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AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
1•sohimaster•49s ago•0 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
1•harshalone•52s ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
1•PaulHoule•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•6m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•7m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•8m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•9m ago•0 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
5•c420•9m ago•0 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•10m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
1•HotGarbage•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•10m ago•1 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•12m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
3•surprisetalk•15m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
3•TheCraiggers•16m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•17m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
7•doener•17m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•19m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
3•tanelpoder•20m ago•0 comments

Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•21m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-whose-capex-declined-last-quarter/
2•elsewhen•24m ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deterministic NDJSON audit logs – v1.2 update (structural gaps)

https://github.com/yupme-bot/kernel-ndjson-proofs
1•Slaine•29m ago•0 comments

The Greater Copenhagen Region could be your friend's next career move

https://www.greatercphregion.com/friend-recruiter-program
2•mooreds•29m ago•0 comments

Do Not Confirm – Fiction by OpenClaw

https://thedailymolt.substack.com/p/do-not-confirm
1•jamesjyu•30m ago•0 comments

The Analytical Profile of Peas

https://www.fossanalytics.com/en/news-articles/more-industries/the-analytical-profile-of-peas
1•mooreds•30m ago•0 comments

Hallucinations in GPT5 – Can models say "I don't know" (June 2025)

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/llm-eval-hallucinations-t20-cricket/
1•sp1982•30m ago•0 comments

What AI is good for, according to developers

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/what-ai-is-actually-good-for-according-to-developers/
1•mooreds•30m ago•0 comments

OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction

https://twitter.com/lebed2045/status/2020184853271167186
1•lebed2045•31m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred for Case-Insensitive File-Systems

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Anti-Case-Fold
15•Bender•9mo ago

Comments

PaulHoule•9mo ago
It's some kind of game theory game. If software and data is being transferred between Windows and Unix system it will be rare for Unix software to break on Windows, yet, Windows allow carelessness about capitalization which breaks when you round trip to Linux. Embrace, Extend, Exterminate, etc.
p_ing•9mo ago
Windows can be configured to have whole-volume case-sensitivity with NTFS, or even directory-specific case-sensitivity.

However, case-sensitivity is user-unfriendly. README.DOCX, Readme.docx, ReAdMe.DocX -- which document did they really want? When Jane Doe calls and tells John Doe to open the "readme" document, which one does she mean?

PaulHoule•9mo ago
If I ask the question of "would it be perverse to deliberately write code to systematically depending on case?" I think about coding 11001000 as 'AAaaAaaa' or instead of a random identifier written like 798951cb-9fa4-4ca6-9a36-6b098a9cbd25 you write likewise in more or less

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85

that last would be clever but unwise to write to the filesystem

p_ing•9mo ago
.ToUpper() .ToLower() I say.

Yes, you can find exceptions to the point of case-sensitivity is user-unfriendly. For developers, sure. For end users? It's always unfriendly.

Though there's nothing wrong with file names with GUIDs; SharePoint does it all the time ;-)

jasonthorsness•9mo ago
Case-insensitive helpers around a case-sensitive filenames are the best of both worlds. I don't want hello.txt to BE the same as Hello.txt, I just want to find it without using a capital letter. Thanks to this thread I just discovered <code>bind -s 'set completion-ignore-case on'</code> for bash which is going to make my life as someone who frequently switches between WSL2 and Windows cmd more pleasant.
betelgeuse6•9mo ago
Having both hello.txt and Hello.txt is bad design in the first place no matter how you view it.
daurentius523•9mo ago
"bad design" - It is not design just result of Unicode rules.

Mind you:

naïve.txt

naïve.txt

can both exist, because:

ï vs ï

0xC3AF vs 0x69CC88

is not same.

Linux does sane (secure) thing - does not care. If bytes are different - name is different.

Windows and mac don't solve this anyway.

Having only one of Α.txt, A.txt, a.txt is not, and was not, а option.

cranberryturkey•9mo ago
macOS also is case insensitive
joecool1029•9mo ago
Likewise Linus also considers HFS+ a piece of shit filesystem: https://archive.is/R5eWO

Recent news of Linux also considering removing the drivers for it: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2025-Sad-State-HFS

p_ing•9mo ago
macOS hasn't used HFS+ as the default FS in what 10+ years?

APFS is case-insensitive by default. It can be formatted to be case-sensitive. I don't think you can change sensitivity on the fly like Windows.

cranberryturkey•9mo ago
No, I did re-install MacOS once and enabled case-sensitivity filesystem and photoshop stopped working.
p_ing•9mo ago
No what? That’s a 3rd party application. MacOS runs just fine with a case-sensitive file system.
BobbyTables2•9mo ago
Case sensitive OSes like Linux don’t mix well with case insensitive file systems.

Take files under /boot/EFI (FAT). Packaging systems fall down on such — two RPMs can have different cases of the same filename and the package manager won’t know. They’ll just subtly overwrite each others file depending on installation/upgrade order.

(And why should the package manager have to care about the case sensitivity of the underlying file system for each managed file?)

meitham•9mo ago
I grew to like case insensitive dbms like SQLServer as it makes me think less about casing when I write queries, but always wondered if that comes at cost of performance!
p_ing•9mo ago
Collation in a database determines case sensitivity in MSSQL. If the collation has "cs", it's case-sensitive. If it has "ci", it is case-insensitive.

Collation is configurable at the server level, but usually one goes for a _CI_ collation there (not much reason for master to be _CS_). Each user database can have it's own collation/case-sensitivity.