Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

A developer posting under the handle pshirshov submitted Shitty, a new terminal emulator, to Hacker News on August 2, 2026, under the Show HN tag. The project bills itself as "memory-unsafe and faster than yours," per the Hacker News post.

The project is hosted publicly on GitHub at the pg83/shitty repository, where the source code is available for review. No version number, license, or download count was included in the available source material.

The name and self-description lean into the terminal emulator community's ongoing fixation on raw rendering speed, where projects like kitty, Alacritty, and WezTerm compete on benchmarks. The explicit claim of being "memory-unsafe" is an unusual positioning — most high-performance terminal projects have moved toward memory-safe languages like Rust, while Shitty appears to take the opposite stance, though the HN submission provides no further technical detail on implementation language or architecture.

At the time of submission, the post had received 1 point and no comments on Hacker News, per the HN listing. No additional corroborating sources, investor backing, team details, or roadmap information were available in the source material.