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UnAutomating the Economy: More Labor but at What Cost?

https://www.greshm.org/blog/unautomating-the-economy/
1•Suncho•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gettorr – Stream magnet links in the browser via WebRTC (no install)

https://gettorr.com/
1•BenaouidateMed•2m ago•0 comments

Statin drugs safer than previously thought

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026/statin-drugs-safer-than-previously-thought
1•stareatgoats•4m ago•0 comments

Handy when you just want to distract yourself for a moment

https://d6.h5go.life/
1•TrendSpotterPro•6m ago•0 comments

More States Are Taking Aim at a Controversial Early Reading Method

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/more-states-are-taking-aim-at-a-controversial-early-read...
1•lelanthran•7m ago•0 comments

AI will not save developer productivity

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4125409/ai-will-not-save-developer-productivity.html
1•indentit•12m ago•0 comments

How I do and don't use agents

https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/2019975917863661760
1•tosh•18m ago•0 comments

BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

1•aoijfoqfw•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
3•michaelchicory•23m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•27m ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•27m ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•29m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
1•calcifer•34m ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•38m ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
3•MilnerRoute•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•40m ago•3 comments

Show HN: GTM MCP Server- Let AI Manage Your Google Tag Manager Containers

https://github.com/paolobietolini/gtm-mcp-server
1•paolobietolini•41m ago•0 comments

Launch of X (Twitter) API Pay-per-Use Pricing

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/announcing-the-launch-of-x-api-pay-per-use-pricing/256476
1•thinkingemote•42m ago•0 comments

Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•43m ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count Event

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•43m ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•45m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
2•consumer451•48m ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•1h ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
2•jesperordrup•1h ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•1h ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•1h ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•1h ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
7•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•1h ago•0 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.