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Sem – Semantic diffs and patches for Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/
1•rs545837•1m ago•1 comments

Hello world does not compile

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1
1•mfiguiere•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ZigZag – A Bubble Tea-Inspired TUI Framework for Zig

https://github.com/meszmate/zigzag
2•meszmate•9m ago•0 comments

Metaphor+Metonymy: "To love that well which thou must leave ere long"(Sonnet73)

https://www.huckgutman.com/blog-1/shakespeare-sonnet-73
1•gsf_emergency_6•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django N+1 Queries Checker

https://github.com/richardhapb/django-check
1•richardhapb•27m ago•1 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: High-performance TRAMP back end using JSON-RPC instead of shell

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•todsacerdoti•31m ago•0 comments

Protocol Validation with Affine MPST in Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev
1•o8vm•36m ago•1 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
2•gmays•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zest – A hands-on simulator for Staff+ system design scenarios

https://staff-engineering-simulator-880284904082.us-west1.run.app/
1•chanip0114•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: DeSync – Decentralized Economic Realm with Blockchain-Based Governance

https://github.com/MelzLabs/DeSync
1•0xUnavailable•43m ago•0 comments

Automatic Programming Returns

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
1•benrules2•46m ago•1 comments

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why%20Are%20there%20Still%20So%20Many%...
2•oidar•48m ago•0 comments

The Search Engine Map

https://www.searchenginemap.com
1•cratermoon•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Souls.directory – SOUL.md templates for AI agent personalities

https://souls.directory
1•thedaviddias•57m ago•0 comments

Real-Time ETL for Enterprise-Grade Data Integration

https://tabsdata.com
1•teleforce•1h ago•0 comments

Economics Puzzle Leads to a New Understanding of a Fundamental Law of Physics

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/economics-puzzle-leads-to-a-new-understanding-of-a-fundamental...
3•geox•1h ago•0 comments

Switzerland's Extraordinary Medieval Library

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library
2•bookmtn•1h ago•0 comments

A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-comet-visible-broad-daylight.html
3•bookmtn•1h ago•0 comments

ESR: Comes the news that Anthropic has vibecoded a C compiler

https://twitter.com/esrtweet/status/2019562859978539342
2•tjr•1h ago•0 comments

Frisco residents divided over H-1B visas, 'Indian takeover' at council meeting

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2026/02/04/frisco-residents-divided-over-h-1b-visas-indi...
4•alephnerd•1h ago•5 comments

If CNN Covered Star Wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vArJg_SU4Lc
1•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built the first tool to configure VPSs without commands

https://the-ultimate-tool-for-configuring-vps.wiar8.com/
2•Wiar8•1h ago•3 comments

AI agents from 4 labs predicting the Super Bowl via prediction market

https://agoramarket.ai/
1•kevinswint•1h ago•1 comments

EU bans infinite scroll and autoplay in TikTok case

https://twitter.com/HennaVirkkunen/status/2019730270279356658
6•miohtama•1h ago•5 comments

Benchmarking how well LLMs can play FizzBuzz

https://huggingface.co/spaces/venkatasg/fizzbuzz-bench
1•_venkatasg•1h ago•1 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
25•SerCe•1h ago•18 comments

Octave GTM MCP Server

https://docs.octavehq.com/mcp/overview
1•connor11528•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Portview what's on your ports (diagnostic-first, single binary, Linux)

https://github.com/Mapika/portview
3•Mapika•1h ago•0 comments

Voyager CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/amazon-amzn-q4-earnings-report-2025.html
1•belter•1h ago•0 comments

Boilerplate Tax – Ranking popular programming languages by density

https://boyter.org/posts/boilerplate-tax-ranking-popular-languages-by-density/
1•nnx•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

https://thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io/CPU-X/
170•nateb2022•7mo ago

Comments

DrillShopper•7mo ago
It would really be nice to not have to require a daemon to make this program useful
DeepYogurt•7mo ago
Ya. The joy of cpu-z is that its a single small binary.
lmz•7mo ago
I wouldn't read too deeply into that. I'm pretty sure cpu-z bundles a driver that is unpacked and installed at runtime (search for 'cpuz sys')
dmitrygr•7mo ago

