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Products that do what Scoop – A command-line installer for locked down PCs with Powershell 2 does
I'm a lead contributor to the Windows command-line installer, Scoop. Previously, Scoop only worked with Powershell 3+, but due to the silly number of PCs running basically stock versions of Windows 7 (or earlier) with Powershell 2 available, I saw the opportunity to bring Scoop to these machines. On a personal note, I'm a student at the University of Newcastle, Australia that has many PCs as described above. You don't have admin access (for obvious reasons) and you can't install anything. Downloading and using portable apps is possible but painful when the list of things to install gets big.…
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Hi! SparrowHub - https://sparrowhub.org is repository of scripts to solve various tasks. Find specific script here and use it or share your script with others uploading script to SparrowHub. Sparrow - https://github.com/melezhik/sparrow - command line client provides API to distributes/search/install/configure/run scripts in centralized manner, as usual packages of software ( like deb or rpm rpm ), it works on most any Linux platforms. SparrowHub/Sparrow - easy way to develop your scripts and distribute them across your teams! Will be…
2017
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Simple light-weight package manager and build system written in C for c/c++ projects - mainak55512/flint
8d ago · github.com
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An SSH Agent for Hardware backed keys on Windows. I wanted something like Secretive for Windows, so attempted to make one...
2022 · github.com
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Hello all, I found myself rewriting the same shell scripts to distribute my binaries over and again, so I decided to put them in a repository and serve them with a prettier URL - to have nicer READMEs for my projects. I'll add some other tasks like installing/uninstalling on Windows, but in general ideas are welcome. Maybe somebody else finds them useful!
2023 · github.com
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Born out of my frustration with powershell’s slow startup and confusing syntax I have long wanted to build a shell and scripting language in .NET. I have been working on it for a long time and thanks to Claude, I was able to finally get it over the line. I daily drive it as my shell on Windows, and really happy with it so far. Please try it and let me know where it can improve!
Feb 2026 · jitzu.dev
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Hey all I've been working on a personal project I wanted to share with the community: CR - Mac Helper. It's a collection of shell scripts designed to help you manage, clean, and optimise our Macs :) https://github.com/caioricciuti/cr-mac-helper As a data engineer/developer, I've accumulated a ton of apps and tools on my Mac over the years, and I was tired of manual cleanup and maintenance. So, I built this to automate the process. Here's what CR - Mac Helper can do: App Cleanup: Thoroughly remove applications and their associated files. Path Management: Fix broken…
2025 · github.com
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Hi all, I built a CLI tool that allows you to seamlessly install software from GitHub release assets, similar to how your system's package manager installs software. It works by exploiting common patterns among GitHub releases across different open-source software such as naming conventions and file layouts to fetch proper release assets for your system and then downloading the proper asset onto your machine via the GitHub API. Parm will then extract the files, find the proper binaries, and then add them to your PATH. Parm can also check for updates and uninstall software, and otherwise…
Nov 2025 · github.com
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It's quite limited but does the job, I invite anybody not aware of what cram tests are to give them a try, being on Unix with the original cram or Windows with this one ;)
Nov 2025 · github.com
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Tired of bloated installers and complex DevOps pipelines? I built PPORT — a terminal-based messenger — to demo a crazy simple idea: 1. Instant CLI delivery over HTTP 2. Just curl or irm, nothing else 3. TypeScript on the fly via Deno 4. Live deployment without Docker or builds How it works: Visit https://pport.top Run one command (curl -fsSL pport.top | sh) PPORT streams scripts and source files dynamically based on your client (curl, browser, Deno) No packaging. No compiling. No friction. Source on GitHub: https://github.com/vseplet/pport Curious what else…
2025 · pport.top
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How puffnfresh, my coworker, made a single command to download, assemble, and boot the VM image is arguably as cool as the port itself!
