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pelcgon Errand – open-source Grok Bot and Muse alternative, built in a week

> How We Built Errand with One Developer in One Week

TL;DR - Using Claude or an AI agent.

We know.

pelcgon iPhone owners can now submit claims in Apple's $250M Siri AI settlement

"Eligible iPhone owners can submit a claim for a payout."

Eligibility Requirements:

"If you live in the US and purchased an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 model between June 10th, 2024, and March 29th, 2025, you can file a claim on the settlement’s website"

"The deadline to file a claim is December 21st, 2026."

Settlement Website: https://smartphoneaisettlement.com/

pelcgon What Palantir Actually Does

I think everyone would like to know what Palantir really does. I don't really know myself.

pelcgon Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions?

I'd wait a bit on this just in case

pelcgon An updated look for the Raspberry Pi Desktop

Looks cool. Great look!

pelcgon Bottles' Founder Has Managed to Run Microsoft 365 on Linux

This is a god awful ad-fuelled website and it is freezing my machine.

Can you please use a better source instead of the one you posted?

pelcgon Syria, eyeing role as Middle East hub, offers options to bypass Hormuz

The US will likely put sanctions back on Syria if they do this.

pelcgon What I learned from my mom (1941-2026)

This is a great article and this woman is an inspiration to many.

Likely one of my favourite reads here.

pelcgon Claude 529 Errors Again Today

I am also having this issue right now.

pelcgon Google, Apple, Samsung integrating data from wearables into healthcare

Do we really want this?

pelcgon Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

I believe it is. 2% of global internet traffic.

pelcgon Open-weights AI models have become good enough

Completely agree with this. Open weight models are getting close to matching the best closed models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

pelcgon Do you hate XML? (2010)

XML is just so much hassle to parse securely, and it is extremely difficult to get right.

pelcgon Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance (2025)

This makes me sad to see this. The economic implications of this is catastrophic and unfortunately people who are in the middle of warzones get squeezed and suffer from famines.

pelcgon Why TUIs are back

There are a lot of TUIs in existence worth looking at if one is interested or curious about them [0], [1], [2]

[0] https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis

[1] https://terminaltrove.com/explore/

[2] https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix

Even before Claude Code, I always see htop as the prime example of a good TUI.

pelcgon Gvisor on Raspbian

That is kind of what I was thinking too, and cross-compilation is still the fastest way to build for a different target.

pelcgon Gvisor on Raspbian

What use-cases are there for gVisor on Raspbian, given that the target is a Raspberry Pi?

pelcgon TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

If you want inspiration on all kinds of TUIs on show and display Terminal Trove [1] is useful to get an idea for what other tools look like.

I find the search [2] also helpful.

[1] https://terminaltrove.com/

[2] https://terminaltrove.com/explore/

pelcgon An old photo of a large BBS (2022)

Same! Really appreciate this find, thanks!

pelcgon Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS

Looks cool and this can be self hosted and it is for free.

Nice will try this out!

pelcgon JSLinux Now Supports x86_64

Maybe not, but in the past some here see that the blog is the product that is being promoted here.

Even in this thread alone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314929 some commenters here are clearly annoyed with the way AI is being shoved in each place where they do not want it.

I don't care, but I can see why many here are getting tired of it.

pelcgon Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

> As a principal engineer I feel completely let down. I've spent decades building up and accumulating expert knowledge and now that has been massively devalued. Any idiot can now prompt their way to the same software. I feel depressed and very unmotivated and expect to retire soon. Talk about a rug pull!

Really?

The vibe coders are running into a dark forest with a bunch of lobsters (OpenClaw) getting lost and confused in their own tech debt and you're saying they can prompt their way to the same software?

Someone just ended up wiping their entire production database with Claude and you believe that your experience is for nothing, towards companies that need stable infrastructure and predictability.

Cognitive debt is a real thing and being unable to read / write code that is broken is going to be an increasing problem which experienced engineers can solve.

Do not fall for the AI agent hype.

pelcgon How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)

Thanks for sharing this book.

pelcgon Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

This is my concern with Notepad and the old one will just be gone for ever. Same thing happened with paint.

pelcgon Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

Never seen this before and looks great.

How often does this get updated?

pelcgon Access to a Shared Unix Computer

It has been years since I have heard of this. Looks great!

pelcgon Making MCP cheaper via CLI

This looks related to Awesome CLIs/TUIs and terminal trove which has lots both CLI and TUI apps.

Awesome TUIs: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis

Awesome CLIs: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

Terminal Trove: https://terminaltrove.com/

I guess this is another one shows that the CLI and Unix is coming back in 2026.

pelcgon Claude Code Remote Control

Interested to see Anthropic do this sort of move, but it's very useful to see.

pelcgon The Sharp PC-2000 Computer Boombox from 1979

Sharp still standing strong more than 100 years later in Japan. Didn't know they made personal computers back then

pelcgon Building a TUI is easy now

Some of my personal favourites TUI are all over GitHub and there are lots of them to have a look at can be found here:

https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis

https://terminaltrove.com/explore/

Building for Charm, ratatui and many others is really getting much easier than before thanks to AI.