Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project) (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
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Hi everyone,
I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark.
It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear.
The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still use Wireshark myself for real-world analysis. But I built it as a personal experiment in network parsing and to understand protocol behavior more directly.
If you're curious or would like to try it out, the project is here:
https://github.com/lixiasky/vanta
I'm happy to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or critiques. It’s just a little network toy, but maybe someone out there finds it useful or fun.
Thanks for reading!
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Hi everyone,
I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark.
It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear.
The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still use Wireshark myself for real-world analysis. But I built it as a personal experiment in network parsing and to understand protocol behavior more directly.
If you're curious or would like to try it out, the project is here:
https://github.com/lixiasky/vanta
I'm happy to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or critiques. It’s just a little network toy, but maybe someone out there finds it useful or fun.
Thanks for reading!
GitHub
GitHub - lixiasky/vanta: A lightweight protocol-aware packet analyzer and behavioral exporter. Created as a personal response to…
A lightweight protocol-aware packet analyzer and behavioral exporter. Created as a personal response to global academic freedom challenges. - lixiasky/vanta
When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide (❄️ Score: 151+ in 4 days)
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getkiln.ai
When Fine-Tuning Actually Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide
Most teams are curious about fine-tuning and how it might help their AI products, but they don't know what to expect from the process, how to measure success, or where to start.
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts (🔥 Score: 169+ in 40 minutes)
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Fly
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Heidisql
HeidiSQL 12.10.1.133 Linux pre-release
First Linux version as a release with a tag. Get it from the download page Full changelog: https://github.com/HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL/commits/lazarus/ Latest notable changes: SSH tunnel support now works, using external ssh command, like in the Windows version…
Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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I’ve been building absurd, mostly useless web projects for fun — and I publish one every month at absurd.website.
These are deliberately non-functional, weird, sometimes funny, sometimes philosophical — and usually totally unnecessary.
Some examples:
Sexy Math — solve math problems to reveal erotic images.
Trip to Mars — a real-time simulation that takes 7 months to finish.
Add Luck to Your e-Store — add a waving cat widget to boost your conversion via superstition.
Microtasks for Meatbags — the future: AI gives prompts, humans execute.
Invisible Lingerie — it’s sexy. And invisible.
Artist Death Tracker — art prices spike when artists die. We track that.
Open Celebrity — one open-source face, shared by all. Together we make her famous.
I just enjoy exploring what the web can be when it doesn’t try to be “useful”.
Would love to hear what you think — and absurd ideas are always welcome.
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I’ve been building absurd, mostly useless web projects for fun — and I publish one every month at absurd.website.
These are deliberately non-functional, weird, sometimes funny, sometimes philosophical — and usually totally unnecessary.
Some examples:
Sexy Math — solve math problems to reveal erotic images.
Trip to Mars — a real-time simulation that takes 7 months to finish.
Add Luck to Your e-Store — add a waving cat widget to boost your conversion via superstition.
Microtasks for Meatbags — the future: AI gives prompts, humans execute.
Invisible Lingerie — it’s sexy. And invisible.
Artist Death Tracker — art prices spike when artists die. We track that.
Open Celebrity — one open-source face, shared by all. Together we make her famous.
I just enjoy exploring what the web can be when it doesn’t try to be “useful”.
Would love to hear what you think — and absurd ideas are always welcome.
absurd.website
ABSURD.website - We are creating absurd products and services!
absurd.website is a playground of creative experiments, blending art, fun, and unconventional ideas into digital experiences that challenge the norm.
Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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Tokyo Weekender
Japanese Scientists Develop Artificial Blood Compatible With All Blood Types
Japanese scientists have developed a new type of artificial blood that can be used in patients of any blood type.
Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? (Score: 151+ in 23 hours)
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Terence Eden’s Blog
Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
Way back in 2012, The Guardian reviewed an eInk reader which cost a mere £8. The txtr beagle was designed to be a stripped-down and simplified eReader. As far as I can tell, it never shipped. There were a few review units sent out but I can't find any evidence…
Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
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GitHub
GitHub - iamgio/quarkdown: 🪐 Markdown with superpowers — from ideas to presentations, articles and books.
🪐 Markdown with superpowers — from ideas to presentations, articles and books. - iamgio/quarkdown
EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)
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Reddit
From the europe community on Reddit: The EU Commission refuses to disclose the orchestrators behind its mass surveillance proposal…
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
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Substack
AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder
Historians are finally having their AI debate
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers (🔥 Score: 164+ in 2 hours)
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GUIs are built at least 2.5 times (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
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Patricia Aas
Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times | Patricia Aas
Or Why I Think Lean Software Development is Wrong
Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways (Score: 152+ in 20 hours)
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balaji-amg.surge.sh
Balaji Arumugam - AI Tinkerer
Portfolio of Balaji Arumugam - Senior Developer, Indie Hacker, and AI enthusiast
Ukraine's autonomous killer drones defeat electronic warfare (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
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IEEE Spectrum
Can Ukraine's Autonomous Drones Outsmart Cutting-Edge Russian Jamming?
After dispatching its Ghost Dragon ISR quadcopters to Ukraine in mid-2022, Estonian startup KrattWorks quickly realized the need for continuous innovation due to rapid advances in electronic warfare. Their latest neural-network-driven optical navigation system…
How to Store Data on Paper? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
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(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
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go.dev
[ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling - The Go Programming Language
Go team plans around error handling support
Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
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WSJ
Exclusive | Snowflake to Buy Crunchy Data for $250 Million
The cloud data company aims to attract customers who want to build their own AI agents.
Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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In my country, 2 decades ago there are were plenty of people who knew the basics. Today, it feels like a lost art.
I would like to approach it as a hobby, not like electronic engineer level, but enough to debug problem and change components to a low level.
What is the pragmatic approach in this mission? I reckon it will be valuable in the future that comes.
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In my country, 2 decades ago there are were plenty of people who knew the basics. Today, it feels like a lost art.
I would like to approach it as a hobby, not like electronic engineer level, but enough to debug problem and change components to a low level.
What is the pragmatic approach in this mission? I reckon it will be valuable in the future that comes.
Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians' (Score: 155+ in 7 hours)
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International Business Times UK
Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5bn 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Actually Indians' Pretending to Be Bots
Builder.ai, once a $1.5 billion 'AI' startup backed by Microsoft and QIA, is filing for bankruptcy. A lender seized $37M, crippling operations.