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Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
1•ShinyaKoyano•8m ago•0 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
1•m00dy•9m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•10m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
1•okaywriting•17m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
1•todsacerdoti•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•20m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•21m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•22m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•23m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•23m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•27m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•27m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•29m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•29m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•37m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•37m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•39m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•40m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
2•surprisetalk•40m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
5•pseudolus•40m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•40m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•42m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•42m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•42m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
2•jackhalford•44m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
2•tangjiehao•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•47m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

KDE Linux

https://kde.org/linux/
35•MBCook•6mo ago

Comments

GuinansEyebrows•6mo ago
in case anyone else was curious about the overlap with KDE neon:

> Differences from KDE neon/Prior art

> KDE neon was KDE's first version of a self-made OS.

> It fulfills the "distributed by KDE" requirement, but fails on the reliability angle due to the Ubuntu LTS base that ironically becomes unstable because it needs to be tinkered with to get Plasma to build on it, breaking the LTS promise.

> It is built on fairly old technology and requires a lot of packaging busywork — both of which are non-goals of KDE Linux. [0]

[0]: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux#Differences_from_KDE_neo...

petepete•6mo ago
I’m more confused about the difference between KDE and Plasma.
rstat1•6mo ago
KDE is a combination of multiple different parts of which Plasma is one (and also the name of the overall organization that produces the whole thing). Plasma is the main component, its main contribution to KDE is the various user facing components like the desktop, the launcher bar, etc.
1bpp•6mo ago
KDE is an organization developing Linux desktop software and Plasma is their window manager
petepete•6mo ago
But I thought kwin was the window manager. And that the DE in KDE stands for Desktop Environment, so it's weird that it's actually an organisation.
ryanhecht•6mo ago
Apparently they "retired the expansion" of the initialism in 2009: https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand/
petepete•6mo ago
Totally missed that - makes sense, thanks! I assumed Plasma was a rebranding so was surprised to see KDE making a comeback.
giancarlostoro•6mo ago
This is what drove me from Ubuntu to Arch (specifically I'm on EndeavourOS) I had a piece of software that needed me to install a version of the C standard library that was not available on Ubuntu in any way without messing with the core OS. So I said, screw it, let me finally try Arch, but let me find the least intrusive installer based Distro. I have not looked back since.
anthk•6mo ago
Without looking I knew that it would be like Fedora Silverblue boosting Gnome and Flatpak but a la KDE. No, Kinoite is not the same.
rob_c•6mo ago
Ooo and now I need to take a look :)
Spunkie•6mo ago
I've been a big fan of KDE these past few years so super excited to see this develop further.

    > Vendor-specific VPNs that require custom out-of-tree kernel modules that cannot be redistributed with the kernel due to license incompatibility
God I hope this isn't another immutable os that mullvad won't work on. The lack of mullvad vpn on my steamdeck is a constant pain in my side.

Other noticeable hiccups right now are giant updates aka no delta updates, no secure boot, no swap space.

    > Doesn't break, or at least easy to recover... KDE Linux leans on Systemd for a great deal of functionality. 
    > Updates are atomic and A/B image-based, with automatic Btrfs snapshots for the last 5 OS images...
I've been wanting to get automatic snapshot restore/boot shortcuts through the systemd-boot menu ever since I lost the feature when I switched from GRUB! Super excited to hear someone finally got it working with btrfs and systemd-boot.

Can anyone point me to any hints/resources on how I can get this added to my current arch+kde+btrfs+systemd-boot

johng•6mo ago
Can you get Tailscale to work? I use Tailscale as my VPN.

I set up a Tailscale node on a small VM in the cloud and use it as an exit node. It works wonderfully.

nailer•6mo ago
Looks like the site is taken down now.