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Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
1•CurtHagenlocher•1m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•2m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•2m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•3m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•5m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•7m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•11m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•13m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•17m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•18m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•20m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•27m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•28m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•33m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
9•mooreds•34m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

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Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•36m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•41m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•42m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
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How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
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Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
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From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•45m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•46m ago•0 comments

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https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
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Python Only Has One Real Competitor

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4•dragandj•53m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•54m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Why Some Satellites Use NetBSD?

https://machaddr.substack.com/p/why-some-satellites-use-netbsd
17•Bogdanp•6mo ago

Comments

posix86•6mo ago
Why so many articles have grammatically incorrect headlines?
AndrewDucker•6mo ago
Because many writers are writing in their second language, and sometimes they use language structures from their native language.
netsharc•6mo ago
Author is Portuguese, that rule is the same in Portuguese.
posix86•6mo ago
I'm second language too, so I checked the article, and it seems fine otherwise apart from the title; I'd expect the title to get extra care. Anyway it's flagged anyway.
NitpickLawyer•6mo ago
This post could have been a prompt. It is 1000% generated with an LLM.

Tell-tale signs: fluffs up the "key features for x". Each feature follows bold title, highly generic explanation of the title. Then it lists some examples, all following the same pattern "why x".

Then the conclusion is full of gpt-isms. Doesn't say anything of value, just re-iterates fluff words.

> NetBSD's presence in space demonstrates how a well-designed, community-supported operating system can play a pivotal role in advancing space exploration and technology. As satellite missions grow more ambitious, NetBSD’s adaptability ensures it will remain a key player in the evolving field of aerospace engineering.

I know there's a policy encouraging users not to cry "llm generated" every time, but this is quite egregious.

ygritte•6mo ago
> there's a policy encouraging users not to cry "llm generated"

There is? If so, it should be reversed and LLM-generated crap should be banned.

elcritch•6mo ago
Eh I found the article interesting. To me it seems more like a non-native English speaker using an LLM to help their English grammar.

The article lists out some examples which I found interesting and didn't know about. I tried getting Gemini to reproduce them but it just gave general examples. Now without those examples it'd be a boring listicle.

Also I haven't seen an LLM spit out a classic sentence like: "This text explores the reasons behind its adoption and how it powers these satellites."

netsharc•6mo ago
I skimmed through it, yeah, such a pathetic article. It's like having the title "Why satellites use carbon fibre (question mark because of illiteracy)" and having the text be too many words that's just repetitions of "Because it's lightweight and strong"...

At least give us some history about who decided on NetBSD, when, and why they picked it without the generic blah blah.

yard2010•6mo ago
It's quite funny how "pass a Turing test" is something that changes over time.
thunderbong•6mo ago
I went through the archives[0] and I tend to agree.

There's a post on every day of the week, including weekends.

And although the 'About' page indicates the author might not be a native English speaker, all the posts feel similar.

[0]: https://machaddr.substack.com/archive?sort=new

elcritch•6mo ago
I really want an excuse to run NetBSD on something. I wonder if ESP32's are capable of running NetBSD? Even just running on a RPi would be fun.

Also, for embedded devices the coherent whole system design of *BSDs with the package builder seems like it'd be much nicer than BuildRoot or Yocto.

I've come to very much dislike trying to keep Linux images for embedded stuff running over years. Perhaps it's because Linux claims not pride itself on "not breaking userspace" but seems to add a new GPIO sub-system every 5 years. Ain't nobody got time for that.

sunshine-o•6mo ago
> I wonder if ESP32's are capable of running NetBSD?

Interesting question but can't find much about it [0]

I guess for the most recent ESP32 it will be under RISC-V.

People have been able to boot Linux on them for a while so why not...

- [0] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/

elcritch•6mo ago
It’d probably depend on whether NetBSD requires having an MMU or MPU.

RISC-V support might be an option.

jmclnx•6mo ago
Looks like a MMU is needed:

https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/mmu-less/

AlexeyBrin•6mo ago
Check EndBOX - NetBSD running on RPi and booting into a version of BASIC. You can probably strip the BASIC part or get inspiration of how to run NetBSD on a Pi. You can find more information at https://www.endbasic.dev/2025/07/endbox-diy-kit.html
elcritch•6mo ago
That’s awesome!
jmclnx•6mo ago
I thought the article was "OK", but my main issue is they did not go into a lot of detail on the Satellites.

One case the mentioned date launched. I would like to know:

* dates launched

* Satellites still in active use

* What NetBSD release was the software built from

* Are the Satellites still being produced in 2025 and if so are they still based on NetBSD

So in a way, the article had nothing "new".

mek6800d2•6mo ago
This Substack article should not be trusted - there are no sources given. I google'd each of the 4 example satellites and "netbsd" and the only results were the Substack article and people referencing the article. NetBSD may have been used in ground systems, but (i) that would have been a non-story and (ii) I couldn't find any evidence of that, so I wonder where the author picked up this information.

I am most familiar with SAMPEX, which was launched in 1992. The initial release of NetBSD, version 0.8, was in 1993 according to Wikipedia. Okay, the article says the project "transitioned" to NetBSD in the "extended mission". Okay, maybe in the 2000s, let's say they decided to replace the original OS/real-time-executive on a working spacecraft with a new OS. So you abruptly replace the old OS/RTE-based flight software with software based on a new OS/RTE. (You don't gradually transition from one OS/RTE to another.) I don't buy it. On a working spacecraft? No.

(I realize the article was probably AI-generated.)