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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
1•pseudolus•30s ago•0 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•4m ago•0 comments

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

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
1•bkls•4m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•5m ago•0 comments

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

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
2•roknovosel•6m 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•14m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•14m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•16m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•16m 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...
1•surprisetalk•16m 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...
2•pseudolus•17m 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•17m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•18m 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...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•19m 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•19m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•21m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•21m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•24m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•24m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
2•tusharnaik•26m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•27m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•28m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
7•derriz•28m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•28m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•29m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•32m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
2•edward•33m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UsrSbinFailedInPractice
7•naves•4mo ago

Comments

ggm•4mo ago
The path made sense when a system was run by people distinct from the ones using it. The death knell was workstations and giving us all su privileges.

In that world view, the death knell was sounded in the 1980s.

wakawaka28•4mo ago
Even if you have su privileges you aren't using them all the time. You may have scripts launched by an unprivileged user that in turn run as root. There are similar things that may happen on a shared system like a cluster. This is a regression in functionality for dubious benefits.
ggm•4mo ago
I didn't literally mean 'sbin is useless' -more that the days when we believed there was some constraint on being able to run some commands ended, when we stopped thinking those commands were run by other people, and instead run by ourselves.

Now, it has become routine to include /sbin and /usr/sbin in the PATH, and so we find ourselves having to su(do) thing, because we forget that it may look "runnable" and be found, but demands privilege to execute.

In days of yore when I started my journey, we didn't give ordinary logins these elements in PATH, and we believed in our UID/GID protection rings as well because sudo didn't exist. To be admitted to knowing the root password demanded you do the stonecutters walk of shame with the rock round your neck into the operations room at the end by the Dec-10. You also got the key to the cupboard where all the serial lines terminated, and access to a kettle and tin of bad instant coffee.

wakawaka28•4mo ago
The purpose of `/usr/sbin` does not seem to be understood here. It is (as far as I know) for statically linked binaries. If you use dynamically-linked libraries, those can potentially be manipulated via LD_PRELOAD or something. So admin software is probably something that should be in this category. There might be other reasons I'm not aware of for having a category for statically linked stuff. This means little if nobody is checking on the distro side to make sure that sbin is filled with statically linked stuff.

I don't want to attribute this change to malice because it is a rather arcane detail, but let's just say that I don't approve of IBM's recent activities related to Linux and FOSS.

joshstrange•4mo ago
> It is (as far as I know) for statically linked binaries.

No, it’s for system binaries or superuser binaries (depending on which you prefer, I’ve heard people say it both ways). I’m see people say it’s because they are statically linked but the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard says it’s “system” [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standar...

1718627440•4mo ago
The feature of /usr/sbin is precisely that I can choose to put or not put it in my PATH. Sad to see it go away, as it removes user choice and I don't see what it yields. Why does everything needs to be under a single directory? Why can't there be classification?