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Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/
21•LorenDB•1h ago

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bflesch•16m ago
Looks really nice, I like the idea.

But can they please empower a user interface designer to simply improve the margins and paddings of their interface? With a bunch of small improvements it would look significantly better. Just fix the spacing between buttons and borders and other UI elements.

grim_io•11m ago
One could argue that visible borders are a feature, not a bug.

If you are trying to maximize for accessibility, that is.

wild_egg•7m ago
Modern UX trends are a scourge of excessive whitespace and low information density that get in the way of actually accomplishing tasks.

Any project that rejects those trends gets bonus points in my book.

shiftpgdn•14m ago
This is cool. My first into to a practical application of Linux in the early 2000s was using Damn Small Linux to recover files off of cooked Windows Machines. I looked up the project the other day while reminiscing and thought it would be interesting if someone took a real shot at reviving the spirit of the project.
hypeatei•12m ago
The site doesn't have HTTPS and there doesn't seem to be any signatures on the downloads page. Any way to check it hasn't been MITM'd?
firesteelrain•6m ago
Not foolproof. Could compute MD5 or SHA256 after downloading.
lysace•5m ago
Ideas to decrease risk of MITM:

Download from at least one more location (like some AWS/GCP instance) and checksum.

Download from the Internet Archive and checksum:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/http://www.tinyc...

AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-ruining-reddit-for-everyone/
1•thm•1m ago•0 comments

Robot Dog Billionaires Take Photos and Poop Them Out

https://petapixel.com/2025/12/05/beeple-robot-dogs-photos-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-miami-art-basel/
1•b0ner_t0ner•3m ago•0 comments

Every class I went to during the first week of fall

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/every-class-i-went-to-during-the-first-week-of-fall/
1•samuel246•10m ago•0 comments

Fast Median Filter over arbitrary datatypes

https://martianlantern.github.io/2025/09/median-filter-over-arbitrary-datatypes/
1•martianlantern•11m ago•0 comments

Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers
1•n1b0m•12m ago•1 comments

Another AI slop story: ChatGPT vs. Human

https://joshua.hu/ai-slop-story-nginx-leaking-dns-chatgpt
2•detaro•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Built an all-in-one feedback board for SaaS apps – Ship features

2•rahulbstomar•14m ago•2 comments

What if our ancestors didn't feel pain the way we do

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/human-ancestors-emotion-history/684959/
1•HR01•15m ago•0 comments

Dependent Names with a Little Encouragement

https://consteval.ca/2025/09/27/dependent-names/
1•HeliumHydride•16m ago•0 comments

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers

https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html
3•el3ctron•20m ago•1 comments

AoCO 2025: Division

https://xania.org/202512/06-dividing-to-conquer
1•HeliumHydride•24m ago•0 comments

Carlo is no longer maintained

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
2•keepamovin•25m ago•0 comments

Nemawashi: A Powerful, Forgotten Japanese Innovation and Change Management Tool

https://www.changebase.app/blog/nemawashi-japanese-change-management-tool
3•mooreds•26m ago•0 comments

A 2kb library that makes WebWorkers enjoyable

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
2•keepamovin•26m ago•0 comments

Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh
1•keepamovin•27m ago•0 comments

Measuring AI impact like it's 1995

https://www.swarmia.com/blog/measuring-ai-impact-like-1995/
1•mooreds•28m ago•0 comments

Messy Crappy Art for the Win

https://pammoore.substack.com/p/messy-crappy-art-for-the-win
1•mooreds•30m ago•0 comments

The Traveling Salesperson Problem (Modernized)

https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/TSP.ipynb
1•vismit2000•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tududi v0.87 – A self-hosted life OS: areas, projects, tasks, notes

https://tududi.com
1•cvicpp123•31m ago•0 comments

Drones to Diplomas: How Russia's Largest Private University Is Linked to a $25M

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/drones-to-diplomas-how-russias-largest-private-university-is-...
1•todsacerdoti•34m ago•0 comments

Web Performance Advent Calendar 2025 – 17th edition

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/
1•vismit2000•38m ago•0 comments

Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant from Organ Donor Who Had Rabies

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/health/rabies-death-skunk-kidney-transplant.html
7•quapster•39m ago•6 comments

Manage risk with drawdown, not hope

https://pyquantnews.substack.com/p/size-positions-by-drawdown-not-hope
1•strimp099•41m ago•0 comments

Decades-old study on common weed killer retracted

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-retraction-9.7004363
12•geox•41m ago•2 comments

Ceremonial Bugle

https://ceremonialbugle.com/
1•mhb•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WebGPU back end for PyTorch sneak peek

https://github.com/jmaczan/torch-webgpu
3•yu3zhou4•52m ago•0 comments

What would someone like me do with a tiny modular synth? [pdf]

https://www.musicthing.co.uk/collateral/WhatWouldSomeoneLikeMeDoWithATinyModularSynth_book.pdf
1•mhb•53m ago•0 comments

Kernel Float: Unlocking Mixed-Precision GPU Programming

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3779120
4•gpuhacker•53m ago•0 comments

Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton says Google is 'beginning to overtake' OpenAI

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-google-overtaking-openai-2025-12
4•ashishgupta2209•55m ago•1 comments

Resolution Dynamics: Deriving the Fine Structure Constant from Shannon Capacity

https://zenodo.org/records/17821936
8•Jascon71•55m ago•2 comments