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Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•1m ago•0 comments

Wellness Hotels Discovery Application

https://aurio.place/
1•cherrylinedev•1m ago•1 comments

NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/03/nasa-delays-moon-rocket-launch-month-fuel-leaks-a...
1•mooreds•2m ago•0 comments

Sebastian Galiani on the Marginal Revolution

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/sebastian-galiani-on-the-marginal-revol...
1•paulpauper•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are we at the point where software can improve itself?

1•ManuelKiessling•5m ago•0 comments

Binance Gives Trump Family's Crypto Firm a Leg Up

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/business/binance-trump-crypto.html
1•paulpauper•6m ago•0 comments

Reverse engineering Chinese 'shit-program' for absolute glory: R/ClaudeCode

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qy5l0n/reverse_engineering_chinese_shitprogram_for/
1•edward•6m ago•0 comments

Indian Culture

https://indianculture.gov.in/
1•saikatsg•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Maravel-Framework 10.61 prevents circular dependency

https://marius-ciclistu.medium.com/maravel-framework-10-61-0-prevents-circular-dependency-cdb5d25...
1•marius-ciclistu•9m ago•0 comments

The age of a treacherous, falling dollar

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/02/05/the-age-of-a-treacherous-falling-dollar
2•stopbulying•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: AI Generated Diagrams

1•voidhorse•12m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Account bugs locked me out of Notepad – are Thin Clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
2•josephcsible•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A delightful Mac app to vibe code beautiful iOS apps

https://milq.ai/hacker-news
3•jdjuwadi•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gemini Station – A local Chrome extension to organize AI chats

https://github.com/rajeshkumarblr/gemini_station
1•rajeshkumar_dev•15m ago•0 comments

Welfare states build financial markets through social policy design

https://theloop.ecpr.eu/its-not-finance-its-your-pensions/
2•kome•19m ago•0 comments

Market orientation and national homicide rates

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-9125.70023
4•PaulHoule•19m ago•0 comments

California urges people avoid wild mushrooms after 4 deaths, 3 liver transplants

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-death-cap-mushrooms-poisonings-liver-transplants/
1•rolph•20m ago•0 comments

Matthew Shulman, co-creator of Intellisense, died 2019 March 22

https://www.capenews.net/falmouth/obituaries/matthew-a-shulman/article_33af6330-4f52-5f69-a9ff-58...
3•canucker2016•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SuperLocalMemory – AI memory that stays on your machine, forever free

https://github.com/varun369/SuperLocalMemoryV2
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Show HN: Pyrig – One command to set up a production-ready Python project

https://github.com/Winipedia/pyrig
1•Winipedia•24m ago•0 comments

Fast Response or Silence: Conversation Persistence in an AI-Agent Social Network [pdf]

https://github.com/AysajanE/moltbook-persistence/blob/main/paper/main.pdf
1•EagleEdge•24m ago•0 comments

C and C++ dependencies: don't dream it, be it

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/02/c-and-c-dependencies-dont-dream-it-be-it.html
1•ingve•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vbuckets – Infinite virtual S3 buckets

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Open Molten Claw: Post-Eval as a Service

https://idiallo.com/blog/open-molten-claw
1•watchful_moose•25m ago•0 comments

New York Budget Bill Mandates File Scans for 3D Printers

https://reclaimthenet.org/new-york-3d-printer-law-mandates-firearm-file-blocking
2•bilsbie•26m ago•1 comments

The End of Software as a Business?

https://www.thatwastheweek.com/p/ai-is-growing-up-its-ceos-arent
1•kteare•27m ago•0 comments

Exploring 1,400 reusable skills for AI coding tools

https://ai-devkit.com/skills/
1•hoangnnguyen•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A unique twist on Tetris and block puzzle

https://playdropstack.com/
1•lastodyssey•31m ago•1 comments

The logs I never read

https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-logs-i-never-read
1•nojito•33m ago•0 comments

How to use AI with expressive writing without generating AI slop

https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/bakhtin-collapse-ai-expressive-writing
1•cnunciato•34m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Ambient light sensor control of keyboard and screen brightness in Linux

https://github.com/donjajo/als-led-backlight
26•donjajo•3mo ago
I have always wanted cool features in Linux because I use it day to day as my OS. I have always wanted to implement this feature and do it properly: one that automatically adjusts keyboard and LCD backlights using data from the Ambient Light Sensor.

I enjoy low-level programming a lot. I delved into writing this program in C. It came out well and worked seamlessly on my device. Currently, it only works for keyboard lights. I designed it in a way that the support for LCD will come in seamlessly in the future.

But, in the real world, people have different kinds of devices. And I made sure to follow the iio implementation on the kernel through sysfs. I would like feedback. :)

Comments

seba_dos1•3mo ago
FWIW, iio-sensor-proxy gives you a user-accessible dbus API for ambient light sensors. GNOME has had a feature to auto-adjust screen brightness based on it for ages (though their implementation leave much to be desired and hasn't changed despite of several attempts to rework it over the years).

  $ monitor-sensor
      Waiting for iio-sensor-proxy to appear
  +++ iio-sensor-proxy appeared
  === Has accelerometer (orientation: normal)
  === Has ambient light sensor (value: 56.200000, unit: lux)
  === Has proximity sensor (near: 0)
      Light changed: 56.200000 (lux)
      Light changed: 55.100000 (lux)
      Light changed: 58.500000 (lux)
      Light changed: 48.800000 (lux)
teo_zero•3mo ago
What strategy does this apply? For the display I assume it should increases the brightness as the ambient light rises. But for keybord light it's the opposite: I'd want it off in a lit environment and on in a dark one.