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Don't let your old NVMe gather dust: It's the fastest USB stick you own

https://www.xda-developers.com/old-nvme-is-the-fastest-usb-stick-you-own/
1•y1n0•18s ago•0 comments

AI Wellbeing – Measuring and Improving the Functional Pleasure and Pain of AIs

https://www.ai-wellbeing.org/
1•xiaoyu2006•1m ago•1 comments

Heads up: new Google support scam uses a REAL email from Google: sysadmin

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1tdezhu/heads_up_new_google_support_scam_uses_a_real/
1•freediver•2m ago•0 comments

US plans to indict Cuba's Raul Castro, US DOJ official says

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-plans-indict-cubas-raul-castro-us-doj-official-says-2...
1•tartoran•4m ago•0 comments

We Didn't Ask for This Internet

https://angelabenton.substack.com/p/what-a-post-social-media-internet
1•ethanplant•15m ago•0 comments

How the World Became a Casino

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-the-world-became-a-casino-with-natasha-sch%C3%BCll/id17...
1•gmays•17m ago•0 comments

A defunct email service as a template for campus AI

https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/a-defunct-email-service-as-a-template-for-campus-ai/
1•ntnsndr•21m ago•0 comments

Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits?

https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/why-should-a-trace-id-be-128-bits
2•pranay01•21m ago•0 comments

Dmitry Senin - I escaped Vladimir Putin in the belly of a dead cow

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/14/dmitry-senin-russia-fsb-escaped-putin-in-dead-cow/
2•canucker2016•25m ago•0 comments

reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35428-recaptcha-mobile-verification-is-bringing-the-play-integri...
2•Cider9986•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is shared across participants within "AI-native" environments?

1•juun_roh•30m ago•0 comments

Wide-Band Subharmonic Modeling

https://queuesevenm.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/wide-band-subharmonic-modeling/
1•q7m•35m ago•0 comments

Browser HTTP Leak Test

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cure53/HTTPLeaks/main/leak.html
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•36m ago•0 comments

What if websites were callable like APIs?

https://github.com/weekend-project-space/openwalk
2•zhugeyangyang•37m ago•1 comments

We're Building Neal Stephenson's Primer

https://github.com/hherb/primer
1•hherb•39m ago•1 comments

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/
49•RGBCube•42m ago•1 comments

Explore PPP Loans on an interactive map

https://www.ppploanmap.com/
2•zarie•43m ago•0 comments

Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/laid-off-oracle-workers-tried-to-negotiate-better-severance-ora...
1•dskrvk•44m ago•1 comments

Switch to Codex

https://chatgpt.com/codex/switch-to-codex/
5•dragonsenseiguy•48m ago•1 comments

AI co-mathematician: Accelerating mathematicians with agentic AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06651
1•aoki•56m ago•0 comments

The Efficiency Moat: Why China Is Beating the U.S. on AI and Everything Else

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-efficiency-moat-why-china-is
4•connor11528•1h ago•1 comments

AI music generator so YouTubers never get copyright strikes

https://dmitrithegamer.github.io/soundcraft/
1•soundcraftai•1h ago•0 comments

LLMs can't read PDFs in 2026?

https://musings-mr.net/post/where-state-of-the-art-fails
2•mrkiouak•1h ago•1 comments

WordPress Lost 19% of the Internet to AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tFRdZWmGdc
1•mgh2•1h ago•0 comments

Agentic Search Models

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/05/11/the-new-agentic-search-models.html
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Gargoyle, a Decade Later

https://lospino.so/blog/gargoyle-a-decade-later/
1•jalospinoso•1h ago•0 comments

Big Shot On The East Coast: The History of the Zoo York Mixtape

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2013/07/zoo-york-mixtape-feature/
1•marysminefnuf•1h ago•0 comments

Monero's Biggest Privacy Upgrade Is Almost Here: Justin Berman on FCMP Stressnet

https://youtube.com/M2rbsjTSFt8?t=52
1•Cider9986•1h ago•1 comments

GPT convinced me there was a bug in my code before a freeze

https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/2602-02/
1•offbyone42•1h ago•0 comments

I resurrected the web from the past and it got weird

https://slopcities.com/
3•ZenBlender•1h ago•1 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•11mo 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...