Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
Shitty is built for low latency, fast startup, and predictable resource use. It keeps terminal state on the CPU and renders cells with native compute backends: Vulkan on Linux and Metal on macOS. Performance 100MB catted through the GUI on an Apple-silicon MacBook, every terminal equalized first: Menlo 12pt, the same 14x28px cell, an 80x24 grid, 500 lines of scrollback.
- ▪Shitty is built for low latency, fast startup, and predictable resource use.
- ▪It keeps terminal state on the CPU and renders cells with native compute backends: Vulkan on Linux and Metal on macOS.
- ▪Performance 100MB catted through the GUI on an Apple-silicon MacBook, every terminal equalized first: Menlo 12pt, the same 14x28px cell, an 80x24 grid, 500 lines of scrollback.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/pg83/shitty |
| Publication time | Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:05:41 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-02T23:50:41.010Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-02T23:50:41.010Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | tiGkHbkZjjKP · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Shitty Blazingly fast. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours. Shitty is built for low latency, fast startup, and predictable resource use. It keeps terminal state on the CPU and renders cells with native compute backends: Vulkan on Linux and Metal on macOS. Performance 100MB catted through the GUI on an Apple-silicon MacBook, every terminal equalized first: Menlo 12pt, the same 14x28px cell, an 80x24 grid, 500 lines of scrollback. Best wall time of three runs. Printable ASCII (the scroll path): terminal wall user throughput shitty 0.81s 0.50s ~118 MiB/s alacritty 0.17.0 0.96s 0.78s ~99 MiB/s kitty 0.48.2 1.28s 0.95s ~75 MiB/s ghostty 1.3.1 1.49s 1.60s ~64 MiB/s Random bytes (the parser's worst case, invalid UTF-8 throughout): terminal wall user throughput shitty 1.88s 1.79s ~51 MiB/s…
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