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The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UsrSbinFailedInPractice
4•naves•1h ago

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ggm•1h 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 laid in the 1980s.

Why do software developers love complexity?

https://kyrylo.org/software/2025/08/21/why-do-software-developers-love-complexity.html
3•PaulHoule•8m ago•0 comments

Alarm and Overload

https://novum.substack.com/p/two-media-tactics-of-the-2020s
1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

Science of Chess: What does it mean to have a "chess personality?"

https://lichess.org/@/NDpatzer/blog/science-of-chess-what-does-it-mean-to-have-a-chess-personalit...
1•tech_ken•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Summarize Any Article, Paper, or Video in 5 Bullet Points

https://unrav.io/summarize
1•rriley•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Labspace Directory – Biotech resource for lab space

https://www.labspacedirectory.com
1•ejhodges•18m ago•0 comments

Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/total-porn-ban-proposed-michigan-lawmakers
12•healsdata•22m ago•1 comments

Germany's Autobahn Bridges Are Going to Pieces

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-09-15/germany-s-autobahn-bridges-are-crumbling
2•JumpCrisscross•23m ago•0 comments

The unbearable sameness of Liquid Glass

https://www.theverge.com/apple/778197/liquid-glass-iphone-watch-ipad-mac
2•mastazi•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What Are the Best Database AI Agent? NLQ System?

1•desaiguddu•24m ago•0 comments

West Texas Gas Falls to 14-Month Low as Negative Prices Persist

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/west-texas-gas-falls-to-14-month-low-as-negati...
1•JumpCrisscross•24m ago•0 comments

Russia Made Drone Production a Supreme Priority. Now It Swarms the Skies

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/world/europe/russia-ukraine-drone-attacks-production.html
2•bookofjoe•25m ago•1 comments

What Are the Best Database AI Agent? NLQ System?

1•desaiguddu•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PHP MCP SDK

https://github.com/dalehurley/php-mcp-sdk
1•dalemhurley•26m ago•0 comments

TerminalTextEffects: A terminal visual effects engine, application, and library

https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/
1•podiki•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SimKit – TS framework for testing and running AI agent simulations

2•anthonySs•28m ago•0 comments

The peril of unquoted Python strings, and how they caused CVE-2024-9287

https://pythonkoans.substack.com/p/koan-12-the-blacksmiths-hammer
1•meander_water•32m ago•0 comments

Fiverr to lay off 30% of workforce in AI push

https://www.reuters.com/technology/online-marketplace-fiverr-lay-off-30-workforce-ai-push-2025-09...
6•geox•33m ago•0 comments

Democratic PR Firm to Run Bot Army for Israel

https://readsludge.com/2025/09/15/democratic-pr-firm-to-run-bot-army-for-israel/
2•sporkxrocket•36m ago•0 comments

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/internet-archives-big-battle-with-music-publishers-en...
2•coloneltcb•36m ago•0 comments

Apple Says Installing iOS 26 Might Impact Battery Life

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/15/ios-26-battery-life-impact/
4•calf•37m ago•0 comments

"Mirror life" and the recurring nightmare of scientific apocalypse

https://bigthink.com/the-past/mirror-life-and-the-recurring-nightmare-of-scientific-apocalypse/
2•anarbadalov•41m ago•0 comments

CoreWeave signs $6.3B order with Nvidia to cover unsold cloud capacity thru 2032

https://www.reuters.com/business/coreweave-nvidia-sign-63-billion-cloud-computing-capacity-order-...
5•thoughtpeddler•47m ago•1 comments

Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-5-making-dreams-accessible/
6•freddydumont•47m ago•0 comments

Npcsh, the multi-agent shell, has now reached 50 stars on GitHub

https://github.com/NPC-Worldwide/npcsh
1•caug37•49m ago•1 comments

Signs the AI Bubble is Bursting - Sabine Hossenfelder [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L1JbzDnEMk
2•evo_9•50m ago•1 comments

Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI?

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/09/do-markets-believe-in-transformative-ai...
1•smitty1e•50m ago•0 comments

Stirring Bars Are Superstition?

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/stirring-bars-are-superstition
2•striking•53m ago•0 comments

Considering writing a popular science book? Here's my advice

https://www.southernfriedscience.com/considering-writing-a-popular-science-book-heres-my-advice/
1•mooreds•55m ago•0 comments

High-Dimensional Statistics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19244
1•ibobev•57m ago•0 comments

I want to do experiments but it's not cheap

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/i-want-to-do-experiments-but-its
1•crescit_eundo•57m ago•0 comments