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Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
1•michaelchicory•51s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•4m ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•4m ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
1•calcifer•11m ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•15m ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
2•MilnerRoute•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•17m ago•3 comments

Show HN: GTM MCP Server- Let AI Manage Your Google Tag Manager Containers

https://github.com/paolobietolini/gtm-mcp-server
1•paolobietolini•19m ago•0 comments

Launch of X (Twitter) API Pay-per-Use Pricing

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/announcing-the-launch-of-x-api-pay-per-use-pricing/256476
1•thinkingemote•19m ago•0 comments

Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•20m ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•21m ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•23m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
2•consumer451•25m ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•38m ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
2•jesperordrup•43m ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•44m ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•44m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•51m ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•59m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
6•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
2•sickthecat•1h ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
2•imthepk•1h ago•0 comments

How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•1h ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•1h ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2j80klmo
3•breve•1h ago•1 comments

The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Historical Reasons

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/11/11/historical-reasons-2/
46•speckx•2mo ago

Comments

fifticon•2mo ago
mandatory mention: It is tradition to refer to this argument as 'for hysterical raisins', when something kept being done in a certain way, only because of some initial irrational arbitrary choice, is mandated with this argument.
barries11•2mo ago
"hysterical porpoises" always makes me smile, and it's the benemalapropism I go for.
rmunn•2mo ago
I could agree with giving sysadmins a way to specify a list of disallowed usernames (which would be useful for more reasons than to retire certain usernames, e.g. many sites would probably disallow "admin" as a username, and depending on maturity of the userbase might also find it valuable to forbid profanity as usernames). But it should be in a text file somewhere in /etc, not hardcoded into the source of useradd.c: different sites would have different requirements, and David M. Robertson (a fictional person I just made up, and if that happens to be your actual name then congratulations), who works at a small startup whose standard practice is three-initial usernames, should not be forbidden from using the username dmr just because someone famous also had those initials.
Cthulhu_•2mo ago
I've tried to look up whether there's a reserved username list option for these tools but either there isn't one or I suck. One option is to set / reset the NAME_REGEX configuration (or env var?), individual distributions could do this.
saghm•2mo ago
Silly idea: just create those users manually without giving them a home directory? The names won't be available anymore. You could write a short script wrapping useradd (and userdel? I honestly haven't deleted a user in years and can't remember if that's the correct command) and define your own config file to contain the current set of names managed by the tool.
nine_k•2mo ago
I think this is the best way to achieve the goal.

- No new code added.

- The list is there in /etc/passwd.

-The reasons can be explained in that same file.

yapyap•2mo ago
Cute idea but I disagree, I don’t think it would be too viable
JuniperMesos•2mo ago
I respect Dennis Ritchie's accomplishments too, but that doesn't mean I want to encode his username as a retired unix username, and in free software projects it's possible for anyone in principle to remove that line of code and rebuild the OS.

I also think that, as important as Unix was for the history of computing, it's also outdated in a lot of ways that I think are holding back computing. We should be reconsidering the use of C to write an operating system at all, as well as the concept of a username in the traditional Unix sense. My ideal operating system wouldn't have `useradd.c` as a concept to begin with.

voidUpdate•2mo ago
How would you tell users apart in your ideal operating system?
zokier•2mo ago
With SIDs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad...

ducks

wongarsu•2mo ago
Windows has a lot of great ideas around users, groups and permissions. Primarily built around an enterprise use case instead of a home user or server use case, but overall still a lot more refined than the unix system (in large parts due to being developed decades later)

The Authority/UserName scheme that allows you to use user names from different authorities on the same computer without name collisions, and the hierarchical userids that are SIDs are both quite useful. The most obvious everyday use case are file permissions on shared media like a USB drive or a network drive: knowing these files belong to user 1000 isn't very useful if every computer has a different idea of who that is

They aren't perfect by any means. If you were to design the same thing today you'd probably use UUIDs. But there are a lot of good ideas in there

JuniperMesos•2mo ago
I also think there's room for taking some inspiration from more modern cryptographic-key-based identity systems like blockchain identities and AtProtocol and Urbit - your primary identity as a user is an asymmetric cryptographic key, which you keep extremely secure; and then you can use this key to authenticate and encrypt messages over a public network or on a public data store, and you can derive sub-keys for use in various contexts. Instead of having to have different authorities keep track of usernames, what if every user in the system was identified with a public key from a global, cryptographically-large key-space?
JuniperMesos•2mo ago
I think we should reconsider what a user is conceptually. Many, if not most computers, are only used by a single individual (particularly if we count smartphones); but that human user might want to establish a bunch of different contexts or permission modes for various software on their computer depending on what they want to do at any given time. IIRC Android achieves per-app isolation using its Linux kernel by giving every app its own user (in the Linux kernel sense of a user), which is of course pretty different from Dennis Ritchie logging into a PDP-11 with dmr in the 1970s and having that string be associated with his personally-meaningful data artifacts.
ahmedfromtunis•2mo ago
I suspect that coming up with a set of rules as to who would and wouldn't be honored in such a manner would inevitably lead to some real-world violence at some point in the future.

Let's leave this out of our commonly used code.

saghm•2mo ago
> You can’t wear 99 in the NHL now, or 6 in the NBA. Maybe you shouldn’t be able to log in as dmr for the same reasons

I can't tell if this is a serious argument or just relying heavily on the use of "maybe" to get away with expressing something that they know most people will disagree with, but I feel like it's a huge stretch to imply that what makes sense for numbers on maybe a couple hundred professional athletes' shirts when they're playing publicly on televised events would apply at all to usernames for millions of normal on their own private devices. To just call out one of the many obvious concerns: this would presumably break any existing logins (and scripts referencing the home directory). The MLB even took this into consideration when they retired 42 for the entire league in honor of Jackie Robinson; any players currently using the number were allowed to continue using it until they retired, and that's was just out of courtesy rather than any actual necessity.

PaulDavisThe1st•2mo ago
I was always a little upset, a decade or so after I left amzn, to have some 3rd party interaction with a sysadmin there, who upon being told that I had uid=1 informed my correspondent that there was no uid of 1 on their systems anymore.

I mean, locking the account was entirely understandable. Deleting it, though ...