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Skybridge – the MCP Apps framework released v1.0

https://github.com/alpic-ai/skybridge/releases/tag/v1.0.0
1•Eldodi•34s ago•0 comments

Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/five-years-later-windows-11-brings-back-much-missed-taskb...
1•tosh•44s ago•0 comments

Everything You Need to Know About Black Cocoa Powder (2022)

https://saltandbaker.com/black-cocoa-powder-guide/
1•thomassmith65•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Eazip – Password-protected ZIPs (AES-256) in the browser, no upload

https://www.eazip.ch/
1•Zmaon•3m ago•0 comments

At Protocol for Agents

https://davidgasquez.com/atproto-agents
1•kalendos•4m ago•0 comments

For 20 years, Stephen Colbert distinguished truth from truthiness

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5815315/stephen-colbert-final-show
2•geox•7m ago•0 comments

Preventing AI agents from executing destructive terminal commands

https://github.com/7Majesty-M/terminal-guardian-mcp
1•majesty-m•8m ago•1 comments

OVCS: Raspberry Pi–powered electric car

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/ovcs-raspberry-pi-powered-electric-car/
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Can we combine excellent design and branding simultaneously?

https://antar.me/blog/branding-vs-good-design/
1•redaantar•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Citycal – Collaborative Events Calendar

https://citycal.com
1•oliv__•10m ago•0 comments

How India's cooking fuel shortage is driving up California's gas prices

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-indias-cooking-fuel-shortage-is-driving-up-california...
1•tartoran•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kaption – Live OCR subtitle overlay

https://github.com/wojciechowskiapp/Kaption
1•wojciechowskiap•10m ago•0 comments

Clojure Freed Me from the Ceremony

https://carlosblanco.github.io/clojure/functional-programming/2020/10/15/functional-programming-c...
1•zonotope•11m ago•0 comments

HTML5/EPUB3 Version of SICP

https://github.com/sarabander/sicp
3•caminanteblanco•13m ago•0 comments

Judge grants accused CEO killer Mangione's bid to suppress evidence

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/luigi-mangione-due-court-ruling-backpack-evidence-ceo-ki...
5•tartoran•13m ago•0 comments

Information for most known natural bodies in our solar system

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/
4•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

A Master's Degree Isn't the Job Guarantee It Used to Be

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/a-masters-degree-isnt-the-job-guarantee-it-used-to-be-53e237aa
3•JumpCrisscross•17m ago•0 comments

Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% Threadripper Over 3 yrs

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-66-linux-71
1•Bender•17m ago•0 comments

Amazon is deploying these cargo e-bikes for deliveries

https://electrek.co/2026/05/17/amazon-is-deploying-these-massive-cargo-e-bikes-for-deliveries/
1•Bender•17m ago•1 comments

TSA Experiments with Off-Site Screening to Relieve Airport Congestion

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/tsa-offsite-security-screening-be866b31
1•JumpCrisscross•17m ago•0 comments

Windows boot partition runs out of space for Microsoft's May security update

https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/18/windows-boot-partition-runs-out-of-space-for-microsof...
3•Bender•18m ago•0 comments

Which AI Image Gen Has Best Character Consistency? OpenAI vs. Gemini vs. Flux

https://techstackups.com/comparisons/gemini-vs-openai-vs-flux-vs-runway-character-consistency-may...
2•ritzaco•19m ago•0 comments

- YouTube [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNC6raUvXbM
1•surprisetalk•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LatticeKB- A personal Knowledge base web-app

https://latticekb.github.io
2•ciaranmca•19m ago•0 comments

Look Ma, No Database: Documents with Shared Lifecycle State

https://ecprotocol.io/2026/05/17/look-ma-no-database.html
2•lszu•20m ago•0 comments

The Borrowed Brain Problem

https://bravetto.com/
2•buttersmoothAI•21m ago•1 comments

More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/18/uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-elec...
4•Brajeshwar•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Devin AI can automatically triage issues

https://devin.ai/auto-triage
4•limelight•22m ago•0 comments

Distro Chooser

https://distrochooser.de
2•doener•23m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Typical AI Conversation

3•theorchid•23m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/lsds-list-linux-block-devices-and-their-config/
101•mfiguiere•1y ago

Comments

DonHopkins•1y ago
I always wanted the /dev/zero character device driver, which you can map into memory to clear it, or use as an infinite source of nulls, to use the minor node number as the value that got mapped into memory or produced, so you could make an infinite source of beeps with:

mknod /dev/seven c 1 7

I wonder what would happen if you made a /dev/seven device in your http servers public_html directory? Would it dutifully serve it up?

Better yet, support for utf-8 unicode, so you can make an infinite source of poo emojis.

The "Everything Is A File" philosophy should be taken to its logical conclusion.

dlt713705•1y ago
Awesome! That actually inspired me to code this: https://codeberg.org/mco-system/pooper
don-code•1y ago
I challenge anyone to find another place on the Internet where one person's joke is another person's kernel module.
tanelpoder•1y ago
Astute observation, but also CrowdStrike would like a word :-)
xerxes901•1y ago
Question: what actually reads /etc/pooper to configure the character? I can’t work out how that file’s contents ends up as module parameters and I’d love to know!
dlt713705•1y ago
You are absolutely right, the /etc/pooper file was never loaded.