   $ man dmidecode
preisschild•7mo ago
At least in the Flatpak, it can be started by just clicking the "Start daemon" button.
nateb2022•7mo ago
c.f. https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X/wiki...

the daemon separates userspace from root domain, and ensures that the code running with root privileges is very small and easily auditable

__turbobrew__•7mo ago
Maybe I am dumb, but why does it have to be a daemon? Why not have the user process fork off the privileged binary to collect data and return the results through stdout?
unaindz•7mo ago
Forking a process is not free and starting one every hundred of a millisecond* seems very expensive. *I'm do not know which frequency it updates the data but it's usually 1 sec to 0.1 sec.
whalesalad•7mo ago
I use it without the daemon. I don't even know what the daemon does.
mmh0000•7mo ago
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jcelerier•7mo ago
When I type all that (if I type them correctly, I do a lot of mistakes so I need simple icons to click sometimes), it really doesn't look like CPU-Z in my terminal, I wonder what I'm doing wrong?
Brian_K_White•7mo ago
Those commands do provide the information. They never claimed it exactly matches the graphical layout.

And I don't think they are even claiming that a graphical presentation of the same info is necessarily wrong or pointless, they are simply saying, that's a lot of c++ for merely wrapping the text in some gui widgets.

It's a fair observation.

I can imagine generating say an html rendition that looks almost the same in a few k of shell. Maybe there's more to it and it wouldn't be so simple, but that is what it looks like.

jcelerier•7mo ago
> Those commands do provide the information. They never claimed it exactly matches the graphical layout.

but that's the thing, the target audience for "CPU-Z for Linux" is not people who want the information (because if you do it's of course trivial to google and find out about /proc/cpuinfo), it's people who want to use a software which is as close as possible to the original CPU-Z (so HTML layout definitely does not cut it either).

> I can imagine generating say an html rendition that looks almost the same in a few k of shell.

considering that the source code assumes that dmidecode won't be present (it embeds it) I doubt you'd reimplement the whole dmidecode in only a few k lines of shell. And that's just a small part of what CPU-X does.

petabyt•7mo ago
This tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.
Brian_K_White•7mo ago
There are similar commands for those. It is exactly a bit more than a front end.
izacus•7mo ago
This is absolutely "Who cares about Dropbox, just use rsync!" level of silly and lazy HN answer :D
tomhow•7mo ago
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

kcb•7mo ago
The tool hardinfo2 works pretty well for system stats. Somewhat similar to hwinfo64 on windows.
throw123xz•7mo ago
Very nice.

On a side note, and not wanting to criticize the people that spend their time working on something like this, that UI is the main reason why I still use Windows and macOS. Light grey on a white background, dark grey on a that blue background, a black AMD logo on a dark grey background, the padding around the text inside boxes...

I feel bad saying this when it's a free tool, but it's a shame that open source projects struggle so much with UI stuff.

whalesalad•7mo ago
this is what it looks like for me, https://i.imgur.com/lo2YL57.png
wpm•7mo ago
The ncurses CLI version looks great.
amlib•7mo ago
MacOS and specially Windows has their fair share of great and useful software with questionable UI/UX, this is far from a problem affecting only Linux.

Take a look at modern KDE and specially GNOME software, they are pretty well made regarding UI/UX best practices and GNOME even has a great HIG that they follow strictly on their stuff, you can't even say that regarding Microsoft own software anymore.

bb88•7mo ago
Gnome is not bad, but GTK has been historically a pain point for development.
XorNot•7mo ago
I just people to do menu bars on desktop again.

Add the Jetbrains search anywhere function if you really just innovate.

No more Hamburger menus.

Gormo•7mo ago
> MacOS and specially Windows has their fair share of great and useful software with questionable UI/UX, this is far from a problem affecting only Linux.

In fact, Linux generally offers many more affordances for adjusting the appearance of the UI, especially in comparison to Windows and Mac. If you don't like way your system looks, you can change your UI theme settings, where corresponding options on the proprietary OSes are much more limited.

