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shitty

A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
324GitHub stars
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What it is

A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-07-23 17:31:14 UTC to 2026-08-03 01:20:53 UTC.

0122026-07-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJul 232026-07-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 282026-07-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsAug 3

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jul 232026-07-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-24 00:00:00 UTC110
Jul 242026-07-24 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 252026-07-25 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 262026-07-26 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 272026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 282026-07-28 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 292026-07-29 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 302026-07-30 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 312026-07-31 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 22026-08-02 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC110
Aug 32026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-04 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

4 sources
Excellent use of Ragel to generate fast state machines. Everyone should check it out: https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/ The author of shitty encoded the whole terminal state machine in Ragel: https://github.com/pg83/shitty/blob/master/parser.rl The thing generates one of big DFA with actions for everything that can ever happen in the terminal. Precisely correct way to do it. Plus, Ragel is a joy to program once you get the hang of it. You can compose edge-triggered, level-triggered, and recursive operators in surprisingly elegant ways.
In Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

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