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Products that do what Automatically assemble Windows Sysroots directly from Microsoft does
winsysroot is a tool which automatically and efficiently creates what is effectively a "sysroot" for Windows targets, allowing you to (cross)-compile against native Microsoft sources from any operating system and for any architecture supported by Microsoft. It also takes care of the case-sensitivity problem of the Windows SDK by automatically generating LLVM overlay specifications. It is written in pure cross-platform Go and is extremely fast it tries very hard to download the absolute minimum number of files to achive its goals. It pulls all data directly from Microsoft to avoid any legal…
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2019 · github.com
- 2QC
2021 · github.com
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2020 · winstall.app
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2020 · github.com
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2013 · leansentry.com
- 9SA
2015 · github.com
- 10WW
2020 · github.com
- 11RL
I made a thing this afternoon. If you are using windows 10 and would like to open windows apps from the ubuntu bash shell normally you can't do that. I wrote this app to (sorta) let you do that. It's a two part app, first is a dotnet core webapi C# app that runs on your windows box. Next is a shell script that you put in your path on the ubuntu shell. It's called Rockhopper (named after a species of penguin, since you are hopping form Linux to windows with this app is just seemed like the right name :) ), and you invoke it like this: rockhopper -c code -a…
2016
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If you've ever worked in a large company, you've probably encountered "shadow infrastructure": scripts nobody understands or custom connectors written once and never touched again. This glue layer isn't documented, isn't owned by anyone, and tends to break when systems are upgraded or someone leaves. It's also the part everybody dreads working on, because it's hard to understand, painful to work with, and full of unknown unknowns. We built superglue so that engineers stop wasting time on deciphering legacy APIs and documentation. superglue ingests existing glue code, SQL, configs, docs,…
Nov 2025 · superglue.ai
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A modern, high-performance, lightweight, and low-memory WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) instance management dashboard. Built with Rust and Slint for a premium native experience.
Jun 2026 · github.com
- 14CT
2015 · sysdig.com
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WinMux is an easy to use tiling window manager that makes stacking intuitive and improves visual awareness of workspaces. Does not support multi-monitor yet.
Apr 2026 · github.com
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It is fairly simple, but useful for non-power users: a statically-linked Qt app that gracefully edits Windows Boot Manager to do a reboot-once into GRUB, which in turn launches ZorinOS live/installer from disk loopback. I needed to make a custom initramfs with dislocker in it, and to squeeze it a little (default Windows EFI partition is not so big). Currently my biggest issue is that systemd is unable to shut down gracefully when rootfs is mounted from such a deep loop stack. The other is that installing to full disk crashes right after it successfully damages the partition table. I…
Apr 2026 · 1clicklinux.org
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Mido makes downloading the latest release of Windows from official Microsoft servers a breeze so you can quickly get your VMs (or even physical machines) up & running in no time! It aims to automate these Microsoft download pages (which it does by interacting with Microsoft's proprietary downloading API): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11 It's all written very cleanly in pure POSIX sh and curl, so it will run anywhere!
2023 · github.com
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Hey HN! I built HardView, a cross-platform project for Windows and Linux that provides hardware information and monitoring. It combines Python, C++, and C libraries, with optional kernel drivers, giving developers a unified interface for accessing system and hardware metrics. Supported Platforms: Windows and Linux, Python 3.8–3.14 Install (Python): pip install hardview More info / Docs: GitHub: https://github.com/gafoo173/HardView | Docs: https://gafoo173.github.io/HardView/ The project is MIT licensed, with some CLI/GUI tools under GPL3.…
Sep 2025 · github.com
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I built this because I was tired of using the command line to mount NFS drives on Windows. Key features: - Simple GUI for mounting/unmounting NFS drives - Advanced mount settings (UID/GID mapping, transfer sizes, timeouts) - Real-time drive status and storage monitoring - Detailed drive properties view - Built with Python/tkinter, packaged as a single executable The app is particularly useful if you: - Work with Linux/Unix servers from Windows - Need to mount NFS shares frequently - Prefer GUI over command line It's open source, MIT License, and you can download the…
2025 · yani-.github.io
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For the past few months, I've poured all my energy into building something I'm incredibly passionate about: SamwiseOS, a completely in-browser, AI-first operating system. What is it? SamwiseOS is a persistent, single-page web app that looks and feels like a real operating system, complete with a terminal, a robust virtual filesystem (that saves to your browser's IndexedDB), user/group management, and even graphical applications. The twist? The entire core logic—filesystem, command execution, user management, everything—runs on a Python kernel powered by Pyodide (WebAssembly). The JS…
2025 · samwiseos.neocities.org
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2017 · github.com
- 22IB
Ever since I tested software on macOS, I deeply missed my beloved strace that I use when programs are missbehaving. macOS has dtruss but it's getting locked down and more unusable with every machine. My approach uses the signed lldb binary on the system and re-implements the output you are know from the wonderful strace tool. I just created the tool yesterday evening, so it may have a few bugs, but I already got quiet a few integration tests and I am happy so far with it.
Nov 2025 · github.com
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An open-source Python and CLI tool for reading OpenStreetMap PBF files using DuckDB. I have made it to scale the existing OSMnx library.
2024 · github.com
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Hey HN, We launched Coroot a while ago as an open source observability tool that collects complete telemetry using eBPF. Today we are adding a major new capability: Coroot enterprise now includes AI-powered Root Cause Analysis. When an incident happens (like an SLO violation), Coroot: - Automatically kicks off an RCA - Summarizes what went wrong in plain English - Suggests immediate fixes - Shows the full investigation using metrics, logs, traces, and profiles With most tools, the quality of root cause analysis depends on how well the system is instrumented. Coroot takes a different…
2025 · coroot.ai
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