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Products that do what Stal/IX – statically linked, source based, bootstrapped rolling Linux does
We believe is the first statically linked, source-based, bootstrapped rolling enterprise-grade Linux distribution with a Nix-like file system. Based on the IX package manager, stal/IX is an open source project committed to minimalism, simplicity, and security. stal/IX development to the current version took about two years.
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Jun 2026 · github.com
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I built a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves cold queries directly from S3 with sub-second performance, and often much faster. It’s called turbolite. It is experimental, buggy, and may corrupt data. I would not trust it with anything important yet. I wanted to explore whether object storage has gotten fast enough to support embedded databases over cloud storage. Filesystems reward tiny random reads and in-place mutation. S3 rewards fewer requests, bigger transfers, immutable objects, and aggressively parallel operations where bandwidth is often the real constraint. This was explicitly inspired…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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2016 · static.land
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eno [1] - A modern plaintext language w/ libraries [2] for JavaScript, Python, Ruby & soon more! We migrated a big relational research database to a file-based solution - requirements were: - Super fast and easy editability for users - Highest performance for parsing/validating >10K documents on every user change. Our trials with YAML/TOML showed us that we wanted something both faster [3][4] and easier [4], something tailored for file-based content management ... and after months of research & development it's now publicly available (under MIT license) for everyone! Last but…
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Aug 2026 · github.com
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Hi HN, I'm Hugo. I've been building Rocky over the past month, shipping fast in the open. The binary is on GitHub Releases, `dagster-rocky` on PyPI, and the VS Code extension on the Marketplace. I held off on a broader announcement until the trust-system surface was coherent enough to talk about as one thing. The governance waveplan — column classification, per-env masking, 8-field audit trail on every run, `rocky compliance` rollup, role-graph reconciliation, retention policies — landed end-to-end last week in engine-v1.16.0 and rounded out in v1.17.4 (tagged 2026-04-26). That's the…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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A fast, rootless sandbox and virtual resource runtime for any workload, including untrusted and AI-generated code. Daemonless: a real, kernel-enforced container in ~3.5 ms from an OCI image, out of one static binary - getkern/kern
13d ago · github.com
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An ultra-fast, single-binary MCP server written in Rust as a lightweight alternative to Node.js/Python. - StamManif/mcp-stama
24d ago · github.com
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Hello HN! Just wanted to share a small project I've been working for the last few months. It's a tool called Runal, a text-based creative coding environment that runs in the terminal. It works similarly as processing or p5js but it does all the rendering as text. And it can either be scripted with JavaScript or used as a Go package. It's open-source and cross-platform (linux, macOS, windows). It seems to me that text/ascii-art aesthetics are really popular in creative coding communities, so I though it would make sense to create a tool that runs on a platform which can render text only.…
2025 · github.com
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Hi everyone — looking for feedback on a new infrastructure project we launched called vMetal. It's a bare metal management platform for GPU clusters that handles machine discovery, PXE booting, and lifecycle management, without the OpenStack complexity. Built around Kubernetes-native workflows so you can hand it off to teams or drop it into an existing platform. A lot of the infra platforms used for this today were designed 20 years ago (VMware, OpenStack, NVIDIA BCM, MAAS, etc.), while newer tools usually solve only a small piece of the stack. Neither were built with modern GPU cluster ops…
Mar 2026 · vmetal.ai
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Project Page: https://rotel.dev Github: https://github.com/streamfold/rotel Hi HN, Ray and Mike here! We’re building Rotel, a new high performance, resource efficient approach to OpenTelemetry collection. Rotel is open source (Apache License 2.0) and runs as a standalone process and collects telemetry from external processes or other collection agents. It consumes 75% less memory and 50% less CPU in benchmarks https://streamfold.github.io/rotel-otel-loadtests/benchmarks, so it is particularly well-suited for environments where resource…
2025 · rotel.dev
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Jul 2026 · frondruntime.dev
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Open-source search engine indexing infrastructure with inline SEO quality gates, fair multi-site scheduling, and rolling quota circuit breaker. - IndexFlowing/IndexFlow-core
9d ago · github.com
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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
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