Mar 2026 · github.com
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I recently began using Python for AI projects and found Rye, which is an all-in-one tool that replaces Pyenv, Pip, and Venv, for a more project-centered approach to Python development (like Ruby or JavaScript or Rust). As someone who habitually writes tutorials for beginners, I wrote a series of articles for my mac.install.guide site advocating setting up Python projects using Rye. Am I leading beginners down the wrong path by suggesting Rye for Python tooling? Beginners often encounter READMEs and tutorials that show `pip install something` as a first step. That led me to the error "Command…
2024
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Hi HN, I've been building CH-UI, an open-source ClickHouse workspace. Today I'm releasing v2, which is a complete rewrite from scratch. v1 was a React SPA served via Docker. v2 is a single Go binary with an embedded Svelte frontend — download, run, open browser. No Docker, no Node, no runtime dependencies. What it does: - Multi-tab SQL editor with autocomplete - Database/table explorer with data preview - Saved queries - Tunnel architecture: run `ch-ui server` on one machine and `ch-ui connect` next to your ClickHouse — secure WebSocket tunnel, no VPN needed - Self-update (`ch-ui…
Feb 2026 · ch-ui.com
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Read an article about analyzing Garmin data with AI. Sounded great — except I didn't want to send my health data to any cloud service. So I asked Claude to write me 2-3 scripts and a dashboard. This escalated a bit. 30 days and 20$ later I have this: A local-first Garmin archive with interactive HTML dashboards, Excel exports, weather and pollen context, AES-256 encrypted token storage, and a self-healing data pipeline with 515 automated tests. Windows desktop app, no terminal needed. Nothing leaves your machine. I never wrote a line of Python. I understood the problems and made the…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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Hi. :) I’m Andrey, the creator of dstack. I started this project while I was working at JetBrains where I helped the PyCharm team to improve support for Jupyter notebooks. As I was in close contact with many ML devs (who used PyCharm) I was able to see their struggle with running ML workflows. Unlike traditional dev workflows, ML workflows are difficult to run on a local machine (due to the lack of memory, more CPUs/GPUs, etc). This is why people often have to use remote machines (e.g. via SSH), or adopt one of the end-to-end MLOps platforms. Using remote machines is not difficult but…
2022 · github.com
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I built WayPoint to streamline my terminal workflow and simplify both shell command expansion and URL shortening. Here’s a quick overview: - Shell Command Shortening - Type a shortcut like s/gs and it instantly expands to git status in your terminal. - Integrated support for zsh and fish via custom completion scripts that perform in-place expansions. - Configure shortcuts easily using a YAML file, for example: - Hierarchical URL Shortener - Use the same YAML configuration to create nested URL shortcuts for internal tools, documentation, or other resources. - Supports multi-level…
2025 · github.com
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The latest CLI releases from google and anthropic are sweet, we wanted build one that can run any model. mcp-use-cli lets you `/model` hop between providers instantly. npm i -g @mcp-use/cli && you're done What's cool: - BYOK (your keys, encrypted locally) - Slash commands for everything - MCP protocol support for custom tools - Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Groq, local Ollama... The whole thing's TypeScript and open source. Built this on top of our Python + TS mcp-use libs, so it speaks MCP out of the box. You can hook up filesystem tools, DB servers, whatever you…
2025 · github.com
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Hey HN, We’re the developers of Chonkie, a powerful and easy-to-use chunking library. Last November, we introduced Chonkie OSS here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42100819) and got some fantastic feedback. Today, we’re excited to share Chonkie Cloud, a fully hosted service for chunking, along with new tools to make building and debugging RAG systems easier than ever. --- A quick recap for context: We launched Chonkie as an open-source project late last year. A few weeks ago, we decided to go full-time on it. Unfortunately, this shift wasn’t as smooth as we had…
2025 · cloud.chonkie.ai
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I finally got fed up with making work + personal Git repos work on my machine. Ever clone a work repository and accidentally make commits using your personal email? Or forget how to make your work repos use your work SSH key? Yeah... same. So I built the tool I've always wanted. GitPersona - a CLI tool for managing many git profiles on a single machine. Shoutout to my boy Codex for helping me finally ship this.
Mar 2026 · github.com
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Tl;Dr: mpm implements a solution to XKCD #1654 (Universal Install Script). Now you can do: $ mpm --xkcd install and let it figure out which package manager to use to install your package. The project is open-source: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager#readme This CLI has some other capabilities, like listing the duplicate packages on your system: $ mpm list --duplicates ╭────────────┬─────────┬───────────────────╮ │ Package ID │ Manager │ Installed version │ ├────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────┤ │ blah │ cargo │ 0.0.0 │ │ blah │ gem │ 0.0.2 │ │ blah │…
2022
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Author here. Got tired of checking Upwork, NoFluffJobs, eFinancialCareers, LinkedIn and HN threads separately, so I built a CLI that scrapes them into a local SQLite DB and lets me browse everything in one web UI with filters and semantic search. Details: - Scraping via real browser over CDP (your own logged-in session, no API keys) - Embeddings run locally (nomic-embed-text via fastembed), stored in Lance - Rust backend, SolidJS frontend embedded in binary, single static executable Works for my use case (Europe-based contractor). It's my first rust project, decided to do local CLI, it's…
Jul 2026 · github.com
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MILO▲4Your local-first library of PM resources, no cloud, no login
5d ago · milo.squarecircletriangle.co
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built snub, a fast and lightweight recursive file search tool for Windows, written in modern C (C17). File Explorer and PowerShell often crawl on large codebases — so I wrote something that doesn’t. snub is: - Fully multithreaded - Avoids indexing entirely - Supports globbing, size/date filters, result limiting, and JSON output - Packaged as a single small executable No dependencies. Just raw C and the WinAPI. GitHub: https://github.com/seeyebe/snub Would love feedback on C idioms, WinAPI practices, or ideas for portability and better build flow.
2025 · github.com
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