SirMaster•7mo ago
But most people don't want to have to adjust things, they just want it to be good out of the box.

My friends keep telling me android is better because it offers so much more customization, and I keep telling them I don't want to customize, I just want it to be nice by default, and to me iOS is, so that is a selling point for me.

GTP•7mo ago
These options just serve different needs. It's not that one way is right and the other is wrong, it depends on one own's preferences. I'm in the Android and Linux camp in part for the reason your friend says (but there's more), however I believe that everyone should just use what they like best. I would still suggest someone that never used a Linux distro to give it a try, but I don't go further than this.
Gormo•7mo ago
> But most people don't want to have to adjust things, they just want it to be good out of the box.

That's why software development and distribution are two different concepts in the Linux world. The core software is fully customizable, but people who want preconfigured out-of-the-box experiences can choose a distro that is largely defined by its configuration choices.

throw123xz•7mo ago
Yes, it's not a problem exclusive to Linux or open source, but it's more common on Linux than it is, say, on MacOS.
tvier•7mo ago
That's just the theme the author is running. If you use a use a standard theme, you'll get a higher contrast text color.

From their wiki: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/04c2219de0884fc8e6bf4d264...

badsectoracula•7mo ago
The UI is pretty much a copy of CPU-Z's UI. The color scheme comes from the theme and you can use any theme you like, you don't have to use what the author uses.
throw123xz•7mo ago
It looks like CPU-Z (which is fine), it's just not as polished. For example, here you have commas and letters like "y" touching the border of each "box". On CPU-Z there's a padding around the text.

The comment about the colors was based on the screenshots they have on the website, but based on your and other comments here, I can see that it's based on the theme we use use. That's why the AMD logo probably shouldn't be black with a transparent background as then it's hard to see the logo if you're using a dark theme.

Is this a huuuuge deal? Nope. But the programs are just not as polished as they could be.

badsectoracula•7mo ago
> It looks like CPU-Z (which is fine), it's just not as polished. For example, here you have commas and letters like "y" touching the border of each "box". On CPU-Z there's a padding around the text.

CPU-Z also does not have padding around the text, it just has a different font, but in the screenshot at techpowerup[0] you can see that, e.g., the "y" in "MBytes" down right is touching (clipped) by the container box and the instruction flags also touch the left side of the box.

It is just that the font in CPU-Z is much smaller than the font used in the screenshots.

[0] https://www.techpowerup.com/download/cpu-z/

neurostimulant•7mo ago
Like others said, it depends on your theme. Here is what it looks like on my old thinkpad running gnome 48 with light mode theme: https://i.imgur.com/HLZ120w.png

It's actually not bad imo.

bdhcuidbebe•7mo ago
cpu-x tries their best to look like their windows precursor, cpu-z…
throw123xz•7mo ago
And it looks like CPU-Z, which I'm fine with. It's just not as polished.

For example, here you have commas and letters like "y" touching the borders of their box. On CPU-Z there's a padding around the text. Black AMD logo with transparent background? That won't work very well with a dark background.

Small things, inconsistencies, etc, are more common (but not exclusive) with open source/linux stuff. That's what I was trying to point out.

bdhcuidbebe•6mo ago
Thats where you come in! PR welcome
hulitu•7mo ago
> that UI is the main reason why I still use Windows and macOS. Light grey on a white background, dark grey on a that blue background, a black AMD logo on a dark grey background,

Welcome to Windows.

throw123xz•7mo ago
If you compare the screenshots on CPU-Z's website and the ones here, I think you can see that while similar, CPU-Z is more "polished". That's the point I was trying to make.
aforty•7mo ago
Nice but does it really have to look like the Windows version? Can’t we imagine and have better things?
M95D•7mo ago
But this is one of the better things!
xet7•7mo ago
Similar is I-Nex, made with Gambas.

https://github.com/i-nex/I-Nex

https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/app/i-nex

https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html

unixhero•7mo ago
It looks great, but on Linux I got used to cat /proc/cpuinfo