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What If Wishes Could Be Bought and Sold?

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-if-wishes-could-be-bought-and-sold
1•Anon84•1m ago•0 comments

AI Tool Directory

1•lokeshjoshi•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hermes Missions – time-travel and resume agents after crashes

1•akatsutki•3m ago•0 comments

Pyhctsa – Highly comparative time-series analysis

https://github.com/DynamicsAndNeuralSystems/pyhctsa/
1•jmoo2880•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tape Music Hub, local music library manager with a P2P phone companion

https://tape-music-hub.gordo.design/
1•sergormo•5m ago•0 comments

Mailüfterl (Early Transistorized Computer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail%C3%BCfterl
1•wolfi1•5m ago•0 comments

Run Gitea Actions on Apple Hardware

https://github.com/markwylde/gitea-runner-lume
2•turblety•6m ago•0 comments

Birdsong follows a fundamental law of human language

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birdsong-follows-a-fundamental-law-of-human-language/
1•1659447091•7m ago•0 comments

BMW Rolling Out In-Car Spam

https://www.heise.de/en/news/BMW-Annoyed-by-Advertising-11399005.html
2•lschueller•10m ago•0 comments

The AI Experts Who Couldn't Predict AI

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/07/26/the-ai-experts-who-couldnt-predict-ai/
1•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

Models may behave differently in graded episodes (a tirade)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AfoGGrJfuNzofpzWL/models-may-behave-differently-in-graded-episode...
1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

Claude Code sessions can now message each other

https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2085817074816070014
2•shpat•12m ago•0 comments

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
1•ilamont•15m ago•0 comments

China's A.I. Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/ai-china-africa.html
1•ripe•17m ago•1 comments

Chasa

https://chasa.io/
3•docracy•17m ago•0 comments

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 10

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260731-00/?p=112578
1•ibobev•19m ago•0 comments

BingeBuster

https://bingebuster.net/
1•rdoherty•21m ago•0 comments

The Statistics Behind the Jason Arday Scandal

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-statistics-behind-the-jason-arday-scandal/
1•barry-cotter•22m ago•0 comments

Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260806-00/?p=112595
1•ibobev•22m ago•0 comments

Soppo – Go, with the features it's missing

https://soppolang.dev/
1•birdculture•22m ago•0 comments

Your AI Frustration Is My Opportunity

https://metedata.substack.com/p/012-your-ai-frustration-is-my-opportunity
3•young_mete•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Public Web Change Intelligence

https://app.monity.ai
1•kamilmm21•24m ago•0 comments

Super Mario Derivations

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/05/super-mario-derivations
1•domenkozar•24m ago•0 comments

KV Cache vs. Prompt Cache: What's the Difference, and How Are They Related?

https://jaketao.com/language/en/kv-cache-vs-prompt-cache/
1•taojing10•25m ago•0 comments

From Chat Completions to Responses: Why Is OpenAI Upgrading Its Core API?

https://jaketao.com/language/en/why-openai-upgrading-api/
1•taojing10•25m ago•0 comments

Live Coronal Prediction – 2026 Total Solar Eclipse

https://eclipse.predsci.com/
1•corlinp•26m ago•1 comments

Argentine company accuses US of meddling in Huawei project

https://www.ft.com/content/051e6fbf-e796-4b92-9c6e-7b85c74e8edc
1•wslh•26m ago•1 comments

Health factors that delay dementia for up to 13 years

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/aging/delay-dementia-health-factors-diabetes-blood-pressure-smokin...
2•elo2000•27m ago•0 comments

Water utilities group partners with DEF CON offshoot for Water Watch Center

https://therecord.media/water-watch-center-utilities-def-con-franklin-nrwa
1•speckx•32m ago•0 comments

Don't Forget to Flush [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f30PceqQWko
1•dboon•34m ago•0 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).

trillic•1y ago
Rewrote most of the functionality in C as an exercise

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

jayofdoom•1y 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.