loved it as well. We started to add support for many of the features that other software charges for, supporting 4K, playlist support, customizing application theme, persistent searchable library, auto organizing downloads by channel and playlist, MP3 support up to 320 kbps, and much more. Looking for feedback on the user experience and additional features that you might find useful. My goal is to grow VODForge into a widely adopted free tool for people who do not want to deal with sketchy websites, CLI mess, or pay for things that you could ultimately do for free given time and effort. VODForge wants to make it EASY and maintained for you. We know anyone can make a GUI wrapper, but that is a trivial way to describe what VODForge aims to offer, user-friendliness, "it just works