Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark

Hi everyone,

I recently published a small open-source project called Vanta. 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 ent

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Show HN: Penny-1.7B Irish Penny Journal style transfer

Yesterday, in the bygone hour of the weekend, I undertook a most singular and fascinating endeavor, wherein I delved deep into the recesses of my mind, and, with a fervent zeal, breathed life into a most remarkable creation. I embarked upon the quest, with the singular object of fashioning an artificial construct, one imbued with the verdant essence of the Irish Penny Journal, an ancient and venerable tome that holds within its pages the whispered tales of a bygone era.

In my haste, I set

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Show HN: Fast Random Library for C++17

Morning HN.

Random number generation feels is a somewhat underrepresented topic in the C++ realm. There is a lot of questionable info about it found online and even the standard library is quite behind the times in terms of it's algorithms. It suffers from trying to accommodate sometimes impractical standard requirements and has several ways of getting significantly bad statistical results. This leaves a lot easily achievable performance & quality on the table.

So, being a mathematician

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