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Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

https://essenceofrome.com/rome-is-studded-with-cannon-balls
1•thomassmith65•18s ago•0 comments

8-piece tablebase development on Lichess (op1 partial)

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/op1-partial-8-piece-tablebase-available/1ptPBDpC
1•somethingp•1m ago•0 comments

US to bankroll far-right think tanks in Europe against digital laws

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1957195/us-to-fund-far-right-forces-in-europe-tbtb
1•saubeidl•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Have AI companies replaced their own SaaS usage with agents?

1•tuxpenguine•5m ago•0 comments

pi-nes

https://twitter.com/thomasmustier/status/2018362041506132205
1•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crew – Multi-agent orchestration tool for AI-assisted development

https://github.com/garnetliu/crew
1•gl2334•8m ago•0 comments

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/on_call/
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/ai_capex_plans/
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

A free Dynamic QR Code generator (no expiring links)

https://free-dynamic-qr-generator.com/
1•nookeshkarri7•10m ago•1 comments

nextTick but for React.js

https://suhaotian.github.io/use-next-tick/
1•jeremy_su•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered Pull Request Review Tool

https://github.com/HighGarden-Studio/HighReview
1•highgarden•12m ago•0 comments

Git-am applies commit message diffs

https://lore.kernel.org/git/bcqvh7ahjjgzpgxwnr4kh3hfkksfruf54refyry3ha7qk7dldf@fij5calmscvm/
1•rkta•15m ago•0 comments

ClawEmail: 1min setup for OpenClaw agents with Gmail, Docs

https://clawemail.com
1•aleks5678•21m ago•1 comments

UnAutomating the Economy: More Labor but at What Cost?

https://www.greshm.org/blog/unautomating-the-economy/
1•Suncho•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gettorr – Stream magnet links in the browser via WebRTC (no install)

https://gettorr.com/
1•BenaouidateMed•29m ago•0 comments

Statin drugs safer than previously thought

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026/statin-drugs-safer-than-previously-thought
1•stareatgoats•31m ago•0 comments

Handy when you just want to distract yourself for a moment

https://d6.h5go.life/
1•TrendSpotterPro•33m ago•0 comments

More States Are Taking Aim at a Controversial Early Reading Method

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/more-states-are-taking-aim-at-a-controversial-early-read...
1•lelanthran•34m ago•0 comments

AI will not save developer productivity

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4125409/ai-will-not-save-developer-productivity.html
1•indentit•39m ago•0 comments

How I do and don't use agents

https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/2019975917863661760
1•tosh•45m ago•0 comments

BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

1•aoijfoqfw•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
6•michaelchicory•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•54m ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•54m ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•56m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
2•calcifer•1h ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•1h ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
4•MilnerRoute•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: GTM MCP Server- Let AI Manage Your Google Tag Manager Containers

https://github.com/paolobietolini/gtm-mcp-server
1•paolobietolini•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver targeting CSF-based ARM Mali GPUs

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-tyr-a-new-rust-drm-driver.html
55•mfilion•7mo ago

Comments

Aurornis•7mo ago
In case anyone is confused, DRM refers to Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital Rights Management: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager
lawlessone•7mo ago
Thanks, that's exactly what was confusing me.
p0w3n3d•7mo ago
Yeah that would be not a very proud thing to share
rendaw•7mo ago
That acronym has always bothered me. Why use DRM when there's already perfectly good alternatives like "GPU" or "graphics".

Like take this:

> substantial progress on the DRM infrastructure required to write GPU drivers

It's basically saying

> substantial progress on the GPU driver infrastructure required to write GPU drivers

The headline could just be "Tyr, a new Rust CSF-based ARM Mali GPU driver" which is both shorter and avoids the DRM confusion.

cjtrowbridge•7mo ago
what does this have to do with the viking god of war like its not that hard to come up with some relevant name
zokier•7mo ago
The GPUs themselves are named after norse mythology (utgard, midgard, bifrost, valhall), the driver names have been related to those (panfrost, panthor, and now tyr). And the whole theme comes from the fact that the GPUs originate from Norwegian company (later acquired by ARM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(processor)

evanjrowley•7mo ago
This shows how much I know about vikings. I immediately thought of Tyr from Roddenbery's Andromeda series: https://andromeda.fandom.com/wiki/Tyr_Anasazi
bradleyy•7mo ago
Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) has to be one of the worst possible re-uses of an acronym ever. This is the second time I've seen it used recently without an expansion of the acronym.
themerone•7mo ago
Direct Rendering Manager doesn't predate the concept of digital rights management, but it might predate the widespread usage of the acronym.

From I remember, back int the 90's, "copy protection", was the common term in use.

hmry•7mo ago
Both of them, "Digital Rights Management" as a term and the Direct Rendering Manager, are about the same age.

The legal term for it, from the DMCA, "Technological Protection Measures", also conflicts with another acronym :)

justahuman74•7mo ago
One thing that wasn't mentioned, what was the motivation for the re-write?
bArray•7mo ago
> The current submission can power up the GPU and probe the device on an RK3588 system-on-chip. This lets us read a few sections of ROM in the GPU, which in turn lets us provide this information to userspace by means of a DRM_IOCTL_PANTHOR_DEV_QUERY call.

I think ARM-based chips and embedded GPUs continue to be problematic. Powering up a GPU is not the issue, it's accessing the silicon that does specialised accelerated functionality without getting tied into some crazy legal stuff with the documentation required to do so. Reverse engineering your way to a working GPU driver is quite an effort.

I think I first came across this issue in the PineTab [1]. I was trying to do some kind of streaming from the device but it was ultra slow. After some search I found that Sunxi [2] was the only real serious effort at the time, and that it was sporting a Mali400 [3] [4]. ARM were not particularly friendly in open sourcing GPU code for the kernel and it was largely a reverse engineering effort that got anything working at all [5].

All this to say, I would rather support some kind of open-source GPU effort [6], especially if it could be boiled down to a small SoC or module. I saw this crazy 160 core RISC-V M.2 cluster performing ray tracing, and it really seems like we could get there [7].

[1] https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab

[2] https://linux-sunxi.org/Allwinner_SoC_Family

[3] https://linux-sunxi.org/A64

[4] https://linux-sunxi.org/Mali

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_...

[6] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/new-open-sou...

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRfbQJ6FdF0