The code has been updated and now you can change the pooped char on the fly with something like :

`echo "<WHATEVER UTF-8 CHAR>" | sudo tee /sys/module/pooper/parameters/char_utf8`

/etc/pooper file and module unload/reload are no more needed :)

xerxes901•1y ago
Thanks for clarifying, and implementing this essential feature!
DonHopkins•1y ago
Finally somebody who gives a shit! Thank you for dropping that generous contribution.

Now I can use that device as an RSS feed! That puts the log into blog.

I haven't seen that much shit emerge from a wormhole since the Ed the Happy Clown episode of Yummy Fur comics:

https://everything2.com/node/1485685?bookmark_site=twitter&o...

>We now skip back in time a little, where we find Ronald Reagan before his mysterious transformation. He presides over an America that has no concept of toilets, and piles of feces on every street corner are becoming a serious problem. Fortunately, science can help; a farmer has stumbled across a small portal to another dimension. The solution is clear; push America's mounting shit through the portal via a huge funnel. The exit point for the portal is in fact the anus of the gentleman who couldn't stop shitting back in the prison in Ed's world; so there is at least a good scientific explanation for that little episode.

>During the official opening of the shit disposer, Reagan tragically falls into the giant collection of pending waste. His body blocks the funnel, but not before his head has gone through the portal; a headless president is recovered. A scientist heads though the portal on a rescue mission.

>(Now, I know what you're thinking, and I've no idea how Reagan's head became attached to the end of Ed's penis. It makes no sense, even within the logic of Ed's universe, and it's not explained. If you have any notions, please let me know - but for now, we'll just have to accept that somehow, it happened...)

The Chester Brown Interview:

https://www.tcj.com/the-chester-brown-interview/3/

Best NSFW Ronald Reagan Quote Ever:

https://the-comics-journal.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-co...

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anonymousiam•1y ago
Easy to get an infinite stream of bell codes with: yes ^V^G
bitbang•1y ago
Very nice, needs option for json/jsonl output.
tanelpoder•1y ago
Thanks! Yep I was thinking of doing that next, will be very easy as under the hood the data is stored in Python dictionaries.
appleaday1•1y ago
can we package this for Arch? Arch Defense Taskforce where you at?
tanelpoder•1y ago
I just added a little comment/errata regarding the NVME_QDEPTH column to the post (search for errata). I should probably rename that column to emphasize that (for now) it’s the Linux nvme module level max QD and not the hardware one (it’s complicated…)
nerflad•1y ago
If you came to represent... https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Creating_packages

Maintaining an AUR package can be great fun and an instructive glimpse into what FLOSS maintainers go through.

jayofdoom•1y ago
I'll note, lsblk can return a heck of a lot more data than it does by default (and nvme drives show up there). lsblk -H will list for your system, and you can specify columns. You can also adjust output.

I guess with this in mind, I'm curious how this is different?

tanelpoder•1y ago
Hi, yep lsblk targets a wider area of functionality, like showing mountpoints, device UUIDs, while lsds focuses only on block device settings.

Maybe the latest Linux versions have lsblk versions that support these columns, but in RHEL9 at least I don't see equivalents to lsds'es WBT_LAT, QDEPTH (not the same as lsblk's RQ-SIZE), WCACHE, FUA and some others. But these 4 are which I regularly need (especially when troubleshooting a yet another slow fsync() issue etc). I did and do use lsblk all the time too, but still end up catting and grepping various additional files and correlating the results, sometimes on systems with 100+ multipath block devices.

The other reason was that I wanted a tool that shows me where it gets these values too (for myself and sometimes for explaining stuff to others).

Edit: That being said, it shouldn't be hard at all to add the said extra fields to lsblk too.

strunz•1y ago
Would be worth adding this as an FAQ on the page. Great job btw.

EDIT: Would also be really cool to define what each field means, if you're gonna reimplement everything anyways, why not make it as user friendly as possible.

tanelpoder•1y ago
Thanks. Yep I have to revamp the whole 0x.tools webpage, right now it's a mix of older tools & prototypes and the "final stuff" and it's confusing what's what.

The lsds verbose option shows where in the Linux /sys fs each individual field comes from (lsds -lpv) so that's the ultimate source of what each field means. But I could pull each sysfs file's description from docs into a table on the webpage (I'm probably too lazy to create a manpage for now - help is appreciated)

Edit: Since there are not that many fields, it would be possible to add a -d option in addition to -v to get a human readable description for each field too. One of the main sources of confusion is the "queue_depth" vs. "nr_requests" fields. My ideal (which I usually don't reach) is to make these tools "explainable", so that they tell you from where they got their input data (and what basic math was applied).

jayofdoom•12mo ago
Thank you for the detailed response, even if I'm reading it late! This is exactly what I was trying to learn; what this tool exposed that lsblk is missing.
trillic•1y ago
Rewrote most of the functionality in C as an exercise

https://gist.github.com/grahameger/2507019334f07036f84080a87...