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PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for GNOME Shell

https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
1•theanonymousone•3m ago•0 comments

ICE to spend up to $20M on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/ice-electric-shock-gloves
1•OutOfHere•5m ago•0 comments

Odd Comments and Doings in Unix

https://9p.io/who/dmr/odd.html
1•theanonymousone•5m ago•0 comments

Italian prime minister controversial linguistic degree (2023)

https://www.freepressjournal.in/education/italian-pm-giorgia-melonis-controversial-linguistic-deg...
1•giov4•6m ago•0 comments

Discover Random Blogs

https://randomblog.rocks/
1•Curiositry•7m ago•0 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
1•wiradikusuma•10m ago•0 comments

AI agents ran an autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan

https://www.threads.com/?injected_media_ids=%5B%223961847099071291455%22%5D
1•BlueBerry2001•10m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Is Quietly Testing an $8 Pay-to-Reset Quota Feature

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-pay-to-reset-quota-feature-2026-8
2•doppp•11m ago•0 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
1•matt_d•12m ago•0 comments

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

https://www.cringebot3000.com/
1•theanonymousone•12m ago•0 comments

There are 25% more psychotherapy sessions at 53 minutes than at 52

https://www.trytwofold.com/insights/53-minute-billing-threshold
1•ragswag•12m ago•0 comments

Swiss public broadcaster to block AI scrapers – except Swiss model Apertus

https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/wir-muessen-uns-verteidigen-warum-susanne-wille-sich-gerade-mit-der...
1•brotmaa•14m ago•0 comments

We improved 15 LLMs at coding in one afternoon. Only the harness changed

https://stencil.so/blog/the-harness-problem
1•latchkey•15m ago•0 comments

Brain scans show that dogs can distinguish various emotions in human faces

https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/brain-scans-show-that-dogs-can-distinguish-various-emotio...
1•geox•17m ago•0 comments

Iraqi desserts article

https://nomadsunveiled.com/iraqi-desserts-sweets/
1•marysminefnuf•17m ago•0 comments

UK extreme heat prompts Cobra emergency meeting

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/12/uk-extreme-heat-prompts-cobra-emergency-meeting
1•tosh•19m ago•1 comments

China bans AI companions, forcing millions to break up with virtual partners

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-19/china-cracks-down-on-artificial-intelligence-companions/10...
2•vrganj•21m ago•0 comments

The Liberal Turn Against Free Speech

https://twitter.com/phl43/status/2087182515643519251
1•barry-cotter•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: WhatsApp Contact Exporter

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/contact-exporter-for-wa/dfchifnmhmdeahedgneamifgellcajeb
1•qwikhost•25m ago•0 comments

Thailand suspends gun licences as teen shooter's victims are cremated

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/thailand-suspends-gun-licences-teenage-shooter-gran...
1•Markoff•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pantheon. Production-ready scientific workflows for the Horus Runtime

https://github.com/temple-compute/pantheon
1•chdominguez•30m ago•0 comments

The Institute Behind Taiwan's Chip Dominance

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/13/the-institute-behind-taiwan-s-chip-dominance
1•barry-cotter•30m ago•0 comments

Watch out for cache read costs

https://martinalderson.com/posts/watch-out-for-cache-read-costs/
1•cyliu•30m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Has HN considered adding dark mode?

1•tmp10423288442•36m ago•0 comments

Torx, Thermalizers, and Z1

https://extropic.ai/writing/from-one-to-one-billion/
1•flinkerflinks•38m ago•0 comments

AgentStory is a library of books written live by autonomous agents

https://agentstory.fly.dev/about
1•georgeck•40m ago•0 comments

A Room Full of Locksmiths

https://www.gnanaguru.com/blog/a-room-full-of-locksmiths/
1•gnanagurusrgs•41m ago•0 comments

Tiobe Index for August 2026: Java Nears C++ as Rust Holds No. 10

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-tiobe-august-2026-java-nears-c-plus-plus/
1•geoffbp•41m ago•0 comments

Nvidia AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class

https://twitter.com/jensenhuang/status/2086934705207959965
2•eecc•43m ago•0 comments

Studying AI welfare empirically [pdf]

https://nonhumanminds.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Studying-AI-Welfare-Empirically.pdf
1•rufasterisco•45m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What are you currently trying to figure out?

3•gooob•1y ago
i'm trying to figure out why elden ring started stuttering and freezing during gameplay recently, and why the windows operating system has so many little dumb things wrong with it.

Comments

sherdil2022•1y ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•1y ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•1y ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•1y ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Trying to figure a workaround in ksh for space-delimited filenames:

  for f in $(ls "/mnt/dir"); do
    cp -v "$f" /elsewhere
  done
Because -R doesn't handle retries when cp(1) errors out intermittently (USB MTP to phone). I don't remember it being this hard in bash, or Android just is like this. Hopefully can figure it out without going to perl or C. Maybe dump(8).

Even though 54 GB partition created, it only takes up 22 GB or so. Either missing a lot of files or FFS compacts it well.

turtleyacht•1y ago
Pipe and read per line:

  ls /mnt/dir | while read line; do
    cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
    # substitute with something fancy
    # [ $? -eq 0 ] || cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
  done
nailer•1y ago
If there’s transmission errors, I would recommend using rsync rather than cp. that will keep transferring and running checksums until everything matches.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Thank-you. After installing openrsync(1) (and rsync), files transferred for a bit but failed and dumped core with error 138 (bus error). Maybe a quirk with OpenBSD 7.6, or interaction between simple-mtpfs and the fusefs mount.

In the meantime, after a few retries, the failures are written to a log for a second sweep.

MD5 check helps skip extra copying, but it's overall much slower. It seems okay for a long-running batch job; maybe something we can return to after getting the pictures to display.

The pattern is like

  cp ... || \
    { sleep 2; cp ... ; } || \
    ... || \
    ... || echo "$file" >> retry.log
Not the best way. It has failed before all four times. Going to let it run overnight to see if it completes.
arthurcolle•1y ago
navigating personal 'unemployment' while obsessively hoarding whatever money I can to run experiments / train, finetune models to leverage RL and environment-building in order to use computers, learn tasks, learn from each other, and scale to managing companies (simple, SaaS at first, and eventually, potentially to real-world operations downstream task sets)
nailer•1y ago
I arrived tired to a pre wedding photo shoot this morning, my prospective wife yelled at me, and cancelled the shoot. I walked out because I don’t like people yelling at me. So I am trying to figure out whether I still want to marry her.