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Sony Wins "Hall of Shame" Award for Killing Discs and Being All Around Awful

https://www.thegamer.com/sony-choice-hall-of-shame-shonky-award-2026-killing-discs/
1•robtherobber•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Inp-Analyser – MIT CLI That Diagnoses Interaction to Next Paint

https://inp-analyser.franzai.com/
1•franze•3m ago•0 comments

GeekyAnts reports No. 1 ranking among California app developers on Clutch

https://geekyants.com/blog/geekyants-ranks-no-1-among-app-development-companies-in-california-on-...
1•Harish_0089•4m ago•0 comments

State of the tech job market: late 2026

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/state-of-the-tech-job-market-late
1•davedx•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Faraway – Physically accurate solar system, time travel 1900–2100

https://faraway.space/
2•qianyiyu•4m ago•0 comments

The coin-flipping trick that counts the Internet

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-coin-flipping-trick-that-counts-the-internet/
1•sohkamyung•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Aiproxy – Redact PII locally before it reaches Claude/OpenAI

https://github.com/cucooOnGithub/aiproxy
1•cucoo•6m ago•0 comments

Grok API text watermarking is now 'off' be default

https://docs.x.ai/developers/advanced-api-usage/watermarking
1•apalerwuss•10m ago•1 comments

How OpenAI, Canva and Spotify made slow CI steps up to 20x faster

https://berrybox.io/playbooks
1•chiragasarpota•11m ago•0 comments

Next-Level Benchmarking Overfitting – Thomas Neumann

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/11/next-level-benchmarking-overfitting.html
1•artrax•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Who Wins? (Daily Mini Game)

https://crux.quest/who-wins/
1•saretup•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Browser-based PDF and image tools that never upload your files

https://bytepriva.com/exif-remover/
1•bytepriva•14m ago•0 comments

Turning a Cheap Photo Frame into a Family Wall Display (Without Trusting It)

https://timothyjohnsonsci.com/writing/2026-11-06-photo-frame-wall-display/
1•adunk•15m ago•0 comments

We need more science in the judgment of AI

https://livingsystems.substack.com/p/we-need-more-science-in-the-judgment
1•samuell•15m ago•0 comments

Nvidia Vera CPU Review: 2TB/S Memory Bandwidth, a Real x86 Rival

https://www.storagereview.com/review/nvidia-vera-cpu-review
2•rbanffy•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent Buddies – Swappable animated characters for AI agents

https://izr8809.github.io/agent-buddies/
1•izr8809•16m ago•0 comments

Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h

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2•eyvindn•16m ago•1 comments

Dee the Cat

https://mihaiolteanu.me/dee-the-cat
1•molteanu•16m ago•0 comments

Ms. Bashkansky, Please Do Not Build the Torment Nexus

https://jyn.dev/ms-bashkansky-please-do-not-build-the-torment-nexus/
1•Klaster_1•16m ago•0 comments

Ways You Can Help Linux Grow (Even If You Don't Know Coding)

https://itsfoss.com/help-linux-grow/
2•mrkn1•17m ago•0 comments

Model Desk – A local-first multi-provider AI workspaceShared via URL-sharer

https://mrthp.github.io/model-desk/
1•misterthp•17m ago•0 comments

The Monolith

https://www.gethal.com/monolith
1•bobfloyd•18m ago•0 comments

Life Expectancy Higher with Greater Sodium Intake

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1•bilsbie•19m ago•0 comments

How the "Venice" Epycs Measure Up Against Prior AMD Server CPUs

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1•rbanffy•20m ago•0 comments

In Defense of Giving a Shit

https://www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/in-defence-of-giving-a-shit/
1•mrkn1•21m ago•0 comments

Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robot

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/ring-cameras-go-mobile-as-amazon-debuts-ai-powered-security-dr...
1•rbanffy•22m ago•0 comments

JSON vs. jsonb in Postgres: size and speed, measured

https://now-next.nl/en/insights/postgresql-json-vs-jsonb-measured/
1•plaur782•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NoDOM high performance WASM UI kit for DuckDB-WASM

https://osullivj.github.io/nodom_ukprop/
1•osullivj•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A DOCX editing library inspired by Rosyln's syntax trees

https://github.com/Eazydraft/docxtor
1•bigguycodes•23m ago•0 comments

Real-time prompt-based stream editing for AR at 1080p, 46 FPS and 87 ms latency

https://drsandor.net/post/ismar-2026/
1•chris_sandor•24m ago•1 comments
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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.